Detox (House)

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House episode
"Detox"
Episode no. HOU-111
Airdate February 15, 2005
Writer(s) Lawrence Kaplow & Thomas L. Moran
Director(s) Nelson McCormick

House Season 1
November 2004 - May 2005
  1. Pilot
  2. Paternity
  3. Occam's Razor
  4. Maternity
  5. Damned If You Do
  6. The Socratic Method
  7. Fidelity
  8. Poison
  9. DNR
  10. Histories
  11. Detox
  12. Sports Medicine
  13. Cursed
  14. Control
  15. Mob Rules
  16. Heavy
  17. Role Model
  18. Babies & Bathwater
  19. Kids
  20. Love Hurts
  21. Three Stories
  22. Honeymoon
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Detox is the eleventh episode of the first season of House, which premiered on the FOX network on February 15, 2005.

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[edit] Plot

Cuddy bets a month's clinic duty that House can't stay off of Vicodin for a week, while House is trying to find out why a teenage car crash victim won't stop bleeding after three weeks. Combined with internal bleeding, the patient has hemolytic anemia, an uncommon, but very serious, condition especially in 16 year olds.

Foreman and Chase run through a series of tests, while Cameron probes to learn about his medical history. The tests reveal no new information. A blood clot in his left eye causes the team to look for an infection, which again yields nothing. Chase recommends removing some fluid from his eye to relieve the clot, which works, but the boy's liver damage leads the team to settle on a rare form of hepatitis.

Meanwhile, House is experiencing severe withdrawal to the extent that he breaks his own fingers to distract himself from his aching leg. Foreman suggests that he take Vicodin to prevent fatal errors.

Before administering Solu-Medrol to test for Hepatitis E, the patient has hallucinations about his deceased cat. The father is too angry at House to listen to the explanations, especially when they find that the boy will need a liver transplant to survive. Still unconvinced of the Lupus diagnosis, House sends Foreman and Chase to dig up the family cat. House performs a necropsy on the cat, finding the cause of the cat's death as well as what's affecting the boy. The final diagnosis is naphthalene poisoning, brought on by a swarm of termites[1] living within the walls of the boy's bedroom, which House reveals as the surgery to replace his liver is about to occur. Though everyone is reluctant to trust House (the father punches him), the father reluctantly agrees to accept the diagnosis. Chase and Foreman open the son's wall, and find a large amount of termites. The son gets better, and House wins his bet with Cuddy, though he admits he's an addict.

[edit] Awards

Hugh Laurie submitted this episode for consideration of his work for the 57th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2005. This resulted in his first Emmy Award nomination for "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series" for his role as Dr. Gregory House.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Australian Museum - Termites and Moth Balls
  2. ^ EMMY AWARDS Previous Year Episode Submissions. The Envelope Forum, Los Angeles Times. Retrieved on 2007-07-04.

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