Don't Ever Change (House episode)

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House episode
"Don't Ever Change"
Episode no. HOU-412
Airdate February 5, 2008
Guest star(s) Laura Silverman

House Season 4
September 2007 - May 2008

  1. Alone
  2. The Right Stuff
  3. 97 Seconds
  4. Guardian Angels
  5. Mirror Mirror
  6. Whatever It Takes
  7. Ugly
  8. You Don't Want to Know
  9. Games
  10. It's a Wonderful Lie
  11. Frozen
  12. Don't Ever Change
  13. No More Mr. Nice Guy
  14. Living the Dream
  15. House's Head
  16. Wilson's Heart
All House episodes

"Don't Ever Change" is the twelfth episode of the fourth season of House and the eighty-second episode overall. It was also the last episode to air before the mid-season break due to the writer's strike halting production.

[edit] Plot

A woman (guest star Laura Silverman) is admitted to Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital after collapsing at her wedding. After a battery of tests, the team remains puzzled. After searching the woman's home, the team discovers that she had been a music producer living in the fast lane until relatively recently. After further questioning of the patient, they find out that she converted to Hasidic Judaism half a year prior the incident. House believes her religious conversion is a sign of altered mental state and a symptom of a disease. Even after more tests, nothing can be found, and the woman's condition continues to decline. Just as she is about to be rolled into surgery for internal bleeding, House has an epiphany while talking with the team. The patient has Nephroptosis, also known as 'Floating Kidney', which caused all her symptoms.

The secondary plot revolves around House's attempt to convince Wilson to call off his relationship with Amber Volakis, even recruiting Cuddy to help him. It is also suggested that "Thirteen" is bisexual by both Foreman and House himself, at different points in the episode, which "Thirteen" does not deny.