One Day, One Room
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| House episode | |
| "One Day, One Room" | |
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| Episode no. | HOU-312 |
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| Airdate | January 30, 2007 |
| Writer(s) | David Shore |
| Director(s) | Juan J. Campanella |
| Guest star(s) | Geoffrey Lewis, Katheryn Winnick |
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One Day, One Room is the twelfth episode of the third season of House and the fifty-eighth episode overall.
[edit] Plot
Cuddy gives House extra mandatory clinic duty as a repayment for her perjury on his behalf in the previous episode. He is forced to examine three patients who fear that they may have sexually transmitted diseases. He goes out to the waiting room where one of the waiting patients suddenly jumps up and starts running around the room clutching his ear. House convinces Cuddy to let him take the case rather than working clinic. His team comes up with some tests to run, but he tells them that the man has a cockroach stuck in his ear, and that it simply bit him. He only took on the case to avoid clinic duty. Cameron tells Cuddy, who forces House to continue his clinic duty. Cuddy agrees to pay him $10 for each patient he successfully diagnoses without physically touching them, as long as he pays her $10 for each one he has to touch. However, his plan to win the game appears to be ruined when he has to diagnose an attractive female patient.
One of the original three clinic patients is psychologically unstable Eve, who is diagnosed with chlamydia. She breaks into sobs and House explains that it is a curable disease, when she suddenly shouts "Don't touch me!". House realizes that she is a rape victim. Eve insists that House treat her and Cuddy forces him to spend time with her. It is found that Eve is pregnant and House now insists on confiding with her, in an effort to get her to talk about the rape. Ultimately they both break down and talk honestly with each other, and House reveals some startling details about his relationship with a member of his family, who abused him as a child. Meanwhile, Cameron deals with a homeless patient with terminal lung cancer who wants to die in suffering simply so that people will remember him.
[edit] External links
- FOX.com-House official site
- Television Without Pity-House recaps
- House Episode Guide at epguides.com
- TVGuide's Page: Full list of House Episodes
- House M.D. Guide
- "One Day, One Room" at the Internet Movie Database
- Medical review of "One Day, One Room"
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