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House Episode: "Needle in a Haystack"

Season 3, Episode 13
Episode Synopsis: A 16-year-old suffers respiratory arrest while making out with his girlfriend. The doctors can't figure out what's wrong and, making matters worse, his Gypsy parents instinctively distrust the doctors. Meanwhile, Cuddy gives House's handicapped parking space to a new hospital researcher (Wendy Makkena) who uses a wheelchair because, as Cuddy puts it, “the person who is worse off should get the better space.” House won't take this lying down, but he will take it sitting down---in a wheelchair. Original Air Date: Feb 6, 2007

February 6, 2007: Needle in a Haystack

The parade of young patients continues this week as Foreman leads the charge in treating a teenager whose Romany heritage impedes his medical treatment. Secretive and suspicious of the world, Stevie (Jake Richardson) and his family refuse unproven treatment — their kind have been experimented on before — choosing instead their own homeopathic treatment for Stevie's ailment. Seeing a bit of himself in Stevie, Foreman takes a special interest in his scientifically inclined patient, even offering to get Stevie an interview for an internship. But culture and science clash. Stevie, with insight beyond his years, chooses family over promise. As he sees it, Chase, Foreman and Cameron are all successful doctors, but none of them wears a ring. Family: that's what it's all about.House wasn't around much for such touching sentiment. He was too busy angling for a better parking spot. You see, it seems that wheelchair trumps cane and the addition to the staff of Dr. Julie Whitner (We... read more

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Premiered: November 16, 2004, on FOX
Rating: TV-14
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Premise: He has little patience for patients, but misanthropic Gregory House is a brilliant diagnostician who probes life-and-death medical mysteries while 'CSI'-style graphics follow each disease's progression. 'X-Men' director Bryan Singer is one of the executive producers.

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