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House Episode: "House Training"

Season 3, Episode 20
Episode Synopsis: All the doctors try to find what's wrong with a 28-year-old con artist who collapses after her brain “freezes,” but the case becomes personal for Foreman. The patient tells him she thinks he doesn't regard her very highly because they have similar backgrounds---from which he escaped and she didn't. Meanwhile, Foreman's parents (Charles S. Dutton and Beverly Todd) arrive unexpectedly; House plays mind games with one of Wilson's ex-wives (Jane Adams); and Wilson and Cuddy go on another date. Original Air Date: Apr 24, 2007

April 24, 2007: House Training

I think it's safe to say that tonight's show was a bit of a downer. If the unnecessary death of Lupe (Monique Gabriela Curnen), a young, economically depressed woman, doesn't convince you of that, then maybe the presence of Foreman's Alzheimer-stricken mother (Beverly Todd) will. Lupe entered the hospital exhibiting all sorts of worrisome symptoms that baffled the doctors. At Foreman's insistence they treated her to a dosage of full-body radiation to kill the suspected cancer. But only after destroying her auto-immune system did they realize that the source of her distress was an infection. Their treatment effectively killed her. So this time it was Foreman sitting at a dying patient's bedside. (Remember that Cameron is now emotionally unavailable for such things.) The situation provided for some fine moments from a wrecked Foreman who was already struggling with the effects of his visiting mother's dementia. Meanwhile, House struggled to identify the true nature of Wilson and Cudd... 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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