There were 23 episodes in season two when the final episode, No Reason, is excluded. The breakdown for the season is:
Patients treated: 25 Lives saved: 19 Sex Kills counted as two patients because the team diagnosed a dead woman to save their actual patient. Euphoria and Forever also counted as two patients each, even though I didn't include the baby's treatment in my analysis of Forever. The deaths occurred in Daddy's Boy, The Mistake, Euphoria, and Forever. For Daddy's Boy, The Mistake and Forever the patients were diagnosed but could not be cured. The cop in Euphoria died before he was diagnosed.
My conclusions: Chase and Cameron improved this season over last, while Foreman did not. Again Chase shows that he contributes more to others' diagnoses than by coming up with his own. I would argue that Cameron and Foreman are equal overall, but it's possible that Chase outperformed them.
Initial Symptoms: Man with severely swollen tongue Diagnosis: ?
We didn't see the team treat this patient after House was shot. We don't know if they treated him at all, or what his diagnosis was. Everything that happened between the shooting and the final scene in Emergency was a hallucination, so this episode was not included in this analysis at all.
Initial Symptoms: Girl with cardiogenic shock + hallucinations Diagnosis: Hemochromatosis (House) + Zygomycosis infection in the lungs (Foreman)
Contributions by Team House (4): Recognizes that hallucinations are caused by pain, diagnoses patient's grandfather with hemocromatosis by listening to his music, diagnosis for hemocromatosis, idea to confirm hemocromatosis diagnosis by looking at patient's skin Chase (1): Suggests mold as cause of illness Cameron (0): None Foreman (3): Realizes patient is in liver failure, suggests patient has fungal infection, diagnosis for Zygomycosis infection
Notes: House received an error for giving the patient radiation to kill her bone marrow to treat an autoimmune disease they didn't even test for. House correctly deduced that the patient was lying about her paternity, but since it was irrelevant for her diagnosis this was not credited.
Initial Symptoms: Woman with seizure + elevated calcium levels Diagnosis: Celiac disease (House) + stomach cancer (House)
Contributions by Team House (5): Idea to induce seizure, idea that symptoms are caused by niacin deficiency, idea to biopsy baby's intestines to diagnose his mother, diagnosis for celiac disease, diagnosis for stomach cancer Chase (1): Sees villus atrophy in baby's intestines Cameron (0): None Foreman (1): Suggests cancer
Notes: The baby was not considered as part of this diagnosis, since his problems were caused by drowning and suffocation. There was no diagnosis to be made for the baby and he wasn't treated by the entire team, so he's not counted as a separate patient (though I have included him in the final tally).
In the first part (episode 2.20) Foreman contracted the patient's illness after visiting his apartment. Since it was immediately apparent that Foreman and the patient had the same disease, the two cases were combined here and treated as one diagnosis.
Initial Symptoms: Man with euphoria + shot in the head Diagnosis: Legionnaire's disease (House) + primary amoebic meningoencephalitis from Naegleria (House+Cameron)
Contributions by Team House (6): Diagnosis for Legionnaire's disease, idea to biopsy Foreman's brain, idea to biopsy an infected animal, suggests that disease might be an amoeba, realizes that Legionnaire's disease was fighting amoeba, diagnosis for Naegleria Chase (1): Points out that bullet may be magnetic so a MRI cannot be done Cameron (2): Idea to perform angiogram, diagnosis for Naegleria Foreman (2): Knowledge about bullets and police vests, idea to perform white matter biopsy
Notes: After some internal debate, I've decided to call Cameron's biopsy of Foreman a diagnosis. On the show this was represented as the last option if the team failed to diagnose Foreman in any other way, but it was indeed a diagnosis. Foreman was diagnosed by two separate methods at the same time. Chase was correct in his suggestion that the initial patient had elevated carbon monoxide concentrations in his blood, but it appears this was unrelated to his symptoms and infections so Chase was not awarded credit for it. House was given an error for destroying the MRI when he already knew the bullet was magnetic.
Initial Symptoms: Boy with cramping + partial seizure Diagnosis: Tuberous sclerosis (Chase) + herpes encephalitis (House)
Contributions by Team House (2): Diagnosis for herpes shrinking Wilson's patient's tumor after exposure to House's patient, diagnosis for herpes encephalitis Chase (1): Diagnosis for tuberous sclerosis Cameron (1): Suggested an infection Foreman (0): None
Notes: It appears that the initial diagnosis of water toxicity was wrong. House's determination that an ordinary STD caused the "miracle" liver cancer remission was classified as a diagnosis. The patient's belief that God talked to him, which the team called auditory hallucinations, was not included here as a symptom.
Initial Symptoms: Woman unable to sleep for 10 days Diagnosis: Bubonic plague (House)
Contributions by Team House (2): Idea to stop immunosuppressant drugs, diagnosis for bubonic plague Chase (0): None Cameron (0): None Foreman (0): None
Notes: House deduced that the patient was planning on leaving her girlfriend, leading to an ethical dilemma when she volunteered to donate part of her liver to the patient, but medically this information wasn't required to diagnose the patient so no credit is awarded.
Initial Symptoms: Boy with bloody diarrhea + ataxia Diagnosis: Erdheim-Chester Disease (House)
Contributions by Team House (1): Diagnosis for Erdheim-Chester Disease Chase (1): Suggests histiocytosis, of which Erdheim-Chester disease is a form Cameron (0): None Foreman (0): None
Contributions by Team House (1): Finds tick in patient's vagina Chase (1): Suggests patient's boyfriend brought an allergen to her Cameron (1): Diagnosis for tick paralysis Foreman (0): None
Initial Symptoms: Man with respiratory distress + swollen tongue Diagnosis: Gold poisoning (House) by his wife (House)
Contributions by Team House (3): Diagnosis for gold toxicity, diagnosis for poisoning, idea to use stannis chloride to test for gold Chase (0): None Cameron (0): None Foreman (0): None
To cure a living patient the team had to diagnose a dead woman! I've divided this episode into two as a result.
Living Patient Initial Symptoms: Man with absence seizure Diagnosis: Brucellosis (House)
Contributions by Team House (3): Spots microabscess in brain scan, diagnosis for brucellosis, idea to use gonorrhea patient as heart donor Chase (0): None Cameron (1): Appeals transplant committee's decision Foreman (0): None
Notes: Cameron gets credit for fighting further to get their patient a heart transplant because I decided it was above and beyond her physician's duty at that point.
Dead Patient Initial Symptoms: Woman with fever + stomach pain + elevated liver enzymes before she died Diagnosis: Gonorrhea (House)
Contributions by Team House (1): Diagnosis for gonorrhea Chase (0): None Cameron (0): None Foreman (0): None
Initial Symptoms: Girl with cataplectic attack Diagnosis: Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS) (House) + testicular cancer (House) + paraneoplastic syndrome (House)
Contributions by Team House (4): Diagnosis for testicular cancer, diagnosis for paraneoplastic syndrome, idea to rule out placebo effect, diagnosis for AIS Chase (0): None Cameron (1): Suggests problem is neurological instead of caused by heroin Foreman (0): None
Notes: Cameron (and Wilson) should have detected the patient's AIS during their examinations of her reproductive system, but because this was not pointed out as an error on the show it's assumed here that it was a mistake by the writers. House was correct in his suspicion that the patient was using heroin, and used a risky procedure to detox her. The heroin use turned out to be unrelated to her symptoms and final diagnosis, however, so House received no credit for it or the treatment. House also didn't receive credit for the incest discovery because it, too, proved medically irrelevant.
Initial Symptoms: Boy with severe burns + tachycardia + low potassium Diagnosis: Antidepressants (serotonin syndrome?) (House) taken to stop smoking (House)
Contributions by Team House (6): Idea to use galvanometer, idea to use transcranial doppler sonography, idea to use maggots to clean wounds, idea to perform lumbar puncture on neck, diagnosis for antidepressant use, diagnosis for smoking cessation Chase (1): Suggests brain is misinterpreting pain Cameron (0): None Foreman (0): None
Initial Symptoms: Woman with fertility treatments + movement disorder Diagnosis: Ritalin (House) + birth control pills (House) + vascular liver tumor (House)
Contributions by Team House (4): Idea to paralyze patient during MRI, diagnosis for Ritalin, diagnosis for birth control pills, diagnosis for liver tumor Chase (1): Found liver tumor on ultrasound Cameron (1): Suggests estrogen may explain movement disorder Foreman (0): None
Notes: House suspected endometrial cancer and told the Housepets to perform a biopsy. Chase found the liver tumor when the patient started bleeding during the procedure. Since House was the one to suspect cancer and who ordered the procedure that lead to the discovery, House gets the diagnosis.
Initial Symptoms: Man with aphasia Diagnosis: Bipolar disorder (House) + cerebral malaria (House)
Contributions by Team House (4): Suggests way to get patient to tell the truth, diagnosis for bipolar disorder, realizes that patient had brain surgery, diagnosis for cerebral malaria Chase (0): None Cameron (1): Realizes that patient only tells the truth when his wife is absent Foreman (0): None
Contributions by Team House (1): Diagnosis for C. perfringens infection Chase (1): Suggests a tumor, leading to discovery of pancreatic scarring Cameron (2): Tricks patient for diagnosis, diagnosis for Munchausen's syndrome Foreman (0): None
Notes: A lot went wrong while Foreman was in command. Cameron gave the patient antibiotics to diagnose Munchausen's syndrome, but this interfered with diagnosis of her infection so Cameron receives an error. It doesn't seem fair to do that, but Cameron could have found another method to diagnose the Munchausen's. House received an error in giving patient colchicine to lower her white blood cell count, a dangerous move that also interfered with her diagnosis. If the team had gone ahead with the radiation treatment there would have been another error assigned. Foreman was assigned an error for discharging the patient while she was still sick.
This episode is divided into two parts because the team had to diagnose the patient two times.
The First Time Initial Symptoms: Woman with abdominal pain + joint pain + uveitis Diagnosis: Behcet's disease (Chase) + stomach ulcer
Contributions by Team House (0): None Chase (1): Diagnosis for Behcet's disease Cameron (1): Suggests illness affects blood vessels Foreman (1): Suggests illness affects arteries
Notes: A paramedic diagnoses the bleeding stomach ulcer. Chase received an error for failing to diagnose the stomach ulcer. As far as I can tell Chase's only mistake was in being brusque with a patient, which is hardly new for any of the characters, but a great deal was made of it on the show so I must count it.
The Second Time Initial Symptoms: Woman with Behcet's disease + liver transplant + fever Diagnosis: Hepatitis C (House) + liver cancer from transplant (House)
Contributions by Team House (2): Diagnosis for hepatitis C, diagnosis for liver cancer Chase (1): Realizes that patient has infection Cameron (0): None Foreman (0): None
Initial Symptoms: Man with AIDS + anaphylactic shock Diagnosis:Echinococcus infection (House)
Contributions by Team House (3): Suggests parasite, realizes that patient and his father have the same illness, diagnosis for Echinococcus infection Chase (0): None Cameron (0): None Foreman (1): Realizes the patient has a mass in his heart
Initial Symptoms: Man with respiratory arrest + performance enhancing drugs Diagnosis: Air embolus (Foreman) + thymoma (House) + myasthenia gravis (House) + pure red cell aplasia (PRCA) (Wilson+House)
Contributions by Team House (3): Diagnosis for thymoma, diagnosis for myasthenia gravis, diagnosis for chronic PRCA Chase (0): None Cameron (0): None Foreman (1): Diagnosis for air embolus
Notes: Wilson diagnosed the PRCA, House the type and how the patient had developed it. It's about time Wilson contributed something, seeing that he keeps failing to find all these tumors.
Initial Symptoms: Man with intermittent shock-like pains + low white blood cell count Diagnosis: Radiation poisoning (House) + cavernous angioma (House) + infection (House)
Contributions by Team House (3): Diagnosis for infection that developed during hospitalization, diagnosis for radiation poisoning, diagnosis for cavernous angioma Chase (0): None Cameron (0): None Foreman (0): None
Initial Symptoms: Man with abnormal heart rhythm + fainting Diagnosis: Tuberculosis (TB) (Patient+Cameron) + nesidioblastoma (House)
Contributions by Team House (3): Idea to induce cardiac arrest with hot lights, diagnosis for nesidioblastoma, idea to diagnose tumor by injecting calcium Chase (3): Notices abnormal heart rhythm, suggests "something metabolic", suggests high insulin levels Cameron (1): Diagnosis for TB Foreman (0): None
Notes: Technically, the patient diagnosed his own TB. I awarded the credit to Cameron because she was the only one who tested for it, and because she successfully argued to House that they needed to eliminate TB from the differential diagnosis to identify his second illness. House received an error for initially refusing to consider TB as part of the patient's diagnosis.
Initial Symptoms: Man with asthma + respiratory distress + fingers turning black Diagnosis: Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC) (House) caused by psittacosis (House)
Contributions by Team House (3): Diagnosis for DIC, diagnosis for psittacosis, realizes that patient works at cock fights Chase (0): None Cameron (0): None Foreman (0): None
Notes: If I'd included Cuddy in this analysis, she would receive an error for not telling House that the patient had asthma.
Initial Symptoms: Girl with alveolar rhabdomyosacrcoma + hallucinations Diagnosis: Benign heart tumor (House) + blood clot in the brain (Chase)
Contributions by Team House (4): Confirms tumor by listening to heart valves, diagnosis for heart tumor, suggests tumor threw clot, idea to find blood clot by autopsy Chase (1): Diagnosis for blood clot Cameron (0): None Foreman (3): Suggests clot caused hallucinations, idea to bolt patient to table for autopsy procedure, finds blood clot in brain
Notes: Cameron was the only Housepet to hear the "extra flap" in the patient's heart when House played it for them.
Initial Symptoms: Man with hallucinations + tachycardia + pulmonary edema Diagnosis: Methanol poisoning (House) + pheochromocytoma (House)
Contributions by Team House (3): Diagnosis for copier fluid poisoning, realizes that patient's behaviour is a symptom, diagnosis for pheochromocytoma Chase (2): Lists methanol as cause of symptoms, suggests adrenaline Cameron (0): None Foreman (0): None
Notes: Foreman received an error for refusing to save the patient when he went into cardiac arrest. That's blatant negligence. Cameron refused to admit that her clinic patient was terminal. It doesn't count as an error because she wasn't the team's case, I'm simply noting it. Foreman planned to testify in defense of their patient, stating that his illness contributed to his crimes. It's debatable whether this is part of his physician's duty or should be counted as care; I've decided it isn't and am not giving him a credit for it as a result, but again it's worthy of note.
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