One Day, One Room

"One Day, One Room" is the twelfth episode of the third season of House and the fifty-eighth episode overall. 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 clutchi... more

"One Day, One Room" is the twelfth episode of the third season of House and the fifty-eighth episode overall. 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... less