"Role Model" is the seventeenth episode of the first season of House, which premiered on the FOX network on April 12, 2005. The episode follows Presidential candidate, Senator Gary H. Wright (D-NJ) (played by Joe Morton) following a stroke, while continuing the feud that has developed between Vogler (Chi McBride) and House (Hugh Laurie). The ICU Nurse who attends to the Senator is the on-set medical advisor on the show, Bobbin Bergstrom.
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"Role Model" is the seventeenth episode of the first season of House, which premiered on the FOX network on April 12, 2005. The episode follows Presidential candidate, Senator Gary H. Wright (D-NJ) (played by Joe Morton) following a stroke, while continuing the feud that has developed between Vogler (Chi McBride) and House (Hugh Laurie). The ICU Nurse who attends to the Senator is the on-set medical advisor on the show, Bobbin Bergstrom.
African American Presidential candidate Senator Gary H. Wright vomits and passes out at a fund raiser. Vogler offers not to force House to fire either Cameron or Foreman (Chase is safe as he is feeding Vogler information) if House treats Sen. Wright and gives a speech supporting Vogler's new drug at a conference.
Foreman finds a scar on Sen. Wright's tongue from a childhood accident and a lack of reflexes (e.g., patellar reflex), which indicates a neurological disorder. Tests show that Sen. Wright has Toxoplasmosis strongly indicating an immunodefence...
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