"97 Seconds" is the third episode of the fourth season of House and the seventy-third episode overall. It aired on October 9, 2007. The primary patient in "97 Seconds" is a man with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) who develops symptoms that could be related to his SMA or something else. However, the title "97 Seconds" is linked to a different patient in this episode who was clinically dead for 97 seconds after a car accident.
Thomas Stark is a man ...
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"97 Seconds" is the third episode of the fourth season of House and the seventy-third episode overall. It aired on October 9, 2007. The primary patient in "97 Seconds" is a man with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) who develops symptoms that could be related to his SMA or something else. However, the title "97 Seconds" is linked to a different patient in this episode who was clinically dead for 97 seconds after a car accident.
Thomas Stark is a man with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), using an electric wheelchair. While he and his assistance dog were crossing the street he faints (syncope) and is almost hit by an SUV.
House sets his team of ten fellowship candidates to compete in a race to find the diagnosis first. To do this he splits them into two teams: men and women, but Amber Volakis (Anne Dudek) elects to defect to the men's team. When House suggests this is because she thinks the female candidates are inept, she says it's because House has never had more than one woman on his staff...
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