Birthmarks

"Birthmarks" is the fourth episode of the fifth season of House and the ninetieth episode overall. It aired on October 14, 2008. A 25 year-old Chinese woman, adopted by American parents, seeks out her birth parents in China, but they dismiss her, stating they never had a daughter. While praying and lifting up a small Buddha statue, she collapses, vomiting blood and claiming stomach pain. She is brought back to America and treated at Princeton-Pla... more

"Birthmarks" is the fourth episode of the fifth season of House and the ninetieth episode overall. It aired on October 14, 2008. A 25 year-old Chinese woman, adopted by American parents, seeks out her birth parents in China, but they dismiss her, stating they never had a daughter. While praying and lifting up a small Buddha statue, she collapses, vomiting blood and claiming stomach pain. She is brought back to America and treated at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. Meanwhile, when House finds out his father John has died; he is reluctant to attend the funeral, due to his father's abuse. In the initial diagnosis, House theorizes the woman contracted SARS in China and the patient's parents state their adoptive daughter overly abuses herself with alcohol and tobacco. Using a ruse that the patient could have infected House with SARS, Cuddy injects a sedative disguised as an Immuno-globulin injection for SARS into House. House passes out and wakes up to find himself in a car driven... less