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 adoptee travels to China to find her birth parents. They reject her, stating they never had a daughter. While praying, she lifts a small Buddha and immediately collapses, vomiting blood. She subsequently is treated at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. The initial diagnosis is that the woman c... 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 adoptee travels to China to find her birth parents. They reject her, stating they never had a daughter. While praying, she lifts a small Buddha and immediately collapses, vomiting blood. She subsequently is treated at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. The initial diagnosis is that the woman contracted SARS in China. Meanwhile, House learns his father has died, but refuses to attend the funeral. Cuddy uses the SARS diagnosis as a ruse to “inoculate” House, in reality injecting him with a powerful sedative. House wakes up to find himself in a car driven by Wilson, who is taking him to his father's funeral. House tells Wilson he does not want to attend because he has no biological relationship to his father, and explains his theory about his mother having had an affair. While being driven to the funeral, House works with his team by...

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