"Family Practice" is the eleventh episode of the seventh season of the American medical drama House. It first aired on February 7, 2011.
Cuddy's mother Arlene (Candice Bergen) is brought to the ER and is placed under House's care, but he thinks she is imagining most of her symptoms. She refuses treatment from House after he demonstrates that giving her placebos, made to look like a drug which has certain side effects, makes her develop some of th...
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"Family Practice" is the eleventh episode of the seventh season of the American medical drama House. It first aired on February 7, 2011.
Cuddy's mother Arlene (Candice Bergen) is brought to the ER and is placed under House's care, but he thinks she is imagining most of her symptoms. She refuses treatment from House after he demonstrates that giving her placebos, made to look like a drug which has certain side effects, makes her develop some of those side effects, thus proving that at least part of her problem is hypochondria.
The case is transferred to Dr. Kaufmann, but Cuddy has House stay on the case, unbeknownst to the mother. Meanwhile, since Masters thinks that treating a patient who expressly refused to be treated by a certain doctor is unethical, House has her run inconsequential treatment on trivial cases.
House and his team deduce that Arlene has endocarditis, while Dr. Kaufmann had her started on prednisone, which would make endocarditis worse. House tries to make his team...
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