8.2/103,129 votes#1 - Now What?
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/2010
House and Cuddy are exploring the ramifications of those feelings and attempting to make a real relationship work. Meanwhile, due to a colleague's illness, Princeton Plainsboro is left without a neurosurgeon on site, threatening the hospital's accreditation as a Level 1 Trauma Center. As the team attempts treatment to get their sick colleague back to work, they discover there is more to the illness than they originally suspected and turn to House for direction. Instead, House remains elusive, leaving the team on its own.
Director: Greg Yaitanes
Writer: Doris Egan
8.5/102,790 votes#2 - Selfish
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/2010
A seemingly healthy 14-year-old girl collapses during a skateboarding exhibition; House and Cuddy face the challenge of handling their romantic relationship at work.
Director: Daniel Attias
Writer: Eli Attie
8.2/102,524 votes#3 - Unwritten
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/2010
A children's novelist tries to kill herself, but is thwarted when she has a seizure. House, a fan of the books, puts her on psych hold but has to deal with a patient that is eager to die rather than be cured. Meanwhile, House worries that he'll lose Cuddy because they have nothing in common.
Director: Greg Yaitanes
Writer: John C. Kelley
7.8/102,383 votes#4 - Massage Therapy
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/2010
House and his team make unexpected discoveries about a female patient admitted to the hospital after severe and uncontrollable vomiting; House and Cuddy are forced to face the reservations in their relationship after a visit from a massage therapist.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Peter Blake
8.1/102,521 votes#5 - Unplanned Parenthood
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/2010
When an infant suffers breathing trouble and liver failure, House and the team must look at the medical history of the mother in order to find an answer, and ultimately land on a discovery that forces the mother to jeopardize not only her child's health but her own. Meanwhile Taub and Foreman must find a new female doctor to fill the spot vacated by Thirteen and House and Wilson learn a thing or two about parenting while caring for Cuddy's daughter.
Director: Greg Yaitanes
Writer: David Foster
8.0/102,392 votes#6 - Office Politics
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/2010
It’s election season, and in the midst of a tight campaign, an incumbent New Jersey senator’s campaign manager falls ill with liver failure and temporary paralysis. Cuddy pushes House to add a female doctor to his team by hiring brilliant third-year medical student Martha Masters in Thirteen’s absence.
Director: Sanford Bookstaver
Writer: Seth Hoffman
8.6/102,865 votes#7 - A Pox on Our House
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/2010
After a 200-year-old medicine jar found on an off-shore shipwreck shatters in a teenage girl's palm, she is admitted to Princeton Plainsboro for symptoms closely linked to smallpox.
Director: Tucker Gates
Writer: Lawrence Kaplow
7.6/102,388 votes#8 - Small Sacrifices
Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/2010
Science and faith are called into question when a patient is admitted to the hospital following his reenactment of the Crucifixion. Meanwhile, Taub questions his wife about her relationship with an infidelity support group member, and the team attends a co-worker's wedding.
Director: Greg Yaitanes
Writer: David Hoselton
8.3/102,501 votes#9 - Larger Than Life
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 1/17/2011
After saving a stranger who fell onto subway tracks, a man suddenly collapses despite appearing to be unscathed; House tries to avoid a dinner with Cuddy and her opinionated mother.
Director: Miguel Sapochnik
Writer: Sara Hess
7.9/102,356 votes#10 - Carrot or Stick
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 1/24/2011
House and the team try to link symptoms of a teenage military recruit and his drill sergeant, while House secretly helps Cuddy's daughter get into a prestigious preschool. Someone posted a disparaging photo of Chase on a social-networking site.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Liz Friedman
8.5/102,669 votes#11 - Family Practice
Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 2/7/2011
Cuddy’s mother, Arlene, is admitted to Princeton Plansboro after complaining about unusual symptoms, but stubborn Arlene insists that House be removed from the case, forcing House to come up with non-conventional means to treat his patient.
Director: Miguel Sapochnik
Writer: Peter Blake
7.7/102,323 votes#12 - You Must Remember This
Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 2/14/2011
When a waitress with a perfect memory suffers temporary paralysis, her older sister visits her in the hospital, which triggers high stress levels and even more health complications.
Director: David Platt
Writer: Kath Lingenfelter
8.8/103,651 votes#13 - Two Stories
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 2/21/2011
House participates in a school’s Career Day and breaks a few rules by sharing explicit medical stories. Waiting outside the principal’s office, he meets two fifth-grade students who assess House’s relationship woes and try to help him understand how his selfish antics get in the way of showing Cuddy how he really feels.
Director: Greg Yaitanes
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
7.8/102,355 votes#14 - Recession Proof
Season 7 Episode 14 - Aired 2/28/2011
A patient is admitted after breaking out in a severe rash triggered by caustic chemical exposure at his blue-collar job. Meanwhile, Cuddy is honored with an award and needs House to be at the charity event for support, but his attendance is threatened when his patient’s battle to survive forces him to question his practice and his own happiness.
Director: S.J. Clarkson
Writer: John C. Kelley
8.5/103,262 votes#15 - Bombshells
Season 7 Episode 15 - Aired 3/7/2011
Tension reaches new heights when Cuddy faces sobering news that propels her to reevaluate her priorities. While House is distracted by his concern for Cuddy’s well-being, the team treats a teenage patient whose worsening symptoms and suspicious body scars indicate more than just physical illness.
Director: Greg Yaitanes
Writer: Sara Hess, Liz Friedman
8.7/103,230 votes#16 - Out of the Chute
Season 7 Episode 16 - Aired 3/14/2011
The team treats a professional bull rider who is attacked by a bull. The team must determine the causes behind the patients disappearing symptoms and seizures while taking House's advice from outside the hospital as he attends to issues unrelated to the case. Meanwhile, Masters develops a crush on the patient.
Director: Sanford Bookstaver
Writer: Lawrence Kaplow, Thomas L. Moran
8.3/102,631 votes#17 - Fall from Grace
Season 7 Episode 17 - Aired 3/21/2011
A homeless man with a history of drug abuse is admitted to Princeton Plainsboro with burns and scars on his chest. Meanwhile, Cuddy reveals her guilt to Wilson about breaking up with House.
Director: Tucker Gates
Writer: John C. Kelley
8.8/103,023 votes#18 - The Dig
Season 7 Episode 18 - Aired 4/11/2011
Thirteen has been in prison for the past year, but the real mystery for House is what she did to get there. At the hospital, the team treats a science teacher suffering from severe respiratory illness. Taub tries to get back into the dating scene, but winds up retreating to his old habits.
Director: Matt Shakman
Writer: Sara Hess, David Hoselton
8.4/102,518 votes#19 - Last Temptation
Season 7 Episode 19 - Aired 4/18/2011
Masters faces a career crossroads on her last day as a medical student and struggles with the choice to continue on the path to become a surgeon or to accept the rare opportunity to join House’s team officially. Meanwhile, the team treats a 16-year-old girl who inexplicably collapsed days before embarking on an ambitious sailing tour around the globe. Despite the patient's life-changing diagnosis, the patient's family insists on getting her back on the seas in time for her potentially record-breaking launch. But to the team's surprise, including House, Masters makes a bold decision regarding the patient’s treatment.
Director: Tim Southam
Writer: Liz Friedman, David Foster
7.8/102,224 votes#20 - Changes
Season 7 Episode 20 - Aired 5/2/2011
The team takes on the case of a lottery winner (Donal Logue) suffering from paralysis and multiple types of cancer, and they must figure out if it his new millionaire lifestyle that is making him sick. Meanwhile, Cuddy's mother threatens to sue the hospital over her treatment, and Foreman and Chase make a bet over who is repressing the uglier side of their personality more.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Eli Attie
7.7/102,236 votes#21 - The Fix
Season 7 Episode 21 - Aired 5/9/2011
After losing a bet with Wilson over a boxing match, House is convinced that his fighter has an underlying medical condition that cost him the fight. While he tries to prove it, he leaves his team alone to help a bomb scientist who suffered a seizure. Meanwhile, House may be experimenting with a new drug to help his leg pain.
Director: Greg Yaitanes
Writer: Thomas L. Moran
9.1/103,607 votes#22 - After Hours
Season 7 Episode 22 - Aired 5/16/2011
When House discovers that the experimental drug he's been using causes fatal tumors, he decides to attempt to excise them himself. However, he can't complete the surgery and ends up needing Cuddy's help. Meanwhile, Thirteen's friend from prison (Amy Landecker), a relapsed drug user, arrives at her apartment needing medical care after being stabbed. With her friend unwilling to go to the hospital, Thirteen enlists Chase's assistance when the friend loses sensation and movement in her arm. Also, Taub receives some unexpected news that could change his life.
Director: Miguel Sapochnik
Writer: Garrett Lerner, Russel Friend, Seth Hoffman
8.4/103,158 votes#23 - Moving On
Season 7 Episode 23 - Aired 5/23/2011
The team treats a performance artist (Shohreh Aghdashloo) who deliberately made herself ill with the aim of turning the diagnostics department into her new masterpiece, as House must decide which of her symptoms are real, and which are self-inflicted. As the case progresses, House vows to make changes in his life, but remains rooted in old habits. After the case is over, House finally deals with his anger over the breakup and lashes out by driving through Cuddy's dining room and escaping to a beach.
Director: Greg Yaitanes
Writer: Peter Blake, Kath Lingenfelter
The Best Episodes of House Season 7
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Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.
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Network:FOX
Season 7 Ratings Summary
"Now What?" is the best rated episode of "House" season 7. It scored 8.2/10 based on 3129 votes. Directed by Greg Yaitanes and written by Doris Egan, it aired on 9/20/2010. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Selfish".