The Best Episodes Written By Doris Egan

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.7/10(46 votes)

   #1 - Both Sides Now

   S5:E245/11/2009

   House and the team are intrigued by Scott, a man whose left brain and right brain operate independently, leaving him with two distinct personalities and no control over some of his actions. As the two sides of Scott’s brain struggle for dominance, his warring personalities make it increasingly difficult for the team to figure out what is causing the unique problem. The team is forced to use some unusual methods to get him to cooperate with their necessary testing. Meanwhile, when House refuses to make an appearance in the clinic, Cuddy takes an unconventional approach to force House to make up the time with a particular patient.

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   8.7/10(65 votes)

   #2 - House's Head (1)

   S4:E155/12/2008

   A bus accident leaves House with serious head trauma and partial amnesia. He comes to believe that a patient on the bus had a life-threatening disease and struggles to recall who it was, and what they had.

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   8.6/10(39 votes)

   #3 - Baggage

   S6:E205/10/2010

   During a session with Dr. Nolan, House recounts the case of a woman who arrives at the Princeton Plainsboro emergency room with an unexplained illness and no recollection of who she is. While trying to solve the mystery of the woman's illness, House must also help her piece together her identity.

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   8.3/10(40 votes)

   #4 - The Social Contract

   S5:E173/9/2009

   House and the team take on the case of Nick, a book editor who loses his inhibitions. The team realizes Nick has frontal lobe disinhibition, which causes him to speak his mind having no control over what he says and making him just like House. Meanwhile, House suspects Wilson and Taub are keeping something from him.

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   8.2/10(44 votes)

   #5 - Birthmarks

   S5:E410/14/2008

   While en route to his father's funeral, House must help the team with a differential diagnosis on a young Chinese girl who has collapsed under mysterious circumstances.

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   8.2/10(20 votes)

   #6 - Hug

   S1:E112/5/2002

   A guy in charge of a rival fertilizer firm to LuthorCorp's arrives in Metropolis. He is intent on buying up the Kent farm and using the land to build a rival company to Lex's. Clark befriends a local recluse with secrets of his own.

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   8.0/10(22 votes)

   #7 - Hourglass

   S1:E611/20/2001

   An old man uses green meteor rock to reverse the aging process, then gain vengeance on the children of the jury that put him away decades earlier. Meanwhile, another woman at the same old folks' home has prophetic abilities and she sees the futures of both Clark and Lex.

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   8.0/10(44 votes)

   #8 - The Right Stuff

   S4:E210/2/2007

   House is secretly trying to treat a fighter pilot who is a candidate for NASA's astronaut training program. Her diagnosis will be the test to choose which ones of the 40 applicants are going to take the empty spots in his team.

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   8.0/10(46 votes)

   #9 - Son of Coma Guy

   S3:E711/14/2006

   House decides to awaken a comatose patient so he can question the man regarding the family history of his son, who may have a genetic condition and the father is the only living relative. Meanwhile, Wilson confronts House about the stolen prescription pad as Tritter approaches Cameron, Chase, and Foreman in an attempt to divide the team and reveal their loyalties.

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    7.9/10(40 votes)

    #10 - Known Unknowns

    S6:E611/9/2009

    After a wild night out, a teenage girl is brought to Princeton Plainsborough with severely swollen appendages. The team must work to diagnose the young girl, who is less than honest about what happened the night she fell ill. As her condition worsens, she becomes unable to distinguish fact from fiction. Meanwhile, Cuddy, Wilson and House spend a weekend away from the hospital to attend a medical conference, but things don’t go as planned when House’s private investigator, Lucas returns.

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    7.9/10(19 votes)

    #11 - Sex and Death

    S3:E131/27/2020

    A terminal cancer patient is determined to live the last few months of his life without inhibition; Dr. Reznik must confront her relationship with her mother when she comes in for a third opinion from Dr. Glassman.

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    7.9/10(17 votes)

    #12 - Letting Go

    S4:E175/17/2021

    Dr. Claire Brown and the team must face hard truths about what lines they are willing to cross when one of Claire's idols becomes her patient.

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    7.9/10(16 votes)

    #13 - The Uncertainty Principle

    S4:E71/18/2021

    Dr. Morgan Reznick discovers her patient’s wealth and obsession with extending his life is a dangerous mix that could end up costing more than he can afford.

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    7.8/10(21 votes)

    #14 - Take My Hand

    S3:E410/14/2019

    As a conspiracy theorist questions Dr. Neil Melendez’s diagnosis, Dr. Claire Brown treats a woman whose inability to feel pain is threatening both her marriage and her life. Meanwhile, Dr. Shaun Murphy and Dr. Aaron Glassman each face crises in their romantic relationships.

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    7.8/10(41 votes)

    #15 - House vs. God

    S2:E194/25/2006

    House treats a 15 year old faith healer, while Wilson feels left out when he finds out House has a weekly poker game.

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    7.7/10(38 votes)

    #16 - V.

    S1:E52/22/2014

    Bonny confesses. Rackham makes a life-altering decision. Richard forces Eleanor's hand. A chess match is organized for Flint and the Walrus crew.

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    7.6/10(47 votes)

    #17 - Failure to Communicate

    S2:E101/10/2006

    A journalist's head injury results in unintelligible speech, leaving House and his team at a loss; and the heat is turned up between House and Stacy when they're out of town.

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    7.6/10(42 votes)

    #18 - House Training

    S3:E204/24/2007

    The doctors try to find what's wrong with a scam artist who collapses after her brain "freezes," but the case becomes personal for Foreman.

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    7.6/10(45 votes)

    #19 - Now What?

    S7:E19/20/2010

    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.

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    7.4/10(20 votes)

    #20 - Long Walk Home

    S1:E87/19/2019

    After a harrowing journey of survival through the swamp, Avery comes face to face with Swamp Thing, who rescues the injured man and helps his recovery.

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    7.3/10(38 votes)

    #21 - Private Lives

    S6:E143/8/2010

    House and the team take on the case of an avid blogger admitted with sudden bruising and bleeding. From her hospital bed, the patient blogs about her symptoms, doctors and prospective diagnoses to her dedicated band of followers and solicits their advice on a course of treatment. Such openness leads the team to contemplate the value of privacy, especially after House and Wilson uncover secrets from one another 's past. Meanwhile, Chase is coaxed into testing out the dating scene.

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    7.1/10(43 votes)

    #22 - Don't Ever Change

    S4:E122/5/2008

    House and his team must diagnose a Jewish bride who is taken ill at her wedding. However, House is more interested in analyzing Wilson's relationship with his new girlfriend.

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    7.0/10(36 votes)

    #23 - Worlds Apart

    S1:E26/7/2019

    Certain that Alec's disappearance is more than an accident, Abby and Matt venture into the swamp, where she encounters Swamp Thing. Scientist Jason Woodrue comes to Marais.

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