Gregory House, M.D., is a misanthropic medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.[67] Most episodes revolve around the diagnosis of a primary patient and start with a pre-credit sequence set outside the hospital, showing events leading up to the onset of the patient's symptoms.[16] The typical episode follows the team in their attempts to diagnose and treat the patient's illness,[73][77] attempts that often fail until the patient's condition is critical.[73] House's department usually only treats patients that have already been to other doctors but have failed to receive an accurate diagnosis yet.[64] House habitually rejects cases that he does not find interesting.[16] The storylines tend to focus on House's unconventional medical theories and practices, and the other characters' reactions to them, rather than on the intricate details of the treatments.
House, like all of the hospital's doctors, is required to treat patients in the facility's walk-in clinic.[67][82] His grudging fulfillment of this duty, or his creative methods of avoiding it, constitute a recurring subplot, which often serves as the series' comic relief.[73][83] During clinic duty, House confounds patients with unwelcome observations into their personal lives, eccentric prescriptions, and unorthodox treatments.[67] However, after seeming to be inattentive to their complaints, he regularly impresses them with rapid and accurate diagnoses.[14] The insights that occur as he deals with some of the simple cases in the clinic often inspire him to solve the main case.
HOUSE, an innovative take on the medical drama, is a series in which the villain is a medical malady and the hero is an irreverent, controversial doctor who trusts no one, least of all his patients.
HOUSE has been honored with four Emmy Awards, including an award for creator and executive producer David Shore (Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series). The series has been