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House, M.D.

House is back and more full of himself than ever. After choosing House over Vogler in season one, Dr. Cuddy decides to crack down. House is forced to up his hours in the clinic. Much of season two is spent in the hilarity of House avoiding his responsibility to the clinic. Inevitably, cases in the clinic are the key to solving the most difficult of mysterious maladies. Season two also further reveals House's dangerous obsession with solving puzzles -- to the extent of jeopardizing patient’s lives.

One unfortunate incident is only House’s fault because he is responsible for the actions of his team. Chase received the news of his father’s death on the day a patient Chase had treated came in for a follow-up. After blowing her off, she develops a serious condition that requires her to have a liver transplant. Immediately. Her brother consents to give her part of his liver and greases a few palms to speed up the process. He neglects to tell everyone that he has hepatitis. His sister contracts his disease as well as something else he has -- liver cancer. While the brother gave his sister a few more months with her children, the sister gave her brother a chance at life by discovering his cancer early.

After the mother’s death, House is put under the management of his subordinate -- Dr. Forman. Dr. Cuddy intimates that it could be a permanent change after all of House’s paperwork is caught up and charts are completely written up. Other patients treated are a heroin addicted supermodel and a severely burned teen with strange blood test results. House is pitted against old ghosts when a child presents with symptoms that eventually killed a woman House treated 12 years ago, against God when a faith healer causes a frenzy and against new ghosts, when the spouse of a former patient seeks revenge. The season ends with House in the ER after being shot twice.

The conditions are more intense, the drama is more personal, the humor is more timely, the lies are more blatant and House is more medicated. Season two is fun and intense, not painful in the least. Pure pleasure.

Written by: Tracy Elledge

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