House

House, also referred to as House, M.D., is an American medical drama television series created by David Shore and executive produced by film director Bryan Singer. The Emmy- and Peabody-award-winning medical drama debuted on November 16, 2004, on the FOX Network.
House stars English actor Hugh Laurie as the American title character, a role for which he received a 2006 Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama. The third season of House premiered on September 5, 2006, in the UnRecurring characters
Stacy Warner (Sela Ward) – Dr. House's ex-girlfriend, with whom he used to live, and former lawyer for Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital.
Mark Warner (Currie Graham) – Stacy's husband.
Edward Vogler (Chi McBride) – Billionaire owner of a pharmaceutical firm and former board chairman of the hospital.
Brenda Previn (Stephanie Venditto) – Head Nurse
Michael Tritter (David Morse) – Police officer who bears malice against Dr. House in a third season story arc.
Coma Guy – Nameless character who House 'visits' for lunch, or to watch a TV show. Not to be confused with "Vegetative State Guy" Gabriel Wozniak (John Larroquette), who was awoken by House in an effort to get a better medical history for his son, Kyle Wozniak.
Steve McQueen – Dr. House's pet rat which he caught one day in Stacy's attic. ited States and Canada.Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. Most episodes start with a cold open somewhere outside the hospital, showing the events leading to the onset of symptoms for that week's patient. The episode follows the team in their attempts to deduce the illness causing the patient's problems.
The team arrives at diagnoses using the Socratic Method, with House guiding the deliberations. House often ignores the information and opinions from his underlings, assuming it is irrelevant. The patient is usually misdiagnosed two or three times over the course of each episode, and treated with corresponding medications that cause further complications. Often the ailment cannot be easily deduced because the patient has lied about symptoms and circumstances - lied about having an affair that led to the mystery disease, about an underlying disorder that lead to the mystery disease, about jobs that lead to the mystery disease, and so on. As a result House frequently mutters, "Everybody lies," or proclaims during the team's deliberations, "The patient is lying." Even when he doesn't say so explicitly, House often operates under this assumption.
House's begrudging fulfillment of his mandatory walk-in clinic duty is a recurring subplot on the show. During clinic duty, House confounds patients with eccentric bedside manner and unorthodox treatments, but impresses them with rapid and accurate diagnoses after seemingly not paying attention; he often plays video games while patients talk to him, and in one episode House diagnoses multiple patients in the waiting room in under five minutes on his way out of the clinic. Some of the simpler problems House faces in the clinic often help him solve the main case of the episode - ironic, because he claims to hate working in the clinic.