"House M.D."
Distractions (2006)

Director:

Daniel Attias

Writers:

David Shore (creator)
Lawrence Kaplow (writer)

TV Series:

"House M.D." (2004)

Original Air Date:

14 February 2006 (Season 2, Episode 12)

Genre:

Drama | Mystery

Plot:

A patient with 40% body burns and inexplicable cardiac and neurological signs is treated by the team, while House pursues disproving an old enemy's medical study. |

Plot Keywords:

Sex | Drug Use | Friend | Lupus | Acronym In Title

Cast

Hugh Laurie	...	Dr. Gregory House
Lisa Edelstein	...	Dr. Lisa Cuddy
Omar Epps	...	Dr. Eric Foreman
Robert Sean Leonard	...	Dr. James Wilson
Jennifer Morrison	...	Dr. Allison Cameron
Jesse Spencer	...	Dr. Robert Chase
Lisa Darr	...	Emily
Christopher Cousins	...	Doug
Dan Butler	...	Dr. Weber
James Immekus	...	Adam
Stephanie Venditto	...	Nurse Brenda Previn
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dorothea Harahan	...	EMT
Judy Louise Johnson	...	Surgeon
Michael Merton	...	Anesthesiologist
Kristen Pate	...	Paula

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Hindi

Colour:

Colour

Certification:

Japan:Unrated | USA:TV-14 | Portugal:M/12

Company:

Bad Hat Harry Productions

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): House says a Belgian doctor named Einthoven invented the galvanometer. In fact, Einthoven was Dutch.

Quotes:

Dr. Eric Foreman: Why didn't you take the patient to radiology, get an MRI?
Dr. Gregory House: Obviously I was doing something illegal. Using nuclear imaging would have raised questions.

Soundtrack:

Get Miles

Tragedy upon tragedy

A teenager is badly burned in an ATV accident, and House and his team race to save the kid's life as a lot more is going on than just body burns. Here's where HOUSE ups the ante set by ER. Scenes with the horribly burned youth become extremely graphic, as we watch the ministrations to the kid's body in close-up. We also see House make a sudden decision to bathe the kid in maggots in order to speed up the healing process. It's quite a scene, and not for the faint of heart. The young actor playing the burn victim is quite convincing, especially when House momentarily rouses him from his medically-induced coma to try to find out something. Many scenes in this episode are cringe-inducing, and will not be for everyone. The ending is one of the biggest tear-jerkers of the series to date, although it may not be the ending you expect.