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A healthy young teacher collapses, has a seizure, and suddenly can't speak — she just babbles. Every doctor says brain tumor. House says everybody lies. What's really hiding in her head?

A fit 16-year-old starts seeing double, wakes screaming from night terrors, and twitches while wide awake. Two brain doctors give up. House finds the answer in the last place anyone looks — the family tree.

A healthy young man collapses, and the symptoms keep piling up — a cough, a rash, fever, then his heart and kidneys start to fail. No single disease fits all of it. House's rule: the simplest answer wins. So what could possibly be simpler than a disease?

In the hospital nursery, healthy newborns start crashing one after another — fevers, seizures, failing hearts. Every doctor sees a coincidence. House sees an epidemic. But what could strike a dozen babies at once and leave every grown-up around them perfectly fine?

A nun comes in with a simple rash on her hands. The doctor gives her an allergy pill — and minutes later her heart stops. Everyone blames the doctor. But seal her in a room with nothing to be allergic to and she still reacts. So what is she allergic to, if it's nowhere in the room?

For years, doctors called Lucy schizophrenic and stopped looking. Then she turns up with a blood clot she's twenty years too young to have — and she's bleeding and clotting at the very same time. What if the thing wrong with her body and the thing "wrong with her mind" are the same hidden thing?

A young woman starts sleeping eighteen hours a day, burning with fever, slipping toward a coma — and every test comes back clean. House recognizes the culprit almost at once: a parasite that only lives in Africa. One problem — she's never left the country. So how did it get inside her?

A healthy teenager collapses mid-exam with a heart slowing to a crawl, then starts to seize — and every test comes back clean. Minutes later a second teenager arrives with the exact same symptoms, a kid he's never met. House is sure it's poison. But what strikes two strangers on the same morning, and where is it hiding?

A famous musician has been paralyzed for two years and told it's an incurable disease — so he's signed a form ordering the doctors to let him die if anything goes wrong. House doesn't believe the diagnosis for a second. But how do you save a man who doesn't want saving — and what if the death sentence was simply wrong?