Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. Morning. House limps into the conference room, tosses a tennis ball against the wall, and catches it one-handed. His team sits exhausted — they’ve been up all night on a case that doesn’t fit.
“And you never lie?”
“Here’s the thing about diagnosis: it’s not about finding the truth. It’s about catching the lie. The patient lies to feel normal. The family lies to feel innocent. The other doctors lie to feel competent. And me? I lie to feel right. But the body — the body never lies. The body keeps receipts. House M.D.
The husband breaks down. He wasn’t poisoning her — he was giving her “natural supplements” from an online guru to help her marathon time. The supplements were contaminated with thallium from a cheap overseas source. Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital