“Pilot” is the first episode of the U.S. television series House. The episode premiered on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. It introduces the character of Dr. Gregory House and his team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. It received generally positive reviews.
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“Pilot” is the first episode of the U.S. television series House. The episode premiered on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. It introduces the character of Dr. Gregory House and his team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. House was created by David Shore, who got the idea for the misanthropic title character from a doctor’s visit. It received generally positive reviews; the character was widely noted as a unique aspect of the episode and series. Some reviewers believed that such a cruel character would not be tolerated in real life. Other complaints with the episode included stereotyped supporting characters and an implausible premise. The initial broadcast of \”Pilot\” was watched by approximately seven million viewers, making it the 62nd-most-watched show of the week. The character of House was inspired by Shore’s background as a patient at a teaching hospital. The show’s producers wanted House handicapped in some way and gave the character a damaged leg arising from an improper diagnosis. House’s ideas were added after Fox bought the show and Shore wrote the pilot with a vivid memory of the character’s visit with a doctor, who would actually ask him, “Why I am wasting your time? A central question I would actually love to ask a doctor” The episode also featured Katie Attanasio as a doctor who actually did see a doctor and pitched the show to Fox as a medical detective show—a hospital whodunit where the doctors would be looking for the source of symptoms of the patients.
The pilot was the second episode of House to air on Fox; it was followed by “Everybody Lies” on November 21, 2004, and “Everybody Lies” on Nov 22, 2004,. The episode features House’s attempts to diagnose a kindergarten teacher after she collapses in class. House treats Adler with steroids, which improves her condition greatly for a time, until she starts seizing and has heart failure. House also treats a ten-year-old boy whose mother allows him to use his asthmatic inhaler only intermittently instead of daily as prescribed. In the hospital’s clinic, House’s first patient is a man who is orange because of an over-consumption of carrots and vitamins. House concludes that she is suffering from neurocysticercosis from eating undercooked pork at some point in her past. Adler’s throat closes up during the MRI due to an allergic reaction to gadolinium, prompting two members of House’s team to perform a tracheotomy.
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