30 Identified only as Mr. and Mrs. Merrell also appeared in the episode, although
the utterances they made were not very significant for the analysis of this study.
3. A Summary on the Episode “
Occam’s Razor”
In this episode, House and his team – doctors Foreman, Cameron and Chase – attempts to treat Brandon, who was admitted into PPTH after losing
consciousness after having sex with his fiancé Mindy. Brandon’s symptoms were cough, abdominal pain, nausea, low blood pressure, and fever. Cameron quickly
pointed out that no condition could account for all of them. As Brandon’s kidneys began to fail during treatment, House guessed that Brandon may have been
suffering from both sinus infection and hypothyroidism. Quoting the law of Occam’s razor, Dr. Foreman pointed out that two conditions happening at exactly
the same time was impossible and continued to test for other conditions with the team.
House, meanwhile, was attempting to sabotage his own clinic duty which he finds too boring assigned to him by his boss Dr. Lisa Cuddy. He did that
firstly by proclaiming to a room full of sick people that although he’s a board- certified diagnostician, he’s really quite an unpleasant person and he’s very
possibly too intoxicated on vicodin painkiller treatment for his hurting leg to be able to treat them. House also called Cuddy in for a consult on the most
insignificant illnesses to annoy her. None of all this managed to deter Cuddy’s determination and Wilson finally got House to learn to just accept his assignment.
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31 Brandon’s white cell count suddenly dropped and he had to be moved into
a ‘clean room’. This cell count drop befuddled the doctors since none of the conditions they speculated would cause this. House finally concluded that
Brandon must have been suffering from colchicine poisoning, that Brandon’s real symptom was only his cough and that the rest of the symptoms resulted from
drinking colchicines, a drug for gout treatment. House then explained that Brandon’s doctor must have purposely prescribed the more expensive gout
medicine for treating Brandon’s cough something colchicines were never meant to do in order to make some money.
A visit to the pharmacist with Chase seemed to prove House wrong and everybody, including Brandon’s parents, soon rejected House’s theory of Gout
medicine poisoning. Wilson also assured House that he’s finally made a mistake. In the end, however, it turned out that House was right in his deduction and that
Brandon really did have gout medicine poisoning after all, and that it was really due to the error of Brandon’s prescribing doctor and the pharmacy.
B. Approach of the Study
