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"Three Stories" is the twenty-first episode of the first season of ''House'', which premiered on the Fox network on May 17, 2005. David Shore won an Emmy in 2005 for Outstanding Writing for A Drama Series for this episode. It won the Humanitas Prize in the '60 minute' category for the year 2006. ==Plot== Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) agrees to lecture on diagnostics in place of the sick Dr. Riley, in exchange for two hours free from clinic duty. On his way over to the lecture theatre, he encounters his ex-girlfriend, Stacy Warner (Sela Ward), whom he has not seen in years. Stacy wants him to treat her husband whom she believes to be sick. The first patient is a farmer, who has bitten by a timber rattlesnake. However, when the anti-venom is given, he suffers an allergic reaction. The results of venom testing leads House to believe the farmer's symptoms cannot be from a snake bite. Out of options, House informs the patient of his impending death. The farmer quickly changes priority, wondering what will happen to his dog. House quickly deduces that the bite was caused by his pet, and that this was not the first time it happened. Dr. Eric Foreman (Omar Epps) and Dr. Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer) return to the farmer's field and take a sample of the dog's saliva, revealing a form of strep bacteria, more commonly known as the flesh-eating bacteria. The farmer's right leg is amputated, and his dog is euthanized, but he is given a prosthetic new leg as well as a new dog. The second patient is a female volleyball player. Dr. Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison) believes the patient suffers from tendinitis, due to her thyroid gland causing a depressed mental state, in response to the patient's boy problems, resulting in the inflammation of the tendons. While tests confirm tendinitis, the Thyroxine the patient is given to level her moods does not work and the team becomes stumped when the patient develops hypersensitivity to touch and raised calcium levels. Chase theorizes parathyroid adenoma and an MRI is done to confirm. The scan reveals she has osteosarcoma, a cancerous tumor on her femur. Cameron warns the patient and her parents that, depending on how large and ingrained the tumor is, amputation might be the only way to recovery. Fortunately for the patient, her leg is not amputated and she makes a full recovery. The last patient is Carmen Electra enjoying a round of miniature golf, however, as House's lecture continues, the patient is revealed to be a male golfer with extreme right leg pain (Electra was a part of House's fantasy). While being examined, the patient grabs a syringe of Demerol and self-administers the injection. The students deduce the patient was here just for narcotics. When he tells the students that the patient begins urinating blood and waste, they are stumped as to the cause, which greatly angers House. Cameron shows up at the lecture, diagnosing muscle death. As Foreman and Chase also arrive, House states an MRI was done to confirm, revealing an aneurysm that clotted, leading to an infarction. Cameron deduces the patient in the third scenario was House all along. A flashback shows House eventually diagnosed himself with muscle death. Stacy, his girlfriend at the time, goes along with Dr. Lisa Cuddy's (Lisa Edelstein) suggestion of amputating his leg. House refuses, and wants to restore the circulation, which could save his leg, but also comes with pain and severe risks. House goes into cardiac arrest, claiming to have died and seen visions of the other two patients. Dr. James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) enters the lecture, and asks House if he believes his visions were real. House claims he thinks the visions at the point of death are chemical reactions in the brain, as he finds it more comforting to believe that life "isn't simply a test". Back in the flashback, House has Cuddy put him into a chemically induced coma, during which Stacy exercises the health care proxy that House gave to her and decides (against his will) to take the middle ground of having the dead tissue removed without amputating his leg. While the students debate the ethics of this choice, Cuddy enters, and House discovers the lecture has run twenty minutes over. House tells Cuddy that Dr. Riley is vomiting due to the ingestion of lead-based paint, which House tasted when he drank from Riley's homemade coffee mug during the lecture. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Three Stories」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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