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House · Season 1, Episode 17

Dr. Cameron and Dr. House in “Role Model”

[giving differential diagnosis] Idiopathic T-cell deficiency?

Idiopathic, from the Latin meaning we're idiots 'cause we can't figure out what's causing it. Give him a whole body scan.

You hate whole body scans.

'Cause they're useless. Could probably scan every one of us and find five different doodads that look like cancer. But, when you're 4th-down, 100 to go, in the snow, you don't call a running play up the middle. Unless you're the Jets.

[House leaves]

I hate sports metaphors.

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