Factual error: House's team listed the potential offending organisms of the infection as "MRSA, H. Flu, VRE, and pseudomonas." House then suggests Vancomycin and Aztreonam. Vancomycin only covers gram (+) organisms and Aztreonam only covers gram (-) organisms. VRE is a gram (+) organism, thus it would not be covered by Aztreonam. VRE stands for vancomycin resistant enterococcus, thus it would not be covered by Vancomycin either. House's team therefore failed to cover for an offending organism that could have caused the infection during their initial differential. (00:09:10)
House, M.D. (2004)
Episode list - season 6
| All season 6 mistakes | Mistakes | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broken | 0 |
| 2 | Epic Fail | 1 |
| 3 | The Tyrant | 1 |
| 4 | Instant Karma | 1 |
| 5 | Brave Heart | 0 |
| 6 | Known Unknowns | 1 |
| 7 | Teamwork | 0 |
| 8 | Ignorance is Bliss | 0 |
| 9 | Wilson | 0 |
| 10 | The Down Low | 0 |
| 11 | Remorse | 0 |
| 12 | Moving the Chains | 1 |
| 13 | 5 to 9 | 0 |
| 14 | Private Lives | 0 |
| 15 | Black Hole | 0 |
| 16 | Lockdown | 0 |
| 17 | Knight Fall | 0 |
| 18 | Open and Shut | 0 |
| 19 | The Choice | 0 |
| 20 | Baggage | 0 |
| 21 | Help Me | 0 |
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Dr. Wilson: Is there a light somewhere that goes on when I have food?
House: Green for food, orange for beverages, red for impure thoughts. That bulb burns out every two weeks.
Trivia: This episode contains another reference to Sherlock Holmes. Wilson tells the (fictional) story of who had sent House a present. Wilson says it was one of House's first patients called Irena Adler. He then explains that House had feelings for the patient, but did not take it any further and therefore regards her as the 'woman who got away'. Irene Adler was an adversary who bettered Sherlock Holmes - the woman who got away. As it happens, the fist patient House treats in the pilot episode is called Rebecca Adler.
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Answer: She would have No Reason to know it belonged to the CIA. If she did know he went off in the helicopter, all she would know is that it wasn't an ambulance helicopter.
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