S1.E9

DNR

Name: DNR
Genre: Drama
Released: 2005-02-01
Duration: 43 min
Rating: 8.7
Cast: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps

Episode aired Feb 1, 2005
TV-14
43m

IMDb RATING

8.7/10

5.3K

YOUR RATING

Omar Epps and Harry Lennix in House (2004)

Medical Drama Drama

A famous jazz trumpeter, diagnosed with ALS, signs a DNR form, but because House believes the diagnosis wrong, he breaks the law by resuscitating him.A famous jazz trumpeter, diagnosed with ALS, signs a DNR form, but because House believes the diagnosis wrong, he breaks the law by resuscitating him.A famous jazz trumpeter, diagnosed with ALS, signs a DNR form, but because House believes the diagnosis wrong, he breaks the law by resuscitating him.

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IMDb RATING

8.7/10

5.3K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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9lastliberal

I checked him out, he's a great doctor, you think he's better then I am.

Leave it to House to ignore a DNR to save a patients life. It is just what you would expect.

Harry Lennix (Ray, The Matrix Reloaded) guest stars as a famous jazz musician who just wants to die because he can't play anymore. He comes up against House who can't do anything but treat his patients. The question becomes who's will is stronger.

House ends up in court, but manages to solve the case in his usual fashion while he fights to keep Foreman from running off with a slick talking doctor from L.A.

Also features Brandy.

9malcolmjohnston

Finding it's stride

If you're looking for the point this show kicked on in front of the other medical dramas of the time this episode is the jumping off point when the cast , crew and writers hit their stride The first time "teardrop" is used in the intro and one of the best cameos in the whole run.

9Hitchcoc

There's Always a Chance

Misdiagnosis is the name of the game with this show. A world famous trumpet player has ALS, or so it would seem. He collapses from his wheelchair while attempting to help out some musicians. Because he feels he can't play anymore and can't walk, he signs a DNR order. When he needs to be intubated, House ignores the order and helps him. Of course, this brings in the lawyers and he is hit with a lawsuit and a restraining order. When the tube is removed, he recovers his breathing, as his big shot lawyer from LA looks on. Now that he has survived, things take a different turn, and the real medicine starts. There is some serious adversarial stuff going on with Foreman who would like House to be nicer to him. There is a great scene between the two of them. Very good episode.

7holy_big_sandwich

Bleeding Gums Murphy

If you want an episode about a sick musician losing his gift for music then succumbing to a silent poignant death, go watch the simpson's episode about Bleeding Gums Murphy.

Anyway this episode is more about the ethical dilemma of Do Not Resuscitate bracelets. House, the ever obsessed diagnostician he is, can't let a little legal issue get in his way, so he saves a man who just wants to die (you'll see this multiple times through out the series).

I can't even remember what he had, and I don't really care.

Next episode please.

House Quote: "DNR means "do not resuscitate", not "do not treat".

Trivia
One of the references in this episode is Kobe and a witness, directly alluding to the controversial charges of rape launched against pro basketball player Kobe Bryant in 2003 in Colorado.

Goofs
After the MRI shows John Henry has a blood clot in his brain Chase says there is a good chance they can bust the clot with TPA, a potent blood thinner, yet Foreman tells John Henry that they are starting him on heparin, which while being a weaker blood thinner, is an entirely different drug.

Quotes
John Henry Giles: [to House] I know that limp. I know the empty ring finger. And that obsessive nature of yours, that's a big secret. You don't risk jail and your career to save somebody doesn't want to be saved unless you got something, anything... one thing. The reason normal people got wives and kids and hobbies, whatever, that's because they ain't got that one thing that... that hits them that hard and that true. I got music. You got THIS, the thing you think about all the time, thing that keeps you south of normal. Yeah, makes us great, makes us the best. All we miss out on is everything else - no woman waiting at home after work with a drink and a kiss. That ain't gonna happen for us.