"House M.D." Maternity (2004)

User Rating:

8.3/10   

Director:

Newton Thomas Sigel

Writers:

David Shore (creator)
Peter Blake (written by)

TV Series:

"House M.D." (2004)

Original Air Date:

7 December 2004 (Season 1, Episode 4)

Genre:

Drama | Mystery

Plot:

A nightmare scenario hits Princeton Plainsboro when babies in the maternity ward are hit by a potentially fatal epidemic. Clinic Cases: Woman with a parasite!

Plot Keywords:

Sick Child | Title Spoken By Character | Doctor | Medical Doctor | Medicine

US TV Schedule:

Fri. July 24

9:00 PM

USA

Maternity

#1.4

Cast

Hugh Laurie	...	Dr. Gregory House
Lisa Edelstein	...	Dr. Lisa Cuddy
Omar Epps	...	Dr. Eric Foreman
Robert Sean Leonard	...	Dr. James Wilson
Jennifer Morrison	...	Dr. Allison Cameron
Jesse Spencer	...	Dr. Robert Chase
Ever Carradine	...	Karen Hartig
Hedy Burress	...	Jill
Cress Williams	...	Hospital Attorney
Melissa Marsala	...	Lupino
Alexandra Bokyun Chun	...	Kim Chen (as Alexandra Chun)
Ken Choi	...	Dr. Lim (as Kenneth Choi)
Benjamin John Parrillo	...	Dr. Kubisak (as Ben Parrillo)
Sam Trammell	...	Ethan Hartig
Dwight Armstrong	...	Charlie

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Portugal:M/12 | Japan:Unrated | Netherlands:12

Company:

Bad Hat Harry Productions

Goofs:

Factual errors: One of the infants is stated to have a blood pressure of 80/40 and that it's dangerously low. In fact, this is well within standard range for a newborn.

Quotes:

Dr. Lisa Cuddy: If you would consider going to a shrink, I would pay for it myself. The hospital would hold a bake sale, for God's sake.

Movie Connections:

References A Wild Hare (1940)

Tough to watch

This show is so well made and so realistic at times, it can be hard to watch. MATERNITY is just such an episode. A very nasty bacterial infection or virus spreads like wildfire among the hospital's newborns, and their lives are threatened. It is very hard to tell in most scenes when we are looking at a real baby and an animatronic doll. Death stalks the halls big time in this episode, and that is all I will say about that. As for the clinic subplot, wait until you get a load of the woman harboring a "parasite." And wait until you see how House gets involved with the sick babies. Without giving the specifics away, I will say it is both funny and somehow oddly pleasing to see House in the exact same situation at the beginning and end of the episode.