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Mirror Mirror (House)

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aggressive personality. When he was mirroring Brennan, he said that he didn't like being in this hospital. In response to that, Brennan told House that he was going to quit and go back to his old job when the patient was cured, although he didn't end up quitting. When the patient was mirroring Kutner, he said that he was obsessed with new things and that he likes pain. When House brings the patient into an OR where Wilson is performing surgery, House and Wilson bicker for a minute until the patient begins mirroring Wilson. As Wilson points out later, this suggests that Wilson is the dominant one in House and Wilson's relationship.
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was lying when he said he got Foreman another job. In the patient's room, with everyone watching outside through the glass, the patient tells them both to shut up and says that Cuddy has "great yabbos" (breasts). House takes this as confirmation that the patient is mirroring him, but Cuddy claims that's something she might have said as she has always considered her breasts to be one of her best features. The scene cuts to Foreman and Wilson, where Foreman simply says, "Damn" and we see House dancing in celebration and mimicking shooting Foreman with his cane as an imaginary machine gun.
314:, who later states he hates hot tubs. This evidence shows the patient was capable of thinking for himself, so House pretends to be the patient, so that when the patient mirrored him, he would say more about himself. The patient says he was on the road a lot, and he used the vaporub to block out the smell of dung. House infers that the patient sells farm equipment, and is around pigs a lot, and correctly diagnoses him with 1368: 307:, pointing to Central America. The patient has heart problems, so Foreman suggests they biopsy the heart. Brennan says that will kill him since the patient just had a heart attack. Foreman then makes a House-like statement, sarcastically saying "We biopsy his toe instead". House tells everyone to biopsy the patient's heart, which reveals nothing. 275:'s surgeries, and the patient acts like a doctor. Specifically, he acts like Wilson. Wilson later notes that mirror patients always mirror the most dominant person in the room, which means that Wilson was more dominant than House. House explains that as a consequence of the fact that Wilson was in charge of the surgery. 362:
The patient's mirroring gave several people insights about themselves. When he was mirroring Amber, he said that she had to be right since no one likes her and she 'had to be right, otherwise she wasn't worth anything'. When he was mirroring Taub, he said that he was attracted to Amber's dominant and
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known as Giovannini mirror syndrome (named after Giovannina Conchiglia) that causes a patient to mimic those around him. House suggests that they try to convince the patient that he is a doctor, since a mirror syndrome patient would be convinced, but a Munchausens patient would not. They go to one of
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House suggests that Thirteen went to find the patient's car, because she didn't want to see what the patient would say if he mirrored her. House wanted to find out what he'd say, so House and Thirteen went to see the patient together, but the patient commented emphatically on how attractive Thirteen
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Foreman suggests that House and Cuddy both talk to the patient at once, to see which one the patient would mirror (the patient mirrors the person he thinks is in charge). Foreman says that if the patient thinks House is dominant over Cuddy, he'll take that other job, until Wilson suggests that House
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House realizes that no one is going to back down. (His exact quotation is "No one's going to be happy here... and Cuddy's going to end up pregnant.") So House tells Foreman he got him a job somewhere else. At first, Foreman claimed that he was miserable working with House again. But when the patient
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to rehire Foreman, and they get into a power struggle. To waste Cuddy's time, House tells the people in the cafeteria that the food was spoiled, and they should all go to the clinic. Then he orders unnecessary, expensive tests for the uninsured clinic patients. In retaliation, Cuddy replaces House's
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At the end of the episode, after House has made the diagnosis, Foreman suggests a playful experiment, and they put the treatment on hold and get Cuddy. Since the patient had been mirroring whoever was the "alpha" in the room, House and Cuddy stand in front of him trying to argue over which of them
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Giovannini's Mirror Syndrome is a highly fictionalized version of a condition treated by Giovannina Conchiglia in Italy in 2007. The real-life patient suffered frontal temporal brain damage and took cues based on his environment to develop his character. His role remained the same until the
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which would worsen it and thus provide a diagnosis. The patient complains of additional symptoms, and Foreman determines that he is faking them. His alleged symptoms are the same as those of other patients, and the name he gave them was the same as the paramedic. Foreman thinks he might have
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takes bets on who will be fired at the end of the case. House does not fire any of the candidates, so Chase wins all the bets. House confirms Foreman's suspicion that he was in the gambling with Chase on the bets and received 50% of the money. As they walk away,
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suggests that the patient might have a fungus, but the cure does not work. They put the patient in a hot tub to keep him warm. House suggests they get a medical history by checking his blood for antibodies. The test reveals that he has had
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Conchiglia, Giovannina; Della Rocca, Gennaro; Grossi, Dario (27 March 2007). "On a Peculiar Environmental Dependency Syndrome in a Case with Frontal-Temporal Damage: Zelig-like Syndrome".
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Cole and Thirteen find the patient's car, which allows them to determine his name, his hometown, and that he carries vaporub. The patient earlier said he liked hot tubs in the presence of
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was mirroring Foreman, he said that he liked being there. Foreman realized he did like being back, and he says he doesn't want House to get him a job somewhere else.
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was. House, believing the patient to be mirroring him, leaves the room. The patient, alone with Thirteen, said he was scared and it wasn't going to be alright.
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Vicodin with laxatives. House responds, "I know when my Vicodin isn't Vicodin. Do you know when your birth control pills aren't birth control pills?"
253:) with breathing problems with no apparent cause. He was just robbed and does not have I.D. on him, and they do not have his past medical records. 282:), something that cannot be faked. They look for an infection that could have caused it. The patient has his car keys on him, so House sends 1338: 490: 1392: 523: 761: 1050: 850: 326: 1371: 1315: 967: 516: 1217: 871: 829: 788: 189: 433: 1231: 1078: 1071: 857: 781: 549: 291: 283: 230: 147: 111: 102: 1352: 1196: 1106: 1057: 598: 311: 279: 177: 129: 1294: 1266: 1182: 1175: 974: 933: 898: 726: 639: 333:
plays, suggesting House and Foreman might begin to get along better, perhaps because they are so similar.
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House notices that the patient's blood thickens dangerously when his body temperature drops (
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is the "alpha". After momentary confusion, the patient eventually tells Cuddy, "you have
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suggests it might be a result of a vocal cord spasm, and they give him
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situation changed. The role switching was in addition to
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Index

House
David Platt
David Foster
Anne Dudek
Dr. Amber Volakis
Edi Gathegi
Dr. Jeffrey Cole
Peter Jacobson
Dr. Chris Taub
Kal Penn
Dr. Lawrence Kutner
Olivia Wilde
Dr. Remy "Thirteen" Hadley
Andy Comeau
Dr. Travis Brennan
Frank Whaley
Guardian Angels
Whatever It Takes
House season 4
List of episodes
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Frank Whaley
Foreman
methacholine
Munchausens
anterograde amnesia
Wilson
cold agglutinin disease

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