What happened to Dr Houses leg?
The answer at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Hou… is the one that was presented on the TV show. The simplified version is that a blood clot obstructed the blood supply to part of his leg and the condition was not diagnosed in time to prevent tissue death. The medical recommendation was to amputate his leg to prevent risk to his life but House would not agree. While House was in a chemically induced coma to escape the pain, his (then) wife agreed to compromise surgery (removal of the dead muscle) because it would save his life and save his leg. The leg would always hurt but it would still have partial function. I can’t recall what was supposed to have caused the initial blood clot – might well have been the motorcycle accident that others recall.
And now for the correct and yet long answer. Got to season one , the episode named “Three Stories” starring Carmen Electra as House. I am not joking. In that episode House has to give a lecture as a supstitute teacher on diagnostics. His lecture involves three patients, one of which is himself. He was out playing golf and his leg seized up on him. He went to the hospital to the emergency room and they were taking too long to help him so he grabbed a syringe of morphine and jams it in his leg to kill the pain. The doctor’s on duty assumed he was a drug addict and instead of doing more tests they plucked him in an observation room and left him there for three days without treatment. Three days later, he was urinating burnt orange blood. It turns out that his leg was dying and and that was a sign of muscle death. Tests were run and it was discovered that he had an enfarction in his hip. If it were in his heart it would be called a heart attack but in the leg it is called an enfarction. A
