16. Out of the Chute

The team treats a professional bull rider after a bull attacks him. The team must determine the causes behind the patient's disappearing symptoms and seizures, concluding he needs risky open-heart surgery. The team enlists House's advice from outside the hospital as he attends to issues unrelated to the case. Meanwhile, Masters develops a crush on the patient, surprising Taub.

Plot summary and ending

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Complete story — includes the ending

Newly single and back on Vicodin, House gives himself the five-star treatment but begins to worry that nothing – not even medical puzzles – can excite him anymore. Meanwhile, he and his team treat a professional bullrider ( Chad Faust ) who got attacked by a bull after suffering a seizure. But because of his many previous injuries, the team must devise new diagnostic techniques, while Masters becomes quite attached. Final Diagnosis: Bartonellosis Absent: Olivia Wilde as Remy "Thirteen" Hadley

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