“The Right Stuff” is the House M.D. episode in which House’s team competes to hire new doctors.
The episode is the second installment of season four and aired in 2007. After Chase and Cameron leave House’s original team and Foreman resigns, House interviews a large group of applicants through an unusual elimination process. He assigns them cases and creates rivalries to reveal how they think under pressure.
The competition introduces several doctors who become important later, including Chris Taub, Lawrence Kutner, and Remy Hadley, who is nicknamed Thirteen. Amber Volakis also becomes a major character, although she is not selected for House’s final team.
The title refers to the qualities House seeks in diagnosticians, especially intellectual flexibility, skepticism, and the willingness to challenge assumptions. It is not the same as “The Right Stuff,” the 1983 film about test pilots and the early U.S. space program, though both titles draw on the idea of possessing exceptional qualities.