What was the name of House M.D.’s medical department led by Dr. House?

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Dr. House led the Diagnostic Medicine department in House M.D.

The department specializes in solving difficult cases that have resisted more conventional treatment or diagnosis. House’s team investigates symptoms, medical histories, laboratory results, and imaging while repeatedly revising its hypotheses. This structure gives the series its familiar mystery-like rhythm.

Diagnostic medicine is a real area of clinical practice, although the show dramatizes its speed, autonomy, and investigative methods. In ordinary hospitals, diagnosis is usually collaborative and distributed across specialties rather than handled by one unusually independent team.

The department’s membership changed several times. Early team members included Eric Foreman, Allison Cameron, and Robert Chase. Later teams included doctors such as Remy “Thirteen” Hadley, Chris Taub, and Lawrence Kutner.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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