Gregory House is the subject of the House M.D. episode “Three Stories.”
In this second-season episode, House teaches medical students by presenting three apparently separate diagnostic cases. The structure gradually reveals that the cases are connected to his own past medical crisis and the damage to his leg, turning a teaching exercise into a character-focused account of his history.
“Three Stories” is notable for its unusual storytelling and for showing House as both an expert teacher and an unreliable narrator of his own pain. The episode won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. It is sometimes remembered simply as the episode about House’s leg, but its central subject is House himself and the way his experience shaped his medical judgment.