Which House M.D. episode features the title “Three Stories”?

“Three Stories” is season 1, episode 21 of House M.D.

The episode aired on May 17, 2005, and uses a teaching-session structure. House presents three patients with leg pain to medical students, requiring them to reason through the cases while the episode gradually reveals connections to House’s own medical history.

“Three Stories” is especially notable because it won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. David Shore wrote the episode, which helped establish the series as more than a conventional hospital procedural.

The title can be confused with the number of the episode’s main cases or with its position near the end of the season. It is the twenty-first episode of the first season, not a second-season episode. The story’s unusual flashback and teaching format are central to its identity.