Creator David Shore heavily modeled House on Sherlock Holmes. The pilot explicitly sets up these parallels:
The series kicks off with a high-stakes medical puzzle. Rebecca Adler, a young kindergarten teacher, suddenly loses her ability to speak and collapses in her classroom. After being admitted to Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, she becomes the first "official" patient of the series.
Creator David Shore heavily modeled House on Sherlock Holmes. The pilot explicitly sets up these parallels:
The series kicks off with a high-stakes medical puzzle. Rebecca Adler, a young kindergarten teacher, suddenly loses her ability to speak and collapses in her classroom. After being admitted to Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, she becomes the first "official" patient of the series.
