It's not from an episode, it's from real life. A medical fellowship is typically three years in duration.
This is from the daily fail so it probably lies but they say that Laurie maybe forced to leave house because faking the limp is making his hip go. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...mping-Dr-House-wrecked-knees-says-Laurie.html
The article says that House walks with a limp due to a gunshot wound, which isn't true (house lost muscles in his leg as an alternative to amputation following an infarction (blood clot) in his leg. So, yeah, I'm dubious to accuracy of that article. While I'm sure walking with a limp isn't easy, or good, on you I would think that article is over blowing things a bit or taking comments out of context.
They could always heal his leg on the show again anyways. i know that would mean he wouldn't need his meds, but give him an arm issue or something instead. I'm not worried, more so because i remember last year he signed a three year deal to be on the show, that would be season 8. Also isn't Daily Mail the UK version of Fox "News"?
It's an interesting issue the daily fail raised, because I noticed when he was on a couple of the late night talk shows that he actually walks like that when he isn't on the show like his hip is bothering him...
I actually had noticed that too when I saw him not too long ago on TVGuide channel. They were interviewing him for House and he seemed to have the limp (I just assumed maybe he was doing it for promotion at the time).
I remember reading about a actress on ER her who played Doctor Weaver who had a limp and the writers had to heal the characters leg because of all the years the actress had been playing the character had started to injure the actress's leg in real life.
Put it this way i saw this headline in other papers...UK government refuse to take any immigrants from the Calais camp that is soon to be shut. The Daily fail went with...UK government forced to take in immigrants from Calais camp
They already, at least temporarily, healed his leg once. It's television...they could come up with anything to heal his leg. Hell, I think it would be really interesting to see how House adapts to not having pain or meds as a crutch.
^I think you guys are using different definitions of "heal his leg." Trekker is right that they can't restore the muscle that was taken, but they did previously find a way to end the pain he was suffering, which causes his limp -- and I seem to recall reading that that was done specifically because of the health problems Hugh Laurie was having because of faking the limp. So if those problems are recurring, they could "heal" him in the sense of ending the pain again.
They heeled it once they can do it again. It's TV, they can make something up. Considering he went nuts and will be returning to a doctor in like 3 episodes, what difference does realism make? Hell stick him in a wheelchair, now that would be entertaining.
They could always say that his pain wasn't real. That it was in his head and used as an excuse for his pill addiction...
That could be possible... drug addiction can cause people to believe they are experiencing pain when they are not.