Alexandria House
Episodes
Detective Michael Tritter (David Morse) is one of House’s clinic sufferers. After House refuses to run checks at Tritter’s request and insults him, Tritter journeys House. House agrees to the exams and tells Tritter he has to examine his temperature to rule out infection. House proceeds to make use of a rectal thermometer, and his supposed reason for using the rectal thermometer over a standard mouth thermometer is Tritter’s chewing of nicotine gum, since oral readings could be affected by food and drinks. House then leaves the room on a pretense with the thermometer still inserted in Tritter’s rectum; House deliberately by no means returns and Tritter endures the rectal thermometer for 2 hours.
However, in the season 4 episode “97 Seconds”, he expresses enough interest in the potential for an afterlife to electrocute himself in an effort to find out; he’s dissatisfied with the results and denounces the …