When celebrated TB specialist Dr. Sebastian Charles collapses mid-speech at a pharmaceutical company, he arrives at Princeton-Plainsboro with a self-diagnosis and a refusal to cooperate. House rejects the TB-only explanation, pursues a cardiac theory by pushing a tilt-table test past its limits, and lands on a pacemaker recommendation — until Charles collapses again and Cameron's unauthorized TB test comes back positive. The real standoff begins when Charles refuses all treatment on principle: taking drugs his African patients cannot afford would, in his view, make him a hypocrite. House responds by trashing him to the press and stripping his room of comforts. A sweating anomaly spotted during a live press conference leads to cardiac arrest on camera, and House uses the moment to break Charles's resolve. Treating the TB clears some symptoms; the  ...