this may be old info, but I just ran across it today on MSN:
Television
Back in the day, doctors did something known as “house calls,” where they actually left their offices, came to the house of someone who was ill and took care of them. It wouldn’t work today, mind you. Insurance companies wouldn’t cover it. Nowadays, the only “House” calls are the ones in which Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) visits your living room via your television and delivers some wonderfully absurd and captivating medical advice involving some highly unusual cases. The season premiere of season three of the critically acclaimed and delightfully offbeat medical drama begins this week as House deals with a man in a wheelchair and a woman not in a wheelchair who can’t move. Prognosis: favorable, although keep in mind “House” will be on Tuesdays at 8 through September. If you waited for your insurance company to tell you that, you’d be waiting until December. (Fox, Tuesday, 8 p.m.)