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In House's Head, House is tormented by broken memories after a bus crash where he saw an unknown disease. At the very end of the episode, following a period of cardiac arrest induced by Alzheimer's medication, it is revealed that Amber was the patient he had seen die. House had been drunk at a bar and called Wilson to pick him up, but Amber was the one who answered the call and followed him onto the bus. House remains affected by memory loss due to a bus crash that has also severely injured Amber Volakis, Wilson's girlfriend. Amber is being treated at Princeton General Hospital, where the attending physician says she is experiencing tachycardia that can't be explained as a result of the bus crash.
Amber Volakis
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Amber was a rather tall woman with collarbone length blonde hair which was usually clipped back at the front, although on some occasions it was tied back completely or flowing freely. She usually wore professional outfits, mostly consisting of long sleeved sweatshirts, skirts and occasionally tights. Her most prominent item of clothing was her white doctor's coat as worn by all of House's staff, which she wore for the majority of season four as well as all of her appearances as a hallucination. Although he was successful, Wilson still berated House for his drastic actions, telling him he could have been killed, regardless though aside from a few slight neurological differences House was completely fine and Amber free.
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Eventually House managed to convince Cuddy to prescribe him with sleeping pills, confessing to her that he hadn't been able to sleep since Dr. Kutner killed himself. A good night's sleep still didn't remove Amber from House's field of vision however much to his dismay. House actually enjoyed her company in this time up until she began growing more sinister, eventually culminating when House learns that by hiring Karamel she was actually trying to kill Chase, due to his strawberry allergy and Karamel's strawberry body butter. An acoustic version of Massive Attack's "Teardrop," the show's opening theme, can be heard in the middle of the episode in a short montage, by José González.
Dr. Amber Volakis
House talks to Wilson again, telling him what's wrong with his patient, then confessing he still thinks he's ill. House goes to his patient and apologizes for making severe mistakes while treating her, all the while Amber is impressed with him. He didn't feel anything from the apology however, once again telling Wilson he feared he had Multiple Sclerosis. House realizes the danger of her and by extension his own subconscious by this point and in spite of her trying to convince him that she was of benefit to him, House tried to sleep to get rid of her, but she persevered and kept trying to tell him to return to the hospital.
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House probably should have known that once he was suffering from hallucinations, he should have sought out outside help instead of trying to self-diagnose. Treatment of hallucinations as a symptom is dependent on the underlying condition causing the hallucinations, and some treatments can actually be counter-productive. With each failed method, the Amber hallucinations became more sinister, cruel, and violent, even going so far as to calmly slice her own arm open with a scalpel in Under My Skin. House resorts to an Insulin shock and it temporarily works, until House sees Amber return at a restaurant singing. As a hallucination she had mostly the same personality however was slightly more sinister and incredibly kooky and eccentric, but as with her living self she eventually grew much kinder and more sympathetic towards House. House had no choice but to detox from Vicodin, telling Cuddy everything, before allowing her to search for and get rid of all of his secret stashes, in spite of Amber's protests and strong disapproval.
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By accessing any portion of this website beyond this pop-up display, you agree to our Terms & Conditions. Exposition Boulevard was closed in both directions during the initial investigation. Metro said its train service would be limited and buses would be used to get passengers through the crash area. The Starcraft 40-passenger bus was traveling westbound on Exposition Boulevard with only the driver and one passenger aboard when the collision occurred, according to a statement from USC Transportation. The bus driver and passenger were the two most severely injured, according to fire department officials.
The Pirates of the Caribbean star owned five penthouses in a historic Art Deco building in Los Angeles, and while he and Amber shared one of them, members of their friends and family, including Amber's sister Whitney, lived in the others. House eventually realized the problem was the Vicodin, and during his withdrawal, Amber constantly tortured him, laughing and telling him he was worthless. However, once the withdrawal period was over and House managed to get some sleep, the hallucination appeared to have vanished for good. Although Wilson doesn't agree with the idea, but House realizes it's his best shot when he sees Amber's face getting more and more fearful. House tells Wilson he's putting himself into insulin shock and to be up to his office in two minutes. Towards the end of this season, Amber returns as a hallucination and acts as a personification of his subconscious mind.
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Amber saved herself and consequently her allies however by coming back to House with a CT scan and the diagnoses of scleraderma, he disagrees however although holds off on firing her, instead telling the women to treat the patient for strongyloides. At Wilson's urging, House agrees to undergo deep brain stimulation to recover his memories of the evening of the bus crash and thereby help diagnose Amber. During the stimulation, House remembers that he was at a bar, too drunk to drive home, and called Wilson for a ride, but Amber came instead.
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She justified House's faith in her in "Guardian Angels" by finding the patient's correct diagnosis. Apart from her surname, which indicates a Greek heritage, little is known about Amber before showing up in The Right Stuff. She was born on September 10, 1978, according to her hospital admission bracelet in Wilson's Heart. Her medical school diploma, which is still on display in her old apartment, appears to be from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, one of the top medical schools in the United States. She would have also completed a residency in radiology - the use of radiological imaging in treating the disease, then a fellowship in interventional radiology. Despite her failure to obtain a fellowship position, Amber remained a potent force in the series well after her dismissal and even after her death at the end of Season 4.
Wilson holds her for the remainder of her time alive and she fights to stay with him. Although she says she's tired, he asks her to hold on "just a little longer." "We are always going to want just a little longer," she says back. When she asks Wilson how bad it is and he explains what's happened to her, she slowly breaks down.
As a subconscious of House, House was terrified of it as the hallucination had been manifesting intents to harm others as well as meticulous homicidal tendencies. However, although it appeared to him as Amber, it actually is a reflection of House himself, allowing him access to some of his subconscious thoughts. She did have some good qualities however, since she did value life and harbored a decent amount of care for her co-workers in spite of not considering any of them friends.
Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) and Amber dated happily for a while, despite House attempting to come between them and get her to go away. However, there are also many hints that House has feelings for her as well. Let's take a look back at two of the most powerful episodes of House and discuss what happened to Amber. Also unlike House, she doesn't appear to have any sympathy for the down and out, believing that people who are "losers" are just unwilling to do what it takes to get ahead.
She tries to help him throughout his newest case, a 14 year old deaf boy who collapsed during a wrestling match; and continuously shows up giving him hints and clues as to how to solve the case as well as just generally irritating and making conversation with him. Slowly she started influencing House more and more, starting by convincing him to hire a specific stripper for Dr. Chase's bachelor party named Karamel, then convincing him to have Dr. Chase put an implant into the deaf patient's brain which allowed him to hear again. This backfired however as Dr. Cuddy decided to Foreman in charge of the case as a consequence to this. The following patient was a man with muscular dystrophy, and in order to weed out more competition House elected to split the remaining candidates by gender, Amber however requested to go onto the men's team, which House was somewhat indifferent to although realized why she asked this. Amber figuring all of the male applicants were incompetent decided that she would go on their side, solve the case and therefore eliminate all of the women (AKA the genuine competition in her mind). This plan somewhat backfired however when the women began succeeding more and more in the case while all of the men and Amber were nearly fired due to all of them simply running tests in the lab and never bothering to actually see the patient.
She quickly mutinied and took eight others, with only Cole staying behind to do the work. However, she returned fifteen minutes later to rejoin Cole and took the car to a car wash. She aggressively made suggestions and even broke the rules to keep medical records on the patient on her PDA for easy referral. Lawrence Kutner ratted her out for it but almost got fired for "squealing". In the end, her willingness to compete and take risks made sure she made it to the final ten.
The team confirms House's diagnosis of Amber, but there is nothing they can do to treat her. Wilson weans Amber off anesthesia in order to spend her last moments alive with him. The team comes in one by one to say goodbye to Amber, and after Wilson himself says goodbye, he shuts off Amber's bypass and she dies peacefully in Wilson's arms.
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