for Phedre

Phedre often shadowed House during his clinic hours - handy, since he'd taught her how to do much of the trivial stuff straight away, like cleaning a wound or pulling out a splinter. But that wasn't really an environment for the heavy learning, considering that they were constantly being interrupted. For the most part House's teaching style consisted of giving her a massive amount of reading material and then quizzing her mercilessly on it.

It was time for the latter now, with Phedre seated at the desk in his hut and House laying back on his bed (why get out of bed, even for teaching, if you don't have to) with his eyes closed. He was grilling her on one of his favorite topics, infectious disease, having given her a textbook a couple of weeks ago.

"What is the term for animal diseases that can be transmitted to humans?"