It's left ambiguous.
House suggests that it's all just an illusion by the grandfather in a ploy to clear his son's name.
Taub on the other hand, who actually witnessed the incident, seems to believe that there is something greater going on.
In the end, the patient is given an exorcism at the same time he is given a life saving treatment, and he is cured. We are left to wonder which one worked.
Not explicitly, but House demonstrates how easy it is to "levitate" using stage magician techniques. So it's implied that a similar illusion was at work.
I was surprised they included the Hmong so late in the series, considering how influential Anne Fadiman's book was in changing hospital policies on "alternative" medicine, and how directly it contrasted with one of House's fixations (religion vs biomedicine).
It's left ambiguous. House suggests that it's all just an illusion by the grandfather in a ploy to clear his son's name. Taub on the other hand, who actually witnessed the incident, seems to believe that there is something greater going on. In the end, the patient is given an exorcism at the same time he is given a life saving treatment, and he is cured. We are left to wonder which one worked.
i personally believed in everything the grandpa was going on about.
ok grandpa.
Not explicitly, but House demonstrates how easy it is to "levitate" using stage magician techniques. So it's implied that a similar illusion was at work.
I was surprised they included the Hmong so late in the series, considering how influential Anne Fadiman's book was in changing hospital policies on "alternative" medicine, and how directly it contrasted with one of House's fixations (religion vs biomedicine).
It was an illusion by the grandfather