When the three patients undergo surgery, none of them have their eyes taped shut. During surgery, the patient's eyes are taped shut to keep moisture in because while a patient is under anesthesia, the body can not produce lubrication for the eyes because the patient doesn't blink.
When discussing the snake bite victim, House and the students refer to the snakes as "poisonous". Snakes are not poisonous, they're venomous, an important distinction medical doctors would know, and House would certainly correct.
[Around 0:41:00] When Stacy asks Cuddy whether she can take a medical decision for the patient, House, that of opting for a surgical intervention to treat his leg, which is completely different from what House had implicitly wanted even in Dr Cuddy's presence, Cuddy replies in the affirmative that it is possible for Stacy to do so as his health-care proxy. However, the American medical laws clearly state that a doctor can not accept a health-care proxy's decision that, in his views, is different from the patient's previously stated advance directive for the event that he becomes incompetent to take his own decisions. In such a scenario, the doctor can either go ahead and honour the patient's original advance directive, thus overruling the health-care proxy's wishes, or consult the hospital's ethics committee, or ask for a court order in case it is not an emergency.
House could not have treated the volleyball player and the farmer with Chase, Foreman and Cameron as usual. The flashbacks also imply that these cases occurred before he became crippled, as the third case is House himself. It's impossible for both to be true; House became crippled five years before the start of the show, and none of his team have been working for him for that long.
The 3 cases don't all take place at the same time (House even says the farmer is 3 months after the volleyball player), so while one of the cases is House himself, there is no reason the other 2 cases couldn't have happened before the start of the series, but after he hired Chase, Cameron and Foreman.
The 3 cases don't all take place at the same time (House even says the farmer is 3 months after the volleyball player), so while one of the cases is House himself, there is no reason the other 2 cases couldn't have happened before the start of the series, but after he hired Chase, Cameron and Foreman.
House questions the students about what kind of snake could have bitten the farmer and says three venomous snakes are native to New Jersey: the copperhead, rattlesnake, and coral snake. Only the copperhead and timber rattlesnake inhabit New Jersey. The only places to find coral snakes in the United States are in the south: South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.