Taub's portrayer, Peter Jacobson, was listed as "also starring" for this season and the following two starting with the episode Games. Desperate for other work, he applied for House’s open fellowship position. However, it was clear to Taub that unemployment would make it difficult to maintain his lifestyle. Fearing the effect that the revelation of his affair would have on his marriage he agreed to the terms and covered by telling his wife that his resignation from the practice was the result of a patient’s death.
When it became common knowledge, his partners decided to push him out of the practice and threatened to tell his wife about the affair if he didn’t agree to a restrictive non-compete clause. Although his previous affairs had been very discreet, this one became a scandal within the office when the young woman became extremely attached to him. Sometime at about the end of Season 3, Taub started an affair with a nurse at his medical practice, the daughter of one of his partners. He had a string of affairs with women who were generally much younger than he was. However, apart from a rare reconstructive case, the routine led him to seek excitement elsewhere. He then largely fell into a comfortable routine of cosmetic surgery which made him a wealthy man. He took a residency in plastic surgery, obtained board certified status and became extremely successful, although he did take time out at one point early in his career to lead a team of plastic surgeons to Bangladesh to fix cleft palates. In Gut Check, he says that he used to have a table hockey game, so he could have been a hockey fan. They were married for 22 years, according to what he tells Masters (in " Larger than Life "). Taub was published in the New England Journal of Medicine at the age of 26 based on lab work he completed the previous year.ĭuring medical school, he met his future wife Rachel, whom he married shortly before he started his internship. When Eric Foreman saw Taub’s credentials file during the episode Lockdown, he described it as possibly “the best one in the hospital”. It has never been clear where he went to medical school, but Johns Hopkins Medical School is a likely choice as he interviewed Martha M. Taub has revealed on several occasions that he is a non-practicing Jew. In " Bombshells" he admit to 'hurting himself' but did not explicitly say it was a suicide attempt. He has denied he was talking about himself, but some of his co-workers do not believe him. He also tells a story about a resident who was on top of everything who everyone went to solve their own problems who later tried to take his own life. He also appears to have been a fair athlete as he plays a competitive game of basketball against Eric Foreman who is about twelve years younger than he is. He did mention that in high school he was both "Best Boy" (highest ranking student) and class president.
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In fact, if memory serves this continues until at least season 7 where the intro completely changed to reflect Jennifer Morrison's departure from the series and features brand new sequences in the intro including spots for Peter Jacobson and Olivia Wilde in the intro who were upgraded to full cast members.Almost nothing is known of Taub’s life before he entered medical school, and he is usually evasive when talking about it. This is what adds to the fact that the opening sequence did not change to reflect the new cast members, merely putting them in the credits at the start of the actual episode. This combined with the Writer's Strike at the time made the series as chaotic as possible. With that spoiler out of the way, the crew themselves did not know who was going to be voted off House's Game of Jobs. Foreman eventually rejoined the team, Chase became the head of Surgery, and Cameron became the head of the ER. Season 4 takes place after House fires his entire team and must start playing his game to find a new one.ĭuring this season however, the production crew knew that the old team members would still be a part of the show in some capacity.