David Foster is an American

television writer A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. T ...

, producer and medical doctor best known for working as a writer/producer on the

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medical drama series '' House''.

Medical career

Foster graduated from

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in 1995. He attended school with

Neal Baer Neal Baer (born 1955) is an American pediatrician and television writer and producer. He is best known for his work on the television shows ''Designated Survivor'', '' ER'' and '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''. Biography Education Baer w ...

, a pediatrician who would eventually become the executive producer of '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''. As a doctor he worked at

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and the

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listening to patient's stories and diagnose uncommon illnesses, a skill which he would later utilize as a writer on ''House''.

Television career

Foster would eventually move into television writing through Neal Baer, who hired him to freelance-write an episode of ''Law & Order: SVU'' entitled "Parts". The producers of ''House'' were impressed by his credentials and hired him as a consulting producer during the show's first season. Since then he has served as a writer and producer and was promoted to co-executive producer at the beginning of the seventh season.

''House'' episodes

# " DNR" (1.09) # " Mob Rules" (with

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) (1.15) # " TB or Not TB" (2.05) # " All In" (2.17) # " Informed Consent" (3.03) # " Needle in a Haystack" (3.13) # " Mirror Mirror" (4.05) # "

House's Head "House's Head" is the fifteenth episode of the fourth season of '' House'' and the eighty-fifth episode overall. It was the first part of the two-part season four finale, the second part being " Wilson's Heart". Co-written by several ''House'' pro ...

" (with Peter Blake,

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Russel Friend Russel Friend is an American television writer and producer who served as an executive producer on the Fox series ''House'', for which he won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2010 for co-writing the episode "Broken". He often works with hi ...

, and

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) (4.15) # " Wilson's Heart" (with Peter Blake,

, and

) (4.16) # "

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" (with

) (5.04) # " Big Baby" (with

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) (5.13) # " Locked In" (with

and

) (5.19) # " Broken" (with

, and

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) (6.01 / 6.02) # " Wilson" (6.10) # " Baggage" (with

) (6.21) # " Unplanned Parenthood" (7.05) # " Last Temptation" (with

Liz Friedman Liz Friedman is an American television producer and television writer known especially for her work on '' Xena: Warrior Princess'', '' Young Hercules'', ''House'' and ''Jessica Jones''. In 2014, she was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writin ...

) (7.19) # " Transplant" (with

) (8.02) # " Nobody's Fault" (with

and

) (8x11) # " Holding On" (with

and

) (8x21)

Awards and nominations

In 2010, Foster won a Writers Guild of America Award for " Broken", an episode of ''House'', which he shared with

and

References

External links

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