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Medical equipment is probably more likely donated, brought, or hired as needed I say probably because I haven't yet found a source specifically for House . But, a similar show in the UK called Casualty , which is a long-running medical drama, also uses a range of medical equipment. A BBC blog describes how: Much of the medical equipment and props used in the show are donated from former hospitals. Other items have to be bought in, and others are made on site for specific episodes. It's likely that once the sets were constructed for House , which would be kept until production ended, specific medical equipment needed for an episode was hired on an episode-by-episode basis. I know from...
Full answer by Longshanks: https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/105520 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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