Chi Park,

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is a

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on the

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medical drama '' House''. Portrayed by Los Angeles born actress and comedian Charlyne Yi, she joins Dr. Greg House's team of diagnosticians in the department of

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at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in

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based on

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. Dr. Chi Park joins the diagnostic team in

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after she hits her supervisor in the neurology department when he gropes her during a procedure. Dr. Park is introduced in the episode "Transplant", in which she joins Dr. House on a case. Dr. Chi Park has been described as a "diminutive brainiac with often hilarious anger issues". Park was born in the United States and is of Korean and Filipino ancestry. Park lives with her parents, was a top student at medical school before becoming a neurology resident at Princeton-Plainsboro hospital.

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