The effective conversations between medical staff and patients achieve a significant role to recover different diseases, especially that some people don't favor to indicate specified information related to their medical history which may affect their lives because of concealing these information. The present paper is an endeavor to tackle Applied pragmatics throughout specific situations of doctor-patient conversations in the TV series of American medical drama: 'Dr. House': (The selected situations in the Season 1, Episode 17 ). This paper attempts to address the following questions: What is the applied pragmatic structure of Dr. House conversations, What are the applied pragmatic strategies and devices that are exploited in the launching, maintaining, and terminating of the clinical conversations? The paper aims to investigate the applied pragmatic structure of these conversations, determine the main strategies and devices employed in the conversational interactions, identify the applied pragmatic troubles and examine the pragmatic impairments faced in these conversations. Some findings has been acquired in the analysis of the data, such as: The pragmatic strategies that are most used in such conversations are assertive and expressive speech acts, telling and requesting devices, personal deixis, conversational implicature and maxim of relation, and existential presupposition.

Applied pragmatics, medical conversations, speech events, 'Dr. House' TV series