House M.D. | Season One | Episode Twenty-two

Episode 22: “Honeymoon”

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• David Gray, “As I’m Leaving ” | Download from Amazon UK
• The Rolling Stones, “You Can’t Always Get What You Want ” | Download from Amazon UK

House and Stacy are out to dinner, waiting for the arrival of her husband, Mark. Once again he is late because he’s been avoiding House. When mark finally arrives, he announces that he has already consulted other doctors because he didn’t want to waste House’s valuable time. The doctors thought he was suffering from stress, so Mark declares himself to be fine. Mark and House politely bicker with their rivalry over Stacy coming to the surface. The argument becomes more competitive as the two men race to down their beers. Mark suddenly becomes woozy and passes out. House drugged him in order to get him back to the hospital for a checkup.

Cameron and Foreman review Mark’s file. He has experienced stomach pains and mood swings with no apparent source. Tests have shown nothing. House, making no effort to hide his disdain for Mark, orders another battery of tests. Out in the hallway, Wilson reminds House of his past with Stacy and advises him to treat this case like any other patient — by being cold and distant. … Continue Reading

House M.D. | Season One | Episode Twenty-one

Episode 21: “Three Stories”

House is trying to get out of lecturing a class of medical students. He finally agrees to it after much complaining to Cuddy and an offer of two hours off clinic duty. On his way to the class, House is stopped by a woman from his past named Stacy. She needs his help with a case and presents him with her husband’s file. This catches House off guard — he didn’t know she was married. House thinks the diagnosis is something simple like indigestion or a kidney stone.

Stacy presses House for an answer. Her husband is suffering from abdominal pain and fainting, but three different doctors have found nothing. She begs for help, but House dispassionately responds that isn’t sure he wants her husband to live.
House lectures to a group of third-year medical students and presents three fictional patients, all of whom are complaining of leg pain. One will end up in a coma. The students make guesses about the diagnoses, and House walks them through his typical approach: never trust patients, investigate for yourself and don’t care too much about them. He also interjects that sometimes you’ll be completely wrong and will nearly kill a patient. … Continue Reading

House M.D. | Season One | Episode Twenty

Episode 20: “Love Hurts”

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Harvey Park, a 21-year old Asian, patiently waits to be seen by a doctor. In a clinic room, House and Wilson discuss the return of Cameron. Wilson can’t figure out why she would come back until he realizes that Cameron likes House. House reluctantly admits that he agreed to take Cameron on a date. Frustrated by Wilson’s teasing, House leaves and bumps into Harvey Park, who’s carrying around a glass of apple juice. House mistakes the juice for a urine sample and yells at Harvey, who cowers back to the waiting room. Wilson tells House he’d better apologize because he can’t afford another patient complaint. House tracks down Harvey, who struggles to speak. House shines a penlight in his eye and rushes Harvey into the ER because he’s having a stroke.

Cameron returns to the hospital, much to the surprise of Foreman and Chase. House enters with Wilson and announces Harvey’s stroke, displaying the CT scan. Foreman notices ischemia, which is the death of brain tissue. Yet nothing tells them the underlying cause, so they need an MRI. However, Harvey has a metal plate in his jaw from a reconstruction. An MRI would rip it right out. … Continue Reading

House M.D. | Season One | Episode Nineteen

Episode 19: “Kids”

At the USA Swimming and Diving National Championships, twelve year-old Mary Carroll prepares to dive from 10 meters. On top of the platform, Mary’s vision becomes blurry. She nervously approaches the edge, talks herself into the dive and leaps. When she surfaces, Mary finds the crowd swarming a man who collapsed next to the pool and is bleeding from his ear.

House goes to Cameron’s place to tell her that Vogler is gone and he wants her back at work. House gets a page about an epidemic, but Cameron asks why he wants her back. He replies that it’s because she’s a good doctor. Since that’s not what she wanted to hear, she slams the door on him. … Continue Reading

House M.D. | Season One | Episode Eighteen

Episode 18: “Babies & Bathwater”

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Pregnant Naomi Randolph is in the driver’s seat with her slightly intoxicated husband, Sean, as a passenger. Suddenly, she goes limp and the car swerves into oncoming traffic. Sean quickly grabs the wheel and pulls the car over. A police officer arrives. When Naomi slurs her words, he asks her to get out of the car. She mindlessly sways to the back of the car, then collapses.

At the hospital, Foreman tells the Randolphs that there is no sign of stroke but the bloodwork shows that her kidneys and liver are struggling. Naomi nervously declares that she’s 39 and has miscarried three times already. Foreman and Chase track down House, who’s napping. He takes Naomi’s file and becomes interested when he sees she has three miscarriages. Foreman reports that her B.U.N. and creatinine are up and her LFTs are slightly elevated. Yet he thinks that, with three miscarriages, there’s some underlying physiology. House muses that it could be pregnancy-related autoimmunity where the body becomes allergic to the baby. House also informs them in passing that Cameron quit. Foreman and Chase are shocked, but House merely asks for a blood test, an MRI, a sonogram and a round of magnesium in case it is pre-eclampsia. … Continue Reading

House M.D. | Season One | Episode Seventeen

Episode 17: “Role Model”

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• Earlimart, “It’s Okay To Think About Ending” | Download from Amazon UK

Senator Gary Wright speaks at a fundraiser, but stumbles through the end of his speech. Then he struggles to converse with a supporter. Wright vomits on the man’s suit before collapsing and tumbling down a flight of stairs.

Vogler gives the Senator’s case to House. He also notes that if House was a team player from the start, then he wouldn’t have to fire Cameron or Foreman. Vogler wants House to give a speech at the National Cardiology Conference next week where he is to extol the virtues of Eastbrook Pharmaceuticals’ new and more expensive ACE inhibitor. Eastbrook is owned by Vogler. House chafes at the request. Vogler says he is to make the speech and examine the Senator. … Continue Reading

House M.D. | Season One | Episode Sixteen

Episode 16: “Heavy”

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Ten-year old Jessica Simms tells her mother that she isn’t feeling good and doesn’t want to go to school. She admits that she thinks the kids at school hate her. At school that day, Jessica is jumping rope in gym class when she complains that her chest hurts. The teacher pushes her to finish, but Jessica collapses. Her heart stops beating.

At the hospital, Cuddy asks House if he’s made a decision on who to fire per Vogler’s order. House wants to stall as long as possible, and she grants him a week. In the elevator, Cameron brings House up to date on Jessica. The team can’t believe a 10-year old would have a heart attack but six tests proved it true. Chase thinks it’s a simple case of Jessica being too obese and depressed. House though believes that Jessica’s legion of previous doctors have missed something. Foreman wonders about a genetic condition. Cameron suggests Metabolic Syndrome X, which could cause a heart attack with high enough blood pressure. House orders a hyperinsulinemic euglycemic clamp. But before dispatching his staff, he informs them that he’ll have to cut one of them by the end of the week. They’re all shocked, and Cameron and Foreman think they need to stick together through this. … Continue Reading

House M.D. | Season Six | Episode Fourteen

Season 6, Episode 14: “5 to 9″

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Eric Bibb, “Shine on”

Cuddy rises early to find Lucas is not in her bed. She quickly goes about her morning of tending to a sick Rachel as she tries to get ready. The nanny Marina arrives to deal with the baby, and Cuddy is about to leave for work when Lucas arrives after an all-night stakeout. Although she’s late, she agrees to a morning quickie. As they start to get intimate, her blackberry rings with an emergency page from House. Cuddy ignores it and they continue. A minute later, she rolls over, frustrated. Lucas asks for another go, but she gets up to leave.

When Cuddy arrives at the hospital, House accosts her to say that he was with Lucas on the stakeout during the night. He bet Lucas that he could stop their morning “routine” with a page since Lucas told him they do it every morning. Cuddy won’t give him the facts to help his wager. … Continue Reading

House M.D. | Season One | Episode Sixteen

Episode 16: “Heavy”

Ten-year old Jessica Simms tells her mother that she isn’t feeling good and doesn’t want to go to school. She admits that she thinks the kids at school hate her. At school that day, Jessica is jumping rope in gym class when she complains that her chest hurts. The teacher pushes her to finish, but Jessica collapses. Her heart stops beating.

At the hospital, Cuddy asks House if he’s made a decision on who to fire per Vogler’s order. House wants to stall as long as possible, and she grants him a week. In the elevator, Cameron brings House up to date on Jessica. The team can’t believe a 10-year old would have a heart attack but six tests proved it true. Chase thinks it’s a simple case of Jessica being too obese and depressed. House though believes that Jessica’s legion of previous doctors have missed something. Foreman wonders about a genetic condition. Cameron suggests Metabolic Syndrome X, which could cause a heart attack with high enough blood pressure. House orders a hyperinsulinemic euglycemic clamp. But before dispatching his staff, he informs them that he’ll have to cut one of them by the end of the week. They’re all shocked, and Cameron and Foreman think they need to stick together through this.
Cameron explains MS-X to Jessica’s mother and says it can be controlled through diet and exercise. Mrs. Simms complains that doctors never see past Jessica’s weight. Chase and Foreman try to cajole Jessica onto a scale as part of their standard tests. Afterwards, Chase is upset that Foreman told the little girl that she will probably grow into her body. He is also annoyed that Cameron tries to sugarcoat body image. Foreman counters that Chase is probably uptight because he knows he’s the one who will be cut. … Continue Reading

House M.D. | Season One | Episode Fifteen

Episode 15: “Mob Rules”

Young wiseguy Joey Arnello eats in a hotel room. His brother and lawyer, Bill, is trying to talk him out of testifying. Joey stands up and, feeling dizzy, collapses. Bill tries to help him but the federal agents in the room think he’s faking.
At the hospital, Vogler presses Cuddy for a budget on House’s work. House comes in with a Federal Court Order issuing him to examine their witness. House wants out of it. Cuddy tells him to either see the patient or go to jail for contempt. After House leaves in a huff, Vogler tells Cuddy she needs to get rid of House or else give Vogler one good reason why they should keep him.

House examines the comatose Joey, who is non-responsive to bright lights and pain. He is nearly dead. Bill wants to know what’s happening to his brother. House dismisses him, but Bill threatens House that Joey needs to stay in the hospital so that he can talk him out of testifying.

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House M.D. | Season One | Episode Fourteen

Episode 14: “Control”

Carly, a thirty-something female CEO, is in the middle of a confident pitch to the board when she starts trembling. Suddenly, she can’t move her leg. House gives his verdict to the team: paralysis and severe pain in the right quad. Cameron wonders if she has the same clot in her thigh that House had. House orders an angiogram to test for a clot. If that test is clean, then she’ll be given an MRI to check for spinal pressure. If that one also turns out negative, then they will biopsy the leg. Chase oversees Carly’s x-ray. While he flirts with the technician, Chase doesn’t notice that the machine took a shot of Carly’s left thigh.

Meanwhile, Cuddy announces that Edward Vogler, a large donor to the hospital, has been made the new chairman of the board. Vogler wants to make the hospital a cutting-edge research center where people without a prayer could go for help. The hospital will have a blank check to fight Alzheimer’s, cancer, MS, AIDS and other such diseases.

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House M.D. | Season One | Episode Thirteen

Episode 13: “Cursed”

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Two 12 year-olds walking home from school sneak into an abandoned building to join their friends for beer and cigarettes. One of the boys, Gabriel Reilich, trips and falls on the old, wooden floor. Later that week, Gabe develops a rash on his arm. His worried mother, Sarah, takes him to the hospital, concerned with the fever he’s had all week. Gabe tries to get out of bed, but collapses on the floor.

Cuddy reads Gabe’s file to House, who assumes the boy merely has pneumonia. This can only be considered important only because Gabe’s parents are big donors to the hospital. Yet when Cuddy describes Gabe’s rash as a papular lesion on the arm, House becomes suddenly interested. He and the team try to figure out which kind of pneumonia would cause this rash. Foreman suggests Chlamydia pneumonia, but 12 year-olds don’t have much sex. Could the rash have come first? Then Lyme disease is a possibility. House instructs the doctors to keep Gabe on cefuroxime, biopsy the rash and gather another patient history.

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