Tuesday February 15, 2005
HOU-112
While trying to figure out why a young patient won't stop bleeding after a car wreck, House takes Cuddy's challenge and goes off Vicodin for a week in exchange for no clinic duty for a month. If House and his team can't determine the source of his patient's blood loss, the 16-year-old car victim will die in a matter of days. As House's withdrawal symptoms become more and more severe, his patient directives for his patient are more harsh and risky than usual, and Foreman and Cameron are afraid he may not be thinking clearly enough to save the patient's life.
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This was the first episode that deals with House's addiction- one that will become a major focus over the coming seasons.
House takes a bet from Cuddy to get of clinic duty, and has to go one week without his pain medication, whilst treating a dying kid, who is suspected of Lupus ("its not lupus" being an in joke in later seasons to come).
The acting from Hugh Laurie as House detoxes was particulary excellent, and it was interesting to see how his staff reacts, especially Cameron (this one Jennifer Morrisons best episode to date). Wilson and House's dynamics at the end was also fantastic.
The case itself wasn't as interesting as previous episodes- I felt as if they had done this before in Paternity and Occams Razor- the concerned Dad, the girlfriend, the kid fearing to be in pain etc. Nevertheless, this was more than made up for in the conclusion where House realises the true diagnosis from his dead cat. All in all, this was another great installment, and also a pivotel one as we begin to question what House would be like without his pain medication.
Gregory no puede dejar las drogas. Vaya oración para describir a un prestigiosísimo doctor. Pero esa es la verdad. Su pierna muere de dolor y su corazón las pide desesperadamente. La causa o el efecto? Las drogas lo hacen alejarse de la gente o las toma para echarles la culpa de su instinto ermitaño? Qué lo aleja del resto del universo? Su mundo sordío y su negación del problema o las pastillas anti arrancame la pierna de una vez? No me gustó este capítulo, al menos no tanto como el resto. Necesito que los personajes salgan de esa clínica y cuenten sus vidas, sus porqués. Que House abra su diario personal al menos por unos segundos.
I like this episode, because it shows how much House needs those pills, it also shows that he is an addict. The B plot i.e the patient. I love the beginning when the patient & the girl were driving & they think there safe until a truck hits them, that is hysterical, also when he pukes on her, I thought she was going to dump him. Another gruesome moment in House, they have an autopsy in a cat, that was so gross. I Like how he smashes his hand, shows how powerful the scene is, I also like how he makes it all week. A great episode with the whole internal bleeding & how he solves the case in the end, amazing & thrilling!
When I look back, I believe this is the first episode I saw of HOUSE. A college student is admitted with conflicting symptoms, not the least of which is uncontrolled bleeding. This episode goes right for the gut and we watch House and his colleagues poke and prod this kid to the point of death. I had trouble watching all of it, as it took me back to my days working first as an emergency room orderly and later as a floating nurse's aide in a large city hospital when I was a mere teen. You haven't lived until you've seen a doctor straddle a suffocating patient and plunge a large stainless steel cylinder into his chest to alleviate fluid on the lungs. This episode of HOUSE is so realistic, it reminds me of those good old days -- may they never return. This also is the episode where House is sort-of blackmailed into giving up his painkillers. You'll have to watch for yourself to see if he does
I thought this was one of the bets House episodes to date. The explosive "fight" at the end between Wilson and House made the episode one of the greatest of all time. The lack of the clinic in the past couple of episodes has taken some of the hilariousness out of the show, but the bet with Cuddy was comical and fun to watch for the whole episode. I am still holding strong with the theory that House-Cuddy have the best on screen connection between any characters on the show, maybe even on all of television. The case in this episode was great to, with House and the boys father having explosive words towards one another. Action packed isnt usually the words that comes to mind when I think of House, but it was with this episode.
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