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Season 1, Episode 16, Aired
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House must fire one of his doctors and leaves them to think about it while they deal with an overweight 10-year old child who suffered a heart attack as the result of taking diet pills. House is also faced with a woman who won't accept surgery for a 30 lb. tumor because she wants to remain overweight.moreless
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  • Really emotional plot for the patient

    9.4
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    By super_friend21, Mar 16, 2011 Report Abuse
    I thought this was on e of the best that really made me re-evaluate my views towards obese people. Not that I am prjudice against them but I always assumed it was there fault for eating to much and never really thought about genetics even though I knew genes could be the cause. An overweight 10-year old child who suffered a heart attack is brought in while the team turn against each other when House must fire one of his doctors. Desperate times calls for diet pills which turns out to be partly the cause but a tumour is the cause of her weight problem and by the end of the episode she looked great!moreless

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  • This is a very special plot.

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    By movielover101, Mar 16, 2011 Report Abuse
    I think that this episode would bring obese kids, and adults, to relize the dangers of children taking weight loss pills. I think that it is their own fault for getting fat, but i never really thought genetically. Even if they try to exercize and eat right, not much hels because it's a genetic trait. And some are just big boned. But anyway, at the end of the show, the girl looks great! I really liked how this script was written and it shows just a portion of what overweight kids go though, like when Seth teased her about how she's jumping slow and how the ground hurts more than she does. Very emotional for some people.moreless

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  • House has to makes a choice.

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    By Canogaparkcindy, Mar 16, 2011 Report Abuse
    An amazing episode, one of the best episodes of Season 1, House has to make a choice who to fire because of stupid Vogler. I'm just hating this guy more & more, Anyways an interesting plot since you really can't pick one. He picks Chase, but when you find out he ratted him out, it's like wow! And then with the whole thing with to pick another one, I felt like punching the guy in the face. The patient plot line was an amazing key point to the story, she even loses weight after the tumor gets out, sort of gruesome but a great way to show the truth. I hated the kids that picked on her, they were real jerks. The other plot, with the tumor in the clinic girl's stomach, I love her, she is hysterical, turns out she's cheating, an amazing well written episode.moreless

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  • Imperfects

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    By napen, Mar 16, 2011 Report Abuse
    Por qu no podemos ser gordos? Porque es una enfermedad? Andate a la re conc** de tu hermana. No se puede ser gordo porque la sociedad no te lo permite, porque te esconde, te persigue, te margina. Que lindo no? Y s, es otra de las cualidades humanas que nos hacen tan miserables. No aceptamos ciertos aspectos, no nos aceptamos, no nos queremos, tenemos miedos, dudas y como (adems) somos cobardes les pasamos nuestros defectos a otros. Fallamos, somos falibles y est bien, as es como es. Pero ah!!! no se puede hacer nada al respecto? Seremos siempre tan imperfectos? :)moreless

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  • An overweight ten year old girl has a heart attack, a woman with a 30 pound tumor refuses to have surgery to remove it, and Vogler demands House fire one of his team.moreless

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    By VerityJackson, Apr 26, 2010 Report Abuse
    I enjoyed this episode, despite the usual gore, because it dealt with a current issue in a couple of unexpected ways.

    A ten year old girl, who is very overweight, has a heart attack during gym. Not only is the typical thought about, but the initial cause of her distress is diet pills she shoplifted. In typical HOUSE fashion, she gets worse. The eventual corect diganosis at least shows that not all obesity is caused by "shovelling food" in one's face, as my fave Aussie doc noted in the episode.

    The tumor lady tries to use the typical line of women that are plus-sized, but it covers an unexpected reason that shows very plainly that people are people, no matter what they look like outwardly.

    The little girl's eventual diagnosis was a nice reminder that obesity is in fact a symptom of some diseases or conditions and that folks presenting obesity shouldn't just be considered slobs or pigs. If I recall correctly, the older Mrs. Bush had a brush with thyroid problems that resulted in weight gain, and that feistly lady is anything but a lazy, do-nothing eater!

    As for the Vogler subplot, my husband was not impressed with Mr. V's supposed intellegence- "He's made a brilliant, bitter man angry." I added that the man also knew about medicine!

    I highly recommend this series anyway, but this was a thoughtful episode as well.

    eta: spacing is good!moreless

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    • Trivia: The name of the hospital canteen is revealed as "The Grill." Edit
    • House deduces that Lucille has been cheating on her husband from the color of her children's eyes. Both Lucille and her husband have brown eyes while most of their children have blue. Brown eyes are a dominant trait, but we know that Lucille must have the gene for both brown and blue eyes or else none her children could have blue eyes. Theoretically her husband could have the same mix of genes and then every child would have 25% chance of having blue eyes, which--unlikely as it is--could account for the majority of children with blue eyes. Edit
    • House wrote "TEMPORARY PSYCHOSIS" on his dry erase board and put his marker down. Then, the camera pans the room and Chase gives his theory as to why the girl did that. We then see the "TEMPORARY PSYCHOSIS" circled on the board (but House put his marker down earlier). They argue for a few minutes with "TEMPORARY PSYCHOSIS" circled. House tells Cameron & Chase to give her medicine. We see the board again and "TEMPORARY PSYCHOSIS" is not circled. Edit

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    • Song in the closing scene is "Got to Be More Careful" by Jon Cleary. Edit

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    • House: Who would you fire? Dr. Cameron: No one. House: Not an option. Dr. Cameron: If everyone took a pay cut and put in a few more hours, we could all stay for the same amount of money. House: Figures you'd try and come up with a solution where no one gets hurt. The problem is, the world doesn't work that way just 'cause you want it to. Dr. Cameron: Figures you'd stall and refuse to deal with the issue. Problem is, the world doesn't go away just because you want it to. Edit
    • Dr. Cameron: I apologize if it looked like we weren't devoting our full attention to your daughter, but I assure you that we... Mrs. Simms: Oh please, save your pathetic insincerity for your boyfriend. House: You're wrong! She is in fact pathetically sincere. Edit
    • House: Men are pigs - you have nothing to worry about. They will pretty much have sex with anyone - young, old, heavy, thin, complete strangers, relatives. Edit

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    • House: On what? Sharon's plan for Gaza? House wittingly references the ongoing plight in the Middle East between the Palestinians and the Israelis. Ariel Sharon was the then-Prime Minister of the nation of Israel, and the Gaza Strip is a hot-bed area for focused violence and debate between the two peoples. Edit
    • Foreman: It's some kind of game, House's own version of "Punk'd". Dr. Foreman makes reference to the popular MTV show Punk'd, hosted by Ashton Kutcher, where elaborate practical jokes are staged on other celebrities. Edit
    • Dr. Foreman: Kids in my neighborhood used to call me 'Rerun.'
      Forman is referencing What's Happening!!, and the character Fred 'Rerun' Stubbs, played by Fred Berry. Edit

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