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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!

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.

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.

Por qué 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 sí, 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 (además) somos cobardes les pasamos nuestros defectos a otros. Fallamos, somos falibles y está bien, así es como es. Pero ah!!! no se puede hacer nada al respecto? Seremos siempre tan imperfectos? :)

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.



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I loved the episode, I hated Chase and Cameron. What a role reversal- they're usually the nice guys of the show, and yet this episode completely turns that on its head. Chase is judgmental and pigheaded; Cameron is delusional. I was screaming at the tv every single scene Chase kept insisting it was all the poor girl's fault that she was overweight and ill- "if she'd just get off the couch and stop shoving food down her throat"- it irritated me so much! I've never had much of a problem with him before, but that just ruined his character for me, the insensitivity and arrogance that he showed. Cameron was more impressive now that she ditched the little girl lost routine, peace maker and resident suck up [okay, harsh, but she does get grating every once in a while]- the feisty element I cheered for, but the cringeworthy line to House that "you can't handle your feelings for me" just had me clutching my head in pain...

i think that he was just representing everyone who has ever critisized someone else because they are different. Also as we find out later in the episode the reason for her obesity. that overeating is not the only cause of it which opened my eyes alot. I used to be critical of overweight people because I saw them as lazy but after watching Heavy I have totally changed my tone

I really did hate this episode, even more than Detox.



My problem with it is the whole premise – obesity is a symptom, it’s a choice. Sure there were a few nice touches, the mother defending her and telling her she’s beautiful, diet pills are bad, subplot lady not wanting to change, but the episode still left me fuming.



And then there was Chase. Sure there are plenty of morons out there, even in the medical profession but still. Inexcusable.



For a huge majority of cases weight problems don’t have a single underlying problem. Not laziness, not McDonalds, not a tumour or Cushing’s; and Heavy had it two for two. As someone said after it aired, they cured her fatness. That means fatness can be cured and people who are fat want to be that way. I thought people knew better than that but apparently not. For most people, obesity just doesn’t work that way and if the writers wanted a serious look at the issue Heavy doesn’t cut it.



Another frustrating Thomas Moran episode.

I did not like the insinuation of Latin women been promiscus and that obese person are always responsible for their fat condition

Besides the are many people who has been suffering whit there weigh forever

You do not resolve a weigh problem in one week or by taking a large tumor from the belly of women

I liked this episode, but I did need my whacking stick to get through most of it.



Start of episode: Overweight 10-year-old girl has heart attack while skipping in gym class. Cut to animation of a heart attack. *Whack*



Team starts debating about wether it was actually a heart attack. Chase suggests it just because she's fat. *Whack, and consider giving him a fat cell decrease*



Vogler demmands House to fire one of his staff. *Whack* Kid starts going crazy *Whack*. Nasty lil' skin necrosis appears *Whack*. Cameron starts being feisty *Whack, doesn't suit her*, you get the picture.



Mainly gross stuff, the kids (House's team) clawing at each other's throats about getting a pink slip, a vulmptous woman with a big-ass tumor and arguments over wether you could lose 20 pounds in a week.

\"I love you just the way you are!\"



Oh, come on. Can this episode start off any worse? A fat girl the size of an elephant suffers a heart attack. Now, we know that this is American television, and we know how touchy touchy feely feely Americans can be when it comes to the 90% of their population that just so happens to be obese.



So everyone with a grey blob in their skull could\'ve guessed that this chick (more like, fat goose) didn\'t get fat on her own and that everything just happened because she was desperate to fix a condition that couldn\'t be helped.



Not really one of the better episodes this season, but it gets bonus points because my little fat brother was watching it with me, and the show made him feel better because he saw that there are always people larger than him. And he\'s not even that big.





Skin necrosis is cool, I\'m going to google it and find more pictures. Looked kind of creepy though.





And Chase is an ass.

This episode was actually fairly interesting. The beginning of it was cleverly written, and got me amused and ready to see the episode right from the start. The main patient was fairly interesting too, I mean she had a heart attack at the young age of only 10 years old. It isnt every episode you get to see the patient a while after they are cured, I found this a great addition to this episode. This usually doesnt happen, which is why i labelled this episode as "Out of character".



The big thing that really made up for the lack of a really cool disease was the fact that there were so many solid alternate stories. The woman with the huge tumour, Vogler and House having to decide on one of the members of his team. This was also useful in making the viewers hate him even more. Another good one!



Medical Problem: Cushing's

Rating: 9.3/10

I really didn't like this one. I'm heavy and I hated Chase bashing people who are overweight I wanted to wack him. Some people aren't skinny and some people are and this one is kind of insulting to anyone who is on the heavy side in my opinion.



The woman in the clinic having a 30 pound tomur was a little weird and she made the episode bearable. She was great when she told House that real women have curves and aren't twigs. I also enjoyed when House realized that the woman was sleeping with other men and that some of her kids didn't belong to her husband.

An obese 10-year-girl has a heart attack and House announces he will have to fire one of his three doctors before the end of the week. The stress gets to Chase quickest and soon he and Cameron are fighting. Foreman stays in the background, not even offering his usual spurs of medical ideas. House asks Foreman and Cameron who they would fire. (Chase and no one). Turns out Volger won\'t let House fire Chase so now he has to decide between Cameron and Foreman. Meanwhile, House helps a woman with a 30 pound tumor she doesn\'t want removed and continues to investigate the 10-year-old\'s case.



Overall I liked this episode. It dealt with some touchy subjects and there was some intense drama and competetion bewteen the ducklings.

I thought that this episode was both a filler episode, yet at the same time it did have some things I liked. House not being able to pick Chase off of his staff seemed like a filler to me, meaning he would have to pick someone else might make this thing drag out over more episodes then I would like. I still really don’t like Edwards involvement with the show. I think he takes away the House-Cuddy drama that was so good at the beginning of the season and his presence is just overall not very well meshed with the rest of the cast. I thought that the case in this one was more of an emotional one then anything else. Watching the staff deal with a girl who is clearly upset about the way she looks was a nice change it up for House. Whenever they’re dealing with someone who isn’t an adult I tend to think the episodes are a little sub par. This one was actually really good.

I am unable to understand some of the more negative reviews about this episode.



The case about obesity was actually sensitively handled- Chase representing the narrow minded view of how people look at those who are overweight, whilst Cameron and Foreman (and even House) were more sensitive to her predicament. In fact, the episode had a serious impliment as we saw the poor girl stooping to desperate measures to "cure" the way she looked, and the nastiness of the kids in her class- obviously inheriting the same "put your nose down" qualities as their parents before them.



The case itself was a little duller than recent episodes, but this was made up for by the serious message of the case, and the drama that was connected to it. It was interesting seeing the characters snipe at each- Chase was very dislikeable in this episode, and I thought this was good, simply because it shows a completely different side to him. Foreman was the same as ever- he may be a little bland sometimes, but Omar plays his part effectively- Vogler knows that he cannot rely on Foreman like he relies on Chase to feed him information. Cameron was also very effective in her anger, and the tension/interaction between her and House made this episode for me.



Furthermore, the ending when House says "no" to Vogler leaves the episode on a mini-cliffhanger- a viewer is quite unsure how House will get out of the situation.



The clinic storyline provided some light relief, and it was great to see an overweight women defending herself with so much confidence, and the stunned reactions of House and Wilson.



Overall, the series had really hit its stride, and these episodes, looking back, are definately series classics.