1 00:00:00,188 --> 00:00:02,983 BOY: Welcome to the world of illusion! 2 00:00:03,150 --> 00:00:05,902 What is real and what is magic? 3 00:00:06,028 --> 00:00:07,904 This is what you will wonder 4 00:00:08,030 --> 00:00:11,491 as I perfonn feats that will astound you! 5 00:00:11,783 --> 00:00:14,244 As you see, there is nothing up my sleeve. 6 00:00:14,453 --> 00:00:17,247 And this hat, it's just an ordinary old hat. 7 00:00:17,372 --> 00:00:20,542 Watch, as I wave three times above the hat, 8 00:00:20,751 --> 00:00:24,129 and whisper the magic words. And now... 9 00:00:25,505 --> 00:00:27,215 (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) 10 00:00:27,341 --> 00:00:29,885 Mom, it's not working! It's ripped! 11 00:00:30,010 --> 00:00:31,595 It's okay, baby, it's just a little tear. 12 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:34,431 - Hurry up, Mom! - What are you so worried about? 13 00:00:34,556 --> 00:00:37,559 - Sally's gonna make fun of us. - Sally Ayerson? 14 00:00:38,310 --> 00:00:42,356 She said her mom bought her dress at Bloomingdale's and you had to make ours. 15 00:00:42,481 --> 00:00:44,274 We're gonna look stupid. 16 00:00:45,192 --> 00:00:47,903 Do you girls remember that music we were listening to yesterday? 17 00:00:48,028 --> 00:00:50,364 - That lady who sang about respect? - Reetha? 18 00:00:50,489 --> 00:00:52,032 Aretha, that's right. 19 00:00:52,157 --> 00:00:54,284 Do you think she had lots of money growing up in Detroit? 20 00:00:54,409 --> 00:00:56,286 - What's Detroit? - It's a city. 21 00:00:56,411 --> 00:00:59,831 The point is, is that she's one of the best singers ever. 22 00:01:00,666 --> 00:01:01,833 If Sally's mean to you again, 23 00:01:01,958 --> 00:01:04,378 I'm just gonna have to key her daddy's new convertible. 24 00:01:04,503 --> 00:01:06,713 (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) BOY: Great. And thank you! 25 00:01:06,838 --> 00:01:08,590 Do you know what that means? 26 00:01:09,216 --> 00:01:10,217 Good. 27 00:01:10,342 --> 00:01:12,052 (MUSIC PLAYING) 28 00:01:12,886 --> 00:01:14,221 (BOTH HUMMING) 29 00:01:25,399 --> 00:01:28,276 (SINGING) Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa 30 00:01:28,402 --> 00:01:31,154 Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa 31 00:01:31,279 --> 00:01:36,743 Little-bitty, pretty one Come on and talk to me 32 00:01:36,952 --> 00:01:42,374 Lovey-dovey, dovey one Come on sit down on my knee 33 00:01:43,375 --> 00:01:46,336 Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa 34 00:01:46,461 --> 00:01:48,004 (KAYLA GROANING LOUDLY) 35 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:56,221 (KAYLA SCREAMING LOUDLY) 36 00:02:30,464 --> 00:02:32,299 (WOMAN ANNOUNCING ON P.A. SYSTEM) 37 00:02:34,384 --> 00:02:35,218 - Hey- - Hey- 38 00:02:35,343 --> 00:02:37,637 You speak to Chase and House yet? The disciplinary hearing. 39 00:02:37,763 --> 00:02:39,556 The McGinley case, that's not for two weeks. 40 00:02:39,681 --> 00:02:40,807 Tomorrow. 41 00:02:40,932 --> 00:02:42,267 Scheduling disaster, you don't wanna hear it. 42 00:02:42,392 --> 00:02:43,977 You gotta get the boys' okay to move the hearing up, 43 00:02:44,102 --> 00:02:46,146 and you gotta do that whole legal advice thing. 44 00:02:46,271 --> 00:02:48,607 - Can you ask someone else? - I'm asking you. 45 00:02:49,649 --> 00:02:52,194 Let me work with Chase. House should have separate counsel. 46 00:02:52,319 --> 00:02:54,112 Stop looking for whatever you're looking for. 47 00:02:54,237 --> 00:02:56,323 For the last month, House has been crowing 48 00:02:56,448 --> 00:02:59,242 that you can't work with him because you're just swooning in love. 49 00:02:59,367 --> 00:03:02,496 There is nothing approaching love in what I feel about him right now. 50 00:03:02,621 --> 00:03:05,999 Well, if you can't work with him, it amounts to the same thing. 51 00:03:06,249 --> 00:03:09,628 We had a fight. It's awkward. Why not use another lawyer? 52 00:03:09,753 --> 00:03:12,756 Because 40% of our lawsuits last year were about House. 53 00:03:12,881 --> 00:03:15,759 If you can't work with him, you can't work here. 54 00:03:16,718 --> 00:03:18,053 HOUSE: She's overreacting. 55 00:03:18,845 --> 00:03:22,057 WILSON: You snuck into her shrink's office and read her private file. 56 00:03:22,182 --> 00:03:24,184 When Nixon did that, he got impeached. 57 00:03:24,309 --> 00:03:28,230 So you're saying I'm not allowed to have oral sex with an intern, either? 58 00:03:28,438 --> 00:03:30,941 Yes! And yes. 59 00:03:31,066 --> 00:03:34,986 That file got me on the floor of her attic with her pouring out her soul. 60 00:03:35,111 --> 00:03:37,697 The only thing I did wrong was get caught. 61 00:03:39,241 --> 00:03:40,826 STACY: Where's Chase? 62 00:03:41,284 --> 00:03:44,329 He's too busy to service you until after work. 63 00:03:44,830 --> 00:03:46,832 I got a couple minutes, though. 64 00:03:46,998 --> 00:03:48,667 Feel free to say something like, 65 00:03:48,792 --> 00:03:50,961 "What'll we do with the time left over?" 66 00:03:51,419 --> 00:03:53,755 Or you could just stew, that works as well. 67 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:55,549 She stews before she gets violent. 68 00:03:55,674 --> 00:03:58,301 This one says you're okay with moving the disciplinary hearing to tomorrow. 69 00:03:58,426 --> 00:04:01,346 This one says I've advised you of your legal rights. 70 00:04:02,305 --> 00:04:04,766 - Any legal rights I should know about? - Nope. 71 00:04:06,268 --> 00:04:07,727 Great. 72 00:04:07,853 --> 00:04:10,730 And you thought this was gonna be awkward. 73 00:04:11,314 --> 00:04:12,858 You shouldn't sign it. 74 00:04:12,983 --> 00:04:14,818 Postponing is almost always the smart thing to do. 75 00:04:14,943 --> 00:04:17,195 Tempers cool, memories fade. 76 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:19,364 They rule on me, it's done, right? 77 00:04:19,489 --> 00:04:21,783 - Yeah, but... - Then let's get it over with. 78 00:04:21,908 --> 00:04:24,661 - Ever done a peer review before? - No. 79 00:04:24,786 --> 00:04:25,829 Good. 80 00:04:26,037 --> 00:04:28,874 Peer's a misnomer. These are your bosses. 81 00:04:28,999 --> 00:04:31,793 This could cost you some money, some privileges 82 00:04:31,918 --> 00:04:34,045 or it could cost you your career. 83 00:04:34,379 --> 00:04:36,172 All I can tell them is what happened. 84 00:04:36,298 --> 00:04:37,883 There is an objective reality to what happened, 85 00:04:38,008 --> 00:04:40,218 and that committee is never gonna know it. 86 00:04:40,343 --> 00:04:42,429 All they're gonna know is what they picture happened, 87 00:04:42,554 --> 00:04:45,891 which depends a little on what you tell them and a whole lot 88 00:04:46,766 --> 00:04:48,184 on how you tell them. 89 00:04:49,144 --> 00:04:50,604 May 11. 90 00:04:51,479 --> 00:04:54,107 - The patient presented to the clinic. - What's her name? 91 00:04:54,232 --> 00:04:56,359 - It's in the file. - Do you know it? 92 00:04:56,610 --> 00:04:57,819 Then use it. 93 00:04:58,904 --> 00:05:03,158 Kayla presented to the clinic with multiple joint and stomach pain. 94 00:05:03,491 --> 00:05:06,202 CHASE: Dr. Foreman was called in for a neurological consult. 95 00:05:06,328 --> 00:05:07,704 What's the point of this, man? 96 00:05:07,829 --> 00:05:10,248 Checking your sister's cerebral coordination. 97 00:05:10,373 --> 00:05:12,751 The thing is in her leg and her stomach. 98 00:05:12,876 --> 00:05:16,171 Wait in the clinic for six hours so she can play patty cake? 99 00:05:16,630 --> 00:05:18,965 You could have gone to the ER last night. 100 00:05:19,424 --> 00:05:21,801 You gonna come over and baby-sit her kids? 101 00:05:21,927 --> 00:05:24,721 Okay. Patient comes from a family of jerks, I get it. 102 00:05:24,846 --> 00:05:26,723 Can you stick to the medicine? 103 00:05:27,057 --> 00:05:28,808 Something wrong? 104 00:05:28,934 --> 00:05:31,227 CHASE: There was some uveitis. STACY: Meaning? 105 00:05:31,353 --> 00:05:34,356 Her iris, the colored part of her eye, was inflamed. 106 00:05:34,481 --> 00:05:37,067 - Meaning? - Worst case, blindness. 107 00:05:37,651 --> 00:05:39,778 But there was an upside. 108 00:05:40,111 --> 00:05:42,113 It was weird enough to get House interested. 109 00:05:42,238 --> 00:05:45,200 Young woman, joint pain, gonorrhea's a possibility. 110 00:05:45,492 --> 00:05:47,869 It's polyarticular. Maybe rheumatoid. 111 00:05:47,994 --> 00:05:49,871 That's typically small joints, this hit her knee. 112 00:05:49,996 --> 00:05:51,790 Takayasu's arteritis. 113 00:05:53,291 --> 00:05:55,585 Get a sad rate and sarologies. 114 00:05:56,753 --> 00:05:58,463 "Childproof." 115 00:05:58,630 --> 00:06:00,507 How many kids are hopped up on Vicodin? 116 00:06:00,715 --> 00:06:03,885 - Give me. - Right. Like I'd ever get it back. 117 00:06:04,636 --> 00:06:05,637 HOUSE: Chase? 118 00:06:05,762 --> 00:06:08,181 STACY: Don't care about the Vicodin. 119 00:06:08,306 --> 00:06:11,017 Might not just be her arteries, could be all her blood vessels. 120 00:06:11,142 --> 00:06:13,812 Vasculitis, with stomach pains, so Behcefs. 121 00:06:13,937 --> 00:06:16,606 - No, she'd have oral sores. - Or genital. 122 00:06:17,357 --> 00:06:18,650 Go find them. 123 00:06:20,151 --> 00:06:23,613 I thought she was Foreman's patient. Why did you do the exam? 124 00:06:24,364 --> 00:06:26,908 FOREMAN: She'd have oral sores. HOUSE: Or genital. 125 00:06:27,283 --> 00:06:28,576 Go find them. 126 00:06:34,290 --> 00:06:36,626 Whoa, whoa, Foreman. 127 00:06:36,751 --> 00:06:39,004 Chase can handle the pelvic. 128 00:06:40,797 --> 00:06:42,173 Any pain? 129 00:06:43,216 --> 00:06:44,342 Is it bad? 130 00:06:45,844 --> 00:06:48,513 This would go a lot easier if you talked to me. 131 00:06:49,848 --> 00:06:51,474 I'm sorry. 132 00:06:52,392 --> 00:06:53,893 I, um... 133 00:06:54,769 --> 00:06:56,563 I just really hate hospitals. 134 00:06:56,688 --> 00:06:59,149 When I was 12, I had my tonsils out. 135 00:06:59,274 --> 00:07:02,360 Got to skip school, lots of ice cream, made me wanna be a doctor. 136 00:07:02,485 --> 00:07:05,864 My mom died when I was eight, 137 00:07:06,906 --> 00:07:09,743 so I spent months at Princeton General. 138 00:07:12,829 --> 00:07:14,956 She died of DTs, your mom? 139 00:07:15,832 --> 00:07:18,752 Bottles stashed around the house? Mood swings? That whole deal? 140 00:07:18,877 --> 00:07:20,962 - You've been there? - My mom. 141 00:07:21,379 --> 00:07:24,299 Dad left, Mom crawled inside a bottle. 142 00:07:24,591 --> 00:07:26,634 Made for a great year 12 of high school. 143 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:29,471 You okay with your dad now? 144 00:07:30,638 --> 00:07:31,639 No. 145 00:07:32,182 --> 00:07:35,435 Does your dad have anything to do with this story? 146 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:36,895 No, it's just... 147 00:07:37,020 --> 00:07:40,023 Okay, I get it, the two of you bonded, which is probably why you haven't been sued. 148 00:07:40,148 --> 00:07:41,900 Patients never sue doctors they like. 149 00:07:42,025 --> 00:07:44,402 But keep it brief, okay? The panel doesn't like to think 150 00:07:44,527 --> 00:07:47,363 they're being manipulated when they're being manipulated. 151 00:07:47,489 --> 00:07:48,990 She had some ulceration. 152 00:07:49,157 --> 00:07:50,950 Confirming Behcet's. 153 00:07:51,076 --> 00:07:55,497 I gave her some prednisone, an antacid, and I ran a pathergy test on her arln. 154 00:07:55,622 --> 00:07:57,582 Takes 24 hours to confirm. 155 00:07:57,707 --> 00:07:59,459 Told her any doctor could check it out. 156 00:07:59,584 --> 00:08:01,753 - You didn't make an appointment. - Nope. 157 00:08:01,878 --> 00:08:03,171 She just showed up. 158 00:08:05,632 --> 00:08:07,717 - Dr. Chase? - Hi. 159 00:08:08,802 --> 00:08:10,887 All right, let's take a look. 160 00:08:13,765 --> 00:08:16,893 Okay, those little pustules mean it's positive. 161 00:08:17,018 --> 00:08:20,897 Talk to Nurse Preven, get an appointment with Dr. Brustin in Rheumatology. 162 00:08:21,022 --> 00:08:23,900 Behcet's is very treatable, you're gonna be fine. 163 00:08:24,025 --> 00:08:25,902 Okay. Thanks. 164 00:08:27,028 --> 00:08:29,155 And you were just chatting on the phone with someone 165 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:30,782 and she happened to run into you. 166 00:08:30,907 --> 00:08:31,741 That's what happened. 167 00:08:31,866 --> 00:08:34,119 No appointment, no real examination? 168 00:08:34,244 --> 00:08:35,787 Just gave her the test results. 169 00:08:35,912 --> 00:08:38,123 So, lower standard of care, 170 00:08:38,248 --> 00:08:40,792 you really couldn't be expected to notice there was anything else wrong. 171 00:08:40,917 --> 00:08:43,128 We didn't even go into an exam room. 172 00:08:47,924 --> 00:08:52,303 As your lawyer, I can't stop you from lying, I can't even be in the room. 173 00:08:52,428 --> 00:08:55,598 But I would be remiss if I didn't prep you to lie better. 174 00:08:57,350 --> 00:09:00,687 You wrote her a prescription, which means there was an examination. 175 00:09:00,812 --> 00:09:02,188 What really happened? 176 00:09:02,856 --> 00:09:04,440 I was on the phone. 177 00:09:07,610 --> 00:09:10,155 Dr. Chase? Hi. 178 00:09:10,738 --> 00:09:11,865 Hi. 179 00:09:12,615 --> 00:09:14,701 Kayla. I'm here for the test. My arm. 180 00:09:14,826 --> 00:09:16,703 Oh, yeah. 181 00:09:17,704 --> 00:09:18,705 Okay- 182 00:09:19,205 --> 00:09:20,623 It's positive. 183 00:09:20,748 --> 00:09:24,794 Talk to Nurse Preven, get an appointment with Dr. Brustin in Rheumatology. 184 00:09:26,045 --> 00:09:29,841 I took that medicine you gave me, but my stomach still hurts. 185 00:09:32,886 --> 00:09:34,804 Behcet's could be stronger than we thought, 186 00:09:34,929 --> 00:09:37,682 or it could be reflux from the prednisone. 187 00:09:38,683 --> 00:09:40,602 Here's a stronger antacid. 188 00:09:41,311 --> 00:09:43,771 - Doctor? - Yes? 189 00:09:46,191 --> 00:09:47,192 Nothing. 190 00:09:49,277 --> 00:09:52,113 STACY: You didn't ask her anything about the stomach pain? 191 00:09:52,780 --> 00:09:55,491 I made one little mistake. 192 00:09:55,909 --> 00:09:58,494 As little mistakes go, that was a biggie. 193 00:10:03,041 --> 00:10:06,044 She's only advising Chase? Not you? 194 00:10:06,252 --> 00:10:09,214 Well, what's the committee gonna do to me? I never even met this patient. 195 00:10:09,339 --> 00:10:10,924 Your disdain for human interaction 196 00:10:11,049 --> 00:10:13,051 doesn't exculpate you, it inculpates you. 197 00:10:13,593 --> 00:10:15,595 You signed the charts, you're responsible for everything Chase does. 198 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:17,180 Which is why this doesn't matter. 199 00:10:17,305 --> 00:10:18,890 She protects Chase, she protects me. 200 00:10:19,015 --> 00:10:22,727 Unless her advice to Chase is to make a deal and give you up. 201 00:10:23,269 --> 00:10:27,148 "I'm so sorry, if only Dr. House had paid attention. 202 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:30,068 He never even met her, he never does." 203 00:10:30,318 --> 00:10:32,528 Chase loves me. And isn't Turkish. 204 00:10:33,112 --> 00:10:35,531 Cameron loves you, Chase loves his job. 205 00:10:35,657 --> 00:10:37,784 You really think Stacy hates me that much? 206 00:10:37,909 --> 00:10:41,079 I think right now she hates you more than enough. 207 00:10:41,246 --> 00:10:44,499 You think emotion only affects doctors' judgments? 208 00:10:48,461 --> 00:10:50,588 Everything stemmed from that one interaction. 209 00:10:50,713 --> 00:10:51,839 They're gonna slam you on it. 210 00:10:51,965 --> 00:10:55,218 Were you distracted? Your problem. Overworked? That's their problem. 211 00:10:55,343 --> 00:10:56,469 Forgetful, yours, lazy... 212 00:10:56,594 --> 00:10:58,471 I just figured the stomach pain was the Behcet's. 213 00:10:58,596 --> 00:10:59,847 Any doctor would have thought the same. 214 00:10:59,973 --> 00:11:03,309 Then why did you call her an hour after she left the clinic? 215 00:11:03,434 --> 00:11:06,187 Nurse Preven said you asked her to have Kayla come back in. 216 00:11:06,312 --> 00:11:10,191 The way she hesitated, I thought she might have had a doorknob question. 217 00:11:11,150 --> 00:11:12,402 Patient comes in, 218 00:11:12,527 --> 00:11:15,405 says he's got a sniffly nose, you examine him for 10 minutes, right? 219 00:11:15,530 --> 00:11:17,073 Then you're leaving, hand on the doorknob, 220 00:11:17,198 --> 00:11:20,535 and he says, "Oh, yeah, and my penis has turned green". 221 00:11:20,660 --> 00:11:22,954 Embarrassing question, the only important one, patient saves it for last. 222 00:11:23,079 --> 00:11:26,624 So you knew she was about to ask the most important question 223 00:11:26,833 --> 00:11:27,959 and you left. 224 00:11:28,084 --> 00:11:30,878 No, I didn't. I figured it out later. 225 00:11:31,004 --> 00:11:32,255 What changed? 226 00:11:32,672 --> 00:11:34,465 - Nothing. - Bad answer. 227 00:11:34,590 --> 00:11:37,427 - I wasn't thinking clearly at first. - Worse answer. 228 00:11:38,052 --> 00:11:40,221 So what was her doorknob question? 229 00:11:40,471 --> 00:11:42,807 I figured it might be blood in her stool, 230 00:11:43,266 --> 00:11:45,643 which could indicate a bleeding ulcer. 231 00:11:45,768 --> 00:11:45,892 CHASE: Talk to me. 232 00:11:45,893 --> 00:11:46,686 CHASE: Talk to me. 233 00:11:46,811 --> 00:11:48,938 Thirty-five year old female, vomiting massive amounts of blood, 234 00:11:49,063 --> 00:11:52,150 LOC at work, BP 80 over 20, heart rate 140. 235 00:11:52,275 --> 00:11:53,109 You push fluids? 236 00:11:53,234 --> 00:11:55,695 Three liters in the field, and we're bolusing another one right now. 237 00:11:55,820 --> 00:11:57,322 It's gotta be a bleeding ulcer, Doc. 238 00:11:57,447 --> 00:12:00,575 Her coworkers said she's been eating ibuprofens like candy. 239 00:12:00,783 --> 00:12:02,535 I thought she had Behcet's! 240 00:12:02,827 --> 00:12:04,954 One, two, three. 241 00:12:21,429 --> 00:12:22,680 CHASE: I'm in the stomach. 242 00:12:22,805 --> 00:12:24,390 There's too much blood, I can't see. 243 00:12:24,515 --> 00:12:26,684 - Did she burst an artery? - No. 244 00:12:26,809 --> 00:12:29,103 There. Bubbling. Just a bad ulcer. 245 00:12:29,228 --> 00:12:30,229 Cauterizing. 246 00:12:30,355 --> 00:12:32,774 - I can't see, use some more saline. - Hold on. 247 00:12:32,899 --> 00:12:33,900 Okay- 248 00:12:34,650 --> 00:12:35,485 (EXHALES) 249 00:12:35,610 --> 00:12:38,696 Looks good. Bleeding ulcer. We got it. 250 00:12:38,863 --> 00:12:40,573 (MONITOR BEEPING) She was fine two hours ago. 251 00:12:40,740 --> 00:12:42,367 FOREMAN: Systolic BP 70. 252 00:12:42,492 --> 00:12:44,660 Where's the ulcer? It's brown, I cauterized it. 253 00:12:44,786 --> 00:12:46,329 There must be something else. 254 00:12:46,454 --> 00:12:47,455 There. 255 00:12:47,580 --> 00:12:50,750 - FOREMAN: A second ulcer? - Not anymore. It perforated. 256 00:12:51,626 --> 00:12:52,752 Get her to an OR! 257 00:12:53,044 --> 00:12:55,797 The surgeons were able to suture the perforation. 258 00:12:56,547 --> 00:12:58,716 But the contents of the patient's, 259 00:12:58,925 --> 00:13:01,886 Kayla's, stomach had spilled into her body. 260 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:03,721 She got septic. 261 00:13:03,846 --> 00:13:05,932 Then the infection lowers her blood pressure... 262 00:13:06,057 --> 00:13:07,767 Fifty over palp at one point. 263 00:13:07,892 --> 00:13:10,144 It damaged her liver and kidneys. 264 00:13:11,646 --> 00:13:13,731 Listen, I know this looks bad. 265 00:13:13,856 --> 00:13:15,608 I obviously got the diagnosis wrong, 266 00:13:15,733 --> 00:13:17,527 but I did everything by the book. 267 00:13:17,693 --> 00:13:20,071 I couldn't have known what was gonna happen. 268 00:13:20,405 --> 00:13:23,658 If I skip my coffee, I get cranky. Do you want anything? 269 00:13:32,542 --> 00:13:34,627 STACY: Why did Chase screw up? 270 00:13:34,752 --> 00:13:37,588 He forgot to ask a question, does there need to be a reason? 271 00:13:37,713 --> 00:13:38,923 It might help him. 272 00:13:39,048 --> 00:13:42,260 As far as I'm concerned, he made a little mistake. lthappens. 273 00:13:42,385 --> 00:13:43,469 How far are you concerned? 274 00:13:43,594 --> 00:13:45,388 You think I'm biased? 275 00:13:45,555 --> 00:13:48,516 You're colleagues. You worked together for over a year. 276 00:13:48,641 --> 00:13:50,685 And everyone says you slept together. 277 00:13:51,436 --> 00:13:52,603 Who says? 278 00:13:52,728 --> 00:13:55,022 The correct answer is, "We're not involved and I'm not biased". 279 00:13:55,148 --> 00:13:58,151 We're not involved, and I don't know why he messed up. 280 00:13:58,734 --> 00:14:01,404 House has worked with him longer than I have. 281 00:14:01,529 --> 00:14:03,156 You should talk to House. 282 00:14:04,824 --> 00:14:05,950 Yeah. 283 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:08,286 STACY: Why did Chase screw up? 284 00:14:08,578 --> 00:14:10,830 Because he doesn't give a crap about patients. 285 00:14:10,955 --> 00:14:12,582 Well, he always gets positive patient reviews. 286 00:14:12,707 --> 00:14:15,209 Yeah. He smiles all 84 of his teeth, 287 00:14:15,334 --> 00:14:16,627 tells them his tonsil story... 288 00:14:16,752 --> 00:14:19,422 - It's a nice story. - He still has his tonsils! 289 00:14:19,547 --> 00:14:22,633 As soon as he's out of the room, which is as soon as he can be out of the room, 290 00:14:22,758 --> 00:14:24,469 he starts in on the trash talking. 291 00:14:24,594 --> 00:14:26,929 He thinks not giving a crap makes him like House. 292 00:14:27,054 --> 00:14:29,140 Like it's something to aspire to. 293 00:14:30,308 --> 00:14:31,684 Am I gonna have to testify? 294 00:14:31,809 --> 00:14:34,312 I won't be encouraging them to call you. 295 00:14:34,437 --> 00:14:35,605 What did House say? 296 00:14:37,106 --> 00:14:38,691 (CHUCK COUGHING) 297 00:14:41,486 --> 00:14:45,573 - Two months like this. - Let me guess, no insurance. 298 00:14:45,698 --> 00:14:48,618 You've just heard about the free clinic. It's a good move. 299 00:14:48,743 --> 00:14:53,080 You don't wanna skimp on the essentials like Wristwatches, MP3 players. 300 00:14:53,498 --> 00:14:55,249 I need to talk to you. 301 00:14:55,500 --> 00:14:57,418 - From the doorway? - It's confidential. 302 00:14:57,543 --> 00:14:59,378 Cool. I love gossip. 303 00:15:02,131 --> 00:15:03,633 HOUSE: You hear that crackling sound? 304 00:15:03,799 --> 00:15:05,593 Like crumpling up paper? 305 00:15:05,718 --> 00:15:08,679 Keep listening, let me know if it changes. 306 00:15:18,648 --> 00:15:19,690 Two questions. 307 00:15:19,815 --> 00:15:22,401 Why did Chase screw up, and how bad was it? 308 00:15:22,527 --> 00:15:25,530 Wow. Talk about efficient, I only need one answer. 309 00:15:25,655 --> 00:15:27,782 - Chase didn't screw up. - He said he did. 310 00:15:27,907 --> 00:15:30,743 Well, I'm not a lawyer, but that seems like a sucky legal strategy. 311 00:15:30,868 --> 00:15:33,663 They're gonna wanna know what you think a reasonable doctor would have done 312 00:15:33,788 --> 00:15:34,747 in Chase's position. 313 00:15:34,872 --> 00:15:37,208 If I thought he was a reasonable doctor, I wouldn't have hired him. 314 00:15:37,333 --> 00:15:38,960 God, you two are a couple of geniuses. 315 00:15:39,085 --> 00:15:42,213 Deny everything, completely fool the lawyer who's trying to help you. 316 00:15:42,338 --> 00:15:45,591 Too bad the review committee members are actually doctors. 317 00:15:46,092 --> 00:15:47,468 Stacy. 318 00:15:50,179 --> 00:15:51,222 (SIGHS) 319 00:15:51,347 --> 00:15:52,515 I'm in the stomach. 320 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:54,642 There's too much blood, I can't see. 321 00:15:54,767 --> 00:15:56,519 - Did she burst an artery? - No. 322 00:15:56,644 --> 00:15:59,522 There. Bubbling. Just a bad ulcer. 323 00:16:00,356 --> 00:16:02,525 Okay. Cauterizing. 324 00:16:02,650 --> 00:16:05,987 - Looks good. - Bleeding ulcer. We got it. 325 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:07,613 She was fine two hours ago. 326 00:16:07,738 --> 00:16:10,366 If by "fine", you mean she had fountains of blood 327 00:16:10,491 --> 00:16:13,411 (MONITOR BEEPING) spurting out of every orifice, then yeah, I believe you. 328 00:16:13,536 --> 00:16:14,537 (MONITOR BEEPING) 329 00:16:14,662 --> 00:16:16,998 I'm guessing those are celebratory bells. 330 00:16:17,123 --> 00:16:18,541 Systolic BP 70. 331 00:16:18,666 --> 00:16:19,584 Show me the ulcer. 332 00:16:19,709 --> 00:16:21,002 It's brown, I cauterized it. 333 00:16:21,127 --> 00:16:23,462 Sweep back. Show me the whole stomach. 334 00:16:25,339 --> 00:16:26,382 Stop. 335 00:16:27,258 --> 00:16:30,344 - FOREMAN: A second ulcer? - Not anymore. It perforated. 336 00:16:31,262 --> 00:16:32,471 Get her to an OR! 337 00:16:33,556 --> 00:16:34,557 Let's go. 338 00:16:37,059 --> 00:16:39,895 She was not "fine" two hours ago. 339 00:16:40,438 --> 00:16:42,898 - Did she mention stomach pain? - Yeah, so I gave her a stronger... 340 00:16:43,024 --> 00:16:45,735 - You didn't do an exam. - She just came in for a follow-up. 341 00:16:45,860 --> 00:16:47,486 The results of the pathergy test... 342 00:16:47,612 --> 00:16:49,071 Did you listen to her stomach? 343 00:16:49,196 --> 00:16:50,156 Check her vitals? 344 00:16:50,281 --> 00:16:52,533 Maybe if she'd said something about taking ibuprofen, 345 00:16:52,658 --> 00:16:54,535 - mentioned the rectal bleeding... - Yeah! 346 00:16:54,660 --> 00:16:56,954 Why didn't she go to med school like you did? 347 00:16:57,079 --> 00:16:59,874 Diarrhea, blood in the stool, these are routine questions! 348 00:16:59,999 --> 00:17:01,334 That doctors skip all the time! 349 00:17:01,459 --> 00:17:03,711 It was a minor mistake, I couldn't have known this was gonna happen... 350 00:17:03,836 --> 00:17:06,047 Mistakes are as serious as the results they cause! 351 00:17:06,172 --> 00:17:09,091 This woman could die because you were too lazy to ask one simple question! 352 00:17:09,216 --> 00:17:11,052 No, she might die because I had 353 00:17:11,218 --> 00:17:13,095 the bad luck to spill your damn Vicodin pills! 354 00:17:13,220 --> 00:17:16,015 I responded with a number of trenchant remarks 355 00:17:16,140 --> 00:17:18,934 which made Chase cry, none of which I'm gonna testify about. 356 00:17:19,226 --> 00:17:21,437 Unless you convince Chase to roll on me. 357 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:25,608 Excuse me. Testify about what? 358 00:17:29,111 --> 00:17:30,112 Chuck. 359 00:17:30,488 --> 00:17:32,573 I'm gonna break from the parable of the wicked doctor 360 00:17:32,698 --> 00:17:37,078 and tell a little story about a patient, let's call him Buck. 361 00:17:37,620 --> 00:17:40,581 Who has low O2 sats and crackling lung sounds. 362 00:17:40,706 --> 00:17:41,540 Like I have. 363 00:17:41,666 --> 00:17:44,919 Buck has idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. 364 00:17:45,211 --> 00:17:47,380 His lung tissue's turning to rock. 365 00:17:47,588 --> 00:17:49,715 There's no known cause, no treatment. 366 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:52,426 - He is slowly suffocating. - You're talking about me? 367 00:17:52,551 --> 00:17:55,221 Lung transplant's about $500,000, 368 00:17:55,346 --> 00:17:56,847 but this poor sucker's got no insurance. 369 00:17:56,972 --> 00:18:00,393 If he tried to sign up now, he'd be excluded, preexisting condition. 370 00:18:00,518 --> 00:18:02,645 But let me confirm with my lawyer. 371 00:18:03,521 --> 00:18:04,563 She confirms. 372 00:18:05,356 --> 00:18:09,652 If only Buck hadn't been diagnosed with fibrosis before he got insurance. 373 00:18:09,860 --> 00:18:12,446 So, back to the exam. 374 00:18:23,290 --> 00:18:25,668 That's how you tell this guy he's dying? 375 00:18:25,793 --> 00:18:27,753 Oh, relax. He's got a cold. 376 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:29,714 And soon, health insurance. 377 00:18:30,506 --> 00:18:33,384 Such a hero, always righting wrongs. 378 00:18:33,592 --> 00:18:35,302 Who cares who you have to manipulate? 379 00:18:35,428 --> 00:18:36,595 I'm sorry. 380 00:18:36,721 --> 00:18:39,306 I didn't realize you and Buck were so close. 381 00:18:42,685 --> 00:18:44,854 - It's a point of principle. - Right. 382 00:18:45,062 --> 00:18:46,522 It's got nothing to do with what I did to you. 383 00:18:46,647 --> 00:18:48,482 There's nothing for us to talk about. 384 00:18:48,607 --> 00:18:50,192 That's why you're following me. 385 00:18:50,317 --> 00:18:52,194 - I read some notes. - If Chase screwed up... 386 00:18:52,319 --> 00:18:55,573 I was wrong! I'm terribly, terribly sorry. 387 00:18:55,698 --> 00:18:57,908 If Chase screwed up so badly, why didn't you fire him? 388 00:18:58,033 --> 00:18:59,493 He has great hair. 389 00:19:00,870 --> 00:19:02,997 - What are you hiding? - I'm gay. 390 00:19:03,706 --> 00:19:07,209 Oh, that's not what you meant. It does explain a lot, though. 391 00:19:07,334 --> 00:19:09,628 No girlfriend, always with Wilson. 392 00:19:09,754 --> 00:19:11,839 Obsession with sneakers. 393 00:19:13,257 --> 00:19:15,009 Diarrhea, blood in the stool. 394 00:19:15,134 --> 00:19:16,927 Two simple questions you could have asked her six months ago 395 00:19:17,052 --> 00:19:20,598 and averted this whole thing. You didn't ask either, why? 396 00:19:21,557 --> 00:19:24,560 Judging from your question and your demeanor, 397 00:19:24,810 --> 00:19:27,188 I assume you were visiting with House. 398 00:19:27,730 --> 00:19:29,565 We've been over this. I don't know. 399 00:19:29,690 --> 00:19:30,858 Good doctors don't make mistakes like that. 400 00:19:30,983 --> 00:19:32,818 Good doctors never forget to ask questions? 401 00:19:32,943 --> 00:19:35,196 Then you've got your answer, apparently, I'm not a good doctor. 402 00:19:35,321 --> 00:19:38,115 FYI, self-pity generally is not a good strategy in these hearings. 403 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:40,367 What happened after the operation? 404 00:19:41,535 --> 00:19:43,704 The kidney damage isn't so bad. 405 00:19:43,871 --> 00:19:45,581 The liver damage is more worrisome. 406 00:19:45,706 --> 00:19:47,666 There's no dialysis for livers. 407 00:19:47,792 --> 00:19:50,961 I know. But if she loses a liver, she can get a transplant, right? 408 00:19:51,086 --> 00:19:52,838 We can put her on a list. 409 00:19:53,756 --> 00:19:55,090 I could do it. 410 00:19:55,925 --> 00:19:57,092 I could give her part of my liver. 411 00:19:57,218 --> 00:19:59,136 Surgeons won't operate unless the donor's 412 00:19:59,303 --> 00:20:01,263 had a long time to weigh the decision. 413 00:20:01,388 --> 00:20:02,515 There's black markets. 414 00:20:02,681 --> 00:20:03,641 For organs? 415 00:20:03,766 --> 00:20:05,768 (KAYLA GROANING) That's just... 416 00:20:05,893 --> 00:20:07,686 Oh, my stomach! 417 00:20:07,812 --> 00:20:09,772 - The pain constant? - Yeah! 418 00:20:09,897 --> 00:20:12,107 - Sharp or dull? - I don't know! 419 00:20:12,233 --> 00:20:14,693 - It's ferric. - It's a little cold. 420 00:20:15,402 --> 00:20:17,696 - She's got ascites. - No. It's a clot. 421 00:20:17,822 --> 00:20:21,742 Nurse! Call the OR. We gotta prep her for an embolectomy. 422 00:20:21,867 --> 00:20:22,993 (GROANING) 423 00:20:23,118 --> 00:20:25,788 Run CBC, PT, and a liver panel. 424 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:29,333 Sepsis had lowered her BP so much, she got clots in her liver. 425 00:20:29,458 --> 00:20:31,836 They blocked the hepatic artery, cut off the blood flow. 426 00:20:31,961 --> 00:20:33,337 Her liver was shocked. 427 00:20:33,462 --> 00:20:36,215 And Cuddy listed her? With all the other problems? 428 00:20:37,591 --> 00:20:41,303 Forget it! We can't give a liver to a woman this sick. 429 00:20:41,428 --> 00:20:42,596 Do you listen to what you're saying? 430 00:20:42,721 --> 00:20:46,642 There is no point in giving a new liver to somebody who also has vasculitis. 431 00:20:46,767 --> 00:20:48,894 - Treatable. - And kidney damage. 432 00:20:49,019 --> 00:20:51,605 - It's healing. - You know what's really killing her? 433 00:20:51,730 --> 00:20:54,817 Chase forgot to ask a standard question about stomach pain. 434 00:20:54,942 --> 00:20:57,236 So he missed the diagnosis, so she perforated, 435 00:20:57,361 --> 00:20:59,655 so she got sepsis, so her BP tanked, 436 00:20:59,822 --> 00:21:01,991 so she got blood clots, so she lost her liver. 437 00:21:02,157 --> 00:21:05,870 Livers are important, Cuddy. You can't live without them, hence the name. 438 00:21:05,995 --> 00:21:07,121 Here's the big issue. 439 00:21:07,246 --> 00:21:10,958 Chase is a hospital employee, and Kayla is a sympathetic mother 440 00:21:11,083 --> 00:21:14,253 of those two jury-friendly moppets, Caleb and Cody. 441 00:21:14,545 --> 00:21:15,713 Dory and Nikki. 442 00:21:15,838 --> 00:21:19,633 Your point, beyond just trying to make Chase wet himself, 443 00:21:19,758 --> 00:21:23,554 seems to be that the hospital faces liability here. 444 00:21:23,679 --> 00:21:25,472 Well, thanks for clearing that up. 445 00:21:25,598 --> 00:21:27,308 I still need a medical reason to list her. 446 00:21:27,474 --> 00:21:29,268 That is the medical reason. 447 00:21:29,393 --> 00:21:33,689 If the family wins this hospital in a lawsuit, they'll turn it into condos. 448 00:21:33,814 --> 00:21:37,234 And people will die waiting outside a condo for medical care. 449 00:21:42,448 --> 00:21:45,576 Start praying for a 12-car pileup on the turnpike, 450 00:21:45,701 --> 00:21:48,704 'cause we're not exactly swimming in livers over here. 451 00:21:54,418 --> 00:21:58,213 When you're testifying, skip the details on how House convinced Cuddy. 452 00:21:58,339 --> 00:22:01,216 I don't think the people who got bumped down the transplant list need to know why. 453 00:22:01,467 --> 00:22:02,426 It didn't matter anyway. 454 00:22:03,010 --> 00:22:04,929 - SAM: She next on the list? - Yes. 455 00:22:05,054 --> 00:22:08,098 But she's AB negative, very rare. 456 00:22:10,100 --> 00:22:12,227 SAM: How long can she go on like this? 457 00:22:12,519 --> 00:22:14,313 Probably another day or two. 458 00:22:17,232 --> 00:22:19,193 - I'm donating my liver. - Sam, we talked about this. 459 00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:22,321 I'm a perfect match, six out of six HLA proteins. 460 00:22:22,780 --> 00:22:24,239 How'd you get checked out so fast? 461 00:22:24,365 --> 00:22:26,659 I know a guy in medical testing, and I paid him to rush it. 462 00:22:26,784 --> 00:22:29,703 - Sam bribed someone to rush his tests? - Wouldn't you? 463 00:22:29,870 --> 00:22:31,622 Someone's going to get the blame for what happened, 464 00:22:31,747 --> 00:22:34,208 so the more we spread it around, we might as well... 465 00:22:34,333 --> 00:22:38,253 You said no surgeon would do a live donor transplant on such short notice. 466 00:22:38,379 --> 00:22:40,547 House took care of that, too. 467 00:22:43,676 --> 00:22:45,594 Your patient's hardly clotting. 468 00:22:46,303 --> 00:22:49,473 Sub-Q vitamin K and fresh frozen plasma pre-op. 469 00:22:49,598 --> 00:22:50,683 Pretty risk)!- 470 00:22:50,808 --> 00:22:53,185 Well, that's why I came to the best transplant surgeon in the hospital. 471 00:22:53,310 --> 00:22:55,062 She's dead without you. 472 00:22:57,231 --> 00:22:58,899 Get her in this afternoon. 473 00:23:00,192 --> 00:23:02,945 - Thank you very much. - My pleasure. 474 00:23:03,195 --> 00:23:05,864 And this was right before you ran the marathon, Isuppose? 475 00:23:05,990 --> 00:23:08,909 Was it the part where he warmly clasped my hands in thanks, 476 00:23:09,034 --> 00:23:11,120 - was that too much? - What did you do to him? 477 00:23:11,245 --> 00:23:13,872 The hospital lawyer asks me if I did something unethical? 478 00:23:13,998 --> 00:23:16,250 If I did, the last person I'd tell is the hospital lawyer, 479 00:23:16,375 --> 00:23:19,003 especially since she's gone all Old Testament on me. 480 00:23:19,128 --> 00:23:22,047 - You'll tell me. - Oh. Okay then. 481 00:23:22,589 --> 00:23:26,844 One caveat, I've moved past threesomes, I'm now into foursomes. 482 00:23:26,969 --> 00:23:29,722 If someone backs out, then, you've still got a threesome. 483 00:23:29,847 --> 00:23:32,224 And if two people back out, you're still having sex. 484 00:23:32,349 --> 00:23:33,809 You'd be amazed, even if three people... 485 00:23:33,934 --> 00:23:35,811 Anything you say is attorney-client. 486 00:23:35,936 --> 00:23:38,147 So you can get advice about the bad, bad thing you did, 487 00:23:38,272 --> 00:23:41,191 knowing I'll be tortured because I can't tell a soul. 488 00:23:42,192 --> 00:23:44,445 Actually, it is kind of cool. 489 00:23:45,404 --> 00:23:48,240 Are you completely out of your mind? 490 00:23:48,741 --> 00:23:50,159 She's dying on her own, 491 00:23:50,284 --> 00:23:52,911 why would I volunteer to be her executioner? 492 00:23:53,203 --> 00:23:56,790 And I'd just be inviting a lawsuit from the brother no matter what. 493 00:23:58,250 --> 00:23:59,251 5 grand. 494 00:24:00,294 --> 00:24:03,839 And that's just ante money. After the surgery, you get another 15. 495 00:24:03,964 --> 00:24:06,258 Though I warn you, that includes the tip. 496 00:24:06,383 --> 00:24:07,468 (LAUGHING) 497 00:24:08,218 --> 00:24:10,220 I make 600 grand a year. 498 00:24:10,345 --> 00:24:13,891 You think I'm gonna risk tanking my percentages for $20,000? 499 00:24:14,224 --> 00:24:15,517 It's tax-free. 500 00:24:15,851 --> 00:24:17,227 For the record, 501 00:24:17,352 --> 00:24:19,313 I hope the Department takes you and Chase 502 00:24:19,438 --> 00:24:22,399 and drop-kicks both your asses out the back door. 503 00:24:23,275 --> 00:24:24,276 Great! 504 00:24:25,194 --> 00:24:27,654 That means I don't have to bother welshing on the 15 grand 505 00:24:27,780 --> 00:24:29,323 I would have owed you. 506 00:24:30,199 --> 00:24:33,035 If you don't do the surgery, I'm gonna tell your wife 507 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:35,913 that you've been sleeping with a series of nurses. 508 00:24:36,371 --> 00:24:39,041 Currently Nurse Cutler in Radiology. 509 00:24:39,666 --> 00:24:42,252 Now, what's 600 grand divided by two? 510 00:24:43,045 --> 00:24:44,379 Last Christmas party, 511 00:24:44,505 --> 00:24:47,424 Nurse Cutler handed you one of those little hot dogs. 512 00:24:47,633 --> 00:24:49,635 And you didn't thank her. 513 00:24:49,927 --> 00:24:53,305 Well, that only happens when you're very, very intimate. 514 00:24:53,931 --> 00:24:56,266 That, and the fact that you've been practically dancing around 515 00:24:56,391 --> 00:25:00,104 with your zipper open, and a used condom stuck on your shoe. 516 00:25:00,229 --> 00:25:02,356 Your wife is apparently the only one who doesn't know. 517 00:25:02,481 --> 00:25:03,899 There's no way you'll tell her. 518 00:25:04,066 --> 00:25:07,069 Of course I won't. I'm much too cowardly. 519 00:25:07,361 --> 00:25:09,363 No, I'll just send an anonymous letter. 520 00:25:09,488 --> 00:25:13,575 Now, I've got an OR booked for 4:00 this afternoon. 521 00:25:14,201 --> 00:25:15,702 Are you free? 522 00:25:19,665 --> 00:25:22,084 Oh, and "for the record", 523 00:25:22,209 --> 00:25:25,295 you are the worst transplant surgeon in this hospital. 524 00:25:25,420 --> 00:25:29,508 But unfortunately, you're the only one who's currently cheating on his wife. 525 00:25:35,931 --> 00:25:38,725 You bribed him and then you blackmailed him? 526 00:25:38,851 --> 00:25:41,812 She'd have been dead in two days if I hadn't made Ayersman do the surgery. 527 00:25:41,937 --> 00:25:44,189 Leave the blackmail out of the story you tell the committee. 528 00:25:44,314 --> 00:25:46,191 I tried to leave it out of the story I told you. 529 00:25:46,316 --> 00:25:48,944 And then there was that incident in the parking lot. 530 00:25:49,069 --> 00:25:51,405 - Don't do that! - Hey, what, are you nuts? 531 00:25:51,780 --> 00:25:53,240 No, please, I didn't do it! 532 00:25:53,365 --> 00:25:56,076 - I didn't do anything! Please! - No! 533 00:25:56,201 --> 00:25:58,996 Apparently, someone sent an anonymous letter to his wife. 534 00:25:59,121 --> 00:26:03,041 You blackmailed Ayersman, he perforlned the surgery, and you ratted him out anyway? 535 00:26:03,167 --> 00:26:04,251 Doesn't seem fair, does it? 536 00:26:04,376 --> 00:26:06,170 You just can't control yourself, can you? 537 00:26:06,295 --> 00:26:08,172 No matter how stupid, how self-destructive... 538 00:26:08,297 --> 00:26:11,133 To make this conversation easier, can we discard the fiction 539 00:26:11,258 --> 00:26:14,636 that we're talking about anything other than what I did to you? 540 00:26:14,761 --> 00:26:17,431 You're not mad because I broke into your psychiatrisfs office. 541 00:26:17,556 --> 00:26:18,765 Yeah, I was thrilled about that. 542 00:26:18,932 --> 00:26:20,184 Okay, it was a lousy thing to do. 543 00:26:20,309 --> 00:26:21,268 But if what I had found 544 00:26:21,393 --> 00:26:23,562 was that everything was all kittens and moonbeams in Markville, 545 00:26:23,687 --> 00:26:26,064 - you'd be over it. - No, I wouldn't! 546 00:26:26,190 --> 00:26:28,609 You're mad at me for letting you know what I did. 547 00:26:28,734 --> 00:26:31,069 Because you liked where things were going. 548 00:26:33,697 --> 00:26:35,866 And for that, I actually am sorry. 549 00:26:36,283 --> 00:26:37,576 It was stupid. 550 00:26:45,542 --> 00:26:46,543 (SIGHS) 551 00:26:48,587 --> 00:26:51,089 Let me tell you a story about a patient. 552 00:26:51,632 --> 00:26:54,635 A patient we'll call Fusan. 553 00:26:56,094 --> 00:26:58,013 CHASE: Because Sam had rushed his tests, 554 00:26:58,138 --> 00:27:01,183 we were able to get them into surgery that afternoon. 555 00:27:02,100 --> 00:27:05,187 Dr. Ayersman performed the live-donor transplant. 556 00:27:05,938 --> 00:27:08,148 He resected the right lobe, hepatic vein, 557 00:27:08,315 --> 00:27:10,317 and hepatic artery of Sam's liver, 558 00:27:10,442 --> 00:27:12,402 and transplanted it into Kayla. 559 00:27:12,527 --> 00:27:14,279 The operation was a success. 560 00:27:15,197 --> 00:27:17,866 Kayla and Sam continued to receive routine care. 561 00:27:19,117 --> 00:27:22,788 Two months later, she came by for an exam. 562 00:27:22,955 --> 00:27:26,208 July 24, be precise. You did the exam? 563 00:27:26,333 --> 00:27:27,793 Honestly, I just wanted... "Honestly"? 564 00:27:27,918 --> 00:27:29,211 So you've been lying up until now? 565 00:27:29,336 --> 00:27:31,588 Let's make a deal. I won't use the word "honestly", 566 00:27:31,713 --> 00:27:33,257 and you'll quit stopping by to see House 567 00:27:33,423 --> 00:27:36,510 so you don't take it out on me afterwards. How about that? 568 00:27:38,595 --> 00:27:41,390 I wanted to be as far away from Kayla as possible. 569 00:27:41,765 --> 00:27:43,600 And House was rubbing my nose in it. 570 00:27:43,725 --> 00:27:45,269 How are the girls? 571 00:27:45,394 --> 00:27:46,812 They're great. 572 00:27:47,312 --> 00:27:50,315 Dory had her first crush, which was cute. 573 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:51,400 Oh: yeah? 574 00:27:51,692 --> 00:27:53,610 And then her first sort of breakup, 575 00:27:53,735 --> 00:27:55,445 (BEEPING) which was not so cute. 576 00:27:58,073 --> 00:28:01,326 You're hot. 99.3. 577 00:28:02,035 --> 00:28:03,453 - Have you been coughing? - No. 578 00:28:03,578 --> 00:28:05,580 - Pain in urinating? - No. 579 00:28:08,083 --> 00:28:10,377 99's not that high, is it? 580 00:28:10,919 --> 00:28:14,047 Immunosuppressants block fevers, you shouldn't have one at all. 581 00:28:16,091 --> 00:28:18,760 I'm sending a nurse in here to draw cultures. 582 00:28:19,177 --> 00:28:20,887 And I'm ordering a chest x-ray. 583 00:28:21,013 --> 00:28:23,015 I wasn't making any more mistakes. 584 00:28:23,140 --> 00:28:25,100 Another phrase to avoid in front of the committee. 585 00:28:25,225 --> 00:28:27,269 She spiked a fever an hour later. 586 00:28:27,394 --> 00:28:31,064 Her AST and ALT are up. She's rejecting the liver. 587 00:28:31,189 --> 00:28:32,899 No, it's just an infection. 588 00:28:33,025 --> 00:28:34,860 One of her cultures is growing out strep. 589 00:28:34,985 --> 00:28:36,278 Just one? Probably a contaminant. 590 00:28:36,403 --> 00:28:39,072 She's dehydrated, her hematocrit's way up. It's strep. 591 00:28:39,197 --> 00:28:40,615 Her transaminases are up, too. 592 00:28:40,741 --> 00:28:42,826 - That's just stress from the strep. - Jeez, Chase. 593 00:28:42,951 --> 00:28:45,037 You and this strep. Get a room already. 594 00:28:45,162 --> 00:28:47,039 She's not rejecting the liver. 595 00:28:48,165 --> 00:28:50,375 It's just an infection, she'll be fine. 596 00:28:50,500 --> 00:28:52,127 CAMERON: Worst case, we could re-list her. 597 00:28:52,252 --> 00:28:53,503 You House? 598 00:28:53,670 --> 00:28:57,966 Well, that depends. Are you gonna hit Dr. House? 599 00:28:59,092 --> 00:29:01,636 You haven't even seen my sister, and you're being cute with me? 600 00:29:01,762 --> 00:29:04,222 Sam, we're talking about her right now. 601 00:29:04,348 --> 00:29:06,391 - Her fever might... - Could be hep B, hep C, right? 602 00:29:06,516 --> 00:29:10,103 This is treatable. You give her interferon, she's okay, right? 603 00:29:10,228 --> 00:29:11,855 You know a lot about hepatitis. 604 00:29:11,980 --> 00:29:14,149 He just donated his liver. 605 00:29:15,150 --> 00:29:18,278 - You're flushed. You sick? - I'm tired. 606 00:29:18,403 --> 00:29:20,364 You're hiding the fact that you're sick. 607 00:29:21,448 --> 00:29:23,075 - Now, why would you do that? - Hey, what are you... 608 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:24,868 Now, either you specifically asked 609 00:29:24,993 --> 00:29:27,537 for a tattoo of a heart that's been left out in the sun too long, 610 00:29:27,662 --> 00:29:29,790 or that is a really bad home job. 611 00:29:29,915 --> 00:29:33,293 It's a very common way of getting hep C. Which you have. 612 00:29:33,418 --> 00:29:35,337 And you've had it a long time. 613 00:29:39,841 --> 00:29:41,385 It was gonna keep me from giving my liver. 614 00:29:41,510 --> 00:29:43,595 You paid off that lab tech to say you were clean? 615 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:46,056 It hasn't been active in years, she was gonna die if I didn't. 616 00:29:46,181 --> 00:29:49,267 You paid someone off? That is totally unethical! 617 00:29:50,143 --> 00:29:52,938 Get an MRI for him and his sister, right now. 618 00:29:54,231 --> 00:29:55,816 She got hep from me, didn't she? 619 00:29:55,941 --> 00:29:58,443 No! No, no, no, no. God, no. 620 00:29:58,902 --> 00:30:01,071 I think she got cancer from you. 621 00:30:06,701 --> 00:30:08,161 House was right? 622 00:30:08,286 --> 00:30:10,372 The brother had an undiagnosed hepatoma 623 00:30:10,497 --> 00:30:12,457 that was transplanted with his liver. 624 00:30:12,582 --> 00:30:16,211 It grew a lot faster in Kayla because she was immunosuppressed. 625 00:30:16,420 --> 00:30:17,921 How could House have known? 626 00:30:18,046 --> 00:30:20,173 Hepatitis can cause liver cancer. 627 00:30:20,298 --> 00:30:23,760 Plus, her hematocrit, red blood cell count, was high. 628 00:30:23,885 --> 00:30:28,974 Usually means dehydration. Rare cases, cancer. 629 00:30:30,517 --> 00:30:32,394 It probably saved Sam's life. 630 00:30:32,561 --> 00:30:36,773 CHASE: We were able to operate on him early enough, before it metastasized. 631 00:30:36,940 --> 00:30:38,483 SURGEON: O2 sats 94. 632 00:30:40,527 --> 00:30:43,113 Kayla had already started rejecting the liver. 633 00:30:43,238 --> 00:30:46,366 - No re-listing because of the cancer. - Nothing we could do. 634 00:30:46,658 --> 00:30:48,118 This is good. 635 00:30:48,285 --> 00:30:50,579 The brother lying about his hep, it's an intervening act. 636 00:30:50,704 --> 00:30:53,206 The proximate cause of her cancer, not your mistake. 637 00:30:53,331 --> 00:30:56,418 She would have died six months ago if he hadn't given up his liver. 638 00:30:56,543 --> 00:30:58,003 Maybe. Can't prove it. 639 00:30:58,128 --> 00:30:59,546 (PAGER BEEPING) 640 00:31:00,213 --> 00:31:02,257 You need to come with me. 641 00:31:02,382 --> 00:31:04,092 Just been served with papers. 642 00:31:04,217 --> 00:31:05,760 Actually, paper. One page. 643 00:31:06,344 --> 00:31:09,431 "Defendants Princeton-Plainsboro Hospital 644 00:31:09,556 --> 00:31:12,017 and Dr. Robert Chase. Blah, blah, blah. 645 00:31:12,142 --> 00:31:15,061 Medical malpractice, negligence. Blah, blah." 646 00:31:15,187 --> 00:31:16,438 HOUSE: You're surprised they're suing? 647 00:31:16,730 --> 00:31:19,524 You think people love Chase so much they're gonna just forgo... 648 00:31:19,649 --> 00:31:23,069 Punitive damages in the amount of $10 million. 649 00:31:23,195 --> 00:31:25,906 Punitives? That means they're alleging gross negligence. 650 00:31:26,031 --> 00:31:27,782 Their lawyer's obviously out of his mind. 651 00:31:27,908 --> 00:31:29,993 Larry Ruseckas, he's not crazy. 652 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:32,329 Oh, no. I've been sued by him. 653 00:31:32,454 --> 00:31:35,332 You have been hiding things and lying to me all day. 654 00:31:35,457 --> 00:31:37,125 I haven't lied about anything. 655 00:31:37,250 --> 00:31:39,711 Except for the parts that I admitted I was lying about. 656 00:31:39,836 --> 00:31:42,672 And I'm not the one being sued. I feel funny. 657 00:31:43,381 --> 00:31:46,301 Well, what haven't you told us? 658 00:31:54,809 --> 00:31:55,810 (SIGHS) 659 00:31:56,978 --> 00:32:00,273 Before she checked out, Sam found her a second liver. 660 00:32:00,398 --> 00:32:03,318 - She had cancer, how could she... - Black market. 661 00:32:03,443 --> 00:32:06,112 There's a doctor in Mexico City who was gonna do the surgery. 662 00:32:06,238 --> 00:32:08,114 She's leaving from JFK at 5:00. 663 00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:10,367 To meet some Mexican guy in the back of a van 664 00:32:10,492 --> 00:32:11,868 with a pig's liver and a hacksaw? This is nuts! 665 00:32:11,993 --> 00:32:13,370 You wanna rat me out to House? 666 00:32:13,495 --> 00:32:15,956 He'll say if there's a chance in a billion then go for it. 667 00:32:16,081 --> 00:32:17,457 This is not what she wants. 668 00:32:17,582 --> 00:32:19,292 She's being manipulated 669 00:32:19,417 --> 00:32:22,379 by a morally guilty brother and a legally guiltier doctor. 670 00:32:22,504 --> 00:32:25,799 - You think she wants to die? - She's dying either way. 671 00:32:27,467 --> 00:32:28,468 Chase! 672 00:32:29,261 --> 00:32:32,264 How many people you know walking around with a black market organ 673 00:32:32,389 --> 00:32:33,640 from a Third World surgeon, huh? 674 00:32:33,765 --> 00:32:35,934 This isn't gonna be your salvation. 675 00:32:36,101 --> 00:32:38,562 It's just one more thing they'll pin on you. 676 00:32:39,312 --> 00:32:41,856 Go in there, be the good guy. 677 00:32:46,987 --> 00:32:48,405 We need to talk. 678 00:32:48,530 --> 00:32:51,032 - No, there's no time. - Two minutes. 679 00:32:51,616 --> 00:32:52,784 Kayla. 680 00:32:53,743 --> 00:32:55,287 I made a mistake. 681 00:32:56,496 --> 00:32:59,749 I wasn't as blunt as I should have been aboutyourodds. 682 00:33:00,208 --> 00:33:01,960 I probably didn't want to face them myself. 683 00:33:02,127 --> 00:33:03,920 Dr. Chase, please don't do this. 684 00:33:04,045 --> 00:33:08,800 The stress of the travel, the operation and even then the cancer... 685 00:33:08,967 --> 00:33:11,678 - Kayla, we're going! - My dad died. 686 00:33:12,554 --> 00:33:13,763 Lung cancer. 687 00:33:13,888 --> 00:33:15,974 I saw him a couple of months before it happened. 688 00:33:16,099 --> 00:33:17,267 We never talked about it. 689 00:33:17,392 --> 00:33:19,352 I'm sorry your father died, but it has nothing... 690 00:33:19,477 --> 00:33:21,354 He never even told me he was sick. 691 00:33:22,314 --> 00:33:23,773 I wish he had. 692 00:33:25,025 --> 00:33:26,192 It would... 693 00:33:29,321 --> 00:33:32,032 You're gonna die. Alone. 694 00:33:32,157 --> 00:33:33,950 Thousands of miles from your children. 695 00:33:34,117 --> 00:33:35,952 You don't wanna do that to them. 696 00:33:44,919 --> 00:33:47,088 - Kayla... - I'm sorry, Sam. 697 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,760 Kayla, you can't give up. 698 00:33:53,928 --> 00:33:55,472 If you do this, 699 00:33:57,557 --> 00:33:59,225 if you go home, 700 00:34:01,144 --> 00:34:02,646 I killed you. 701 00:34:05,982 --> 00:34:07,233 No. 702 00:34:10,236 --> 00:34:12,864 You gave me three months. 703 00:34:13,573 --> 00:34:16,743 You gave Dory and Nikki three more months with me. 704 00:34:19,454 --> 00:34:21,373 And when they found my cancer, 705 00:34:23,333 --> 00:34:24,542 they found yours. 706 00:34:28,755 --> 00:34:31,383 And I got to save my baby brother. 707 00:34:40,725 --> 00:34:41,726 (sesame) 708 00:34:43,144 --> 00:34:45,814 CHASE: A week later, Kayla died at home. 709 00:34:46,856 --> 00:34:48,566 Sam was furious. 710 00:34:49,025 --> 00:34:50,568 Gotta be why the big lawsuit. 711 00:34:50,694 --> 00:34:52,153 - Are you buying this? - STACY: Of course not! 712 00:34:52,278 --> 00:34:54,406 There was no illegal transplant, there's no causation. 713 00:34:54,531 --> 00:34:56,366 He was ready to kill me. 714 00:34:56,616 --> 00:34:58,410 Maybe he's lying to his lawyers. 715 00:34:58,576 --> 00:35:00,203 Or you're lying to us. 716 00:35:00,370 --> 00:35:03,415 Last Thursday he saw you for post-op care. If you hate your doctor, 717 00:35:03,540 --> 00:35:06,501 you find another doctor before you find a lawyer. 718 00:35:07,127 --> 00:35:09,963 This guy didn't sue Cameron or Foreman, he didn't even sue House! 719 00:35:10,088 --> 00:35:11,506 There's something personal here, 720 00:35:11,631 --> 00:35:14,509 something you don't want us to know before your hearing. 721 00:35:15,343 --> 00:35:18,763 The guy didn't hate you before that meeting, he hated you after. 722 00:35:20,890 --> 00:35:22,684 So, how's everything else? 723 00:35:22,809 --> 00:35:24,602 - The girls? - Oh, you know. 724 00:35:24,728 --> 00:35:27,480 A lot of crying, some nightmares. 725 00:35:30,024 --> 00:35:31,693 We'll be okay, though. 726 00:35:33,278 --> 00:35:34,404 Good. 727 00:35:34,571 --> 00:35:37,490 Girls are not gonna be happy about leaving town, though. 728 00:35:38,616 --> 00:35:40,410 They love that house, 729 00:35:41,202 --> 00:35:42,996 the yard, their friends. 730 00:35:43,121 --> 00:35:44,497 - You're moving? - Yeah. 731 00:35:44,622 --> 00:35:47,333 Ever since the operation, I've been on disability, 732 00:35:47,709 --> 00:35:49,419 and the mortgage... 733 00:35:51,254 --> 00:35:54,007 So, we're moving out of state, somewhere cheaper. 734 00:35:54,632 --> 00:35:56,926 Anyways, thanks. 735 00:36:01,431 --> 00:36:02,849 I killed your sister. 736 00:36:04,476 --> 00:36:09,272 I misdiagnosed her ulcer. It killed her. 737 00:36:09,439 --> 00:36:10,440 Shut up, man. 738 00:36:11,858 --> 00:36:13,443 She liked you, just... 739 00:36:13,568 --> 00:36:16,279 I was hung over when she came back to see me. 740 00:36:16,404 --> 00:36:19,449 I'd been up half the night drinking, had a headache, 741 00:36:19,574 --> 00:36:22,202 and I just wanted to get the hell out of there. 742 00:36:25,205 --> 00:36:29,125 I couldn't care less what your sister was saying about her stomach pain. 743 00:36:31,586 --> 00:36:32,587 (CRASHING) 744 00:36:43,223 --> 00:36:46,518 May I speak to my future former employee? 745 00:36:48,019 --> 00:36:49,187 HOUSE: Great story. 746 00:36:49,562 --> 00:36:51,105 CHASE: You think I'm lying? 747 00:36:51,231 --> 00:36:52,398 That's exactly what I told him. 748 00:36:52,565 --> 00:36:54,067 I'm sure it is. 749 00:36:54,609 --> 00:36:57,153 But you lied to him. You want him to sue you. 750 00:36:57,278 --> 00:36:58,988 I killed his sister. 751 00:36:59,197 --> 00:37:02,075 I ordered black coffee this morning and got cream. 752 00:37:02,492 --> 00:37:05,620 - Everybody screws up. - They didn't put poison in your coffee. 753 00:37:05,745 --> 00:37:07,497 I've seen you hung over. 754 00:37:07,622 --> 00:37:09,582 You weren't the day you blew his sister's diagnosis. 755 00:37:09,707 --> 00:37:12,752 What does it matter why? Is she less dead if I have a good excuse? 756 00:37:12,877 --> 00:37:16,005 If I thought you'd screwed up because you were drunk, I would have fired you. 757 00:37:16,130 --> 00:37:19,175 - You knew? - You were depressed and distracted. 758 00:37:20,468 --> 00:37:23,638 I assumed you'd gotten a phone call from your stepmom. 759 00:37:26,182 --> 00:37:27,308 This is Robert. 760 00:37:37,861 --> 00:37:39,571 What did he die of? 761 00:37:44,450 --> 00:37:45,994 That's impossible. 762 00:37:46,661 --> 00:37:50,540 I saw him two months ago. If he had lung cancer, he would have... 763 00:37:59,507 --> 00:38:00,800 Dr. Chase? 764 00:38:15,523 --> 00:38:18,526 Good news is, both your parents are dead now. 765 00:38:18,651 --> 00:38:20,445 So no reason to screw up this bad again. 766 00:38:20,570 --> 00:38:21,988 How'd you know? 767 00:38:22,113 --> 00:38:25,575 There's this interconnected network of computers, 768 00:38:25,700 --> 00:38:27,327 or "lnterweb", where you can... 769 00:38:27,493 --> 00:38:29,162 How did you know to look? 770 00:38:30,830 --> 00:38:34,500 When he visited, he told me he only had two months left. 771 00:38:34,834 --> 00:38:37,420 When you screwed up, I did the math. 772 00:38:37,545 --> 00:38:39,130 Why didn't you tell me he was dying? 773 00:38:39,297 --> 00:38:40,924 He asked me not to. 774 00:38:43,009 --> 00:38:46,095 So you just hung me out there to be blindsided? 775 00:38:46,971 --> 00:38:49,223 Yeah, Chase, it was all my fault. 776 00:38:51,059 --> 00:38:54,187 Look, you've got a choice. You can either tell the truth, 777 00:38:54,312 --> 00:38:57,565 the hospital settles, the family gets some money. 778 00:38:57,690 --> 00:38:59,984 They get to keep their house. 779 00:39:00,944 --> 00:39:02,862 Or you can keep up this lie. 780 00:39:03,696 --> 00:39:05,949 The family gets punitive damages, 781 00:39:06,074 --> 00:39:08,493 they buy a jet, and they move to Park Avenue, 782 00:39:09,494 --> 00:39:11,621 and you have to find another career. 783 00:39:11,746 --> 00:39:13,456 You're not gonna say anything? 784 00:39:13,623 --> 00:39:15,375 I'm gonna keep my mouth shut. 785 00:39:18,294 --> 00:39:21,506 Legally, it's better for me if you go down in flames. 786 00:39:39,941 --> 00:39:42,402 Is Chase telling the committee about his dad? 787 00:39:43,319 --> 00:39:44,654 I don't know. 788 00:39:46,364 --> 00:39:47,365 (SIGHS) 789 00:39:47,490 --> 00:39:50,326 I thought you were gonna get him to sell me out. 790 00:39:51,577 --> 00:39:53,663 - I wouldn't do that. - Why not? 791 00:39:53,788 --> 00:39:55,498 You're my client, too. 792 00:39:56,165 --> 00:39:57,625 Yeah. 793 00:39:59,168 --> 00:40:02,255 And that's not gonna change unless you leave this job, 794 00:40:03,089 --> 00:40:04,257 or I do. 795 00:40:04,882 --> 00:40:08,094 So how do you deal with a coworker that you have feelings for? 796 00:40:08,219 --> 00:40:09,929 Positive or negative. 797 00:40:12,473 --> 00:40:14,308 I don't wanna end up like Chase. 798 00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:19,397 I don't wanna get emotionally caught up and kill you. 799 00:40:26,654 --> 00:40:28,406 It's not all negative. 800 00:40:39,709 --> 00:40:41,627 Maybe you were right, maybe... 801 00:40:45,506 --> 00:40:47,300 Maybe that is the problem. 802 00:40:55,475 --> 00:40:56,684 So what do we do? 803 00:41:02,273 --> 00:41:03,608 I don't know. 804 00:41:07,528 --> 00:41:08,696 R. ' HI AL: Dr. House 805 00:41:20,416 --> 00:41:23,753 After considering the testimonial and documentary evidence, 806 00:41:23,878 --> 00:41:27,757 this ad-hcc committee in the matter of Kayla McGinley has reached a decision. 807 00:41:27,882 --> 00:41:29,175 Dr. Chase, 808 00:41:30,176 --> 00:41:32,595 your error resulted in a patient's death. 809 00:41:32,887 --> 00:41:36,349 You also lied, both to your superiors and the patient's brother. 810 00:41:37,683 --> 00:41:40,978 But, taking into account the mitigating factor of your father's death, 811 00:41:41,104 --> 00:41:43,481 we've decided not to revoke your privileges. 812 00:41:44,482 --> 00:41:48,486 You'll receive one week's suspension, and a letter in your pennanent file. 813 00:41:48,611 --> 00:41:50,613 Now, as for Dr. House. 814 00:41:51,322 --> 00:41:53,407 There is no evidence of a failure to supervise 815 00:41:53,533 --> 00:41:55,701 that would lead to disciplinary action. 816 00:41:56,202 --> 00:42:01,082 And yet, there is enough in the record to be very troubled by your conduct, 817 00:42:01,582 --> 00:42:06,087 including certain allegations of blackmail from members of the transplant team, 818 00:42:06,212 --> 00:42:09,549 and by your general refusal to meet with your patients. 819 00:42:10,466 --> 00:42:12,510 It should be noted that your patient's cancer 820 00:42:12,635 --> 00:42:15,388 was diagnosed as a result of a direct physical examination... 821 00:42:15,513 --> 00:42:18,182 Not of the patient. I met the brother, never met her. 822 00:42:18,349 --> 00:42:22,603 Should I go to a family reunion every time I take on a patient? 823 00:42:22,728 --> 00:42:25,356 The committee has detennined that for no less than one month, 824 00:42:25,481 --> 00:42:28,651 Dr. House will have his practice supervised by another doctor, 825 00:42:28,776 --> 00:42:31,320 to be designated by Dr. Cuddy. 826 00:42:31,445 --> 00:42:33,406 This proceeding is adjourned. 827 00:42:48,629 --> 00:42:50,381 Did you know this was coming? 828 00:42:50,506 --> 00:42:52,091 They contacted me about an hour ago. 829 00:42:52,216 --> 00:42:53,968 CAMERON: What's happening to Chase? 830 00:42:54,260 --> 00:42:55,595 Now you're fired! 831 00:42:55,761 --> 00:42:57,346 No. He's not. 832 00:42:58,472 --> 00:42:59,432 Dr. House, 833 00:43:00,391 --> 00:43:01,934 meet your new boss. 834 00:43:10,193 --> 00:43:12,111 Guess I'm his best friend now.