House 3x3

1. kau tidak akan membuat ini menjadi lebih mudah, bukan?

2. sayangnya tidak, Unfortunately, as much as I admire your spirit...

3. Ca ne change rien.

4. Subject anesthetized with 0.5 cc's of sodium pentobarbital.

5. Transfected with human hepatic cancer cells,

6. underwent six rounds of intra-abdominal treatme with ES-22.

7. Vertical incision through the rectus sheath opens the abdominal cavity.

8. Incision extended into the-thorax.

9. Liver appears normal in color.

10. No apparent scarring or...

11. Damn it!

12. Cancerous tumor still present on the right lobe.

13. 1.12 centimeters in diameter.

14. No reduction.

15. Minor tremors, localized melanoma removed two years ago, cataracts.

16. And he can't breathe.

17. Also, disregard the facial lacerations.

18. They're creepy, but unfortunately irrelevant.

19. Don't you want to know why?

20. You have your cane.

21. No, why the lacerations are creepy.

22. He was about to dissect one of his lab rats when he collapsed.

23. The little vermin seized the day, so to speak,

24. and went medieval on his ass.

25. What? My fly open?

26. So the pain's returned.

27. There was no pain, he was unconscious.

28. I'm guessing because he wasn't able to breathe.

29. We're talking about you.

30. Obviously. I'm obviously not.

31. What is it with you people? I don't use the cane, you're shocked.

32. I use the cane... We're just concerned.

33. About the wrong person. I can breathe.

34. Ezra Powell, on the other hand, is gonna die.

35. The Ezra Powell?

36. Researcher? The guy who wrote that textbook?

37. Not that textbook, the textbook.

38. Wait. There's actually another doctor you admire?

39. I admire lots of doctors.

40. Oxygenation is through the floor,

41. and lungs are full of fluid.

42. Gotta be his heart. Could be amyloidosis.

43. Or his lungs, probably from years of inhaling toxic chemicals in his lab.

44. not the lungs, chest x-ray's clean.

45. so's his ekg, it's not his heart.

46. We're being too nice!

47. Outside the hospital, he can't breathe, inside the hospital, he can.

48. Because we help.

49. At least, enough to screw with our test results.

50. Source of the problem's either in his heart or his lungs.

51. So all we gotta do is stop helping.

52. Put a little pressure on him, and see which gives out first.

53. At 71, we get his heart or lungs to give out, we might not get 'em to give in again.

54. That's why we're gonna do it in a hospital.

55. Put him on an incline treadmill, and do a stress ekg.

56. So much for the admiration.

57. let's get you started.

58. I'll turn your oxygen up.

59. I-I worked with williams on the first protocol for this machine.

60. Everyone still uses it.

61. Except for williams.

62. He died four years ago.

63. I'm sorry.

64. He was 84.

65. He died parasailing.

66. He was always an idiot.

67. You okay?

68. Oh, huh.

69. Hang in there, you knowthe protocol's only a few minutes.

70. his heart rate's flat.

71. We don't get it past 130, we're not gonna see anything.

72. and if he falls and breaks a hip, we're not gonna see anything either.

73. Except an increasein our malpractice insurance.

74. I figured house might go backto the pills, but if he's using his cane, he's right back to where he was before.

75. Maybe even worse.

76. Luckily, he'll handle it in a stoic, grown-up fashion.

77. He'd never take it out on us.

78. I can't.

79. I've—I gotta stop.

80. Just a little longer.

81. heart rate's only 90.

82. I'm gonna increasethe incline.

83. I gotta stop.

84. I-I've gotta get off.

85. You're doing great, just a little faster, okay?

86. I—I don't needa cheerleader,I need oxygen.

87. Stop.

88. This isn't working.

89. His heart ratebarely got above 90.

90. He can't breathe, there'stoo much fluid in his lungs.

91. Really?

92. He's got fluid in his lungs?

93. Whatever are we gonna do?

94. Oh,yeah, now I remember.

95. Put him on a treadmill, and run him like one of his ratson a wheel.

96. He can't run, he can hardly walk.

97. That's 'cause he's not tryinghard enough.

98. If he was, his heart ratewould go up.

99. Exercising with a lungful of your own bodily fluidstends to hurt.

100. They don't call ita stress test for nothing.

101. Do it again. He's drowning!

102. Then pull him out of the pool, and do it again.

103. I'm assuming this isn'tyour idea of a long-term solution.

104. We need to get rid of the fluidin your lungs so you'll be able to dothe test.

105. To see if it's my heartor my lungs.

106. Exactly.

107. My money's on both.

108. I've been in and outof the hospital for the past year.

109. I'm old,I'm sick.

110. I'm getting older, and sicker.

111. Not a very interestingdifferential, but—oh.

112. I'm in.

113. You don't needa $400 handbag.

114. It's kinda hardto check your throat when you're flappingyour gums around.

115. Oh, sorry.

116. But it's for the fall formal.

117. He doesn't care if it's for the presidential inauguration.

118. But I'm usingmarissa's old dress.It's free.

119. Yeah, you know what else is free?

120. Roof over your head, the food you eat, your phone, your computer.

121. How longhave you been congested?

122. A week, ever since we got backfrom fresno.

123. Fresno?

124. That's in france, right?

125. See the parthenon?

126. Uh, california.

127. I've got no appetite,I'm aching all over,I'm weak.

128. Does that hurt?

129. Oh, yeah.

130. Does his voice always havethat unattractive nasal tone?

131. Totally.

132. I'm gonna take that giggleas a no.

133. Fever,aches,weakness, loss of appetite.

134. Been having any anal sexwith iv drug users lately?

135. Of course not,I'm married.

136. Do you thinkshe might've been— no!

137. It's probably a rhinovirus.

138. What's that?

139. Cold.

140. Take this four times a day, and stay off airplanes.

141. They're flying cesspools.

142. You dropped something.

143. If there's anything elseyou can think of, please call.

144. Yes?

145. He's too old and weak.

146. Yeah, this is way, way better.

147. This'll work.

148. Please, just try.

149. There are 20 words to describechest pain.

150. Burning,squeezing,stabbing, tearing.

151. Each onediagnostically useful.

152. For that, you have to thank dr. Powell's textbook.

153. But there are no wordsto describe degrees of what he's feeling right now—

154. shortness of breath.

155. If he had worked on those issues, there would be.

156. He never would've given upuntil he had an answer.

157. This isn't working.

158. Dr.House.

159. Please don't get up.

160. I'm sure you're very busy, so I'm just gonna tryand speed things up a little.

161. Is that epi? That's not the protocol.

162. No, the protocol is what you tried to do and failed... each time.

163. up over 100.

164. Now we're getting somewhere.

165. How's it look, foreman?

166. No ekg changes.

167. Then we push harder.

168. House, you're gonna kill him.

169. No, he's right!

170. Let him do it.

171. See? That's why he doesn'thave to wear knee socks.

172. He can't breathe.

173. 130.

174. That's our magic number.

175. Nothing here.

176. Foreman?

177. Still no signof blockages.

178. Which meansit's not the heart.So it must be the lungs.

179. See? Wasn't so hard, was it?

180. No!

181. Just give me the restof the epinephrine.

182. Test is over, it's okay, we're gonna stabilize you.

183. No!

184. No, just let me die.

185. You're not gonna die.

186. Yes,I am.

187. We'll find a treatment.

188. I don't wanna livelike this.

189. Please.

190. Begging you.

191. Kill me.

192. And I want to playa little game I like to call block my spikewith misty may.

193. He's thought this through, it's not an impulsive decision.

194. Neither is mine.

195. He's depressed.

196. He'll feel much betterafter we cure him.

197. He's seen I the testswe've seen.

198. Even if we figure outwhat's causing the lung damage, it's too late to reverse it.

199. You can't know that withoutknowing what's wrong.

200. It's his calL.

201. So, what do we do?

202. Put a plastic bag over his headand get it over with?

203. No, we give him a syringefull of morphine.

204. Every doctor I've everpracticed with has done it.

205. They don't want to, they don't like to, but that's the way it is.

206. I haven't,I won't.

207. I couldn't do it either.

208. You just said we should respecthis decision.

209. Respect it doesn'tnecessarily mean we honor it.

210. Right.

211. It just means we talk about it.

212. At some point,"do no harm'has to mean allowing nature to take its course,

213. not stubbornly standing in the way of it.

214. Sticking a metal syringeinto a plastic iv line and pumping in a lethal doseof morphine

215. is not letting naturetake its course.

216. Not according to the stateof new jersey.

217. So it's better we allow himto slowly suffocate in his own plasma?

218. Whose side are you on, senator?

219. First respect his wishes, then invade iraq, then get the troops home...

220. make up your mind.

221. Certainly a lot ofinteresting things to consider.

222. Stress ekg rules outthe heart.

223. Which means something'sgotta be attacking his lungs.

224. Mycoplasma or strep pneumo.

225. The problem is, it's too lateto do anything about it.

226. We could try levofloxacin.

227. Coming up with a new treatmentisn't gonna do us any good unless we convince himit's worth trying.

228. Come on, he's old,sick, tiny.

229. We can do whateverwe want to him.

230. What happened?

231. I don't know.

232. He must've fallen out of bedand got the nasal cannula wrapped around his necksomehow.

233. Ezra, what are you doing?

234. I don't want to livehooked to machines.

235. Too we—too weak to wipemy own ass.

236. Why would you want to wipe your own ass, when you could havesomeone do it for you?

237. You're wasting your time.

238. There must be other patientsyou could actually help.

239. No, all services renderedon a first come, first served basis.

240. I won't consentto any more tests.

241. And if anyone tries to so muchas touch me,I'll press chargesfor assault.

242. Okay,well, you heardthe man.

243. He wants everyoneto leave him alone.

244. Why don't you go first?

245. Get out!

246. You came to me.

247. I didn't come to you.

248. I figured you'd have the gutsto do what had to be done if it came to that.

249. We're nowhere near that.

250. It's time to testyour lungs.

251. BreathE.

252. You're gonna have to exhalesometime.

253. Stop!

254. House, you're hurting him.

255. And you're hurting me.

256. Fine.

257. You don't want to help us, we don't help you.

258. Your lungs slowly fillwith fluid.

259. You gasp to catch every breath, but never can.

260. Every breath is petrifying.

261. It'll be slow,painful, torturous.

262. We don't choose our birth.

263. And we don't chooseour death.

264. What if you could?

265. How 'bout we make a deal?

266. You give me one more day.

267. If I don't find out exactlywhat's wrong with you by then,I'll help you die.

268. House.

269. 24 hours.

270. C'mon, it's not gonnakill you.

271. Old guy,lungs,fluid, go.

272. You cannot help himkill himself.

273. Of course I can, chase sayswe do it all the time.

274. Cuddy's not gonna let you.

275. Enough!

276. You don't want meto kill him, fine.

277. Here's a big shock.

278. I don't want to kill him either.

279. How do I not kill him?

280. By you guys doingyour job.

281. We have 24 hours to figure outwhat's wrong with him.

282. Tick-tock, tick-tock!

283. I'll draw cultures. Pneumonia.

284. Should be bacteriain his blood.

285. That's gonna take longerthan 24 hours.

286. Not if I spin downthe sample.

287. Separate off the buffy coat, then gram stain for bacteria.

288. Great, do an amylase,d-dimer,c-reactive peptide, get a urine, and doa bronchial sputum while you're at it.

289. Wow, you guys looklike crap.

290. What do you got?

291. Purple dyeon my fingers.

292. What'd the bone marrow biopsyshow?

293. Don't have the results.

294. What?

295. What have youbeen doing all night?

296. Jell-o shots and wild sex, what else?

297. there's no bacteria in the blood cultures.

298. We still have some cooking, but so far...

299. nothing.

300. Nothing in the urine.

301. The lab was clean enoughto do surgery in because,well, they do.

302. There was no sign of viruses or fleas on any of the ratS.

303. Yeah?

304. Who?

305. Well, tell her to calla clinic.

306. Then tell herto leave a message, and I'll get back to her.

307. Then tell her to leavea personal message.

308. Who's that?

309. Your protég?

310. What are these?

311. Dictation tapes, he records everything.

312. Why?

313. Because he'sa diligent researcher?

314. Or he's losing his memory.

315. Lot of people dictatetheir notes.

316. Yes, we could assume that, and we'd have nothing.

317. Or we could assume it's a symptom, in which case, whatever's in his lungs is also in his brain.

318. Unless you got somethingmore promising.

319. I'll go get an mriof his head.

320. Keep testing until you find something.

321. I'm ing to my officeto rest for awhile.

322. It's been a long timesince I took an anatomy class,

323. but I'm pretty sure you'removing farther and farther away from my lungs.

324. Running out of places to look, aren't you?

325. Doesn't meanwe're gonna stop looking.

326. Mm,no, not for six more hours.

327. You want us to fail?

328. No.

329. But you will.

330. No abnormal nuclei means no leukemia.

331. He a drinker?

332. Not according to the history.

333. Which means,yes, he drinks, which gives us a nice, mundane explanationfor the acellularity.

334. Or he's telling the trutH.

335. Which means fungusis still on the table.

336. But your entire viewof human nature gets destroyed.

337. Six of one, half a dozenof the other.

338. Bad news fast.

339. Good news, you cantake your time.

340. Head's clean, you were wrong, his faculties are intact.

341. Too bad.

342. If his brain was addled, we wouldn't have to listento anything he says.

343. Hand me the 10% koh.

344. It's 4:00, we have nothingto tell him.

345. Then we have no reasonto talk to him.

346. Still haven't ruled out fungus.

347. Yep, we have, no bugs, no hyphae.

348. Okay, next procedure.

349. We sneak in, turn back the clock.

350. Whole team.

351. Must be bad news.

352. Nope, bone marrow biopsyrevealed multiple myeloma.

353. It's not good news, but there are some treatments.

354. We have to drawsome blood.

355. What about my breathing?

356. Associated hyperviscositysyndrome gummed up the blood vesselsin your lungs.

357. Dr.Chase said my calciumis normal.

358. Mm, we call him dr. Idiot.

359. There's no m proteinin my urine.

360. Odd presentation.

361. So odd that dr. Camerondoesn't— doesn't believe it either.

362. Just give me 12 more hours.

363. We had a deal.

364. No more tests.

365. Fair enough.

366. Gimme six more hours.

367. Listen, there is no evidencethat you are terminal.

368. You a man of your wordor not?

369. No, as a matter of fact,I'm not.

370. Fine.

371. Then discharge me.

372. My lungs will slowly fillwith fluid.

373. I'll gasp to catchevery breath.

374. But never can.

375. Every breath will be petrifying.

376. It'll be slow,painful, torturous.

377. You're really gonna let medie like that?

378. Where you going?

379. Nowhere!

380. Everybody who can walkshould get outta here.

381. You can't do that.

382. Can't do what?

383. Administera prescription painkiller to a patientwho's in pain?

384. Go, make suresomebody sees you downstairs in the cafeteria.

385. I can't let you do this.

386. Either I die in pain, or I just die.

387. That's what the argumentis here.

388. No, it's about whether you die, or we murder you.

389. What's gonna happen hereis that someone's getting a buttload of morphine.

390. I'm not sure exactly whoat this point.

391. I can't be a partof this.

392. Thank you.

393. I always wondered exactly what was on the other side.

394. Nothing.

395. What are you doing?

396. Getting a laryngoscope.

397. Don't just stand there, help.

398. But you told him— yeah.

399. It was somethingl like to call a lie.

400. Bad,I know, but it'sway further down the list than murder.

401. Unconscious, no more whining.

402. Keep testing him.

403. Go get a ventilatoR.

404. I can't do this all night.

405. we can legally assume that he'd consent to whatever a reasonable person would consent to.

406. And a reasonable personwould obviously consent to being put in a comaagainst their will just to satisfyyour curiosity.

407. I try to kill him, you're mad.

408. I don't kill him, you're mad.

409. All he wantedwas some dignity.

410. Were you in that roomwith him?

411. Was he wearing a tux while hewas choking on his own plasma?

412. Keep doing the tests.

413. Take your time, do it right.

414. Go.

415. Get to work.

416. Wait!

417. Cameron, why'd you do these cutsso far down on this mri of his head?

418. I wanted to get his brain stemand his c-spine, make sure his diaphragmwasn't paralyzed.

419. You also caught the topof his lungs.

420. There's scarring.

421. You do know that you can'treally pierce me with your stares?

422. Lung scarring, along with the bad bone marrow, points to an autoimmune disease.

423. Could be pulmonary fibrosis.

424. Or lupus.

425. He can kill himselfafter we get him better.

426. Start him on an ivigfor the lupus, and get a colonoscopy.

427. Lupus could be hiding there.

428. I can't do this.

429. Drama queen.

430. Descending colon's clean.

431. moving into the sigmoid.

432. Sure could usea little more help around here.

433. She's doingwhat she believes in.

434. Yeah, if she was actingon principle, she'd be in here tryingto stop us.

435. All she's doing is running awayfrom the principle so she won't have to feeluncomfortable facing it.

436. And if you were actingon principle, you would've called the copswhen you thought house was killing the guy.

437. You better hurry up.

438. Why?

439. I don't think she's gonnahave a problem deciding whatto tell cuddy.

440. O2 sats 89 and dropping.

441. I thought you were only supposedto put on a pound a week during your last trimester.

442. I'm not pregnant.

443. I heard about your little stuntwith dr. Powell.

444. Mmm, not reallya stunt.

445. More of a trick,a ruse,a hoodwink.

446. A lie.

447. Okay.

448. Lying is sometimes good, right?

449. Like when you're tryingto teach someone a lesson about humility or something.

450. All I'm trying to dois save his life.

451. He's not gonnalearn anything.

452. I just thought the sameprinciple might apply.

453. It does.

454. I could've justlet him die.

455. Not gonna get suedfor keeping him alive.

456. Well, we could.

457. We completely disregardedhis wishes.

458. Do you want meto disagree with you?

459. Want me to yell at you?

460. It is comforting.

461. We're doctors.

462. We treat patients, we don't kill them.

463. How right you are,dr. Cuddy!

464. We also don't pad our bills, swipe samples from the pharmacy,

465. or fantasizeabout the teenage daughters of our patients either.

466. True, better be true, and you're a pig.

467. I'm sorryabout your leg.

468. Yeah, we really should spendsome time talking about that.

469. The ivig made him worse.

470. O2 sats plummeted.

471. So we knowit's not lupus.

472. What else could it be?

473. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

474. Gonna need an open lungbiopsy to confirm.

475. So now we're gonnaoperate on the guy?

476. Unless you've inventeda new way of doing an open lung biopsy.

477. When you searcheddr. Powell's office, did you find a copyof the january 1967 massachusetts medical journal?

478. Why?

479. I just figured, if you'renot doing any work, you might like something to pass the time.

480. Centerfold's a killer.

481. How's your leg?

482. It hurts.

483. It's gonna keep on hurting.

484. You're gonna keep on asking?

485. How's ezra powell?

486. Resting comfortably.

487. Hmm, that'snot what cameron says.

488. I hate practicing medicinein high school.

489. He's not asking youto help him kill himself.

490. He's just asking for help.

491. The disease will kill him.

492. I know whathe was asking for.

493. I just said no.

494. You've done it before.

495. Plenty of times.

496. To patients that I knewwere terminal.

497. Oh, give me a break.

498. This has nothing to dowith saving a life.

499. You just can't bear the thoughtof a patient dying before you've been ableto figure out why.

500. If we're gonna keep refusingto cure patients just to rein in my ego,

501. then we might start to have a little problemwith patient recruitment.

502. Worried about meetingyour one patient a week quota?

503. I'm a cripple, remember?

504. Accommodations must be made.

505. Wedge of left lobe isolatedand removed.

506. Clamp.

507. Why'd you have melook up that article?

508. Didn't you find itinteresting?

509. He injected newborn babieswith radioactive agents just to see if they hadurethral reflux.

510. He was curious.

511. He didn't eventell their parents he was doing an experiment.

512. He wasn't doing anythinghis peers weren't doing.

513. His peersat tuskegee and willowbrook?

514. He ignored the rightsof a few to save many.

515. Soou're okaywith what he did.

516. Doesn't matterwhat I think.

517. It's what you think that's relevant.

518. Because if I think less of him,I'll help you more?

519. You're wrong.

520. The fact that a patientdid bad things doesn't change anything.

521. He still deserves to havesome control over his own body.

522. If he had controlof his own body, he'd be dead.

523. Some control.

524. We can withhold treatmentwithout killing him.

525. No, you can't!

526. You either help him live, or you help him die.

527. You can't ha it both ways.

528. I guess it's not ipf.

529. Or maybe he'll die right now, and make everything easyfor all of us.

530. Heart rate's fast.

531. bp's low.

532. No breath soundson the right side.

533. He's dropped his right lung.

534. Air's building up in his chest, and pressing his heart.

535. Heart rate's decreasing.

536. Bp's stabilizing.

537. What are you doing?

538. Withdraws from pain stimulion the left side, but not the right.

539. Those are just reflex arcs.

540. He's under anesthesia.

541. Or he's lost sensationin some places.

542. Or the hypoxia from the arreststunned his cns.

543. Only one way to tell.

544. Do somatosensory evokedpotentials.

545. We can't do thatwhile he's in a coma.

546. Only two ways to tell.

547. Get a hammer and checkhis deep tendon reflexes.

548. Won't work.

549. He needs muscle relaxantsto be on the ventilator.

550. Only one more wayto tell.

551. Pupillary reflexes.

552. All that testsis the brainstem.

553. See,I was right.

554. Only one way to tell.

555. Do somatosensory evokedpotentials.

556. I just said we can't do thatwhile he's in a coma.

557. So wake him up.

558. Don't go towards the light.

559. U'll fall and breakyour hip.

560. What's happening?

561. You took a little nap.

562. I know I told youl didn't want—

563. sorry,a little deafin one ear.

564. Your bone marrowwas hypocellular.

565. Ruled out lupusand pulmonary fibrosis.

566. But it looks like it could beattacking your nerves.

567. So this is all a waste.

568. Huge failure.

569. Impossible.

570. You're gregory house.

571. We need to attach some sensorsto your skin.

572. No.

573. Look, we can't dowhat you want.

574. We've assigned a nurse to watch you so you can't do iteither.

575. So you might as well just let us do the test.

576. No,I want to bedischarged.

577. you can't be discharged.

578. You've gottwo chest tubes in.

579. Then take em out.

580. Oh, get over yourself.

581. The ventilator puffed up your lungs.

582. You'll be finefor a few hours.

583. Just let us runthe tests.

584. Okay.

585. But first, let's clean you upa little.

586. Wha—whuh?

587. Does that feel nice?

588. What are you tryingto prove?

589. Just cleaning him up.

590. What does it look like?

591. Pay no attention to the manbehind the curtain.

592. Get out!

593. Okay,I'm going already.

594. Can't you seel'm a cripple?

595. okay, so you got me curious.

596. I was right.

597. Whatever is attacking his lungsis attacking his nerves.

598. You got that by splashingice water on him?

599. No sensation in the left leg,abdomen, right arm.

600. Technology's overrated.

601. That means the clean mriof his brain means it's just affectingthe peripheral nerves.

602. And bone marrow.

603. Kawasaki's would explainthe kidney failure.

604. Or lymphoma.

605. Or sarcoidosis.

606. All potentially treatable. Question is which.

607. We need to catchthe little bastards in the act.

608. What's the largest organ?

609. Skin.

610. We need to geta piece.

611. Sure, we'll just waituntil he leaves his room without his skin, sneak in, and take a piece.

612. I want you to get a skin samplefor a biopsy.

613. And I want to get a foot massagefrom johnny damon.

614. Kawasaki's disease,lymphoma, and sarcoidosis are all treatable.

615. And it could be 100 other thingsthat aren't treatable.

616. You have no idea.

617. But you do.

618. You know everything.

619. I didn't say that I— exactly!

620. You can't decideif we're helping or hurting him.

621. If he's good or bad.

622. Or if you want paper,plastic, or a burlap sack.

623. Do your damn job.

624. I'm not gonna lie to him.

625. Fine, tell the truth.

626. Just get me a poundof flesh.

627. What do you want?

628. House wants to biopsyyour skin. He sent me to get it.

629. Ah, and you agreed.

630. I had nothing to dowith putting you in a coma, or any of the subsequent tests.

631. Which brings us to now.

632. I read some of your articles.

633. There were a lot of them.

634. 1967 massachusetts medical journal.

635. You radiated babies, just like that.

636. No forms, no questions, nothing.

637. Who knows how many cancersyou caused?

638. I don't know.

639. What I do know is we discoveredtechniques that prevent fatal kidney failuresin hundreds of thousands of other kids.

640. You're not sorry.

641. I don't regret what I did.

642. Informed consent, patient rights holds back research.

643. What the hell are you doing?

644. Informed consentis holding back our diagnosis.

645. Good for you.

646. Finally standing upfor something.

647. Acting on what you believe.

648. Dr.House?

649. Hi.

650. How are you?

651. Not as goodas you think I am.

652. Don't worry,I'm not stalking you.

653. My dad just losthis medicine.

654. He had to come backfor another prescription.

655. Yeah, right.

656. He's moving it on the street, isn't he?

657. Yeah, my dad, the meth kingpin.

658. Why haven't you returnedany of my calls?

659. I plan to.

660. In a couple of years.

661. I was just callingto say thank you, and to tell youhow impressed I was.

662. You diagnosed my dadby just looking at him.

663. Felt his glands too.

664. Oh, there's my dad.I gotta go.

665. Yeah, me too.

666. Oh, and you really don'thave to wait a couple yearsto return my calls.

667. Just six months.

668. Till I turn 18.

669. It's not kawasaki's either.

670. What's next?

671. Congo red.

672. Amyloidosis?

673. What the hell else would I meanby congo red?

674. It's not on the list.

675. There's no reasonfor it to be on the list.

676. An abnormal proteinis building up inside the cellsof his body,

677. shutting down his organs, one by one.

678. Explains everything, the infiltrates on the x-ray, the bone marrow, kidney failure.

679. We rejected amyloidosisbecause it didn't fit the first symptom we found.

680. It would affect his heart.

681. It did.

682. It wasn'ton the stress test.

683. We didn't push himhard enough.

684. Add the stain, let's find out.

685. Congo red added.

686. Change the polarizationof the light already.

687. That meansit should be treatable.

688. How the hell did you pullthat out of your—

689. not out of mine,I had a muse.

690. Oh, god.

691. Protein type aa.

692. Dr.House— you have amyloidosis.

693. It's in your lungs,kidneys, bone marrow, and brain.

694. Why should I believe you now?

695. If I was lying,I wouldn'ttell you the subtype is aa.

696. It's terminal.

697. Congratulations.

698. You got your answer.

699. fresno by night

700. xxx and counting

701. ezra powell passed awaylast night.

702. But I'm sure you already knew about that.

703. Nope.

704. I just got in.

705. The nurse charted at 2:00 amhe was stable.

706. Breathing labored, but regular.

707. Then at 2:30, he suddenly stopped.

708. You know anythingabout that?

709. If I did, would you reallywant to know?

710. I'm proud of you.