Posted by sunny10 on May 18, 2005, at 16:36:15
In reply to Re: missed Gilmore Girls- what happened!! » sunny10, posted by anastasia56 on May 18, 2005, at 12:04:03
thanks for the update..
Well, the show was formulated totally differently than any of the others. It started out as usual, with the big story being the fact that his ex-wife came in to beg House to take on her new husband as a patient. He tells her no. She asked him why and he said that he wasn't sure if he wanted her new husband to live (!)End of scene...
Then Cutty demands that House fill in for a teaching doctor and teach his class (guy was out sick AGAIN, apparently). House tries to get out of it, as usual, the deal is cut for less clinic hours if he does what she wants, as usual, but when he gets to the classroom, the format of the show completely changes.
He gives examples about diagnoses and how decision-making is a huge part of being a good doctor and how to live with making the "right decisions as doctors" that maybe aren't so easy to live with as humans. There are flashbacks (although we are unaware as of yet that they are flashbacks) to different patients presenting with leg pain. As the different stories unfold and the actions that House and his staff take while decision-making, the class is "there" with him in the examining rooms... Like a dream sort of, then House's staff are doing THEIR thing (including going out to the farmer's farm to catch a snake that supposedly bit him to be able to administer the correct venom- typical House style), so the format kinda switches back ond forth, present, past, examining room examples and classroom participation- very gripping...
THEN one of the examples morphs into House himself and we get the whole story about the pain meds and his limp AND the dissolution of his marriage. It is all part of the same story! He had muscle cell death in his leg, he refused to let them remove his leg, knowing that he would have a great deal of acute pain for as long as it took extra "rotten cells" to flush from his system and that they could potentially reach his heart and kill him before being nuetralized. When the pain got really bad, his wife begged him to go for a "middle road" surgery which would remove a large portion of the muscle and leave him with chronic pain for the rest of his life. He rejected that, as he always rejects "middle of the road" techniques. But when the pain gets really bad for so long that his heart stops, they bring him back and he requests to be put in a chemically induced coma to "sleep out the acute pain stage". So Cutty does put him in the coma he asks for(she's House'doctor through this!) and his wife signs the surgical release form for the muscle removal "middle road" surgery that she knew he didn't want, but as he was in a coma, she had the "next of kin right" to make his medical decisions for him. And he never forgave her for that and they divorced.Cutty and the oncologist/best friend (can't remember his name) have come into the classroom (the examples and the classroom participation go back and forth throughout) by the end of the story. And they call out to him that his wife made the right decision- the only one that saved his life, maybe.
He actually runs the class twenty minutes later than it should have gone because he was wrapped up in it himself. When he leaves, he tells Cutty to tell the regular teaching doctor to start drinking out of plastic cups- and to stop letting his child play with lead-based paint. He, of course has figured this ou while borrowing the profs (World's Best Dad) cup that his kid obviously made!
And the closing scene is House calling his ex-wife and scheduling an appointment for her husband the following day. Forgiveness. Wow!
And the preview for next week is actually House treating the husband and someone accusing him of trying to kill him, not cure him!!! Should be another good one!!!
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