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House Explained.
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Season 2, Episode 4.
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TB or Not TB.
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House, the brilliant and abrasive head of diagnostic medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro,
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thrives on proving everyone wrong.
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This week his patient is Dr. Sebastian Charles,
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a celebrated TB specialist and humanitarian who collapses while pressuring a pharmaceutical company to fund tuberculosis treatment in Africa.
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Charles is certain he has TB.
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House is certain that's not the whole story.
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Cameron is drawn to Charles's idealism,
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while Wilson challenges House to consider that Charles's altruism might be genuine.
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The battle isn't just medical, it's philosophical.
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This week House gets a celebrity patient,
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Dr. Sebastian Charles, a famous TB specialist and humanitarian who collapses while pressuring a pharmaceutical company to donate more antibiotics for Africa.
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He's rushed to Princeton-Plainsboro,
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where he immediately self-diagnoses tuberculosis.
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House, naturally, is not buying it.
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Why not? He's LITERALLY a TB expert.
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Too many symptoms, progressing too fast for TB alone.
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House kicks Charles out of the differential,
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goes after a cardiac explanation,
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and runs a tilt-table test,
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but he cranks the machine WAY past standard limits until he gets an abnormal result.
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Schedules Charles for a pacemaker.
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Classic House, pushing the test until it tells him what he wants to hear.
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But meanwhile, Charles is charming Cameron,
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offering her a job in Africa, asking her out.
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Then he tries to walk downstairs with her,
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collapses, vomiting, the works,
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and the cardiac diagnosis is dead.
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And Cameron's TB test, run behind House's back,
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comes back positive.
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So TB is real,
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but House STILL insists there's something else underneath.
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Right, and then Charles makes the whole case harder,
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he refuses ALL treatment.
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His logic is that taking TB medication while thousands of his African patients can't afford the same drugs would make him a hypocrite,
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he'd rather die making the political point.
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And honestly, the logic holds up.
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He's spent years campaigning for affordable drug access,
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taking the medicine himself while his patients go without would gut his credibility and undermine everything he's built.
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It's principled, even if it's self-destructive.
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So House can't test, can't treat,
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and the patient is becoming a full-blown media spectacle.
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House goes to the press using Cuddy's name to trash Charles publicly,
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then strips the hospital room of every comfort,
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kills the air conditioning,
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flushes the cell phone down the toilet.
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His position is that if you want to die of a third-world disease,
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you should live like the third world.
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And Cuddy doesn't help,
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she joins the press conference instead of backing House up.
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He's fighting his own patient AND his own hospital at the same time.
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Then the breakthrough, House is watching the press conference on TV from a coma patient's room,
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and he notices Charles is sweating.
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TB impairs thermoregulation, so in a hot room a TB patient should flush red,
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NOT sweat. The fact that Charles CAN sweat means something else is keeping that system working.
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Great catch.
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Charles goes into cardiac arrest right then.
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House rushes in and announces to the cameras that whatever is happening,
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it is NOT tuberculosis.
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He weaponizes the on-camera crisis to shatter Charles's martyrdom narrative.
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Then he lays out the threat,
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if Charles dies and the autopsy reveals a second disease,
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his death stops being a political statement,
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just a misdiagnosis nobody learned from.
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That's what finally breaks Charles's resolve.
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Exactly.
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But Charles gets in a real shot before he agrees.
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He tells House the difference between them is that Charles can accept failure and House can't. That one sticks.
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Once they start treating the TB,
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some symptoms clear but others persist.
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The team isolates low blood sugar in the spinal fluid,
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and House diagnoses a nesidioblastoma,
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a tiny insulin-producing tumor that also explains the tilt-table results.
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The abnormal reading wasn't a heart problem,
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it was insulin surges destabilizing blood pressure the whole time.
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So the test result was real, just misread.
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The tumor was there all along,
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hiding behind the TB.
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They provoke the tumor into overproducing insulin,
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it reveals its location during a seizure,
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and surgery removes it.
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Both conditions treated, full recovery.
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Clean medical resolution, but then Cameron turns Charles down for a date.
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He's heading back to Africa healthy,
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and suddenly she's not interested.
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House reads it as her pattern,
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she's drawn to men who are suffering,
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and once the damage is gone, so is the attraction.
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She married a man with terminal cancer.
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Same pattern.
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The question the episode leaves open is whether House is reading people accurately or just projecting,
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he sees selfishness in Charles's altruism,
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a compulsion in Cameron's compassion.
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Is he right, or is that just what the world looks like when you can't believe anyone acts from genuine goodness?
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Cameron's attraction to damaged men keeps surfacing unchallenged..
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House proved Charles wrong medically but not philosophically..
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Stacy's absence this episode goes unexplained.
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House Explained.
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Season 2, Episode 4.
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00:00:03,943 --> 00:00:05,914
TB or Not TB.
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00:00:05,914 --> 00:00:13,074
House, the brilliant and abrasive head of diagnostic medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro,
5
00:00:13,434 --> 00:00:14,994
thrives on proving everyone wrong.
6
00:00:14,994 --> 00:00:19,014
This week his patient is Dr. Sebastian Charles,
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00:00:19,014 --> 00:00:29,254
a celebrated TB specialist and humanitarian who collapses while pressuring a pharmaceutical company to fund tuberculosis treatment in Africa.
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00:00:29,254 --> 00:00:31,574
Charles is certain he has TB.
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House is certain that's not the whole story.
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00:00:35,934 --> 00:00:38,994
Cameron is drawn to Charles's idealism,
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while Wilson challenges House to consider that Charles's altruism might be genuine.
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00:00:44,414 --> 00:00:47,934
The battle isn't just medical, it's philosophical.
13
00:00:54,354 --> 00:00:56,134
This week House gets a celebrity patient,
14
00:00:56,514 --> 00:01:06,294
Dr. Sebastian Charles, a famous TB specialist and humanitarian who collapses while pressuring a pharmaceutical company to donate more antibiotics for Africa.
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He's rushed to Princeton-Plainsboro,
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where he immediately self-diagnoses tuberculosis.
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House, naturally, is not buying it.
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Why not? He's LITERALLY a TB expert.
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Too many symptoms, progressing too fast for TB alone.
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House kicks Charles out of the differential,
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goes after a cardiac explanation,
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and runs a tilt-table test,
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but he cranks the machine WAY past standard limits until he gets an abnormal result.
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Schedules Charles for a pacemaker.
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Classic House, pushing the test until it tells him what he wants to hear.
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But meanwhile, Charles is charming Cameron,
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offering her a job in Africa, asking her out.
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Then he tries to walk downstairs with her,
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collapses, vomiting, the works,
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and the cardiac diagnosis is dead.
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And Cameron's TB test, run behind House's back,
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comes back positive.
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So TB is real,
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but House STILL insists there's something else underneath.
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Right, and then Charles makes the whole case harder,
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he refuses ALL treatment.
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His logic is that taking TB medication while thousands of his African patients can't afford the same drugs would make him a hypocrite,
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he'd rather die making the political point.
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And honestly, the logic holds up.
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He's spent years campaigning for affordable drug access,
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taking the medicine himself while his patients go without would gut his credibility and undermine everything he's built.
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It's principled, even if it's self-destructive.
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So House can't test, can't treat,
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and the patient is becoming a full-blown media spectacle.
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House goes to the press using Cuddy's name to trash Charles publicly,
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then strips the hospital room of every comfort,
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kills the air conditioning,
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flushes the cell phone down the toilet.
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His position is that if you want to die of a third-world disease,
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you should live like the third world.
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And Cuddy doesn't help,
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she joins the press conference instead of backing House up.
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He's fighting his own patient AND his own hospital at the same time.
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Then the breakthrough, House is watching the press conference on TV from a coma patient's room,
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and he notices Charles is sweating.
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TB impairs thermoregulation, so in a hot room a TB patient should flush red,
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NOT sweat. The fact that Charles CAN sweat means something else is keeping that system working.
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Great catch.
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Charles goes into cardiac arrest right then.
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House rushes in and announces to the cameras that whatever is happening,
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it is NOT tuberculosis.
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He weaponizes the on-camera crisis to shatter Charles's martyrdom narrative.
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Then he lays out the threat,
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if Charles dies and the autopsy reveals a second disease,
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his death stops being a political statement,
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just a misdiagnosis nobody learned from.
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That's what finally breaks Charles's resolve.
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Exactly.
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But Charles gets in a real shot before he agrees.
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He tells House the difference between them is that Charles can accept failure and House can't. That one sticks.
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Once they start treating the TB,
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some symptoms clear but others persist.
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The team isolates low blood sugar in the spinal fluid,
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00:04:13,354 --> 00:04:16,434
and House diagnoses a nesidioblastoma,
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00:04:16,434 --> 00:04:21,554
a tiny insulin-producing tumor that also explains the tilt-table results.
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00:04:22,354 --> 00:04:24,114
The abnormal reading wasn't a heart problem,
77
00:04:24,574 --> 00:04:28,534
it was insulin surges destabilizing blood pressure the whole time.
78
00:04:29,134 --> 00:04:31,714
So the test result was real, just misread.
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The tumor was there all along,
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hiding behind the TB.
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They provoke the tumor into overproducing insulin,
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it reveals its location during a seizure,
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and surgery removes it.
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Both conditions treated, full recovery.
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Clean medical resolution, but then Cameron turns Charles down for a date.
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He's heading back to Africa healthy,
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and suddenly she's not interested.
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House reads it as her pattern,
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she's drawn to men who are suffering,
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00:04:59,194 --> 00:05:01,794
and once the damage is gone, so is the attraction.
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She married a man with terminal cancer.
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Same pattern.
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The question the episode leaves open is whether House is reading people accurately or just projecting,
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he sees selfishness in Charles's altruism,
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a compulsion in Cameron's compassion.
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Is he right, or is that just what the world looks like when you can't believe anyone acts from genuine goodness?
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Cameron's attraction to damaged men keeps surfacing unchallenged..
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House proved Charles wrong medically but not philosophically..
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Stacy's absence this episode goes unexplained.
