This week, House was back to his usual cranky, manipulative self. The patient this week was a 16-year-old boy of gypsy heritage suffering from difficulty breathing, pain and then his liver nearly shut down.
The team was hindered from doing all their strangest treatments by the boy’s family who are very suspicious of anyone outside their small community. Foreman felt very moved by the boy’s intelligence and potential and tried to offer him an internship at the hospital to further his studies, but the boy refused because he didn’t want to go outside his community.
House and the team were evaluating some of the boy’s symptoms when House made my favorite quote of the week:
You guys are still thinking like doctors, when you should be thinking like plumbers. C’mon! Let’s see some butt crack!
During the course of the boy’s treatment, House discovered that his reserved handicapped parking place had been moved farther from the building and the closer one given to a new research doctor who was confined to a wheelchair. He even got into an argument with the new doctor about who was the most handicapped and therefore, deserved the closer space.
He took his concern to Cuddy, who informed him that the Americans with Disabilities Act says that the closer space goes to the person with the worse handicap. He decided to push the issue and ride around in a wheelchair for a week on a bet with her. The bet was that if he could do it without getting out of the chair for the entire week, he’d get his spot back.
Of course, he used it to his benefit by telling people things like, “Hey, you can’t yell at a guy in a wheelchair!” And when he had to ask someone to help him put something on a high shelf, “That was so humiliating.”
In the end, he did get his spot back and the boy’s problems were diagnosed as being caused by a toothpick he had swallowed.
Now, maybe it’s just me, but wouldn’t someone notice that they had swallowed a toothpick? Don’t you think they would seek help for that? Or at least mention it when they were rushed to a hospital?
Either way, this was a great episode. House is back to his old self again, the whole Tritter thing is behind him and the show was mostly focused on his argumentative personality and the diagnosis of a patient with a “zebra” disease.
I enjoyed this episode a lot. It’s great to see the show back on track and I am still enjoying the bantering between House and Cuddy.
What are your thoughts about this episode? Leave a comment and let us know! 
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