TV on DVD Buzz

This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the three two-sided disc House, M.D. Season 1 set. I will be posting about one side of a disc each day until this Saturday. This wrap up is of the content on Side B of Disc 1.

“Damned if You Do” - Cuddy makes House see a patient in the clinic. The patient is a nun. He thinks it is simple dermatitis, but when he gives her the medicine she has an asthma attack. She then goes into cardiac arrest and Cuddy and Foreman think it could have been because of House gave her too much epi to control the asthma attack. The nun hallucinates and seizes while in the MRI. The patient keeps getting worse and it seems to be due to the treatment. Cuddy takes House off the case. House goes to the monastery to talk to the mother nun to learn about the sick nun’s past. He learns that the nun was a troubled teen including having a failed pregnancy. House brings the tea from the monastery to Cuddy because it could have caused the symptoms. There still is an original allergen that they have to track down. It is revealed that Chase studied in Seminary School when he prays with the nun. The nun goes into shock in the clean room. The nun wants to check out and go back to the monastery. House goes to talk to her to get her to stay. House believes that there is something inside the nun’s body causing the allergic reactions. They find that there is a copper cross birth control IED inside her causing the allergic reactions.

“The Socratic Method” - While trying to get disability benefits a supposedly 18-year-old son acts as his mom’s advocate. Right before signing she collapses from respiratory arrest. House overhears the son talking to the doctor with the case and ends up taking the case on because he does not think she is too young for DVT with no known reasons. House actually goes to speak to the patient and gets the kid out of the room by sending him to the cafeteria. Foreman gives the woman psych meds against House’s orders and the wishes of the son. She soon ends up vomiting blood. House thinks it is vitamin K deficiency, but Chase thinks the alcohol also has something to do with it. The son has a problem with his arm and House takes xrays of it. He finds out the kid is only 15. They find a cancerous tumor in the liver. They temporarily shrink the tumor to try to fool the surgeon into removing it. It is House’s birthday and Cameron knows it is along with Cuddy, but House ignores it. The surgeon is annoyed at being tricked, but the tumor is removed. Someone tells social services the son is only 15 and they come to take him away. The son thinks house told social services, but actually it was the mother. House uses this rational action as proof that the mother is not schizophrenic. They discover her body is accumulating too much copper and she has a disease called Wilson’s. They treat her for that and she fully recovers and in the end is reunited with her son. House tells the son he called social services even though it was actually the mother.

“Fidelity” - A woman thinks something is wrong with her after she hits her husband and has not felt like getting out of bed for three days. House thinks it is a tumor in her brain stem. They do not find anything. Shortly after wards the patient seizes. Wilson thinks it might be breast cancer. The patient begins to hallucinate. House suspects the husband or the wife had an affair. Chase questions the wife if she cheated and Foreman questions the husband if he cheated. Both say they have not, so they must cross sleeping sickness as a possible diagnosis. The patient ends up in a coma. They eliminate the other possibilities and end up back at sleeping sickness. Cameron admits to losing her husband 6 months after they married in college when he died of brain cancer. The woman is does not seem improving with the sleeping sickness treatment, but suddenly she wakes up. It turns out the woman is the one that had an affair.

“Poison” - During an AP exam a boy collapses. Before collapsing he was nauseous and disoriented. They suspect the boy took drugs. The boy seizes. Foreman and Cameron find homemade tomato sauce at the boy’s house and at first think it is food poisoning. They think the poison could be on the kid’s skin and they scrub him down. The boy then goes into cardiac arrest. Another student from the same school arrives with the same symptoms as the boy. They cannot find any obvious connection between the two boys. They then find out that they both rode the same bus. Chase and Cameron search the bus for chemical toxins and find out about spraying to control West Nile near the bus route. The mother does not want to do the next treatment option, but Cameron convinces her to do it. Both boys end up seizing after receiving the treatment. Foreman and Cameron only find laundry detergent in common with the two boys. The second’s boy’s are new, though, and they find out the first boy’s were new, too. They find the pants carried the toxin, but the first boy’s mom is again hesitant to try a new treatment. House convinces her by having a fake call from the CDC make her lose faith in them helping in time to save her son. It turns out the pants had pesticide on them from the guy that sold the stolen pants to the kids.