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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 A of Disc 2.

“DNR” - A jazz musician has trouble breathing while playing his horn. Foreman is given the case of musician’s pneumonia because he did his residency with the musician’s primary doctor. House wants to treat the 2-year-old paralysis the patient has that has been ruled ALS. The man decides he wants to sign a DNR. The team refuses to revive the man, except House comes in and bags him. A restraining order is brought against House and House goes to court to allow life support to continue. The court allows life support to continue, so House can face his accuser that resulted in the restraining order. They drop the restraining order in order to pull the plug. The breathing tube is removed and he is able to breathe on his own. A clot is found and they decide to go in to pull it out, as he will either die or keep his hand movement, which to him is a win win situation. The clot is successfully removed. He wakes up with the paralysis gone. House has him takes him off of all the drugs we gave him in order to try to figure out what is helping. He gets worse and they reintroduce the first drug they used. They find out the problem is swelling around the spine and remove it and the paralysis is cured.

“Histories” - A homeless patient arrives and Foreman thinks the patient is faking. Wilson thinks that the patient has a tumor. House decides to take the case. They are about to do an MRI on her, but Cuddy stops them because they stole someone else’s time slot. It turns out the patient, who they have no medical history for, has a surgical pin in her arm. The surgical pin gives them the woman’s identity, but not before they give her a drug that she is allergic to. They find ovarian cancer. The treatment is not working and she is running a fever of 105. They put her in an ice bath. They think she thus also has something else wrong. They think she has meningitis. When they go to put her in isolation they find she has escaped. The cops find her passed out in a park and bring her back to the hospital. The meningitis treatment is not work. House then finds that she has localized numbness in her thigh. House then sticks Foreman where the patient bit him and find he also has local numbness. The numbness is caused by rabies. They figure it out too late to save her, though.

“Detox” - A teen boy is bleeding/coughing up blood when he gets in a car accident with his girlfriend driving. Cuddy confronts House for the amount of Vicodin he is taking. Cuddy challenges him to go a week without the pills and she will give him a month off of clinic duty. They run several tests to try to figure out what is causing the internal bleeding. He goes blind in one eye in the meantime due to clotting in the eye. Chase comes up with the idea to remove some fluid from the eye and the kid regains eyesight, but he soon has liver failure. House tries to treat him for Hepatitis, but the rest of the team thinks it is lupus. As House detoxes he smashes his hand and breaks it. The teenager starts hallucinating before they can administer lupus treatment. He also has rectal bleeding. Foreman tells House to take Vicodin before they lose the kid. House finds out the teenager’s cat died a month ago, which leads House to think the cat is the key to finding out what is killing the teen. House finds the cat died of methaline poisoning, which he is sure is what is also wrong with the teenager. The poison is being released into the kid from his fat cells as he loses wait in the hospital. In the end House admits to being addicted to Vicodin, but they take away his pain and he needs then to do his job.

“Sports Medicine” - A baseball player breaks his arm while shooting a drug awareness commercial. They discover he has bone loss problems that he is too young to have. House is convinced that the baseball player is using steroids, but he tests negative for them. House decides to treat for the steroids and the player goes into respiratory arrest because he actually had not been using steroids. House tries to convince Cuddy to move the player up the list for a kidney transplant, but she refuses because they technically do not know what is wrong with him yet. The player’s wife decides to donate one of her kidneys. She cannot donate, though, because she is pregnant and would have to do an abortion before giving up her kidney. The players heart rate is going up and down and they have trouble stabilizing the heart rate. The player begins to hallucinate. Wilson realizes that digitalis explains the heart rate symptoms and House thinks the player tried to commit suicide. The player does not want his wife to have an abortion to save him. They realize that he was doing weed that had cadmium in it.