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 2.

“Cursed” - A boy thinks he is dying after his friends scaring him with a ouiji board. The boy’s symptoms are pneumonia and rash. The boy confides in Chase about the ouiji incident and Chase suspects the problem might be mold in the attic they did the ouiji board thing in. Chase’s father suddenly shows up and Chase blows him off. In the insulation of the house they find anthrax. They treat him for anthrax and they have trouble getting a tube in. Foreman is convinced he should tube him, while Cuddy says trache him and Chase almost does it. House involves Chase’s father (also a doctor) in the differential diagnosis and they eliminate anthrax. As they are about to treat for something else the rash has changed to make it seem like it is anthrax. It seems it might be anthrax and something else. A rash breaks out on the boy’s back and they are back to having no idea what it is. House realizes that Chase’s father has stage four lung cancer. The boy starts to have paralysis. House suspects that the boy’s father was secretly in Asia for two years. This leads him to thinking it is leprosy. In the end Chase hugs his father before he leaves to go home to Australia, but Chase still does not know his father is dying.

“Control” - A chairman of a CEO of a cosmetic company has sudden pain and paralysis in her leg. Cameron thinks it is a clot like House had in his leg. A billionaire (Vogler) makes a $100 million donation to the hospital and becomes chairman of the board. Vogler wants House to wear a lab coat and Cubby asks House to wear it. No clot is found and they next think it is bone cancer. Wilson think it might be colon cancer, especially since the woman’s mother died of that. However, she does not want a colonoscopy, but she agrees to a virtual one. No colon cancer is found, though. It turns out Chase did the angiogram on the wrong leg. While Foreman does it on the correct one the woman’s lungs fill with fluid. The woman goes into heart failure and needs a heart transplant. Vogler thinks House’s department is a waste of money because they only see one patient a week. House hides the fact that the patient has a psych condition (bulimia, which also caused all her symptoms) that would disqualify her from getting a heart and the lie allows her to get a new heart. Volger figures it out that House lied to get the transplant.

“Mob Rules” - A mob witness goes into a coma and House is court ordered to treat him. The mob person’s brother comes to see House and asks him to treat his brother and keep him in the hospital because if the patient testifies he thinks he will be killed. While they are trying to figure out why he is in a coma, the patient wakes up. Vogler decides to release the patient. Vogler is tries to convince Cuddy to shut down House’s department. The patient soon ends up back in the hospital. Chase thinks it might be Hep C. House has then do a liver biopsy. Volger thinks Cuddy wants to keep House’s department because she likes House. The patient’s brother is worried about it getting out that his brother is gay, which the Hep C points to. The mob brothers give House a really nice convertible. When the biopsy for Hep C comes back negative, House’s next solution is it must be a toxin. They decide to run the patient’s blood through a pig to use the pig’s liver to clean the blood since the patient’s is failing. House learns the patient recently stopped smoking and thinks the toxin is something in the stop smoking lozenges. That is not it as the patient ends up back in a coma again. House finds out the patient had steak right before both comas and all they have to do is keep him off red meat. House has to fire one of his team in order to keep the whole department from being shut down.

“Heavy” - An overweight girl collapses in PE while jump roping after suffering chest pain. House is putting off choosing one of his team to fire. The tests show she had a heart attack. Chase thinks it all comes down to her being overweight. While doing a test the girl has an incident of uncontrollable rage. House thinks the girl is taking diet pills. Foreman goes to the school to try to talk to the girl’s friends, but she does not really have one. The closest thing she has is a 8th grade buddy. He finds out from the buddy that she was taking diet pills. She ends up with open sores on her body. House offers to pay cuts for his staff to keep them all, but Volger is not okay with that. The treatment for the sores is not working or at least not fast enough. They decide to take the drastic step to remove the sores, which involves removing the girl’s breasts. The girl’s stunted growth leads House to the diagnosis of Cushings. They find the tumor causing the Cushings and remove it before they got to the drastic step of removing the girl’s breasts. In the end House picks Chase to go, but Volger made a deal with Chase, so he stays, and House refuses to pick someone else. Volger threatens that the whole department will go.