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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. This wrap up is of the content on Side B of Disc 3.

“Three Stories” - House’s ex-girlfriend Stacy comes to see him to ask House to take on her husband as a case. House gives a lecture because another doctor is sick. He comes up with three cases involving leg pain. One is a farmer with pain in his leg. The class fails at first because they do not first come up with the idea of looking at the leg. A snake bite wound is found on the leg. The second is a 16-year-old female volleyball player. The patient has tendonitis and it leads them to a nodule. The third is a male golfer that wants pain meds. A rattlesnake is found by Chase and Foreman on the farm and Cameron gives the farmer the antivenom. The man then has an allergic reaction. The volleyball player also has a thyroid condition. It turns out they were wrong about what type of snake bit the farmer. So, they give them the antivenom for another snake common in New Jersey. The drug addict golfer comes back saying his leg hurts. They do a urine test by putting a catheter in, which supposedly proves that he really is sick and not just an addict. The volleyball player is not responding to treatment. She is hypersensitive to touch while Cameron is trying to draw blood. Nothing is working for the farmer. The drug addict has blood in his urine. The farmer wants to go home now that he knows he is dying and worries about his dog. It turns out that it was his dog that bit him. Back to the man with leg pain with blood in his urine. The students cannot figure out the brown in the urine is for and Cameron pops in and suggest muscle death. He then slips back to the girl getting an MRI because the case with the man was not treated for muscle death until three days later when the patient suggested muscle death (i.e. this is House’s personal story). Bone cancer is found in the girl’s leg and they might have to amputate the leg. The farmer also might have to have the leg removed because of the flesh eating disease from the dog bite. House also gets the diagnosis they might have to lose his leg, but he refuses to lose his leg. He has them do a by pass instead of amputation. The by pass and muscle death being left led to the pain he might have for the rest of his life. House predicts his going into cardiac arrest. House’s ex tries to convince him to give up his leg. He asks to be put in a chemically induced coma to sleep through the worst of the pain. Once in a coma it is her call as his medical proxy. She gives the okay to have the muscle death removed as the middle ground option. In the end he calls his ex and says he will take a look at her husband the next day.

“Honeymoon” - Stacey’s husband is late to meeting House and her at a restaurant. He passes out after House offers him a drink, which is House’s way of getting him to a hospital to look at him, as the patient is reluctant to think anything is wrong. House finds abdominal epilepsy, which leads to it being a neurological problem. Cameron asks Stacey what House was like before his leg issue. She says she was the same. Foreman and Chase search Stacey’s house and find cookies left for them with a note from Stacey, who knew they would end up searching the house. The only thing out of the ordinary they find are switching from mountain biking to yoga and a bottle of prescription meds with someone else’s name. At first they think it is Alzheimer’s, but it is not. House cannot figure it out and Stacey finds him thinking on the roof, where he has not been in five years, but he obviously used to do all the time when they were together. Her husband soon ends up paralyzed in his hands and toes. His throat starts to close up as he has a panic attack because he thinks Stacey is going to leave him. House finds out that Mark thinks he went to Paris for their honeymoon, but Stacey says that did not happen, so it is a symptom. The only way to prove the next diagnosis is to take a urine sample during an attack. Mark does not want the test, so House refuses to do the test at first. Cameron, Chase and Foreman try to stop House from doing it against Mark’s wishes. House takes a urine sample before letting them give him meds after the attack is triggered. It ends up being the right diagnosis. Stacey comes to see House and admits she is not over him, but she cannot be with him. Cuddy offers Stacey the job of general counsel at the hospital and Stacey accepts on the condition it is okay with House, who says fine. In his apartment House tries to walk without the cane, but cannot.

Bonus Material: The Concept - This is a short featurette about the concept of the show.

Bonus Material: Casting Session with Hugh Laurie - This is a quick one of Hugh Laurie trying out for the part of House.

Bonus Material: Medical Cases - This is a featurette about the different medical cases discussed series and coming up with them.

Bonus Material: Set Tour - This is a set tour of different commonly used settings in the show. The first part of the tour is guided by Cameron and the second part is guided by Cuddy.

Bonus Material: House-isms - This is a featurette about some of the more memorable things House says.

Bonus Material: Dr. House - This is a featurette of the cast and behind the scenes people talking about the character House.