House

This blog is now also going to be used to write my Basic Comp. journal entries. So, my TV show pick to write about for this week is House.

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House is still interviewing candidates to take place of Foreman, Cameron, and Chase. The candidates that are left are Thirteen, Kutner, Taub, Brennan, Amber, and Cole. Also back on the scene is Foreman who accepted the job to work back at the hospital because no other hospital would hire him because he became too much like House; something he quit to avoid becomming in the first place. But this time, Foreman is in charge of keeping House in place and making sure he doesn't go too far.

Dr. Cuddy introduces Dr. Foreman to the candidates and describes his new job. She makes sure to tell them that everything they do has to be signed off by Foreman first, even if House says it's okay. House points out how much he doesn't want to work with Foreman but Cuddy doesn't care.

The case they are working on evolves a man who had gotten mugged by two teens who stole his wallet before getting sick, and has memory loss so no one knows what his name is. They nickname him Mr. X and try to find out what's wrong with him. Amber and Brennan do a stress test on him which causes his limbs to tingle and his stomach to hurt, which shouldn't happen during a stress test.

House tells Foreman that if he doesn't leave, he'll make him miserable. Foreman tells house that he's already miserable and walks away. House decides to make Cuddy miserable until she fires Foreman.

While the team tries to figure out what's wrong with him, they get a call that Mr. X has crashed. They find him laying on the floor unconcious and as they try to help him, Foreman tells House that he thinks the guy is faking and has Munchausen's syndrome. House doesn't agree, so Foreman points out the board with all the patients and their conditions written on it and says that Mr. X is imitating all his neighbors illnesses.

House thinks on it for a moment then realizes that Mr. X is wearing a doctor's coat. He notes that people with Munchausen's immitate patients, not doctors. He tells Foreman that Mr. X really has Giovannini Mirror Syndrome which makes him unknowining copy the personalities and pick up on the inner thoughts of those he comes in contact with. Foreman still thinks he's faking.

To prove Foreman wrong, house dresses Mr. X in scrubs and takes him into a surgery that Dr. Wilson is performing. After Wilson talks to house about him and Foreman's situation of not getting along, Mr. X copies Wilson's personality and tells House that he's "Deflecting." among other things. Wilson says he likes the guy. Mr. X then, after watching Wilson doing the surgery for a few minutes, picks up a scalpal and tries to cut the patient. House quickly grabs his hand and stops him. He pulls off Mr. X's glove and cuts him with the scalpal. He turns to Foreman who's watching from the booth and tell him that his blood is frozen and there's no way he's faking that.

Later, House, Foreman and the candidates walk to the cafeteria dicussing what to do for Mr. X. House says it's an infection and orders tests to find out what kind. As they walk into the cafeteria, House shouts to everyone that they just dicovered the mayonnaise is tainted and that everyone needs to go see Dr. Cuddy to complain. As the mob of people rush out, Foreman tries to tell everyone that he's a doctor and there's nothing wrong with the mayo. House lies and says Foreman has a mail order degree and everyone continues to leave.

House points out the fact that Mr. X had car keys in his pocket and sends Thirteen and Cole to go find the man's car so they can have some clues as to who he is. Meanwhile, the rest of the doctors perform the different tests on Mr. X who mimics them and they get unwanted insight about themselves that they never knew.

.... There's a lot more to this episode, but I think this entry is getting a little long, so I'll cut to the end. They eventually find out that Mr. X is a farm equipment salesman from Ohio and got a disease from "pig poo", as House puts it, called eperythrozoon. They treat him for it. House doesn't fire anyone this time, even though everyone made a ton of mistakes. But Foreman realizes that he didn't fire anyone because the whole hospital was having a bet on who got fired or not and Chase bet that no one would. House has a agreement to split the winning with Chase. Foreman says he won't tell, and also he won't quit. He's staying because he likes it there.