108: Poison

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"POISON"

House Episode Number: 108

House Season: 1

Original Air Date: January 25, 2005

Writer: Matt Witten

Director: Guy Ferland

Special Guest(s): Roxanne Hart (Margo Davis), John Patrick Amedori (Matt Davis), Shirley Knight (Georgia Adams), Kurt Fuller (Mark Adams), McNally Sagal (Mrs. Miller), Molly Mankiewicz (Blonde Woman), Christopher Malpede (Math Whiz), Kenya D. Williamson (Nurse), Ulysses Lee (Chi Ling), Jim Lau (Chou-Young Ling), Linda Wang (Jen Ling), Andy Milder (Bus Driver)

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A toxin sends a high school boy into convulsions, but after an experimental treatment fails and a thorough inspection of the boy's home turns up nothing, the boy's mother refuses to take anymore risks until she's heard from the Center for Disease Control.

HOUSE EPISODE'S MEDICAL MYSTERY: PATIENT OF THE WEEK (POTW)

Location of incident:	School, during a test
Name / occupation / age / sex of POTW:	Matt/Student/?/Male
POTW symptom(s):	Sweating Grimacing Passing out Convulsions Heart rate plummets Confusion
Team mis-diagnoses:	Drugs Food Toxin Pesticide Poisoning
House team's rule violation(s) / ethical breaches:	House sends Foreman and Cameron to the patient's house to find the stash of drugs he assumes are there. Chase pretends to be the guy from CDC and tells the patients mom that they cant come to any conclusions
House's "Aha!" moment:	House asks the 2nd patient's parent's if he had washed his clothes the morning before school. They tell him his jeans were new, thus they weren't washed.
POTW final diagnosis:	Phosmet (a pesticide) picked up through the skin from some jeans he had bought off the back of a truck.
Other / clinic patient(s):	Georgia, an 82 year old woman, who is feeling sexy and who starts flirting with House and later sends him a poem, which Wilson intercepts and reads in public. She has syphilis.

Best Episode Moments

Georgia, the 82 year old clinic patient, hits on House and talks about fantasizing about Ashton Kutcher. She tells House he reminds her of him.

Georgia comes back to tell House that she doesn't want to take the medicine House prescribed to treat the syphilis because she doesn't want to stop feeling sexy. House convinces her to and she says she'll come back for a "check-up" when she's not contagious anymore.

Chase repeats what he said to Matt's mother when he was pretending to be the CDC to convince her to allow House to give Matt the treatment he needs. Chase uses an amusing southern/hillbilly accent.

House Quotes

House: You're brain damaged. Doomed to feeling good for the rest of your life.

House: I want you to go to his house and find his stash. I'll bet you know all the good hiding spots.
Dr. Foreman: Actually, I never did drugs.
House: (speaking to Cameron) Better go with him. In case he gets high.

House: (to Foreman) You’re getting good at this God-like doctor thing. Why don’t you talk her out of it?
Dr. Foreman: She’s… not a big fan of mine.
Dr. Chase: Or mine.
House: Only one man left in the bullpen, and he throws like a girl.
Dr. Cameron: I hate sports metaphors.

Dr. Cameron: You really never did any drugs?
Dr. Foreman: Now this is gonna be a racial thing.
Dr. Cameron: Deflecting a personal question with a joke. Gee, who do I know that does that?
Dr. Foreman: Yeah, I’m just like him. Except for the angry, bitter, pompous, cripple part.
Dr. Cameron: Maybe we should all pitch in and get you a nice cane. You’ve already got the matching gym shoes.

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Matt collapses and convulses while taking a test in school

Chase and Foreman intubate the new patient showing similar symptoms to Matt

Matt is placed on a ventilator as he slowly gets worse