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116: Heavy

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"HEAVY"


House Episode Number: 116

House Season: 1

Original Air Date: March 29, 2005

Writer: Thomas L. Moran

Director: Fred Gerber

Special Guest(s): Chi McBride, Rose Colasanti, Cynthia Ettinger, Ramon Franco, Karen Goberman, Teddy Lane Jr., Susan Slome, Jennifer Stone, Alyson Morgan, Austin Leisle, Alec George, DJ Evans, Bryan Fabian
 House MD 116: "Heavy"

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House M.D. Episode Synopsis

After a ten-year-old girl suffers a heart attack, House is sure that the real issue is more than her weight and believes that her obesity is a symptom, rather than a cause other life threatening situation.

House M.D. Episode Plot Danglers







House M.D. Medical File Folder

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

Location of incident: School
Name / occupation / age / sex of POTW: Jessica/Child/10/Female
POTW symptom(s):
  • Collapsing
  • Chest Paints
  • Heart Attack
  • Bleeding from necrosis on her chest
Team mis-diagnoses:
  • Metabolic Syndrome X
  • Blood clot caused by previous treatments for obesity
  • Warfarin-induced skin Necrosis
House team's rule violation(s) / ethical breaches: None
House's "Aha!" moment:
POTW final diagnosis: Cushing's (Removing the tumor causes Jessica to grow taller and lose weight.)
Other / clinic patient(s):
  • Guy with an infected pierced scrotum (who we hardly see).
  • And a woman (who House at first concludes is pregnant) with a 30 pound benign tumor on her ovary which she refuses to have removed until House convinces her that "men are pigs".

House M.D. Episode Best Moments







House M.D. Episode's Best Quotes
    • Dr. Cameron: I apologize if it looked like we weren't devoting our full attention to your daughter, but I assure you that we...
      Mrs. Simms: Oh please, save your pathetic insincerity for your boyfriend.
      House: You're wrong! She is in fact pathetically sincere.

    • House: No, there’s no time to think! Say the first thing that comes to your head.
      Dr. Chase: She’s fat.
      Dr. Foreman: Enough already! We get it! You hate fat people!

    • House: You have kids! How novel! That changes everything. So if Mommy has heartburn, one of them might catch on fire.

    House M.D. Episode Trivia

    • The song played in the closing scene is "Got to Be More Careful" by Jon Cleary.








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