216: Safe

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"SAFE"

House Episode Number: 216

House Season: 2

Original Air Date: April 4, 2006

Writer: Peter Blake

Director: Felix Alcala

Special Guest(s): Michelle Trachtenberg (Melinda), Mel Harris (Barbara), Lance Guest (Lewis), Jake McDorman (Dan)

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Melinda, a troubled teenage girl who is immuno-compromised as a result of the medications she must take after a heart transplant, has a severe allergic reaction and goes into shock when her boyfriend visits her. Meanwhile, House and Wilson continue to work out the problems in their new living arrangement.

The overprotective mother.

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

Location of incident:	Gets sick in her own home
Name / occupation / age / sex of POTW:	Melinda / high school student / teen / female
POTW symptom(s):
Team mis-diagnoses:
House team's rule violation(s) / ethical breaches:	Against the mother's wishes, House locks himself, Melinda and Foreman in an elevator so he can do a pelvic exam.
House's "Aha!" moment:	Melinda is living in a clean room after a heart transplant and House realizes the boyfriend has been sneaking in. He realizes it's something the boyfriend brought in.
POTW final diagnosis:	The young teen has a tick in her vagina; brought in unknowingly on the clothing of her boyfriend.
Other / clinic patient(s):

Best Episode Moments

When House's cane breaks, courtesy of Wilson

When House proves his theory correct and gives the girl a pelvic exam in an elevator.

House Quotes

"Only way to confirm this, inject the rat with her blood and wait for it to get all botulistic on your ass. In the meantime, I'm going downstairs to browbeat a scared, dying teenage girl until she breaks down like a scared, dying teenage girl."

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It's a little bright out here!

Cameron briefs House.

Let's meet the patient and her family.

Checking out the boyfriend.

Consulting with Dr. Foreman

MRI Time

Rushing the patient to surgery; House intervenes.

House finds the tick....