310: Merry Little Christmas

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"MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS"

House Episode Number: 310

House Season: 3

Original Air Date: December 12, 2006

Writer: Liz Friedman

Director: Tony To

Special Guest(s): Bobbin Bergstrom (Nurse), Marco Pelaez (Pharmacist) , Cole Evan Weiss (Teenage Boy), Shyann McClure (Little Girl), Teddy Vincent (Mrs. Zebalusky), Michael Medico (Clinic Doctor), Kacie Borrowman (Abigail), David Morse (Detective Michael Tritter), Meredith Eaton-Gilden (Maddy)

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Wilson arranges for House to make a deal with Tritter, but House refuses. Meanwhile, Cuddy cuts House off Vicodin and removes him from the team's case: a 15-year-old little person who entered the hospital with a collapsed lung and anemia.

Will House go to jail now that Tritter has hard evidence of House attempting to steal narcotics?

Will House forgive Wilson for ratting him out?

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

Location of incident:	Hospital clinic
Name / occupation / age / sex of POTW:	Abigail Ralphman/None/12/Female
POTW symptom(s):	Dwarfism Bloody vomit Collapsed lung Anemia
Team mis-diagnoses:	Still's disease Various unnamed cancer Autoimmune conditions
House team's rule violation(s) / ethical breaches:	House continually tries ever-more unscrupulous tactics to get his hands on narcotics Cuddy and the rest of the team refuse to give House any narcotics whatsoever, worsening his detox symptoms. House continually makes cracks about dwarfism. House tells Maddy to lie to her daughter about how she really feels about dwarfism so that Abigail can have a better life.
House's "Aha!" moment:	While talking to a young patient about whether her stuffed animal is a bear or a dog, House realizes that the dwarf is not a dwarf.
POTW final diagnosis:	Langerhans cell histiocytosis
Other / clinic patient(s):	None.

Best Episode Moments

House constantly cracking jokes about dwarfism, while Maddy continually rebuts him.

Wilson finds House sprawled on the floor after an alcohol/oxycodone binge.

House Quotes

"The You-Put-Your-Cancer-In-My-Autoimmune Disease" - House, in reference to Langerhans cell histiocytosis.

"I thought I'd get your theories, mock them, then embrace my own. The usual."

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