Season One, Episode Nineteen, "Kids" - They Grow Up So Fast

At a swimming and diving meet, one of the judges collapses and is shown to be bleeding from one ear. His lumbar puncture indicated a virulent strain of bacterial meningitis. House arrives at the hospital, which is dealing with the outbreak could have affected 2500 people at the pool. Cuddy insists that House help out. House comes across a 12 year old diver. She has a fever and a rash that she says she’s had for a week. Despite the symptoms, he doesn‘t think she has meningitis. Cuddy agrees to give them an hour to work on the diver. Although her latest tests show her red blood cells are intact, House orders Chase to check her blood. House realizes one cause of the disorder is unlikely, but possible. House goes to tell the patient she's pregnant. The pregnancy is causing her blood to clot and be shredded by the clot - a rare complication. She admits she experimented with intercourse. He tells her they have to terminate the pregnancy and treat her blood for antibodies. 

House interviews candidates for the fellowship but dismisses them all.  House goes back to Cameron and tells her he wants her to come back. She says that's not good enough. She says he has to take her out on a dinner date. House agrees. 


medicomical relief time! The epidemic creates enough chaos so that house gets thrown off center, which makes his scrambling all the more fun—and, yeah, that he is forced to consider the consequences of his actions. Cuddy: “you want those nurses and dr’s we had to let go? You’re the one that cost this hosp. $100 million”—like they had no budget before this? still and all, how big an ego does it take to carry that weight?

Back to the comedical. The dismissal of the interviewees is abs. classic. “you want to be a non-conformist? Get a haircut and a pocket protector like him (Wilson). Like the Asian kids who don’t leave the library for 20 hr stretches. They don’t care what you think.” Then the Jewish superwoman: from Wilson: “THAT’S OUR HITLER!” His “Producers” quote floored me. I laughed. Out loud. Maybe twice. It actually gave me hope that I will last the run.

Oh, and tell me now? Why do you like chase, even though he is the one who ratted out house? Love is blind but Lust isn’t?


I don't exactly lust over Chase. Just sometimes his sheer cuteness gets to me. I've never had fantasies about him. Sort of like House saying about Cameron that she's like a nice part of art (paraphrase).

is he referring to her degas-like quality of waif-i-ness? 

I haven't had direct sexual fantasies about any of the men in that show, although I like it when they take their shirts off. 

 haven't seen that happen yet. when does cameron?

Don't you think you should take a break? Even I did! Although I watched a DVD at a time, which was about 4 episodes at a stretch.