Meaning (House)
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| Episode no. | HOU-301 |
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| Airdate | September 5, 2006 |
| Writer(s) | Lawrence Kaplow & David Shore (teleplay) Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner & Lawrence Kaplow & David Shore (story) |
| Director(s) | Deran Sarafian |
| Guest star(s) | Kathleen Quinlan as Arlene, Edward Edwards as Richard, Carter Jenkins as Mark, Clare Kramer as Caren, Terry Rhoads as Artie, Eamon Hunt as Surgeon, Remy Thorne as Kid, Bobbin Bergstrom as Nurse |
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Meaning is the first episode of the third season of House and the forty-seventh episode overall.
[edit] Plot
House has recovered from multiple gunshot wounds and is back at work, taking on two cases simultaneously: Richard, paralyzed after brain cancer surgery eight years ago, who drove himself on his motorized wheelchair headfirst into a swimming pool; and Caren, a young woman paralyzed from the neck down after a yoga session. As House begins to diagnose and treat them, the team notices a distinct change in his attitude toward the patients, and Cameron even catches Richard's wife thanking House for his sensitivity to her husband's situation. House suspects that Richard could possibly walk again, but he has no specific medical proof to back up his hunch and the various treatment avenues he pursues lead nowhere. Cameron and Foreman refuse to indulge House and his theories, which they feel he is pursuing merely to make the case interesting for himself. Cuddy and Wilson also are convinced House is creating a mystery out of Richard's case to cure his own boredom, but he denies it and becomes more frustrated when his theories do not point to a cure for Richard, forcing House to face an unpleasant truth. Although denying House to treat the patient at first, Cuddy does treat Richard with the injection suggested by House just before he rolls into the elevator. Seconds later Richard strains to rise from his wheel chair and hug his family again after 8 years. Afterwards Wilson and Cuddy discuss telling House his treatment worked, Wilson argues against it reasoning that House being right after all is not the same as having the right to do everything with the patient on House's guess. As Cuddy argues she will be seeing House every day, Wilson closes with "Everybody lies". At the end of the episode, with You Can't Always Get What You Want by The Rolling Stones playing in the background, we see House forging a prescription with Wilson's pad which signals that the pain in his leg is returning.
It is revealed in this episode that the shooter from "No Reason" was never caught.
- Richard McNeil: House orders an upper endoscopic ultrasound, Foreman objects that his throat will collapse; it does, and the patient almost dies. Then House orders an MRI scan of the brain, and Foreman tells him that it will cause a bleed into Richard's brain. Again Foreman's predictions hold true, and, once again, the patient almost dies. House comes up with the theory that Richard has Addison's disease. However, Cuddy refuses to follow through with treatment because of the risks (and she also claims she is trying to teach House "A lesson in humility"). At the end of the episode, she follows the family to the elevator and McNeil's disease is relieved by cortisol (although House is not told that his theory worked).
- Caren: House decides Caren is faking the paralysis, and proves it by burning her foot, and observing that she moves her leg in reflex. He also decides she is faking the shortness of breath and, to prove it, he threatens to stick a huge needle into her back. Just before he does this, he notices an irregularity with the patients breathing, and instead plunges the needle into her chest. From that, he learns that blood is building up around her heart. House insists on opening her up to find the tumor he then thinks must be there. However, just before the surgery, he notices a discolored toenail. He diagnoses her with scurvy, which he cures with vitamin C, in the form of orange juice.
[edit] Behind the scenes
- When House and Cuddy are arguing in Cuddy's office about Richard's ongoing treatment she tells him that he comes into her office to say that he can help someone "24 times a year." There are 24 episodes in a typical season of House.
- Parts of the episode were filmed at UCLA, with shots of Janss Steps and the Powell Library.
[edit] External links
- FOX.com-House official site
- Television Without Pity-House recaps
- House Episode Guide at epguides.com
- TVGuide's Page: Full list of House Episodes
- House M.D. Guide
- Meaning at the Internet Movie Database
- Medical Reviews of House: Meaning
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