Clinic: a husband with sympathetic pregnancy
A man complains of aching teeth, headaches and nausea; House guesses his wife is expecting and diagnoses Couvade syndrome.
George's Best Moments
Every House moment featuring George, in story order.
10 moments · 15 min · by Favseen
- 01
- 02
The pregnant wife pages House mid-labor
The clinic husband's wife, in labor, uses House's pager number; House jokes through an epidural refusal and calls her husband the perfect man.
- 03
Cameron overloads the MRI and George wakes up screaming inside
Over the weight limit, Cameron insists on equal care and the team heaves George onto the table; mid-scan he wakes and panics.
- 04
George fights back with mortality statistics
George says every doctor blames his weight, cites hospital deaths and would rather die over a perfect meal than run a marathon.
- 05
"The patient's three mes": House meets George
George wants to leave AMA; House sees himself in him, then guesses inherited disease and abuse while George insists he is just overweight.
- 06
George's farewell to Cameron ends in a collapse
George defends his love of food and refuses help to the taxi, then falls.
- 07
Brain biopsy for a parasite leaves George blind
The team talks George into a hole in his skull; seconds after the sample he cannot see.
- 08
George refuses a diabetes test: find something unrelated to my weight
Angry and blind, George says he has been fat all his life and only sick for days; he'll help only if they look past his size.
- 09
House force-feeds George sugar water and feels clubbed fingers
House wrestles George to drink the glucose test; in the struggle he notices clubbed fingers and orders a lung cancer workup.
- 10
Cameron tells George he has inoperable lung cancer
George never smoked; he answers the news with a shrug in French.