Addison's on top of old steroid damage: House's two-part theory
No steroids now, no cancer; House splits the symptoms in two and argues the kidneys can carry old damage.

Every House moment featuring Gregory House, in story order. Played by Hugh Laurie.
360 moments · 8h 56m · by Favseen
Moments 181–210 of 360
No steroids now, no cancer; House splits the symptoms in two and argues the kidneys can carry old damage.
House needles Hank's cocaine history in front of his wife until Hank confesses to a coach's injections in Maine.
His wife insists on donating; House mocks the nobility until she tells him he can't see love in others.
Wilson ducks the monster truck jam with a lecture; House's backup friend is invented; the team speculates wildly.
Taken aside alone, Lola learns she matches Hank but can't donate in her condition.
Hank calls trading a child for a kidney murder; the doctors argue it out, one pricing a tipping point to the day.
It's not a date, he insists; Cameron learns Wilson's lecture excuse was fake and accepts.
House sneaks into practice, diagnoses the coach's heart condition and counts his pills: Hank took them on purpose.
House needles him about money and gratitude; Hank vows to finish the job if anyone pushes the transplant.
Doused by a patient, House pries out the truth: Wilson is meeting Stacy. House insists he's fine.
House roasts Foreman's freebies with a rock-star metaphor, then realises the wife has lost her sense of smell too.
House points out why Hank now gives a sample freely; the cadmium came from his weed, and Lola learns he lied.
Buzzing from the show, Cameron gets personal; House admits he lived with someone, then dodges with a race to the car.
Cuddy pitches a 12-year-old's odd pneumonia; House reads her silence as big donors, then runs a differential that lands on a tick bite.
Away from his parents, Gabe tells Chase about the seance and his bad luck, and Chase gets the attic secret out of him.
House reads a man's Czech-and-Aussie accent and the hug he saw, and works out he is Chase's dad.
House drags his friend out of a consult to speculate about Chase's dad, then explains people are like chemicals: apply heat.
Chase's father spots animal hair in the attic insulation, and the team reads the CT scan until the widened mediastinum spells anthrax.
Chase and his rheumatologist father clash over the rash, and House lets the room vote on which Chase wins.
Necrosis appears mid-treatment, both Chases are partly right, and House settles on treating two diseases at once.
Jeffrey picks House's lock and boasts how money got his wrist fixed; House mocks him with David Copperfield jokes.
The lesions are spreading, and House forces father and son to debate it; the proctologist jab lands on Rowan.
Chase accuses House of messing with his head; House says he cleverly has no personal life and needles him about his dad.
A radiation tattoo and a macrobiotic breakfast give it away: Rowan has stage IV lung cancer and won't tell his son.
Wilson scolds House for prying into his patient; House weighs telling Chase and teases Wilson about billing procedures.
House squeezes the father's 'carpal tunnel' wrist and corners him until he admits two years at an Indian ashram, in front of his son.
House drops clues, then reveals leprosy caught from the father, and explains how the cure itself has been attacking Gabe.
House comes to talk to Chase, who lays out how years of disappointments taught him to stop caring about his father.
Cameron steers Foreman and Chase toward her clot theory with first names and flattery; House names the technique and mocks it.
Vogler tells Cuddy he will run the hospital like a business, then fixes on House wandering past in street clothes.