Cuddy orders House to fire one of his team
House dodges with talk of piercings and endless performance reviews; Cuddy gives him one week.

Every House moment featuring Gregory House, in story order. Played by Hugh Laurie.
360 moments · 8h 56m · by Favseen
Moments 241–270 of 360
House dodges with talk of piercings and endless performance reviews; Cuddy gives him one week.
The team debates how a child has a heart attack; House then casually announces one of them is gone by week's end.
A mother of six with burning chest pain swears she isn't pregnant and lectures House on real women's curves.
Jessica turns violent during a test; her mother blames the bickering doctors until House walks in with lab results.
With jobs on the line, the team snipes through clots and liposuction until diet pills come up and House calls the mother a liar.
Foreman accuses House of treating them like lab rats; House demands his pick, and Foreman names Chase and explains why.
Wilson finds a huge but harmless tumor; Mrs. Hernandez accuses him of pushing cosmetic surgery and refuses to be cut.
House says the team's own treatment caused Jessica's sores; Chase suggests Cameron botched the heparin, and the blame fight boils over.
House proposes cutting all four salaries to keep everyone; Vogler refuses, wanting to know House will obey.
Lucille's husband asks House to talk her into surgery, even to lie; House refuses until a photo of their six kids changes his mind.
With the sores advancing, the team plans to cut out the dying tissue, and Wilson tells Jessica's mother what that means.
Cameron accuses House of avoiding his feelings; House turns it back on her, and she offers to quit.
House works out from her kids' eye colors why Mrs. Hernandez fears a scar, and talks her into surgery his own way.
House forces snap answers; obesity flips from cause to symptom, the girl's height gives it away, and the team names Cushing's.
House finally gives Vogler a name; Vogler changes the deal and threatens the whole department unless House picks someone else.
Vogler hands House the senator's case, then offers a deal: give a talk praising his company's new ACE inhibitor or fire one of his team.
House shreds the senator's childhood swing story as campaign spin, then spots the speech problem and orders brain tests.
A clinic patient insists she hasn't had sex in a year; House's tests say she was pregnant. His advice is deadpan.
Cuddy refuses to let House biopsy a sitting senator's brain on an MRI spot; House turns it into a choice the patient must make.
The biopsy shows toxoplasmosis, which House says means AIDS. The senator rejects the diagnosis and dictates his own terms.
Cameron explains why people thank God; House calls her a naive atheist and says prayer is about not being crushed.
The HIV test is positive. House demands the truth; the senator calls him a coward who won't take chances on people.
Wilson accuses House of shilling for Vogler; House answers by acting out a high-strung lap dog.
The team meets out of Cuddy's sight; House mocks 'idiopathic' and justifies a whole body scan with a football metaphor.
Wilson works out why House ordered a second AIDS test: he believed the senator. Then he asks about House and Cameron.
Her drug tests are clean, but a new rash is a carpet burn. House probes for lost time and learns her ex lives downstairs.
House demands to know why Cameron likes him; she suspects the question is really about the speech.
With a spleen biopsy too dangerous, House explains how Inuit find fish by watching herons, and the team finds another test.
The sleep lab solves the clinic mystery: she sleepwalks, and House suggests her ex downstairs is more than a coincidence.
House takes the gasping senator's oxygen and forces out the truth about a childhood seizure and the drug he took.