Three legs, three verdicts, and the third patient is House
Cancer, flesh-eating strep and an aneurysm: every story ends with possible amputation, and the room realizes the third patient was House.
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#house's leg
5 moments.
House refuses amputation and picks the riskiest option
House tells Cuddy to save his leg with a bypass despite the risks; Stacy calls him an idiot and admits she's scared he'll die.
House diagnoses his own cardiac arrest from a hospital bed
After surgery House screams for morphine, Stacy hears of a middle-ground option, and House reads his own heart failure before he crashes.
Stacy begs House to let them cut off his leg
With the pain not easing, Stacy asks why his life is worth less than hers; House still can't say yes.
Stacy demands House force the test; he respects Mark's no
Mark refuses the trigger; Stacy begs House to do it anyway, accuses him of payback for his leg, and he turns her own choice back on her.