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.
Every House moment featuring George, in story order.
10 moments · 15 min
A man complains of aching teeth, headaches and nausea; House guesses his wife is expecting and diagnoses Couvade syndrome.
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.
Over the weight limit, Cameron insists on equal care and the team heaves George onto the table; mid-scan he wakes and panics.
George says every doctor blames his weight, cites hospital deaths and would rather die over a perfect meal than run a marathon.
George wants to leave AMA; House sees himself in him, then guesses inherited disease and abuse while George insists he is just overweight.
George defends his love of food and refuses help to the taxi, then falls.
The team talks George into a hole in his skull; seconds after the sample he cannot see.
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.
House wrestles George to drink the glucose test; in the struggle he notices clubbed fingers and orders a lung cancer workup.
George never smoked; he answers the news with a shrug in French.