Pregnant photographer Emma diagnoses her own stroke mid-shoot
At a rock band photo shoot, Emma sees the backdrop words jumble and runs through the FAST stroke checklist on herself.
S3E17 · Fetal Position
21 moments · 30 min of essential viewing.
Moments, in order
House examines Emma and grills her about the sperm donor
House calls the previous doctor an idiot, spots pronator drift, and jokes about Emma's gay neurologist donor and his magazine.
Galapagos vacation talk and the untreated strep deduction
House shops for a vacation spot during the differential, then reasons from six cases of strep to a damaged heart valve.
House runs a differential while on hold for a Cambodia flight
Booking a trip to catch an endangered giant catfish, House rattles off five theories for Emma's failing kidneys between hold messages.
The fetus is the patient: House explains mirror syndrome
With every test clean, the problem turns out to be the fetus. House explains with a German railway metaphor, then proposes paralyzing it.
House outs Cameron and Chase's janitor's closet affair to Cuddy
Cuddy objects to paralyzing the fetus; House deflects by gossiping about Cameron and Chase until she demands consent.
Cuddy warns Cameron that dating Chase ends one of two ways
Cuddy tells Cameron the romance ends in marriage or a firing, and that Cameron is the one who will get hurt.
House trains for Aconcagua inside the hyperbaric chamber
Chase confronts House about the closet gossip; House, lying in a low-pressure chamber, plans to be carried up an Argentine peak.
House sits in Cuddy's chair and says she is the patient
House schools Cuddy on bladder taps, then accuses her of seeing herself in Emma, a single woman in her 40s trying for a baby.
Chase and Cameron bicker, then Emma turns jaundiced
Checking the shunt, Cameron insists they are not together; moments later Emma's stomach pain reveals her liver is failing.
House: even fetuses lie, so deliver it
House swaps his trip for orca kayaking, suspects the fetus is hiding something, and argues for delivery at 21 weeks.
Emma refuses to terminate her pregnancy
Told she will not survive two more days, Emma refuses an abortion and dares the doctors to fix her baby instead.
House wants Cuddy to force the termination
House calls the fetus a parasite and pushes for termination; his friend refuses to lean on Cuddy, the baby's de facto doctor.
Cameron's coincidence theory and the jungle fever jab
Cameron argues the liver failure is unrelated so termination is not needed; House mocks Chase backing his girlfriend.
Cuddy overrules everyone on the corticosteroids, and it backfires
Against the team's warnings Cuddy floods the fetus with steroids to see its lungs; Emma develops pulmonary edema and House confronts her.
Cuddy asks what House would do: the broken vase
Cuddy admits the team was right, then reasons that with Emma on a respirator her lungs are already the broken vase.
Cuddy earns House's respect, then he returns to treat the fetus as an adult
Cuddy admits how hard it is to be the lone believer; House later walks back in and leads the team toward exploratory fetal surgery.
Open fetal surgery: the lesions, the v-fib, the defibrillator standoff
In a packed OR the fetus is lifted out and lung lesions found; Emma crashes and House argues the fetus, not surgery, is killing her.
House calls it a baby, then says he would have killed it
Emma recovers; House slips and mentions her baby's blond hair, then refuses her thanks with a blunt admission.
House and Cuddy argue whether .1 is bigger than 9.9
Cuddy gives House a ticket and an apology; he tells her she nearly killed two people, she says the odds don't matter to Emma.
Closing song: Are You Alright?
The episode closes on a song asking an absent someone whether they are alright.
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