From "Damned if you Do"

Cuddy: You diagnosed the patient with allergies and prescribed antihistamine, she went into respiratory distress, and you injected her with epinephrine.  Presumably 1 cc.                    House: 0.1 cc.  That is the standard dose, that is what I gave her.                                   Cuddy: People don’t go into cardiac arrest from 0.1 cc epinephrine.                                House: She must have a pre-existing heart condition that got exacerbated by the epinephrine.                                                                                                                   Cuddy: It’s too bad you didn’t make a notation in the chart.                                            House: I can make it up right now.                                                                                Cuddy: The drawer has syringes with both dosages, you could have easily reached for the wrong one.                                                                                                                              House: But I didn’t.                                                                                                      Cuddy: Everyone makes mistakes.  This is why doctors pay through the nose for malpractice insurance.                                                                                                                     House: Relax, they’re not going to sue.  Worse they’d do is whack my hand with a ruler.  Cuddy: And the discipline board?  Are they gonna whack your hand, too?                       House: You’re going to report me?                                                                               Cuddy: What choice do I have?                                                                                    House: Uh, how ‘bout not report me?                                                                            Cuddy: I can justify keeping her here for 24-hour observation.  If you haven’t found an underlying cause for the cardiac arrest by then I will have to notify our attorneys. 

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