From "Poison"

House: Get a court order. Unless you want to see someone killed by sheer irrationality.    Cuddy: Maternal instinct is always irrational. That doesn’t mean it’s wrong.                    House: Actually… that’s the definition.                                                                         Cuddy: It doesn’t mean she’s mentally incompetent                                                        House: She’s risking her son’s life based on a teenager’s claim that he washed something. How mentally incompetent can you get?                                                                                  Cuddy: That’s a brilliant legal argument.                                                                        House: Listen, have your Harvard law dog whip up some high-grade, legal-sounding psycho babble. “Temporary insanity brought on by acute panic distress syndrome,” I don’t care. We have to give him the hydrolase.                                                                                               Cuddy: Her only sign of mental illness is that she disagrees with you. Some would consider that a sign of sanity.                                                                                                                House: Not the kid, let’s ask him. Oh, I forgot we can’t. He’s dying.                                  Cuddy: Get the mother to sign off that she’s refusing this treatment.

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