From "DNR"

                                                                                                                                   [Cut to House entering Cuddy’s office.]

House: I want in.

Cuddy: John Henry Giles, you a fan of his music?

House: He’s a musician?  That paralysis thing, guy can’t walk for two years and nobody knows why, that seems mildly interesting.

Cuddy: Forget his paralysis.

House: Tell that to the rest of his bowling team.

Cuddy: As far as this hospital is concerned, this is a simple case of low-bar pneumonia.  Boring.

House: But that “not walking” thing, that could turn into something serious!

Cuddy: Marty Hamilton is his primary physician out in California.  He’s dealing with the paralysis.

House: Know all about it.  Multiple treatments, multiple surgeries.  Making real progress.  Fixed everything but the legs. 

Cuddy: Dr. Hamilton already called and asked for your team.  And by team, I don’t mean you.

House: Like I always say, there’s no “I” in “team”.  There is a “me”, though, if you jumble it up. [They leave her office.]

Cuddy: Foreman did his residency with Hamilton.

House: I know.  I did accidentally glance at his resume before I hired him.

Cuddy: He wants someone he can trust.

House: He must have spoken to Foreman’s parole officer.

Cuddy: Someone who will stick to the pneumonia.  John Henry’s on an experimental protocol for the paralysis.

House: I respect that.  I’m not going to get in his way. 

Cuddy: It’s Foreman’s case. [She walks away.]

House: It’s pneumonia, he can handle it.  Guy’s already paralyzed, how badly can he screw it up?

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[Cut to the clinic.  Cuddy is talking to a couple of patients.  House comes to the doorway and stops.]

House: [yelling] Dr. Cuddy! 

Cuddy: [to patients] Excuse me.

House: You paged me.

Cuddy: Why the yelling?

House: His bed is behind that wall.  The plaintiff’s.  I can’t, you know, come any closer.

Cuddy: It’s right over the clinic.  Very cute.

House: Can we get the lecture over with, because I’ve got a, actually, I’ve got nothing to do.  Take your time.

Cuddy: You need a lawyer?

House: You don’t have a problem with what I did?

Cuddy: When I hired you, I knew you were insane.  I will continue to try and stop you from doing insane things, but once they’re done…. Trying to convince an insane person not to do insane things is, in itself, insane, so when I hired you I also set aside $50,000 a year for legal expenses.  So far you’ve come in under budget.

House: Great.  Any chance you could help me run some tests?

Cuddy: Dr. Foreman called Dr. Hamilton.  He’s flying in from L.A.

House: You can talk to him.

Cuddy: Dr. Hamilton is flying in as a friend of John Henry’s to pull the plug. [pause]

House: Yeah.  I need a lawyer.

 

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