House M.D. (TV Series)

Fetal Position (2007)

Omar Epps: Dr. Eric Foreman

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• Dr. Eric Foreman : This is definitely different.

  Dr. Robert Chase : [looking at a photograph of House]  It looks almost like...

  Dr. Cameron : He's caring.

• Dr. Eric Foreman : [to Chase]  So, the sleep lab. You and Cameron not sleeping. How serious is it?

  Dr. Robert Chase : It's nothing. She's only doing it to make House jealous.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : Then why are you doing it?

  Dr. Robert Chase : You kidding?

• Dr. Gregory House : Any of you guys ever been to the Galapagos?

  Dr. Eric Foreman : Was our patient there? Dengue fever, avian pox. Even West Nile.

  Dr. Gregory House : No. I'm looking for a vacation spot.

  Dr. Robert Chase : That mean we get vacation?

  Dr. Gregory House : How would that differ from your current status?

  Dr. Cameron : You're going to do what? Relax?

  Dr. Gregory House : Visiting family. My uncle's a giant turtle.

• Dr. Cameron : [about Cuddy]  Anybody going to stop her?

  Dr. Robert Chase : Stopping the madness is her job.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : Somebody's gotta be Cuddy's Cuddy.

• Dr. Gregory House : What would we do if this patient were not just a tadpole. Say it was an actual person.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : He... is a person.

  Dr. Gregory House : Thanks for playing along. Pretend it's a one-pound adult. Forget the mom, forget the womb, the placenta. How would we get a better look at what's in the lungs?

  Dr. Cameron : Transesophageal echo.

  Dr. Robert Chase : Can't access his esophagus.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : Higher resolution CT could give us a clearer...

  Dr. Robert Chase : Too much radiation for a one-pound person.

  Dr. Gregory House : You can't just shoot everything down, Chase. You're not me.

• Dr. Robert Chase : [to Cuddy about Emma]  We were able to control the pre-term labor with tocolytics. The contractions have subsided for now.

  Dr. Cameron : And the liver biopsy was negative. This is definitely mirror syndrome. Her baby's doing this to her.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : We're out of options.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Did the biopsy cause the pre-term labor or did it happen on its own?

  Dr. Robert Chase : It doesn't make a difference.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Pre-term labor can be a new symptom. New information gives us new theories. Isn't that how it works?

  Dr. Eric Foreman : Not in this case. Her body's trying to do what you refuse to: get the baby out and save itself.

  Dr. Cameron : The patient's transaminases are 10 times normal. Her liver's on the verge of shutting down completely.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : A torch test could...

  Dr. Eric Foreman : We don't have time for more tests. We have to terminate or she'll die.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Then let's work faster.

  Dr. Cameron : Medicine doesn't work faster just because you hope real hard.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : But it could help to see what the baby's been hiding. The only organ we haven't been able to look inside is its lungs. The problem must be in there.

  Dr. Robert Chase : We haven't been able to see inside because they're underdeveloped. We've already got her on corticosteroids, but it'll take weeks for them...

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Then let's drown them in corticosteroids. Multiple courses. Speed up their development.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : Giving the baby more than one course will suppress adrenal gland function.

  Dr. Robert Chase : Have long-term adverse effects on fetal organ development.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Worse than death?

  Dr. Cameron : Emma's already on tocolytics. The combination could put her into pulmonary edema. You'll just kill her faster.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : It's the only chance we have to see inside those lungs. We're just going to have to make the baby better faster than we make Emma worse.

  [Foreman, Chase and Cameron stare at her] 

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Come on. This is the kind of thing House does every day.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : House thought we should terminate six hours ago.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : I'll do it myself.

• Dr. Gregory House : Mirror syndrome has a limited number of known causes.

  Dr. Cameron : Tachyarrhythmia, fetal anemia, placental chorioangioma...

  Dr. Gregory House : All of which are fixable. Which would be un-unfavorable, right?

  Dr. Eric Foreman : Could also be Trisomy 13, Epstein's anomaly, an aneurysm of Galen's vein...

  Dr. Gregory House : And Dr. Storm Cloud rained all over the differential and killed the beautiful little baby.