House M.D. (TV Series)

Fetal Position (2007)

Lisa Edelstein: Dr. Lisa Cuddy

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• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : [to House]  I have a whole new appreciation for what you do. How hard it is to believe when everyone around you is telling you that you're wrong.

  Dr. Gregory House : It helps to know they're idiots.

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : [House becomes entranced while performing open fetal surgery and the fetus' hand emerges and grasps his fingers]  House?

  Dr. Gregory House : [snaps out of it]  Sorry. Just realized I forgot to Tivo "Alien."

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Did you give corticosteroids to speed the baby's lung development?

  Dr. Gregory House : No, I dropped an anvil on its chest to prevent lung development. I'm trying to extinguish the human race one fetus at a time.

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Step away, House. I'm going again.

  Dr. Gregory House : The only way to save her is to cut away the anchor holding her down.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : You keep going, you're going to get electrocuted!

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : [to House]  You want to paralyze Emma Sloan's baby?

  Dr. Gregory House : Let me guess. Cameron.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Cameron and Chase both had their concerns.

  Dr. Gregory House : No, Cameron had concerns. Chase just agreed with her because he didn't want to lose his all-access pass to her love rug.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : They're sleeping together?

  Dr. Gregory House : If by "sleeping together," you mean having sex in the janitor's closet.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Here?

  Dr. Gregory House : No. The janitor's closet at the local high school.

  [pumps fist] 

  Dr. Gregory House : Go, Tiger Cats! Do you have one of those camera-phones? Because I've got a MySpace account.

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : [to House]  What are you doing?

  Dr. Gregory House : Well, you're trying to be me, so I thought I'd try to be you.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : You don't have the cleavage for it.

  Dr. Gregory House : But I have a much tighter ass. You think every day should be "naked Thursday" or is that an oxymoron?

• Dr. Gregory House : [to Cuddy]  My real patient is dying. Very quickly. Like I wouldn't advise her to buy any green bananas. The fetus is nothing more than a parasite at this point. Removing it is an instant cure.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : You're not going to get Emma to see it that way. She's probably already named the baby, read him books, had conversations with him.

  Dr. Gregory House : See, you get it. She'll listen to you.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : No.

  Dr. Gregory House : You let this woman refuse to terminate, you're helping her commit suicide. As her doctor, my recommendation is against suicide.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : If the baby had a doctor, I think she would recommend exhausting all possibilities before taking its life.

  Dr. Gregory House : Then she'd be an idiot.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Too bad she's your boss.

• Dr. James Wilson : [after Emma's condition worsens after Cuddy gives her corticosteroids]  It's time to terminate.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : That's not what she wants.

  Dr. James Wilson : Look at her. She didn't want to be an incubator for a dead baby, but that's what you've done.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Either get me a laryngoscope or get out.

• 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. Lisa Cuddy : Dr. Cameron. Dating Chase... can only end in one of two ways.

  Dr. Cameron : House told you?

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : You get married and live happily ever after or somebody gets hurt and you two can't work together and I have to fire somebody.

  Dr. Cameron : I would hate to see my personal life become such a burden to you.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : I'm telling you this for your own good.

  Dr. Cameron : Well, I assume you're going to have this same conversation with Chase for his own good.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Chase isn't the one that's gonna get hurt here.

• 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. Lisa Cuddy : [about Emma]  The machine is breathing for her. I can do whatever I want to her lungs. If you're playing catch in the living room and you break your mother's vase you might as well keep playing catch. The vase is already broken.

  Dr. James Wilson : Yeah, except that room can't breathe without that vase.