2.01 Acceptance

Ahh, I LOVE this episode, and no one else really seems to. Maybe it's because I am of a certain age where I remember that L L COOL J IS HARD AS HELL :) Anyway, teenage crush aside, my other half and I were chatting about House the other day and he said that this one has always stuck in his mind, because of Clarence's line to House about "always being judged for the one bad thing you did." (sorry, probably bad paraphrasing) I realised that is what I liked most about it, everyone's reaction to Clarence, especially Cuddy being at her most sarcastic and totally wrong!

timber_z, I think we have teh slash telepathy going, cuz I just watched it :) I think it's an excellent eppy, very well written and played. Shockingly enough :P I'm crazy about the bros before hoes scene. Top notch H/W interaction, and Wilson is giving House those looks.. I made illegal_autopsy screencap it and now I'm staring at them foolishly. Err.. yeah, I better go back to the HoYay/H/W threads :oops: It's never safe for me to wander.

Uh...you didn't make me. I made them of my own free will.

Oh gah! I'd totally forgotten that the Coma Guy scene was in that ep! One of my most favourite Wilson/RSL moments is his exasperated (sp?) "The man's in a coma...you're getting crumbs on him!" And isn't it also the ep where House says "Wilson's an idiot, and I'm a fool..." ? (re: Evil Stacy and Why House should not trust her) *chases Jouse to the Hoyay thread* (how much would I love a telepath to watch House hoyay style with me!)

There was Coma Guy in this episode? *runs to get DVDs*

It's "Wilson’s a fool. I’m an idiot." ;) There's also drunk!House, which is delightful. And both House and Wilson look especially good in this eppy.

Ahh, I LOVE this episode, and no one else really seems to. Maybe it's because I am of a certain age where I remember that L L COOL J IS HARD AS HELL LL cool J is one of my favorite POTW's. Awesome all around ep, however, it will forever be known to me as the ep where House tells Chase he has a pretty mouth. :lol:

For me, this will be the episode where Cameron refuses to do her job and tell a terminal cancer patient she only has a few months to live.

This news story reminded me of House in this ep! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7037443.stm

That, bizarrely, is how one treats ethylene glycol poisoning. He's lucky he was sedated. The equivalent of three days of heavy drinking must have given him a record hangover.

I just saw this episode again the other day with a friend. I absolutely hate how Cameron handled her patient. If I had terminal lung cancer and only had a few months to live, I sure as hell would not like my precious time wasted by a doctor too afraid and stubborn to tell me what was going on. I know Cameron was just trying to make sure that she wasn't alone, since she didn't have any family to speak of. But I'm willing to bet that Cindy at least had people who cared about her. Friends? Coworkers (even though she was just starting a new job)? Other people she would have wanted to spend time with? It irks me that she made this poor woman suffer even more because she was going out her way to try to NOT confirm cancer. Even though both a world-famous diagnostician and the Head of Oncology confirmed it. I'll still wondering why she did that though. Was she really looking for a new diagnosis, even though all the facts pointed to cancer? Or was she just scared to tell Cindy? If it was the latter, that is completely unacceptable. I could forgive her for being flaky in "Maternity" because I think she was still pretty new. But at this point she had been working for House for over a year and should have learned how to deal with this. One good thing did come from this though: Wilson finally acting like someone of authority. I think that was the first time in the series where you could see him as a boss or department head. I just wonder why he didn't take over the case at any point since he knew that Cameron was pretty much just wasting the patient's time with frivolous tests. Maybe he was trying to get Cameron to face her fears/issues but I can't imagine he was happy to see a cancer patient being jerked around like that. I can't decide what episode I hate Cameron more in: this one or "Merry Little Christmas".

I could forgive her for being flaky in "Maternity" because I think she was still pretty new. But at this point she had been working for House for over a year and should have learned how to deal with this. When we met her, she had been to medical school, done an internship at the Mayo Clinic, done a fellowship in Immunology and been board certified in the later. Fifty years ago, doctors routinely didn't tell people they were dying, shielding them from the bad news. In this day and age, playing God like that is inexcusable. Whether Cindy would have used the time to update her will, go to Lourdes or seek 20 second opinions, it was her right to know. She had "six months, tops" and Cameron stole several days of that from her.

When we met her, she had been to medical school, done an internship at the Mayo Clinic, done a fellowship in Immunology and been board certified in the later. I'm trying to give her the benefit of the doubt. But it is difficult with all the training she supposedly had. I wonder if there's even a remote chance that she made it through all schooling and interning and still had very limited experience telling patients that they're going to die. As we learned in "Three Stories", students do learn how give bad news through role-playing. Maybe she couldn't transfer that to the real world? It just seemed to me in "Maternity" that she was extremely new to it. But I would think it would be a requirement to be board certified. But she certainly should have learned how do it by this episode, given what happened in "Maternity". In any case, it is extremely sad that it took an "unnecessary" biopsy and a Wilson confrontation to finally get her to tell Cindy. Fifty years ago, doctors routinely didn't tell people they were dying, shielding them from the bad news. In this day and age, playing God like that is inexcusable. Whether Cindy would have used the time to update her will, go to Lourdes or seek 20 second opinions, it was her right to know. She had "six months, tops" and Cameron stole several days of that from her. Totally agree. The worst part is that Cindy had a lot of inclinations that something was wrong and kept asking about it. And Cameron kept lying to Cindy for really no reason but to "hang on to delusions". Just terrible.

I've lived through family with the six months to live scenario (as I'm sure others out there have). If any doctor had dicked around with us the way Cameron did with her patient, I would have been beyond pissed. In fact just thinking about this episode makes me detest Cameron all over again. She wasn't acting on her patient's behalf, she was coming up with excuses to try and salve her own issues. (Even if -- and that's a mighty big if -- there was a chance that it wasn't cancer, she should have told the patient that's what they suspected so the patient could prepare herself.) Whoever says Cindy Lou Who wouldn't have used that six months to go live out some of her dreams and who says that she didn't have friends she loved as much as family, and who loved her? How dare Cameron make assumptions? (Yeah, like I said, just thinking of that episode gets me going.)

View Full Version: 2.01 Acceptance