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Inhaler lady... When I saw that clip, I started laughing out loud for the first time in Season 5. So far, lots of chuckles, but no belly laughs...until that clinic patient. Classic. My favourite clinic patient: the woman who's allergic to cats, and House's solution to her dilemma: "a sack and a river.."

That would be a great topic to look at through his character, given that he definitely would have been taught that assisted suicide is wrong in his Catholic education. I would love to see the moral and ethical dilema of it weighed through his character's perspective. That plus the fact that there's a young kid that the suicidal parent would be leaving behind makes for some interesting potential.

Could the stupid "virgin" be carrying Cuddy's future child? It's a leap, I know. I'm now almost positive that Cuddy will be getting a baby this next week. Haven't quite pinned down what House's reaction will be, unless he surprises everyone and is actually, without any prompting, truly kind to Cuddy about it. Maybe he facilitates the adoption in some way.

Could the stupid "virgin" be carrying Cuddy's future child? It's a leap, I know. I thought about it, actually. I thought that maybe that could be Cuddy's gift and it could be from House, in that it's his idea and he's the one who sets it up. So long as he doesn't offer up his sperm, I can learn to live with that idea. But yeah, I think Cuddy's getting her baby soon and I don't think she's going to get pregnant, so...yeah. I don't think the idea is that much of a leap.

I'd love a week of clinic patients. Syphilis lady remains my fave. Maybe it will turn out that it's "Painless" and it has to do with someone wanting to die to get out of pain and, perhaps, that's when the story about Chase that involves euthanasia will happen. That would be a great topic to look at through his character, given that he definitely would have been taught that assisted suicide is wrong in his Catholic education. I would love to see the moral and ethical dilema of it weighed through his character's perspective. I remember that we're getting a Chase storyline about euthanasia and I'm looking forward to it, but it would contradict canon if he were agonizing over moral and ethical dilemmas and his Catholic education. In 'Informed Consent' he was strongly in favour of assisted suicide and talked about having taken part in them before. I'm fully aware that euthanasia and assisted suicide are two different things, but it seems doubtful that he'd fully support one and be conflicted about the other. Cuddy's going to be a mom! Yay!

Actually, if I remember correctly, he said every doctor he'd ever worked with had done it which is different than having done it himself. And even believing in it and being willing to stand beside House if he did it isn't the same as doing it himself. To use a less serious example to illustrate my point, I believe it's okay to hunt and I understand that keeping the deer population down has advantages for the species as a whole. But I could NEVER, EVER, EVER go out and shoot a deer myself. It's one thing for me to think it's okay for someone else to kill a deer. It's not a line I could cross. If Chase has never actually been the doctor who performed a euthanasia, crossing that line would be a point where he might have to really examine his own ethics and morality. I find it doubtful that in his young career he's been in that position. He was a fellow when we met him, so I doubt before that time he was ever in the lead position on a case where he had the opportunity to do it.

Maybe House knows something we don't. P.S. Love your stories Dee! Always so emotional.Keep up the good work! :D

And even believing in it and being willing to stand beside House if he did it isn't the same as doing it himself. Yeah, believing and doing are two different things especially when you factor in circumstances. If those cases he had come across earlier had been elderly, terminally ill patients I can see where he'd be able to turn himself off and rationalize that it's their life and thereby their decision. Change the circumstance to a suicidal parent who would be leaving behind a twelve year old kid, and he might start to rethink his previous stand on the subject. Of course, this is all just wild speculation based on my wishful thinking that Chase be involved in this episode in any significant way. I know better than to actually get my hopes up.

Except House deliberately called the patient Mrs. Moron, and Grace wasn't married. Did Wilson sleep with another patient who was married? Or was House combining two of Wilson's sins: sleeping with a patient and committing adultery? I didn't take it that seriously, I thought he was just bringing up two pretty big flaws Wilson has, sleeping with a patient (I feel confident in saying that Grace was the only one, not that that excuses him, I just don't think there was anyone before or after her.) and aldultery. It's also a shot at Wilson going after needy women.

Question for donkeykong, if you don't mind answering: does the baby show up in "Joy to the World," or afterwards?

Is there a source for this?

I'm wondering the source too. If it is a foster care baby...that doesn't necessarily mean it's a permanent situation.

If it is a foster care baby...that doesn't necessarily mean it's a permanent situation. My thoughts exactly. And knowing this show, it probably won't be.