Water Cooler Talking Points - House

1. The yips - Foreman, a week removed from killing a woman, runs into a similar case with a leukemia patient who has had full body radiation in preparation for a bone marrow transplant from his brother. Before that can happen, the brother comes down with an infection. Foreman's overly-cautious approach to the case causes House to say he has "the yips," and that Foreman won't get over them. This approach leads Foreman to talk the parents into accepting a partial match donor for their cancer-ridden son.

2 He apparently got over them - The transplant using partial match marrow doesn't go well, and that son is dying of host versus graft disease. The infected son is also fading fast, and House makes the suggestion that they use the cancer son - who is going to die - to find out what the other son has by intentionally infecting him, as his lack of immune system will allow the infection to grow quickly. Just before allowing this, Foreman and Wilson figure out that the infected son has a fungus, which is treatable. As Foreman is giving the son treatment, he decides that even slightly fungal marrow is better than none, and gets enough for the transplant. But he apparently can't sedate the kid before harvesting the marrow, which requires several injections. Ouch.

3. He'd rather hit for average - In the aftermath of this, Foreman decides he'd rather kill fewer patients than save as many as House does, and gives his two week notice.

4. Dog gone - In non-medical news, House has taken in Hector, Wilson's dog from hell. House tried to rid himself of the pooch by leaving out a bottle of Vicodin and later leaving his door open, but all he gets for his trouble is a stoned dog and a stolen stereo. House gets to give the dog back when he learns that Wilson's ex has had her condo association rules changed to allow pets, and House seems a little sad at this - but too sad when Hector limps over to Wilson in a canine homage to House.

5. Is this still going on? - Chase is still on his weekly reminders to Cameron about his interest in her. She still isn't interested. I have a feeling sweeps may change this.