House M.D. (TV Series)

Skin Deep (2006)

Omar Epps: Dr. Eric Foreman

Quotes 

• Dr. Allison Cameron : [during a team meeting in room to discuss the patient]  Labs show valium and heroin in her urine.

  Dr. Robert Chase : A supermodel on smack. Shocker.

  [gets up] 

  Dr. Gregory House : [looks away]  Oh, Alex. I expected so much more from you. Heroin chic is so five years ago.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : Okay. Let's start crossing out withdrawal symptoms.

  Dr. Allison Cameron : A positive test means she tried it once. Doesn't mean she's an addict. She's only 15.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : There's no age limit on addiction.

  Dr. Gregory House : He's right.

  [dramatically swallows some Vicodin pills] 

  Dr. Robert Chase : She's never menstruated. Sounds like a symptom of drug addiction to me.

  Dr. Allison Cameron : Or bulimia or her age. Some girls don't start 'til their mid to late teens.

  Dr. Gregory House : Evidence to the contrary: The rounded hips. The perfectly sculpted, bountiful breasts...

  Dr. Robert Chase : Implants. I've seen some of her photos. They've grown dramatically since last summer.

  Dr. Gregory House : Symptomatic of turning 14. Two clinic hours says that those love apples are handcrafted by God.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : [looks incredulous, walks over to House]  Whoa! I thought that you didn't believe in God.

  Dr. Gregory House : I do now.

  Dr. Robert Chase : You're on.

  [comes over to House and the two of them bump fists] 

  Dr. Allison Cameron : [looks disgusted]  Could we talk about her health instead of her breasts?

  Dr. Gregory House : It could be relevant. Come on, Cameron. It's nothing to be ashamed of. Many women develop breasts...

  [House slips due to pain and catches himself on a table, disrupting the table's contents while the team looks on. He regains his composure; looks back to team] 

  Dr. Gregory House : No, I'm fine.

  Dr. Allison Cameron : Even if she is an addict, a lot of her symptoms - the cataplexy, the violence - they could be neurological. We chalk this up to drugs, we could be releasing her with Juvenile M.S. or Parkinson's or...

  Dr. Gregory House : [interrupts]  So detox her.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : Fine. We'll set her up on a program that'll wean her onto the methadone.

  Dr. Gregory House : And in four weeks, we'll know you're right. Or, we'll know that Cameron's right and the pretty girl will do Milan next fall in a wheelchair. Put her in a coma, pump her full of naltrexone. Cut the four weeks in one night.

  [House exits; Cameron and Chase look to Foreman] 

• Dr. Eric Foreman : [to Martin]  Lab reports show that your daughter had heroin in her system. Were you aware of her drug use?

  Martin Robinson : No.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : We think she's suffering from withdrawal symptoms. Detoxing generally takes several weeks. The danger is that if the drugs are masking some other illness, it could worsen before we've weaned her off the heroin.

  Martin Robinson : Well, how much worse?

  Dr. Eric Foreman : We don't know because we don't know what's wrong.

  [Martin nods his head in acceptance] 

  Dr. Eric Foreman : There is a rapid detox procedure. We flush her system with an opioid antagonist. It'll end her addiction overnight. But the process is dangerous because we have to induce a coma. It also means that if she ever relapses there's a good chance she'll overdose because her body won't react to the drug.

  Martin Robinson : So, either way I'm... I'm risking her life.

  [pauses to look at Alex for a bit] 

  Martin Robinson : Do you have to tell her how dangerous it is?

• Martin Robinson : [after Alex goes into cardiac arrest during her detox]  You son of a bitch. You killed her.

  Dr. Gregory House : She's not dead.

  Martin Robinson : She had a heart attack!

  Dr. Eric Foreman : She's stable now. The anesthesia...

  Martin Robinson : Get her out of that coma.

  Dr. Gregory House : Don't think so.

  [starts to walk away] 

  Martin Robinson : Stop this. All right. I... I don't consent anymore. I want to do the slow detox.

  Dr. Gregory House : [stops walking and looks at Martin]  Did you ever get a paper cut? A really nasty one, between the fingers? Well, multiply that by about a billion and you just barely approach the kind of suffering she'll experience if we wake her up now. We're committed to this. She's out till morning. Go get a book.

• Dr. Eric Foreman : [to House]  Why would your mind go to abuse so fast?

  Dr. Gregory House : I had a funny uncle.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : You were abused?

  Dr. Gregory House : What? No. Why would your mind go to that so fast? I just had a funny uncle. Great stories. Always filthy.

• Dr. Robert Chase : [after Cameron reports that Martin had sex with Alex]  What do you think House is gonna do to you?

  Dr. Allison Cameron : No idea.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : Well, you did the right thing. If you hadn't gone to Cuddy, I would have.

  Dr. Robert Chase : If this guy'd known we'd have to report him, he'd never have told House the truth.

  Dr. Allison Cameron : She's a child. She needs to be protected.

  Dr. Robert Chase : She dropped out of high school to make millions of dollars. Why does she need more protection than some crack whore shivering in the clinic waiting room?

  Dr. Eric Foreman : I think you're just afraid to piss House off.

  Dr. Robert Chase : There's that too.