The new patient lives 10 miles from the first patient and they don't know each other. However, before they can start, a second patient with the same symptoms appears in the emergency room. House confronts the mother with the waiver in a manner that forces her to reconsider, and she agrees to treatment. She suggests House get a waiver from the mother saying she's refusing treatment. House thinks they should get a court order, but Lisa Cuddy realizes they will never get it because the only symptom is that the mother disagrees with House. She finds an empty can of disulfoton, an insecticide, but the mother says it was empty and contained orange peel oil, but Chase insists they are right. Chase performs a procedure to directly stimulate the patient's heart rate.Ĭameron goes back to the patient's home looking for pesticides. Foreman also suggests trying to find the source of the poison. Foreman suggests a targeted approach and House agrees. The patient's mother is getting more and more frustrated. They treat the patient for the poisoning, but he doesn't improve. House thinks it is organophosphate poisoning.
They report back to House, who brushes off the diagnosis of botulism because of the seizure. However, they do find spoiled tomato sauce. Foreman thinks House is doing it because House thinks everyone is an addict. At that moment, the patient has a seizure.Īllison Cameron and Foreman search the patient's home for drugs. She denies he has ever had a similar problem. She admits that she has tested his hair for drugs. Robert Chase talks to the patient, but his mother is there interfering with the questioning - she denies her son takes drugs. The team starts a differential based on the patient's negative tox screen.
Eric Foreman convinces Gregory House to take the case by saying he has ruled out all the obvious diagnoses. The patient is taken to Princeton-Plainsboro. A high school student gets nausea, abdominal pain, and dizziness and then collapses during a calculus exam.
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