House Md - Autopsy - Activity

Relate the names and characteristics to the actors on the pictures:

Gregory House (Hugh Laurie), the maverick and misanthrope protagonist of the show. House is the head of the Department of Diagnostic Medicine at the PPTH, and is specialized in Infectious Disease and Nephrology. He frequently watches medical shows and soap operas in his down time. Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein), the Chief Hospital Administrator and Dean of Medicine at the PPTH. She is both a member of the Hospital's Board of Directors and a member of the PPTH Organ Transplant Committee. James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard), the head of the Department of Oncology, and House's only friend. Wilson is also a member of the Princeton-Plainsboro Hospital Board and a member of the Organ Transplant Committee. Eric Foreman (Omar Epps), a neurologist at the Department of Diagnostic Medicine. throughout seasons one to four. He resigned from the PPTH in "Human Error", and became the head of diagnostic medicine at the New York Mercy Hospital. However, he got fired, with his boss telling him that he "confused saving a patient's life with doing the right thing". He was hired back by Cuddy in "Guardian Angels", and returned to his original position as physician at the PPTH in "Mirror Mirror". Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison), an immunologist and part of House's original diagnostic team. She was hired six months prior to the pilot episode. In "Human Error", she quits her job working for House, having developed a soft spot for Chase (who was fired in the same episode). Cameron became a Department Head of the emergency room, from season four onwards. She is also a member in the Budget Committee. Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer), an intensive care medicine specialist and part of House's original team along with Cameron and Foreman. He was hired a year prior to the pilot episode, and subsequently fired by House in the season three finale. He went on to become a Senior Surgeon at the PPTH. Chase is often mocked by House for his "pretty looks" and his Australian accent.

"Autopsy" House and his team struggle to find the cause of hallucinations that Andie is seeing. She is a 9year-old girl with terminal cancer (alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma), but tests reveal that her cancer is in remission, meaning that the hallucinations are unrelated to her cancer. Meanwhile House questions Andie's motives for her bravery, suggesting it may itself be a symptom of a problem in her amygdala. 1. What does these medical terms and expressions mean?

meds__________________ hallucinating_____________ brain___________________

Pristine CT scan __________ blood tests______________ protein markers __________ _______________________ all negative______________ remission_______________ surgeries_______________ bone marrow transplant _______________________ chemo _________________

blast radiation___________ Differential diagnosis______ _______________________ Genetic component_______ _______________________ Pregnant________________ meningial swelling________ _______________________ MRI____________________

[In the test lab] 2. Complete the dialogue with the following words: chance aorta vein smile lump hospital talk

hip thirty kissed before know last

cancer Summer

Chase: you ever had this test _______? Andi: What’s it for? Chase: This goes all the way up the ______ by your ____ into your _____. If I find something up there blocking anything I pull it out. Simple. Andie: Its gonna be easy. The doctor at Sloan told me I have a great________. Chase: Oh, you have had this test before. Andie: Sorry. I just like hearing you ______. I’ve never _______ a boy. Chase: There’s time yet for that. Andie: There was a boy last_______; I was at one of those _______ camps. Chase: Uh huh. Andie: I just never had the guts to ask him. You know there’s a good ______ I’m not going to walk out of this _______ . Even if I do I’m nine. There’s not a lot of kissing going on in the third grade. Chase: You will walk out of here, alright, and you will kiss a boy. There you go. ______. Andie: Will you kiss me? Chase: No. Andie: No one will ever _____. Chase: I’m… I’m… I’m sorry I can’t. Andie: I won’t tell anyone. Chase: Listen, you’re nine years old I’m _______. Andie: I just want to know what it feels like. Once. Chase: This isn’t your ______ chance for that. Andie: What if it is? Please kiss me.

3. House is listening to Italian opera in the locker room; he wants his team to listen to the patient’s aortic valve and downloaded the audio of her echocardiogram. Who says the following quotes? HOUSE

FOREMAN

CHASE

CAMERON

_________: “What are we trying to hear?” _________: “Her aortic valve sounds normal.”

_________: “They (tumors) tend to keep quiet on account of them not having any mouths.”

_________: “Wait. There. There’s an extra flap.” _________: “Oh you guys make me sad. Listen again.” _________: “She’s had one hallucination. Why are we operating on her? Why are we risking her life?”

_________: “Tumor” _________: “But we could hear an abnormality in the sound of the valve, which would indicate the presence of something; a tumor for example. If we can tell the surgeon where to look this is no longer exploratory surgery it’s a precision strike.”

House worries about the girl’s feelings: she doesn’t seem to be afraid of dying and this makes House thinks this is a symptom of her disease. The fears center is the hippocampus, where the amygdala is. If it cuts it, she dies. He can just perform a surgery in her Autopsy. That’s what he wants to do. But first he needs Cuddy’s approval. -------->>> 4. Did she approve the autopsy? _________ Let’s check. 5. Organize the sentences in order you think they happen – then watch them: [at Cuddy’s office]

( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (

)House: )House: )House: )House: )House: )House:

Is it still illegal to perform an autopsy on a living person? Just for a little while, I’ll bring her right back. If we do nothing she’s dead in a day, maybe a week; the kind that lasts. If it’s Tuesday, I’m wasted. I’ll see that Wilson passes that along. I want to induce a hypothermic cardiac arrest. Once the patients on bypass we siphon off two liters of blood then perfuse the brain while she’s in an MRI. )House: Don’t split hairs, if it works she lives.

)Cuddy: You’re actually talking about killing her. )Cuddy: We need FDA approval for any surgical technique used for diagnostic purposes. )Cuddy: Oh, well, in that case go ahead. Why are even talking? )Cuddy: Not invasive? You’re killing her. )Cuddy: Make sure the mom understands that this is a million to one shot. )Cuddy: It’s Wednesday. )Cuddy: Are you high?

6. Let’s see if everything was ok during the living autopsy?