Woohoo for Amazon Unbox! (though iTunes was better 
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Well, so far we’ve got another switcheroo about who is going to be the patient, right at the beginning.
“Your something something artory has been severed!” Impressive she can tell that without even looking.
[spoiler]“You’re wearing that shirt for someone.”
“The board of health. They frown on topless Oncology.”[/spoiler] 
Slight something that bugged me
Was it just me, or did that drill go at least an inch into the brain? Seems like the kind of thing they should have been testing the effect of when she came to
Given that there is only one arterythat travels through the area that was severed by the fan blade possible, I don’t see that as implausible.
She is a psychiatrist–she had med school and residency. She’s forgotten a whole bunch (also plausible).
I loved this episode; it was full of surprises.
like Cuthroat Bitch at the end. That was a shocker for me. She is only using Wilson, IMO, to get back at House for firing her. She may well be a female House wannabe, but that’s all she is. She has no soul --yeah, yeah, she cried about that one guy. So what? She is (IMO) physically unattractive and a threat to House’s one friendship. I’d like to kill her.
This is hard–to talk in spoiler boxes…
[spoiler] For once I concurred with Wilson–House did indeed like this shrink. He called her by name and said “please”. IMO, he now sees the potential for other relationships with RL women-not just hookers–she was a good step away from Stacy and those memories. Until Femoral Artery guy confessed his love for her. Then again, she hugged him, but looked right at House…Hmmm… [spoiler]
I note that this is the second episode in a row where they’ve tried selling the idea of House hooking up with someone.
I’d have to propose that they’re leading up to a real romantic interest in his life. (Though perhaps they were leading up to Wilson’s, pulling a switcheroo again.)
It wasn’t impressive that she knew which artery had been severed. It was impressive that she knew that one had been severed.
I have to disagree. That amount of blood loss in that short of a time would undoubtedly come from an artery. You don’t get that kind of spurting unless you’ve hit one of the big pipes. Considering it was obvious that it was his leg that was injured, what else would she have assumed?
Geez, I’m not a doctor and even I knew it had to be the femoral artery. I think there was a scene in Saving Private Ryan about the same artery, so anyone who watches movies might know that answer. And I agree that looking at the blood spurts on the snow would make it easy to diagnose the main leg artery.
It seems like they use this a lot, but this was the second episode in a row where the mystery is solved by actually doing a complete visual examination of the patient. I know, that in this case, it was justified, what with her being at the South Pole.
As soon as I saw the bloodspurt, I called “femoral artery”. Of course, I also said he was screwed, but luckily the cold froze the blood.
However, why did he have to drink her urine? I mean, surely, smelling it or even looking at it would have told him something. And how, exactly, would drinking it tell him anything? It’s not like he’s ever drunk urine before (well, as far as we know), so what would he compare it to?
Likewise the above critiques, plus: the FRICK!? She’s sick and knows it, and some people keep leaving her alone while she performs dangerous medical tests on herself?! Who thought that was a good idea. I may not be a doctor, but I got dollars to bet I can shove a needle in someone better than they can themselves.
She didn’t see the spurting. By the time she arrived, he’d already covered the wound, so unless she’s Dexter’s female incarnation and read the blood splatters in the snow…
It’s known as “dramatic license.” The audience knew what was going on, so why slow down the scene by showing her realize it?
Two in-jokes this week. Calling James Wilson “Bob” and saying the only good night for network TV is Tuesday.
Yes, I’m still fighting for Dio’s right to put inside jokes in his House script.
My favorite line:
Wilson: She said she cares about people? What a poser!
His delivery cracked me up big time.
For a really dramatic episode, how about a gay relationship?
I enjoyed this one, quite different with all sorts of byplay of feelings. Good thing I watched the Super Bowl or I’d not have known House was going to be on.
Was this a typical House episode? I’ve only seen bits of other shows, and it seems to get good reviews, but both my wife and I didn’t like it. He seemed to jump from one “It’s absolutely got to be <something>” diagnosis to the next several times, without really any good justification, or testing to confirm. Also I’d expect that at an inaccessible research station like the South Pole, they’d have antibiotics up the wazoo, just in case. It just didn’t seem that believable. I can see where the interaction of the people might be interesting, but I couldn’t really get past these problems.
He does tend to jump from one “It must be…!” to another. However, you get used to it and start ignoring it.
Though as I commented in House: Do we love this show in spite of its flaws?, I think that’s wasting time from the stuff that is more integral to the enjoyment of the show.
A pretty typical episode although the patient is usually at the hospital, of course. Just about every episode of “House” goes like this; a person who is apparently sick or injured in the teaser turns out NOT to be this week’s patient. Then it’s mis-diagnose, patient has bad reaction, mis-diagnose, patient has bad reaction, ect. Around the 50 minute mark, something will click with House, and the camera will move in for a close-up of Hugh Laurie’s face. Then he’ll go to the patient and do something, which appears to be reckless and outrageous but solves the case.
But there’s other character stuff going on in between the formula, and that’s the stuff that seems to appeal to most viewers. To me anyway.
This week was interesting because House was trying his usual “just try it, see if it works” approach and the patient came back with “no! If it doesn’t work I’ve just completely wasted really important resources that could totally kill someone else if they’re depleted.”
I thought that was a cool idea to write in there. I don’t know if it matters to the House Universe but it gives the Rest Of Us Universe something to think about with regards to the availability of medical resources.
I enjoyed that the week’s guest served as kind of a Greek chorus on the House formula. I can’t remember specifics, but she made several comments about “You thought it was this, and now you think it’s this. I’m not going to do anything until you have some proof.”
And when lupus was thrown out as a possibility, didn’t I hear House say, “It’s never lupus.” 
Oh, yeah: and Mira Sorvino is hot.
ETA: Er, kind of what ZipperJJ said.