"Merry Little Christmas" is the tenth episode of the third season of House and the fifty-sixth episode overall.
Dr. Wilson attempts to create a deal between Detective Tritter and Dr. House, but House stubbornly refuses, in large part because the deal involves House spending up to two months in rehabilitation, supplied only with low-strength pain medication. Eventually, Dr. Cuddy sides with Wilson and refuses House any Vicodin, causing him to deto...
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"Merry Little Christmas" is the tenth episode of the third season of House and the fifty-sixth episode overall.
Dr. Wilson attempts to create a deal between Detective Tritter and Dr. House, but House stubbornly refuses, in large part because the deal involves House spending up to two months in rehabilitation, supplied only with low-strength pain medication. Eventually, Dr. Cuddy sides with Wilson and refuses House any Vicodin, causing him to detox, and removes him from his team's case: a 15-year-old girl suffering from a collapsed lung and anemia.
The patient, Abigail, and her mother, is considered to be suffering from cartilage-hair hypoplasia, a type of dwarfism. Abigail also presents with apparent liver cancer and diabetic ketoacidosis, among other things.
House picked up a prescription for pain meds from the hospital pharmacy, supposedly for a patient of Wilson's (it turns out the patient has recently died). Cuddy offers House Vicodin, asking him to come back to help with Abigail...
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