Backpacker: House Season3 EP12

One Day, One Room

Episode 313 : 2007-01-30

Cuddy orders House to two days of nothing but clinic duty. He starts by assembling the many who think they might have an STD. Then he ambles out to the waiting room to see how many patients are left. Suddenly, a man clutches his ear and runs around, screaming in agony. House trips the man with his cane, holds him down and administers a paralytic agent. The man becomes frozen, but at least he's no longer making noise. Unfortunately, they need to intubate because the paralytic has stopped the man's breathing.

House gathers his team to discuss the man's case. House asks what right ear pain, psychotic behavior and dizziness might indicate. Foreman throws out an acoustic neuroma that started to hemorrhage, so House asks for an MRI. Chase mentions that the man could have been psychotic first and mutilated himself. House likes that idea too, and he asks for a full psych work up. He then tells the doctors to pour some alcohol into the man's ear and pull out the cockroach. House knew this was the cause all along. He only wanted a big case to get him out of clinic duty.

Cameron, making the rounds on clinic duty, sees an old, disheveled man who's most likely homeless. He hands her a note and says that the other hospital gave it to him but he cannot read. The note says that the man has a six centimeter cancerous mass in his right lung which is inoperable. The man asks if he can sleep in the hospital because it's cold outside. Cameron finds Cuddy and spills the truth about House and the cockroach patient. Cuddy angrily tracks House down and makes it clear, once again, that either he does clinic duty or she will confess about the evidence against him. He owes her.

House returns to clinic duty and announces to the waiting room that he'll give $50 to anybody who leaves without being seen. Cuddy pulls him back into her office, desperate for a solution. She offers House $10 for every patient he can diagnose without touching. However, he will have to pay her $10 for every patient he does have to touch. So House starts plowing through patients without touching any of them.

The test results come back from the earlier STD patients, and the first two are clean. The third is a 20-something blonde female named Eve who tests positive. Eve breaks down in tears at the news even though House reassures her that Chlamydia isn't all that bad. House tries to hand her some pills, but Eve yells at him to not touch her. House goes to tell Cuddy to get a new doctor for this patient. Eve has been raped.

Cuddy explains to Eve that the hospital will assign another doctor, but Eve insists on House. House says that he isn't interested in treating her because there is nothing to treat. She is perfectly healthy. Eve doesn't care, and only wants to talk to him. House comments that she just wants to reclaim power after being raped. Eve screams at him to leave.

Eve crashes in the clinic. Cuddy and another doctor attend to her, but she is unconscious and foaming at the mouth because of a pill overdose. The doctor tells House that she had talked to Eve for over an hour but the girl said nothing. When the doctor turned her back, Eve grabbed the pill bottle.

House waits for Eve to awake and he asks her what she wants. She only wants to talk to him - about anything. House goes to his team for advice, and they suggest he give the girl his conversation. Cameron angrily says that there is no way that Eve can pretend the rape did not occur. She needs to process it. House returns to Eve and explains to her that she can't blame herself for this. Eve says that she knows that already, but she still wants to talk about nothing.

Cameron's homeless patient is hooked up to a battery of machines and IVs. He pleads with her to stop the treatment because he doesn't want it and doesn't think he deserves it. Although she disagrees, Cameron unhooks the equipment. She visits him later and questions why he wants to suffer. The man asks her why her husband had to suffer. Cameron demands he tell her how he knows about her husband. The man admits that the nurse told him.

House and Eve discuss where they went to college. House still gets no answer on why Eve trusts him. She inquires whether anything terrible has ever happened to him. He hesitates, so Eve flips his own logic back on him. Not knowing what to do, House leaves to go seek counsel. Wilson thinks he should just tell Eve the truth. Cameron advises House to say his life has been wonderful so that the girl has some hope. Foreman suggests he just admit that his life has sucked so that she will see that she too can rebound. Chase notes that there is no wrong answer.

House returns to Eve's bedside and starts into his life story. He says that he was abused by his grandmother. His parents traveled and often left him with her. She was a strict disciplinarian. House never misbehaved when she was around because he was too afraid of being forced to sleep in the yard or of being made to take a bath in ice. He never told his parents. Eve asks if any of his story is true, and House assures her that it all is. She again asks if it is true. House replies that it is the truth for somebody.

Cuddy lets House know that Eve is pregnant. He breaks the news to the girl, then offers her the chance to terminate it. Eve isn't interested because she considers abortion to be murder. House asks her if she wants to take a walk outside to get some air.

Meanwhile, Cameron's homeless patient is still suffering. She tries to force pain medication on him, but he resists. The man says that if he dies suffering, then Cameron will always remember him. Nobody else will remember him. Cameron leaves the syringe next to his bed and sits down across the room. The man later struggles for breath and dies.

House and Eve sit in a park watching people jog by. They continue their philosophical discussion. Eve argues that eternity is what we live for, and House believes that our time on Earth is all we have. Eve refuses to believe that because then there are no ultimate consequences. She needs the comfort of knowing that this all means something.

Eve wonders if her attacker feels remorse for his actions. House asks why that matters. He then inquires why she trusts him. Eve explains that there's something about him, as if he is hurt too. House confesses that his story was true. Yet it wasn't his grandmother but his father who abused him. Eve begins to acknowledge what happened to her to House.

Back at the hospital, House informs Cuddy that Eve terminated her pregnancy and has been discharged from the hospital.

第12集

這集有些特別，作為Tritter走後的第一集，疑難雜症不見了，而是冒出一個爭論N年的話題，墮胎話題。順便還帶上了一個安樂死的問題（Cameron的那個病例），其實沒什麼太多的隱喻，勉強找幾個充做背景知識吧。
1. After School Special & Dawson’s Creek
從11分34秒開始，大叔問幾位懷疑自己得了性病的門診病人這樣一個問題：“你是否看過"After School Special"，或者是"Dawson’s Creek"”
"After School Special"（《我的狂野欲望》），單看中文譯名就知道大致說的什麼了。是2003年一部關於高中生青春期的喜劇。引用網路上的介紹：

QUOTE:

迪肯、湯姆、麥克斯三名高中生，萌動的青春總愛產生對性的幻想，並且“不擇手段”收集關於異性的東西，再對性產生幻想的同時也積極的以自己的方式解決內需，並且搞笑連篇，究竟這幾個懵懂少年會如何面對這烈火焚身的局面呢？

而Dawson’s Creek（《戀愛年代》）則是1999年上映的一部連續劇，也是講述海邊小鎮Capeside裡4個青春期夥伴的故事的。

2. I read about a treatment. Some doctorwon a prize for it.
我聽說過一種治療，有位醫生因此得了獎。
16分30秒，這位以打嗝為名的騙“藥”者所說的這種治療方法，正是獲得2006年“搞笑諾貝爾”獎醫學獎的治療方法。美國田納州傑克遜維爾市大學醫院的弗蘭西斯克·菲斯米爾醫生意外的發現，用手指按摩病人肛門可以止住嚴重打嗝。他和以色列的歐戴醫生共同對這這一創新的打嗝治療手段進行了研究，並發表了論文詳細介紹操作步驟：“用手指深入病人肛門按摩其直腸，並進行緩慢的圓周運動。病人打嗝的頻率立即開始減慢，並在30秒內完全停止。”
Ig Nobel Prize（搞笑諾貝爾獎）於1991年由哈佛大學幽默科學雜誌《不可思議研究年報》（Annals of Improbable Research）、物理學會等共同主辦，與真正的諾貝爾獎幾乎同時頒獎。它的目的在於鼓勵“不尋常、幽默和具有想像力”的事物，激發人們在科學、醫學和技術方面的興趣。和另一個惡搞獎項達爾文獎（Darwin Awards，我在我的Blog上寫過一個相關的post）不同的是，搞笑諾貝爾並不是惡搞獎項，所有參選的研究成果都是真實的，並且大多數研究都在著名的科學雜誌上發表過。只是其獲獎者得不到任何獎金，還需要自費到哈佛大學出席頒獎典禮，而他們的研究成果還常被世人所嘲笑。（差距咋就這麼大捏-_-）按照傳統，獲獎者即興演講的時間只有60秒，一旦超過時限，一位8歲的女童就會跑到領獎臺前，不停地喊：“夠了，夠了，煩死人了。”而台下觀眾在獲獎者發表感言期間會照慣例向臺上扔紙飛機。為這些“搞笑科學家”頒獎的可都是真正的諾貝爾獎得主，這些大師們除了給他們頒獎之外，還有義務打掃掉所有紙飛機。-_-!
06年的“搞笑諾貝爾”名單如下，大家可以看看，搞笑背後也很有創意呀...
點擊查看

3. HOUSE: How old are you?
KID: 8.
HOUSE: And he swallowed somethingstuck to a fridge. Darwin says let him die.
17分41秒這裡其實沒什麼隱喻，要說有的話，那就是達爾文（Darwin）的“物競天擇，優勝劣汰”理論了。之所以提出來是當時看到這裡的時候我還愣了1下。House問到那個吞磁鐵的小孩多大的時候，小孩回答到是8歲。然後大叔就說：達爾文說讓他死吧。意思就是指這個孩子8歲還亂吞東西，應該被優勝劣汰掉。不過不禁想起大叔在第一季EP05 "Damned if you do"的時候做的那個"Could an eight year old do this"的表情了。。。

4. You got x-ray vision, house?
豪斯，你難道有透視眼麼？
17分56秒這裡，X-ray vision是超人著名的幾大超能力之一。

5. HOUSE: The nice thing about the abortion debate is that we can quibble over trimesters, but ultimately, there’s a nice, clean line: Birth.
HOUSE: 關於墮胎的爭論有一點便利之處就是，儘管我們可以就三期的劃分爭論不休，但最終還是有一條清晰的界限：出生。
32分43秒處，其實也是本集引起的一個深層次的話題，墮胎的話題。在美國墮胎的話題早就成為一道政治和輿論，道德和信仰，宗教和人權方面的風景線。支持墮胎的人認為胎兒沒有出生之前算不上生命，墮胎是母親應有的權利；而反對者則認為從卵子與精子結合的那一刻起，生命就已經誕生了，而每一個生命都應該受到尊重和保護。
1973年著名的Roe V Wade法案被視為過去100年美國歷史上最重要的判決之一。當時一名叫Jane Roe的孕婦就自己墮胎一事與檢查官Henry Wade對簿公堂，案子幾經周折最後上訴到最高法院，然而當時竟找不到相關的法律依據。最後大法官引用的是憲法第14條修正款，即尊重和保護“隱私權”，以7比2的票數通過墮胎合法化。
這個判決推翻了美國之前各個州的墮胎法。它肯定了在懷孕的第一期（前12周）婦女有做決定的權利；懷孕第二期（13-24周），為了婦女的健康，各州可以限制墮胎，但不能禁止；而在第三期，除非母親生命受到威脅，否則禁止墮胎。因為是大法官先有立場，再牽強用憲法解釋，因此這個判決至今仍受到爭議和批評。而大叔所說的“三期劃分”也是指這個。
值得一提的是，南達科他州06年通過了一項州法案，禁止該州州內幾乎所有的墮胎行為，甚至包括強姦和亂倫導致的懷孕。而密蘇裡、密西西比、印第安那、佐治亞、肯塔基、俄亥俄、田納西等州也打算跟進。另外就美國總統布希而言，無論是基於保守派立場，還是個人立場，他都是一名堅決的反墮胎人士。