When he likens the situation to her trying to control him, she realizes heвЂs claiming itвЂs like sheвЂs raping him and throws him out.Д¬ameron's cancer patient is refusing palliative care because he has screwed up his life. She still insists on him because she trusts him. He tells her her case holds no interest for him. House agrees to see the patient, but tells her he doesn't want to treat her and that he never wanted to treat her in the first place. When Cuddy tries to be helpful, the patient is defensive and insists on House. Stone is assigned to the rape patient, but the patient says she wants to be treated by House. He goes to Cuddy and asks that the case be given to someone else.ДЄ psychiatrist, Dr. House immediately deduces she got the STD from being raped. The third patient (Eve) has chlamydia, and when informed, she breaks into tears, despite how mild the disease is, and strikes out at House when he offers her pills. The first two don't have an STD, but House reminds them of the need for safe sex. However, the next patient is a very attractive young woman-it costs him $10, which he doesn't seem to mind.

House makes a point of not touching the patients, including making a patient take his own pulse. She hopes the experience will teach him some humanity. Cuddy catches him and offers him $10 for every patient he can diagnose without touching them, on the condition he pays $10 for each one he has to touch. House starts giving $50 to any patient who will leave the clinic. House admits to both, then tells him he has athlete's footвЂ¦ up his nose. The next clinic patient starts in on House's ungroomed unkempt appearance. When House tells her he prefers jail, she reminds him how much he owes her. She tells House it's either clinic or jail. She finds him in the park, using Vicodin. Cuddy finds her there and learns House is dodging her. He wants to be admitted so he can sleep in the hospital. House admits he is dodging Cuddy.Д¬ameron goes to the clinic and finds a homeless patient with terminal cancer. Wilson meets him there and they start discussing why the joggers are out there.

House takes the opportunity to go to the park. He wants the team to do the tests to get House out of clinic duty. Then he tells them to take the cockroach out of the patient's ear. House orders an MRI, a psychiatric workup and a head CT scan with blood panel. The team starts a differential and they come up with three different ideas. He convinces Cuddy to let him take this case. House trips him up and injects him with a paralytic.

All of a sudden, a patient grabs his head in pain and starts running around the waiting room. In frustration, he goes to the waiting room to tell all the people with runny noses to leave because they have a cold. He gets a run of patients who suspect they have an STD. House is banished to clinic duty for two days.

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