I don't recall House yelling and getting sidetracked *in this episode,* and I was confining my comments to Help Me. Just before the yelling starts, the EMT in charge pleads for an amputation, saying that they couldn't get Hannah out within the time span necessary to guarantee she'd survive toxic shock (or whatever it's called when circulation returns to the leg). House refuses, saying he was the only one who knew what a leg was worth and implies that he'd put Hannah up to suing the EMT if he amputated, upon which Cuddy sends the EMT away and asks him (nicely) to keep his personal issues with her out of it. He accuses her of being a narcissist, she says he should move on instead of making everyone miserable, and then he shouts (for everyone to hear) that was rich, coming from a middle-aged mother dating a man-child (I'm quoting loosely, but I read it up in clinic_duty before posting this rant, so I think I've pretty much got it). And that's when Cuddy yells back about everyone moving on, House having nothing and her being sick of tiptoeing around him. So basically the yelling was about House (as the attending) agreeing to an amputation. The personal stuff was incidental. From my pov it was Cuddy doing what it takes to make House see sense there. It wasn't nice, but it isn't nice either when House does that to his team or to patients and their families.
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Date: 2012-09-23 08:58 pm (UTC)Just before the yelling starts, the EMT in charge pleads for an amputation, saying that they couldn't get Hannah out within the time span necessary to guarantee she'd survive toxic shock (or whatever it's called when circulation returns to the leg). House refuses, saying he was the only one who knew what a leg was worth and implies that he'd put Hannah up to suing the EMT if he amputated, upon which Cuddy sends the EMT away and asks him (nicely) to keep his personal issues with her out of it. He accuses her of being a narcissist, she says he should move on instead of making everyone miserable, and then he shouts (for everyone to hear) that was rich, coming from a middle-aged mother dating a man-child (I'm quoting loosely, but I read it up in clinic_duty before posting this rant, so I think I've pretty much got it). And that's when Cuddy yells back about everyone moving on, House having nothing and her being sick of tiptoeing around him. So basically the yelling was about House (as the attending) agreeing to an amputation. The personal stuff was incidental. From my pov it was Cuddy doing what it takes to make House see sense there. It wasn't nice, but it isn't nice either when House does that to his team or to patients and their families.