Chapter 10
Inside the converted waiting room, the whiteboard had already suffered extensive use.
A heavy black line had been drawn across the middle of the whiteboard, dividing it in half.
Scribbled on the top half of the whiteboard in Wilson's barely legible handwriting were the symptoms that House's team-turned-family could not attribute to any pre-existing cause:
Cardiomegaly (A/N – this means enlarged heart)
Hepatomegaly (A/N - this means enlarged liver)
Bradycardia (A/N – this means abnormally slow heart rate)
Hypotension (A/N – this means abnormally low blood pressure)
Photophobia (A/N – this means afraid to open eyes)
Scribbled on the bottom half of the whiteboard were the other problems for which the cause or causes were already known or suspected:
Burns
Deafness
Fx ribs, sternum
Aspiration and respiratory failure
Confusion, disorientation, possible hallucinations
Pain
Wilson had initially drawn a pretty picture of a house at the top of the whiteboard, but silly US Federal privacy regulations prevented him from putting House's name on the whiteboard in a public area where other patients' families could see, so he had to settle for leaving House's name and the pretty picture off of the white board.