1Mistakes Shouldn't be made twice- Chapter 4
"I need a favor." Said House, barging into Cuddy's office. At Cuddy's look he rolled his eyes and clarified, " not an I-need-a-shot-of-morphine favor, an actual patient-related favor." Cuddy looked up at House and asked " What do you need?"
" My patient is 15 years old, she has no living relatives besides her aunt, who she claims hates her. She wants to make the decisions necessary to curing her illness on her own, because she doesn't trust her aunt with her life." Explained House.
"So what do you want me to do? And what does your patient have?" Asked Cuddy, puzzled.
House ignored the second part of her question. He then said in a demanding tone, " I want you to call her aunt, and make sure this girl can make decisions about her own le-life!" House quickly corrected himself. He almost said "leg", and he didn't want Cuddy knowing why he was taking this case so seriously. She would feel bad. Which wouldn't be a bad thing , really. She should feel bad for letting the same ignorant mistake be made twice in her hospital. House wanted her to feel bad, but what he didn't want was her feeling bad for him. He didn't need her pity.
Cuddy was shocked by the seriousness in House's tone and asked, slowly, deliberately, " House. What does your patient have?"
" It's nothing," House began, but Cuddy interrupted, " HOUSE! Tell me what she HAS! Because if it was nothing, you wouldn't care so much. You would let someone else come to me and handle it."She sighed, " if you don't tell me, I'll just look it up in the file..."
"FINE!" Exclaimed House, " You want to know what she has! She has a blood clot in her leg , and your idiot doctors in orthopedics let it go unnoticed! So now a fifteen year old girl is suffering from muscle death, and she wants to be able to make her own decisions because she's afraid her aunt will let them cut her leg off!" House took a semi-calming breath. His voice shook as he said, " Sound familiar?"
Cuddy was shocked by House's outburst, but she knew where he was coming from. He sympathized with this girl because she was going through the exact same thing he had gone through. After a moment, she finally found her voice, and stopped House just before he went out the door. " House!" She called, and he turned around. " I-I'll make the call. Just do what the girl-
"Kayla" stated House.
" Okay," Continued Cuddy in a sympathetic tone, "Just do what Kayla wants done." He nodded and limped out of her office, the door slamming shut behind him.