Watch House Season 1 Episode 16, Heavy
March 16, 2009 by House MD Episodes
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Watch House Season 1 Episode 16, Heavy
Heavy is the 16th episode of the house, which is an American medical drama series. David Shore and Bryan Singer produced the series. This series was aired on the fox network on 29th march during the year of 2005. The main plot of this episode is that a ten-year-old girl who is obese suffers a heart attack during her gym class at the school. She is then admitted in a hospital and the team of Dr. House is trying to save the girl but Vogler pressurizes Dr. House to fire at least one member from their team.
Jessica is a ten-year-old girl and is also very obese. She is not feeling well and still she makes her way to the school. She attends her gym class at her school and when she does her exercises she suddenly complaints of severe chest pain and then she collapses. Dr. House's team is under pressure to fire one member from their team and the case of the girl Jessica is being referred to him. They go on for a number of tests to find the reason behind her collapse but her mother says her weight was the reason. At the same time, Dr. House meets another very obese person Lucille. She is suffering from heartburns and she does not accept that she is pregnant despite the claims of Dr. House's team.
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During these tests, Jessica becomes very irrational and hypoglycemic. This forces the doctors to put her under sedation. The lab tests provide negative results for her being hypoglycemic. The team starts believing that she may be taking diet pills, but Vogler plays a few games to know what Dr. House's team is thinking. In addition, they find that Lucille is suffering from benign 30 pounds tumor. But Lucille refuses to go for a surgery thinking that it might make her look ugly. But further investigations revealed that she has been sleeping with other man who loved her body.
Meanwhile from investigations, Dr. House's team finds that Jessica has been taking diet pills. Jessica also admits that fact and they find her bleeding from necrosis in her chest. They think that radical mastectomy is the only procedure to be carried out so that she stops bleeding and to stop the spreading of necrosis. They make the necessary arrangements for her surgery and Dr. House's team believes it is the Cushing’s syndrome, which causes hyper cortisone levels that is responsible for these symptoms. The team then uses a MRI scan to find the exact location of the hyper cortisones.
They also detect the presence of a tumor in her pituitary gland that was responsible for all these symptoms. They perform a surgery to remove the tumor present in her pituitary gland and complete the surgery successfully. After the surgery, Jessica starts losing her weight slowly. House finally decides he is going to fire Dr. Chase and he meets Vogler with that decision. But Vogler refuses the proposal to fire someone other than Dr. Chase or that the whole department will be fired. The episode ends here leaving Dr. Cameron writing up her resume.
