Marco Pelaez

When a college student collapses after a bout of raucous sex with his girlfriend, Dr. House and his team scramble to figure out why. He’s got too many symptoms to add up to just one disease and soon his immune system is so perilously compromised a simple cold could kill him. As his condition deteriorates quickly, House needs to think - and get more Vicodin. But when Wilson nags House about his nasty pill habit it proves extremely useful to House, just not in the way Wilson intended.

While trying to figure out why a young patient won't stop bleeding, House takes Cuddy's challenge and goes off Vicodin for a week in exchange for no clinic duty for a month. If House and his team can't determine the source of his patient's blood loss, the 16-year-old car accident victim will die in a matter of days. As House's withdrawal symptoms become more and more severe, his directives for his patient are more harsh and risky than usual, forcing Foreman and Cameron to fear he may not be thinking clearly enough to save the patient's life.

While Princeton-Plainsboro Hospital is rife with rumor and speculation about House’s imminent date with Cameron, House apparently scares a meek clinic patient into having a stroke. The team must navigate their way through the patient’s odd proclivities, overbearing "friend" and reluctant parents in order to stop the strokes and try to save the guy’s life. All the while, Wilson, Cuddy and the team offer House dating advice and lay odds on the outcome.

A young man forced to take on the role of father to his young siblings is faced with a choice that could potentially save his life or break up his family; and Tritter has put serious pressure on Wilson to admit he knows the truth about House’s use of pain medication.

House is on a mission to get his handicapped parking spot back while he and the team take on the case of a teenage gypsy whose family refuses all modern medical treatments.