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Synopsis: When a teenage faith healer, Boyd ( Thomas Dekker ), becomes House's ( Hugh Laurie ) patient, the doctor thinks the boy is a fraud. However, when Boyd seemingly cures a cancer patient ( Tamara Braun ), he shuts down House's attempts to diagnose his ailment, believing God will choose to cure him instead. My Thoughts: I wasn't overly crazy about the intro to this episode. I prefer it when the show tries to throw a bit of a curve ball, such as having one person be out of breath only to discover someone else is sicker. This intro, in comparison, was very predictable and seemed to choose irony over any sort of attempt at a surprise. The part about Cameron ( Jennifer Morrison ) and Foreman ( Omar Epps ) feuding was way too much of a storyline. I wasn't crazy about it in the previous episode but could have lived with it if it were just a one-and-done thing. Having it carry over to other episodes was overkill because it just isn't that interesting of a story. Th...

Synopsis: Cameron ( Jennifer Morrison ) is angry at both Foreman ( Omar Epps ) and House ( Hugh Laurie ) when Foreman chooses to publish a paper similar to the one she was waiting for House to read and approve. The tension rises when they attempt to diagnose a patient ( Jayma Mays ) suffering from insomnia and curing her involves a liver transplant from the patient's girlfriend ( Dahlia Salem ), a woman their patient intended to break up with before becoming ill. My Thoughts: I often wonder how Cameron became a doctor. I get it, she's a nice person overall. However, I find it hard to believe she somehow made it through medical school without having any sort of competitive bone in her body and, frankly, she seems more than a little bit childish at times. It's no wonder nobody takes her seriously. Foreman's an ass, but he wasn't wrong. At no point during the course of the show, at least through this episode, has there been any indication of him and Cameron being frien...

Synopsis: Foreman's ( Omar Epps ) supervision over House ( Hugh Laurie ) is put to the test when House insists on treating Anica ( Cynthia Nixon ), a woman who had a seizure shortly after meeting him at a horse track. House is confident Anica is sick but faces opposition from the rest of the team, who believe she is suffering from Münchausen syndrome and faking her symptoms to get attention. My Thoughts: Having Foreman being House's boss was one of Cuddy's ( Lisa Edelstein ) worst decisions . Even on a temporary basis, it just didn't make sense. I know the other options were limited, especially since both Cuddy and Wilson ( Robert Sean Leonard ) would also have been bad choices, but there had to be some other doctor from a different department that was knowledgeable enough to look over House's shoulder and report anything that wasn't above board. It's not like his supervisor needed to be able to diagnose people, he/she just needed to make sure he wasn't...

Synopsis: Cuddy ( Lisa Edelstein ) offers to give House ( Hugh Laurie ) a month off from clinic duty if he can go a week without pain killers. The bet seems to compromise House's ability to diagnose a teenager ( Nicholas D'Agosto ), upsetting the boy's father ( Mark Harelik ) and making his team question his judgement. My Thoughts: I get the point Cuddy was trying to make about House's use of Vicodin , however I do question the overall execution of what she was trying to prove. Having him be in pain the entire week seemed counterproductive, especially since he was still trying to practice medicine. Why not help him by demonstrating pain managing alternatives at the same time? You know, like Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) did with that "masseuse?" House's team really wasn't much of a help either. Yeah, sure, he was compromised because he was off his meds and that was maybe causing him to make poor decisions. However, I didn't see anyone else stepping...

Synopsis: When a high school student, Matt ( John Patrick Amedori ), collapses during an exam House's ( Hugh Laurie ) team eventually suspects he has been poisoned, likely from a pesticide used while tending to his garden. However, that theory is thrown for a loop when another student ( Ulysses Lee ) comes into the emergency room with similar symptoms and seems to have nothing in common with the first patient. Complicating things is Matt's overprotective mother ( Roxanne Hart ), who refuses to let House's staff treat her son. My Thoughts: Matt's mother is portrayed as being unreasonable , but I kind of agreed with her. It wasn't as though she was simply refusing a treatment the doctors knew would cure her son. They nearly killed him, made a second wrong diagnosis that could have also resulted in him being killed and weren't 100 percent sure about the last treatment. Waiting for a second opinion from the CDC didn't seem like such a bad idea. In fact, I'm ...