Differential Diagnosis II [Closed to Chase, Wilson, Amber, Cameron, Foreman, and Cuddy]

[c18_h21_no3]

Four new symptoms. Four new patients. Four less hours without a diagnosis

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[chasemd]

"I've biopsied the stripper. I'm waiting on Pathology. His symptoms are compromised by the concussion so he's not following the same pattern as the others. Fever started later," Chase said, consulting his notes. "Rob's maxed out. You give him anymore phenobarbital and you're going to put him in a coma or fry his brain. We need to avoid that. The minute he's comatose, we have seven days. He's coughing up fresh blood. It's hard to confirm if it's coming from his stomach or his chest. It's not going to hurt to do an endoscopy like Wilson suggested. The Meningitis test was negative. We should repeat it just in case."

[dean_ofmedicine]

"There's a young newlywed couple in the ER as we speak. They came into the clinic with the same symptoms. She thought she might be pregnant, which is why they didn't present sooner. The husband has a rash on his torso similar to Rob's," Cuddy revealed. She looked at House calmly. "I'm surprised you even have plans to respect his wishes on the artificial prolonging of life."

[headofoncology]

Wilson placed his pen down on the legal pad before him. "It's not mesothelioma. The cytology from the biopsy was negative. There was no abnormal cancer cells. You could do a laparoscopy to double check cells in the abdomen, but I wouldn't recommend it. His condition is getting worse. It's just going to weaken him more to do unnecessary tests."

[cutthroatbitch]

Amber was really trying not to take it personally how much Wilson was making a concerted effort to ignore her. He had chosen the seat furthest away from him, and she was sure if he could, he would have sat in Foreman's lap to just get that bit further away. It wasn't her fault she was dead. She wasn't dead when she got here, in fact, they were having some really hot sex. She knew there wasn't going to be anything romantic between them, but it would have been nice if they could be friends and would be nice if he wasn't treating her like she was, well, a corpse. "He requested it. If I didn't give it to him, for all we know, he would have pulled the plug on letting us touch him at all," she threw back with a glare in House's direction. "I tried to talk him out of it, but he wasn't having a bar of it. I think he's worried we're going to tell him at any minute he's got something that means he can't go back to the Army. He doesn't know anything but being a soldier. No one can blame him for not thinking completely rationally right now. But