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House episode 35: Skin deep Plot summary: A model named Alex is feeling sick just before she needs to perform so she is given anxiety medication(Valium) from her father to ease her nervousness. She goes out to the stage and starts feeling drowsy/dizzy. Alex punches another model then passes out. Meanwhile, House's leg is in pain and he needs a crutch in order to walks. The teenage supermodel experienced double vision, sudden aggressive behavior, cataplexy (know what’s happening in surroundings but cannot move or talk) and nausea. House’s assistants do a toxic screening and uncover that the model took Valium and heroin. They think she’s an addict and is suffering from withdrawal symptoms. Alex needs to be detoxed, the doctors use a rapid detox procedure, they flush her system with an opioid antagonist that will end her addiction overnight. The process is dangerous because they will have to induce a coma, and if she ever relapses she has a chance to overdose. The doctors flush her system while she’s awake and she begins to feel pain in her legs, she is put into a coma and is told she won’t feel any pain while in the coma. She had a heart attack while in the coma. She wakes up a day later and feels better but has anterograde amnesia, short-term memory loss which is evidence of a hypoxic brain injury that is the result of being off of oxygen when her heart rate flat lined or the result of rapid detox. House thinks its post-traumatic stress disorder. Alex’s Dad admitted to having sex with her because House pressured him into telling him. She had elevated proteins in her CSF. Alex had a brain biopsy done to her. House gets an MRI done to himself because of his leg and gets in trouble from his boss because he didn’t report the dad for child abuse. They test Alex for paraneoplastic syndrome by giving her IVIG which controls her twitching and improves her memory and because of this house thinks she has cancer. The doctors cannot find the tumor in her and doubt she has cancer. They eventually begin to think that she is subconsciously faking the twitching. House does and MRI on Alex and finds a tumor on Alex’s left testicle, which proves Alex is a male and has male pseudo hermaphroditism. Alex is really a boy but makes only estrogen which heightens his female characteristics. The solution that House came to was to cut of the testicles and truly make Alex a female.