House M.D. (TV Series)

Family Practice (2011)

Lisa Edelstein: Dr. Lisa Cuddy

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• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : I asked you before why you were tough on me.

  Arlene : I wasn't.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : You were and I know why. You see something in me that you didn't see in Julia and you didn't see in you: a type of ambition, a type of brains. That's why you rode me. You made me yearbook editor, summa undergrad, A.O.A. in med school. The only time I ever see light in your eyes is when you hear me talking about my job. The reason you keep coming to see me in the clinic is because you trust me. You trust my medical judgment. So here it is. If you transfer to Princeton General, you'll be treated well and you'll die. If you stay here with House, you'll be treated badly, but you'll live. I don't care if I have to slash the tires of every ambulance in this bay, Mom. I am not letting you leave my hospital.

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : [When Arlene decides to leave the hospital]  I can't believe it. What just happened?

  Dr. Gregory House : You just killed her.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Are you blaming me? This is all because you're so arrogant, you goaded her into firing you!

  Dr. Gregory House : Actually, my mistakes started a little after that, when I agreed to your brilliant scheme to keep me on the case after she'd fired me off it.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : She would have left the hospital.

  Dr. Gregory House : Only 'cause you would have let her, like you did just now.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : You think I can control her?

  Dr. Gregory House : I don't know. I've never seen you try.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : I have been rebelling against this woman my entire life.

  Dr. Gregory House : Here's what I've seen. She insults you, you complain to me. I drug her at dinner, you never let her know. We slip her medicine, happens behind her back. You never confront her and it pisses me off.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Are you taking this personally?

  Dr. Gregory House : She leaves, she dies. One day... maybe a week from now, maybe a year from now, you're gonna decide that the man sleeping next to you killed your mother. Get me my patient back.

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Which other symptoms, mom?

  Arlene : No her fault. This Dean of Medicine stuff, very impressive at parties, but she's forgotten how to be a real doctor. It's all in my file.

  Dr. Gregory House : There are 15 years of clinic visits in this file.

  Arlene : I don't want to be a bother, but isn't that what you do for a living?

• Dr. Gregory House : Just some stuff that can cause severe nausea, and permanent erctile disfunction. And which proves that your mom is doing the help. According to her diary, some contractor named Jesus, which granted, was originally a Jewish name.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Go mom.

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : [after switching her mother's meds]  Something like that comes up again - just - do what you need to do.

  Dr. Gregory House : Want me to keep you out of it?

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Yeah. I am being a coward. Which is why doctors shouldn't treat their own family. Congratulations, you were right as usual.

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : [to Arlene]  Where'd Julia go?

  Arlene : She's got a family.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : I've got a family.

  Arlene : Three kids and a husband. That's a family.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : You are always tougher on me than Julia. Why is that?

  Arlene : I'm not.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : I was thinking about when you made me run for yearbook editor. I didn't want to. I didn't have a social life my whole senior year. You let Julia do whatever she wanted.

  Arlene : We're debating 12th grade now?

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Like anything's changed.

  Arlene : What do you want, Lisa? Do you want to hear I love you both the same? Of course I do.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Okay.

  Arlene : But times like this, when we argue, it reminds me... I have more in common with her. She's nicer to me. I love you both, but I like her more than you.

• Arlene : If you're so great, how come you're not running your department anymore?

  Dr. Gregory House : What are you talking about, Mom?

  Arlene : That's what he told me.

  Dr. Gregory House : Two days ago? I said that I didn't have a department to run? I was being sarcastic.

  Arlene : No, you weren't.

  Dr. Gregory House : Right, because people who are talking can't tell if they're being sarcastic.

  Arlene : That doesn't make any sense.

  Dr. Gregory House : Of course they can. But you weren't... I love A-Rod. He's so modest and I highly respect the paintings he has of himself as a centaur. Question. Do I like A-Rod?

  Arlene : Yes. Whoever he is.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : She can't recognize sarcasm?

  Dr. Gregory House : Deficit in the right parahippocampal gyrus, which means CNS involvement before the fever. I was wrong about the endocarditis.

• Dr. Gregory House : [to Cuddy]  Your mom is a 65-year-old woman with high blood pressure.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : What about the macrocytic anemia?

  Dr. Gregory House : Borderline, which is the lab equivalent of imaginary which by the

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : You really think she's psyching herself into atrial fibrillation?

  Dr. Gregory House : So get her a cardiologist. You don't want me involved. You don't want you involved. All that ethics stuff that I don't give a crap about suddenly makes sense. If you're emotionally invested, you cannot make rational decisions. You know this would be a disaster.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : This is my mother.

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : [about Arlene]  I switched out the antibiotics, put her back on prednisone. Her breathing's normal, but the a-fib's back and her fever's up.

  Dr. Chris Taub : Allergy's got to be due to our antibiotics.

  Dr. Gregory House : Does Kaufman know what we did? That's good.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : No, that is terrible! He doesn't know that she got worse on antibiotics, so now he's thinking endocarditis. He'll put her back on the antibiotics that almost suffocated her. What do we do?

  Dr. Gregory House : We push through this. It started in the heart. Endocarditis still fits. It's just got to be fungal. We have to switch Kaufman's antibiotics for amphotericin B.

  Dr. Eric Foreman : I don't know if you're right. I don't care, but we are gonna end up killing this woman if we keep confusing her attending with these secret meds.

  Dr. Gregory House : I don't care about confusing the attending! I want this woman...

  Dr. Eric Foreman : We're not talking about simple antibiotics anymore. Amphotericin B is dangerous in itself. It's a poison. That's why it kills fungi. It'll give her fever, chills...

  Dr. Gregory House : Which she already has, which will help us hide it.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : I don't think I can take a risk like that.

  Dr. Gregory House : Well, then you shouldn't have let her fire me!

• Dr. Marty Kaufman : [to House]  I'm skipping the credentials committee. I'm going straight to the state board and reporting you for... what you've done is so off the spectrum, I don't know there's a specific name for it.

  Dr. Gregory House : [to Masters]  I think he's talking to you.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Marty, calm down.

  Dr. Marty Kaufman : [to Cuddy]  And you. What you did is worse. He's an insane lunatic. You're the Dean of Medicine!

  Arlene : I want you off my case.

  Dr. Marty Kaufman : That's exactly right.

  Arlene : Don't get excited. You're fired too.

  Dr. Marty Kaufman : What?

  Arlene : I'll never get away from House or my daughter if I stay here. Transfer me to Princeton General.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Mom, you're very ill and you're very angry. You really think now is the right time to make a decision like this?

  Arlene : You lied to me and betrayed me. Do you think I really care what you consider a good idea anymore?

• Arlene : My heart's doing that weird thing again.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Beating? That's normal for humans.