Dizzy Land

It was yet another busy day at PPTH. House had just been given a new patient so, of course, Lisa Cuddy had been plagued with complaints about him. It was the cycle of things. Annoyed next of kin, annoyed doctors, annoyed Wilson (though really she couldn’t blame him). And then, of course, House felt the need to come in every chance he got to talk her out of putting him on clinic duty. He had three other doctors working for him. Two hours in the clinic wasn’t going to hurt the patient. And it wasn’t as if House saw his patient unless he had to anyway.

And then Cameron came into Lisa’s office around three in the afternoon, also complaining about House. Apparently the cane-wielding doctor wouldn’t accept that the patient had lupus. Though honestly, in this case, House was the one who should have been complaining. Of course it wasn’t lupus. If it had been, House wouldn’t have been given the case. Lupus was far too easy to diagnose. The case would have gone to another doctor. She told Dr. Cameron this, and had her get back to work.

Lisa took a group of student interns on a tour of the hospital, then went back to her office to find House there. He’d brought her a cup of coffee, which was sweet of him. But if anyone knew that House was never sweet unless he wanted something. Sure enough he came out with it. He wanted to do an upper endoscopic ultrasound on his patient, and that was just out of the question. The patient’s throat would collapse and he could die. Fifteen minutes passed by, full of comments about how Lisa’s cleavage was not fit for the workplace and how House had to learn the meaning of the word no. Lisa turned him out of her office.

The last thing she remembered before appearing in this amusement park was gathering her coat and locking her office to leave for the night.

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((Please welcome Lisa Cuddy from the TV show House MD. Though...I can't promise she'll be similarly welcoming.))