Thirteen makes it clear she doesn't want to drag down Foreman. Foreman thinks Thirteen is avoiding him after they kissed. Foreman does the environmental scan with Thirteen and find more drugs than House uses. The responses of the patient, wife and son are consistent.
House orders a pain assessment to rule out anything psychosomatic, and an environmental scan. None of the patient's previous doctors have found anything wrong with him. Cameron dismisses Thirteen's diagnosis of fibromyalgia and Taub's guess that it is mental illness. House thinks it is drug seeking behavior, but Cameron points out the patient had narcotics and didn't even use them to try to commit suicide. House apologizes for not doing his budget, but Cuddy says Cameron did it for him so she would be owed a favor.Ĭameron comes to him with patient - he's in chronic pain with no seeming cause. House meets Cuddy at the hospital entrance when he comes in - she is usually there much earlier and he guesses her new baby made her late, but it was her administrative duties instead. While in the bathtub, he gasps in an effort to handle the increasing pain, then he moves his leg up out of the water and examines it. House is having pain problems of his own. He says he just couldn't take the pain any more. House finds a leak in his water pipes.Ī man tries to commit suicide by inhaling carbon monoxide, but his wife and son come home early and rescue him. Cuddy finds that taking care of her newly adopted baby leaves her little time to run a hospital and baby-sit House at the same time.
Meanwhile, Foreman and Thirteen explore their now complicated relationship as they work together on the Huntington's disease clinical drug trial. When the patient again attempts suicide under the team's care, their search for answers becomes urgent. As they try to determine whether the man's pain is psychosomatic or caused by a physical disease, parallels between the patient and House's experiences with excruciating, prolonged pain become apparent.
At Cameron's urging, House and the team take on the case of a man living with such severe chronic pain that he tries to kill himself, unable to go on after living for years without a diagnosis or any relief from his suffering. Painless is a fifth season episode of House which first aired on January 19, 2009. When your life sucks from the beginning, there's nowhere to go but up" ―Painless " Well it's people like me who don’t do it.