Go Cuddy, go Cuddy, kickin’ ass, stayin’ fit - OH! You’ve got a pain! But youuuuu’re still going! Yay Cuddy! Of course, she ruins it all for me by being a raging classist bitch to her handyman. She won’t let him go, even though his asthma is acting up. She doesn’t want to be embarrassed at her dinner party tonight by a leaky roof. The poor guy agrees to stay and finish, and Cuddy goes inside, where she has another pain. It just looks like PMS to me, since she’s indicating pain at her right ovary. (Look at me, talking like a doctor.) Then she starts choking and coughing. Yeah right. Who do you think you are, Six Feet Under? Obviously she’s fine, just a little taken aback when Alfredo falls off the roof.

Cuddy accompanies Alfredo in the ambulance, and figures out he’s not paralyzed, at least. However, his fingers are turning purple. Alfredo asks if that’s bad, and Cuddy responds by staring, terrified, at the EMT. Terrified staring is TV-speak for ‘yes.’

When they get to the hospital, House, Cuddy, and Wilson talk about the case and use lots of complicated medical speak that I don’t understand, but that’s OK. What’s important to know is that House sexually harasses the bejeezus out of Cuddy here (she’s still wearing her workout clothes).

Chase is trying to treat Alfredo, but the guy does not want to be in the hospital. His mom and little brother are there, and Alfredo is explaining that he has to work, as he’s the breadwinner for the family. Chase doesn’t understand this language of the poor people and gets all huffy. Later, Cuddy gets all frantic and orders the most extreme course of action for Alfredo – drugs that help with blood clotting that she thinks is causing his dying fingers. Of course, she second-guesses herself later as she talks with Stacy. Meanwhile, House is discussing Alfredo with Wilson. I really like Wilson as House’s sounding board, and it looks like the Cuddy-Stacy relationship might be paralleling that. This is good, because this show needs more sympathetic female characters. And by “more,” I mean “one, just one, oh please oh please before Cameron turns me into a complete misogynist.”

B-story time, and this time it stars Foreman. His issue: racism. He has a clinic patient, an older African-American man who refuses to take medication that’s specifically targeted to African-Americans. He’s sick of whitey propagating lies to the black man. Actually, his argument is a little tenuous, but it’s just a setup for Foreman to get in a fight with House later.