What's your name?
Hannah Morganthal.
You have CIPA, Hannah Morganthal.
No, I don't.
We have to do x-rays to make sure you don't have internal injuries. Blood tests to make sure no infections. EEG for neurological anomalies. And... biopsy a spinal nerve.
Whoa whoa whoa. Congenital insensitivity to pain is one of the rarest conditions on the planet. There's only been about... sixty documented cases —
Yeah, and I have... seven reasons to think that she's one of them.
She says she's not.
That's reason number one. She knew what it was without us telling her. Two, she's still wet from the snow, but she's not shivering. That's odd. Unless she can't sweat or feel hot and cold.
The ambulance was warm. I want to see my mother.
Three, scarring around the lips and tongue. When she was a baby, she would chew on herself without feeling it.
I fell through a window when I was a kid.
Four, when you cleaned the wound, she flexed into the cleaner instead of away from it. It's hard to fake pain when you've never felt it. Takes an imaginative leap, Ms. Morganthal. That's one of them Jew names. Ashkenazis are a higher risk group.
On the other hand, she says she doesn't have it. And she'd be dead by now if she'd never been diagnosed.
They killed our Lord. You gonna trust them? She wants to see her mom. If she admits having CIPA, she knows we're not letting her go anywhere without a battery of tests.
You said you had seven reasons.
I pulled a number out of the air. What, five isn't enough?
Five lame reasons aren't. [turns away] I'm taking her to see her mom as soon as —
[House suddenly hits Hannah's good leg with his cane, but Hannah doesn't move]
I can hit her again if six isn't enough.
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