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From this site:

In this latest episode, entitled "Skin Deep," Dr. House (Hugh Laurie) treats a teenage supermodel for heroin addiction and, in the process, uncovers a startling secret about the girl. Meanwhile, Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) hopes that House's increased leg pain indicates that his leg nerves are regenerating, and a male clinic patient suffers from high estrogen levels that allow him to experience his wife's pregnancy – including morning sickness and labor pains.

Um... They're not trying to say he might get mobility of his leg back, are they? I thought he had actual muscle removed? That doesn't grow back.

I don't know any spoilers beyond the synopsis above, which only pertains to the upcoming episode. But I'm curious from a medical and canon standpoint.

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I kind of look to "Three Stories" on that one. One man had the amputation and turned out just fine. The young girl managed to keep her leg and everything worked out. Then, you have House, the one who did not do what the doctors told him - because he thinks he knows what's best for him - and it turned him into a drug addict.

I honestly don't believe that House's infarction is what you can trace his snark and general dislike of associating with other people back to. Something more is behind that ... he's probably using the leg as an excuse now. Along with the Stacey break-up, but he's not voicing that one. Maybe to Wilson. Maybe. Fixing House's leg won't fix his mindset. Probably, it could make him worse. Drug addicts use their addictions to escape problems. Unless it's a problem he wants to deal with - medical mysteries - House is always popping those pills. If he no longer has that to fall back, with a "reason" (i.e. leg pain), he must face his life head-on.

Okay, I didn't mean to prattle on that way.