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I'm hardly the guy to tell other people what to do, but I can tell you how I worked myself out of this psychic snake-pit.
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I'm hardly the guy to tell other people what to do, but I can tell you how I worked myself out of this psychic snake-pit.
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I'm hardly the guy to tell other people what to do, but I can tell you how I worked myself out of this psychic snake-pit.
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I'm hardly the guy to tell other people what to do, but I can tell you how I worked myself out of this psychic snake-pit.
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Nothing about the episode rings true, starting with the idea that a powerful, prosperous, influential doctor could be blackmailed into staying at some snake-pit throwback of a mental ward.
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I'm hardly the guy to tell other people what to do, but I can tell you how I worked myself out of this psychic snake-pit.
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Nothing about the episode rang true, from the Cuckoo's Nest collection of mental patients to the very idea that House could be blackmailed into staying at some snake-pit throwback of a mental ward.
For the networks, early returns for returning shows look solid 2009
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It was a snake-pit—only of cancer, a seething, immersed box coiled with illness, hope, and desperation.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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It was a snake-pit—only of cancer, a seething, immersed box coiled with illness, hope, and desperation.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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I'm hardly the guy to tell other people what to do, but I can tell you how I worked myself out of this psychic snake-pit.
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