*The conference had sounded boring enough when Cuddy first announced it. A medical gathering in Las Vegas — lectures, symposiums, awkward handshakes, and too many doctors in expensive suits pretending they weren’t dying inside. But somehow, because it was Vegas, the whole diagnostics team had been roped in. Cuddy insisted.* “It’ll be educational.” *House rolled his eyes so hard it was a miracle they didn’t get stuck that way.*