[voiceover] At any given moment, the brain has 14 billion neurons firing at a speed of 450 miles per hour. We don’t have control over most of them. When we get a chill...goose bumps. When we get excited...adrenaline. The body naturally follows its impulses, which I think is part of what makes it so hard for us to control ours. Of course, sometimes we have impulses we would rather not control, that we later wish we had.
“I am a Tree” · Season 3, Episode 2
In this episode: Meredith Grey (3), Cristina Yang (3), Miranda Bailey (2), Derek Shepherd (1), Preston Burke (1)
Benjamin O'Leary, 32, in for the removal of a brain tumor that's pressing on his frontal temporal lobe. Clearly it's affecting his impulse control.
BBenjamin
It makes me say everything I think. Which apparently is annoying. This doctor looks annoyed anyway. Although it's hard to tell cause she always has kind of a pinched uptight look on her face. Am I annoying you?
It's fine.
RRuthie
You can't say it's fine. He doesn't perceive sarcasm or irony. If he's annoying you, you have to tell him.
BBenjamin
Maybe I'm not annoying her Ruthie.
No, you are.
Doctor Yang!
He asked!
Okay Benjamin, Doctor Yang, pinched and annoyed though she may be, is going to prep you for surgery today. Do you have any questions for me?
BBenjamin
[about Meredith] Is that blonde your girlfriend? 'Cause the way you keep looking at her, you might as well just mount her right here and now. [Derek and the interns are trying not to laugh.] I'm sorry was I rude?
Dr. Montgomery-Shepherd is out sick, you can cover the pit, or you can... you can tell me whose damn panties are on the bulletin board! [everybody in the background starts snickering]
[whispers to Meredith] Is it yours?
This is a hospital. People, serious work happens here. We save lives! [interns laugh] Oh, something funny? Whose're these?
This is bad. This isn't good.
You better claim them. She thinks they're mine!
Claim them? No.
Yeah I know it's one of you. It's always one of mine. Always. So, tell me. Which one of you left your damn drawers on my surgical floor?
Your mother wants to have coffee with me!
And?
And, she thinks I'm a racist. Oh, and a stripper. She thinks I'm a racist stripper!
[voiceover] The body is a slave to its impulses. But the thing that makes us human is what we can control. After the storm, after the rush, after the heat of the moment has passed, we can cool off and clean up the messes we've made. We can try to let go of what was. And then again...
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