[voiceover] We go into medicine because we want to save lives. We go into medicine because we want to do good. We go into medicine for the rush, for the high, for the ride. But, what we remember at the end of most days are the losses. What we lay awake at night replaying is the pain we caused or failed to cure. The lives we ruined or failed to save. So the experience of practicing medicine rarely resembles the goal. The experience too often is ass backwards and upside down.
“Crash Into Me, Part One” · Season 4, Episode 9
In this episode: Meredith Grey (3), Alex Karev (1), Richard Webber (1), Lexie Grey (1), Erica Hahn (1)
Hey!
I'm late for Sloan's meeting.
Yeah, so am I.
Also, I'm not speaking to you. [Alex kisses her and she kisses back] I'm still not speaking to you.
You don't have to speak. [They gaze at each other until Meredith comes up the hall]
Late for Sloan. [Alex leaves abruptly, and Lexie looks frustrated]
[about a dying paramedic's wife] I've never met her before, and yet I'm the person who handed her the worst day of her life. In her story that's who I am. That's who I'll always be.
That's the job.
That's the job, I know.
Look at me. This day, this day you feel helpless, this day makes all those other days when you fight to save a life and lose, this day makes you grateful that you have a chance to do anything at all. Take it in.
[Dr.Hahn complimented Mark's skills and he told her the story of his dead mentor, who was like a father to him]
What are we, on a date here? I was complimenting your surgical skills, Dr. Sloan. Not looking through a window into your wounded soul.
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