[voiceover] As surgeons we are trained to fix what's broken. The breaking point is our starting line...at work. But in our lives the breaking point is a sign of weakness and we'll do everything we can to avoid it.
“Here Comes the Flood” · Season 5, Episode 3
In this episode: Meredith Grey (4), Miranda Bailey (1), Mark Sloan (1), Lexie Grey (1), Dr. Wyatt (1)
You can see the remaining tumors easily identified here.
Her liver looks so healthy.
That's the beauty of general surgery. See badness surrounded by goodness. Cut out the badness, all's right with the world. It's just you and your scalpel, one on one, mano a mano.
[to Lexie, at the bar] Photographic memory, huh? [pause] Periodic table. Go.
Hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, neon, sodium, magnesium, aluminum, silicon, phosphorus, sulfur. I can keep going.
[to her shrink in the elevator] What was the point? All those hours and all that money? What's the point? The world is a horrible place. Young people die of diseases. It makes absolutely no sense to try to be happy in a world that's such a horrible place.
[to Meredith] Yes.
What?
Yes, horrible things do happen. Happiness in the face of all of that, that's not the goal. Feeling the horrible and knowing that you're not gonna die from those feelings, that's the point. [she stops the elevator] And you're not done. You've made progress because you're feeling and you're telling me about it. Six months ago, it would have been just you and a bottle of tequila. My door is always open.
[voiceover] Bones break. Organs burst. Flesh tears. We can sew the flesh, repair the damage, ease the pain. But when life breaks down when we break down there's no science. No hard and fast rules. We just have to feel our way through. And to a surgeon there's nothing worse, and there's nothing better.
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