[voiceover] Defeat isn't an option. Not for surgeons. We don't back away from the table til the last breath's long gone. Terminal's a challenge, life threatening's what gets us out of bed in the morning. We're not easily intimidated, we don't flinch, we don't back down and we certainly don't surrender, not at work anyway.
“Sweet Surrender” · Season 5, Episode 20
In this episode: Meredith Grey (3), Derek Shepherd (1), Cristina Yang (1), Miranda Bailey (1), Arizona Robbins (1), Izzie Stevens (1)
[looking at the engagement ring Derek gave her] Does it bother you that I don't want to wear it? Because I could.
I don't want you to wear it. You're not a ring bride. [Meredith looks at him] What?
I'm not really a church wedding bride or a poofy-white-dress bride either.
We'll get naked and get married in a field of flowers.
[laughs] I'm not a naked bride.
What about scrubs? We can get married in scrubs.
Ooh, now there's a wedding I could get into.
Get a crash cart. Izzie Stevens's room. [Cristina checks her pulse. Izzie starts laughing] What?
Oh my god, I'm sorry. You should see your face right now, it's your totally freaking out face.
You're joking? This is a joke?
I'm sorry. I really did need you though. Um, I have all these dresses here and I keep trying to page Meredith to come try them on and she won't answer the page. So, will you tell her to come in here. She'll listen to you.
Is there anything else you need before I go?
No. You wanna sit a while?
No, I do not want to sit. I've been sitting and lying down all day.
Dr. Bailey.
Holding a child. If I wanted to spend the day holding a child, I would have stayed home to hold my own child. I didn't do a single medical thing today. I didn't even put a band aid on a patient. I'm... I'm just tired. I'm done.
Are you gonna tell your husband?
What would I tell him?
That it's more than just cutting. Pedes is more than just cutting. And, what you did today was heroic, and you know it.
Ok. Maybe I'll tell him that.
[voiceover] To do our jobs, we have to believe defeat is not an option. That no matter how sick our patients get, there's hope for them. But even when our hopes give way to reality, and we finally have to surrender to the truth, it just means we've lost to today's battle, not tomorrow's war. Here's the thing about surrender, once you do it, actually give in, you forget why you were even fighting in the first place.
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