[voiceover] Question: When was the last time a complete stranger took off her clothes in front of you, pointed to a big purple splotch on her back, and asked, "What the hell is this thing?" If you're a normal person, the answer is hopefully "never". If you're a doctor, the answer is probably about five minutes ago. People expect doctors to have all of the answers. The truth is we love to think that we have all of the answers too. Basically doctors are know-it-alls until something comes along that reminds us we're not.
“That's Me Trying” · Season 7, Episode 7
In this episode: Meredith Grey (2), Alex Karev (1), Callie Torres (1), Arizona Robbins (1), Owen Hunt (1), April Kepner (1)
[running a simulation] Sir! You said the helicopter was gonna be here hours ago, And it's not here, and I'm not complaining, but where is it?
Well, the rain's still pretty bad. Probably got caught in a hail storm.
[Intern Steve approaches with index card update on "patient's" condition]
No! No! I know what that card is gonna say. It's gonna say he has cardiac tamponade with associated hypotension and bradycardia, but he can't, 'cause I already did a pericardiocentesis and bolused with IV fluids.
SSteve
She's right. What do I do? Do I ...
Karev! Grab his feet. [Karev goes to grab Steve's feet] The patient! Come on!
Hey, hey, hey. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
This is awesome! [helping to load dummy onto ambulance]
Whoa, whoa, whoa. What do you think you're doing? This ambulance is not in play.
Oh, you're just making stuff up, which I can do too! And I say it is in play. Can't fit nine patients on an ambulance, but two will fit just fine. Seven of my patients may have died today, but these two won't! 'Cause I'm gonna get them on this ambulance, and I'm gonna take 'em to that hospital right there!
Alright!
Kepner, this ambulance was involved in the accident and no longer runs.
There are keys in the ignition, so let's see. Looks like I got triple-A. Ha! Apparently they could get here when the helicopter couldn't. Now MOVE! Or I will run you down!
[to Alex] Go. Let's go. [They run to hospital entrance. Ambulance pulls up]
John Doe, multiple chest and extremity trauma. Still hypotensive despite two large-bore IVs started in the field.
All right, Kepner. That's enough.
We need a full workup and likely a thoracotomy. [walks into hospital carrying dummy over her shoulder] I suspect active bleeding in the chest.
Will you tell us we won, or she's never gonna stop.
It's not a contest.
Karev! Call the OR and make sure that there's a room available.
Will do.
All right, all right, fine. Blue team wins.
Blue team wins?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you win. He's gonna live for 40 more years and have 15 grandkids. You happy?
[drops dummy] Blue team wins!
Yes.
[hugs Alex] Yeah!
Callie Okay. Fine. I don't want to go to Africa. But I do wanna be with you. Okay? So, I'm really trying here. We're going miss our plane, let's go. Oh my god! Okay, you wanna fight? The flight is eighteen hours, we can fight on the plane.
Arizona You are ruining this for me. And I don't wanna do this.
What? What does that mean? What, you suddenly don't wanna go or?
I don't wanna go to Africa with you.
Arizona. No, okay? No.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
You're sorry, you're sorry? It's three years.
I'm gonna miss my plane. You take care of yourself.
No. No! Please. Please I can - we can do this, we can figure this out.
You stay here and be happy. And I'll go there and be happy.
If you get on that plane, if you go without me, we are done. Do you hear me? We are over.
We are standing in the middle of an airport, screaming at each other. We're already over.
[voiceover] We're all looking for answers in medicine, in life, in everything. Sometimes the answers we're looking for have been hiding just below the surface. Other times we find answers when we didn't even realize we were asking the question. Sometimes the answers can catch us completely by surprise. And sometimes, even when we find the answer we've been looking for, we're still left with a whole hell of a lot of questions.
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