[voiceover] When you've tried everything but that headache don't go away, you can't stop coughing, the swelling don't go down. That's when you turn into a professional. As surgeon we spend years developing skills of perception that allow us to see exactly what the problem is. Trouble is sometimes all that time spent developing those skills of perception can leave a person with an extremely narrow point of view... And how are you supposed to argue with someone who has science on their side?
“Have You Seen Me Lately?” · Season 8, Episode 15
In this episode: Meredith Grey (3), Alex Karev (1), Richard Webber (1), Callie Torres (1), Lexie Grey (1), Amelia Shepherd (1), April Kepner (1)
Hey, you paged?
Look, I can remove the tumor and the diseased carotid together. All I have to do is run balloon catheters in through the femoral, place them in precise position, inflate them to stop the blood flow, do two arteriotomies, then feed a hepernized shunt into place, and reestablish blood flow.
That's all?
Oh, and I have to do it in 90 seconds. Any more than that and she strokes out.
Is that even possible?
Not sure. I would love to test it out.
We should set up a simulator.
Uh, don't we need to get Derek's approval?
Yeah, but that shouldn't be a big problem--
He loves to say no to me. That is his favorite thing to do.
Maybe you should refrain from calling him a jackass.
I can't help it, 'cause he is one.
Maybe I should ask him.
Would you? He's in surgery, OR 2.
[turns to leave but stops] You just called me down here so that I would go to Derek for you, made me feel like it was my idea.
Aren't I good?
Amazing.
Meredith Grey.
No. Not Grey. Yang, maybe.
Yang's a cowboy.
Kepner.
[makes face] Kepner?
Not Kepner. Definitely not Grey. She spent all that time in neuro, and suddenly, she's chasing general. She's unfocused.
You're underestimating her. I think she'd surprise you.
[chuckles] She'd have to.
She will.
She'd have to come to me.
You guys studying for the oral boards in the middle of the day?
It's just another benefit of having a study buddy. You should get one.
I have one. It's just that my stupid study buddy's too busy trying to save her stupid marriage to actually help me study.
Well, you know what's better than a study buddy? A study lackey. Check it. [to intern] Hey, you. [whistles] Brown-haired girl, you're up.
MMorgan
[walks up] Uh, trauma incident or a surgical situation?
You made your interns come up with study questions?
[to Morgan] Surprise me.
[voiceover] We may not like it but it really is important to stop every once in a while, get out of your own head and see the bigger picture. Actually find out that you were looking things all wrong can be sort of liberating. And suddenly you see new potential, new possibilities, where you’d never seen them before. And that's all fine when a hopeless situation suddenly looks good. Unfortunately sometimes it goes the other way.
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