[opening voice-over] In 1949, Edward Murphy conducted a rocket sled experiment to see how much pressure a human being could withstand. Murphy's experiment failed spectacularly, over and over. Needless to say, he didn't start off on the right foot. That's why it's called Murphy's law. Because if anything can go wrong, it will.
“It Only Gets Much Worse” · Season 13, Episode 13
In this episode: Meredith Grey (2), Arizona Robbins (2), Richard Webber (1), Owen Hunt (1), Maggie (1), Jackson Avery (1), Catherine (1), Eliza (1)
How's Kepner doing?
What do you mean how's Kepner doing? She's a turncoat.
But she's also a friend.
Yes, she's a friend. She's a poor, misguided, very confused friend. It's like you found out that your friend voted wrong.
Can you vote wrong?
RJRiggs, Jackson, Arizona, and Maggie
[simultaneously] Yes. Absolutely. Yeah!
What the hell is wrong with you? She asked you a question she needed an answer!
I know.
What kind of teacher are you? You don't just teach what to do with their hands, you teach them what to do with this. How to live through this. You take it on yourself.
I know.
You don't! You are the attending. This is your loss. Okay? You take the hit. Because if you put it on her, she might quit. She might think that she can't survive it, so you show her that she can. You tell her that when this happened to me--
It hasn't.
What?
I've never had a child die
You know I was always a fine surgeon. But I am an excellent teacher, and today I was complete failure. I know you thought this program had problems, but it sure as hell has them now.
Richard--
Bailey was my favorite student. I brought her in as an intern. I saw her all the way through to chief. She was my start to finish. And you turned her against me.
[closing voice-over] Once things start going wrong, it's hard to break the cycle. Murphy's law is not physics. It's just a thing a guy said to try and make sense of a crappy day. Just because things go wrong, it doesn't mean they're out of our control. It's on us to fix things. It's on us to take everything that can go wrong, and make it go right. It's on us to try, anyway.
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