I am wearing the dress. I'm ready. And, and maybe I didn't want to before. But I want to now. I really think I want this.
I really wish that you didn't think. I wish that you knew.
S3 E25Didn't We Almost Have It All?
S4 E1A Change Is Gonna Come
[voiceover] In the practice of medicine, change is inevitable. New surgical techniques are created, procedures are updated, levels of expertise increase. Innovation is everything, nothing remains the same for long. We either adapt to change, or we get left behind.
[to new interns] I have five rules. Memorize them. Rule number one, don't bother sucking up. I already hate you, that's not gonna change.
Traumas protocol, phone lists, pagers. The nurses will page you, you answer every page at a run. A run. That's rule number two. [notices the interns are not following her] You're supposed to follow me.
The first shift starts now and lasts 36 hours. You're grunts, nobodies, the bottom of the surgical food chain. You run labs, write orders, and you work every second night until you drop. And you don't complain.
On call rooms. Sleep when you can, where you can. You know, but not with anybody. Not attendings, especially not attendings. Sleeping with attendings, not a good idea. Where was I?
Er, rule number three. If you're sleeping, do not wake you unless the patient's actually dying.
The dying patient better not be dead when I get there, because not only will you have killed someone, you will have woken me for no good reason. Are we clear? [Lexie raises her hand] Yes?
That was four rules. You said five.
Rule number five. When I move, you move. [awkward pause as nobody moves] Go! [Cristina's interns scramble off]
I really am up for a drink, you know if you, uh, need to talk.
What would I need to talk about?
Meredith. You were lucky, man. That girl jerked you around.
You have no idea what you're talking about.
Hey, I'm just... seem like you can use a friend about now.
Meredith's mother never wanted her and her father was never man enough to hang around. She has a right to be damaged and us, together? It's a big step for her. Her best friend gets left at the altar, and all she sees now is things like this, they don't work. She panics. She wants this, but she doesn't know how to have it. And you know what? That's not her fault. So don't ever talk to me about Meredith Grey again because you do not know what you are talking about. And I don't want a friend.
I...um...
You're not ready for this.
No.
I asked for too much.
I think so.
So, this is it?
Yeah.
We're breaking up?
We're breaking up.
[Walks to Meredith] We're broken up.
It's done.
[They start kissing]
Break-up kiss.
Break-up kiss.
[Removes his jacket] And some break-up sex.
Yeah, break-up sex.
[voiceover] Change; we don't like it, we fear it, but we can't stop it from coming. We either adapt to change, or we get left behind. And it hurts to grow, anybody who tells you it doesn't is lying. But here's the truth, sometimes the more things change, the more they stay the same. And sometimes, oh, sometimes change is good. Sometimes change, is, everything.
S4 E2Love/Addiction
[voiceover] In the hospital, we see addiction every day. It's shocking how many kinds of addiction exist. It would be too easy if it were just drugs and booze and cigarettes. I think the hardest part of kicking a habit is wanting to kick it. I mean, we get addicted for a reason, right? Often, too often, things that start out as just a normal part of your life at some point cross the line to obsessive, compulsive, out of control. It's the high we're chasing, the high that makes everything else fade away.
Let me guess, you and Meredith are back together and you've been up all night doing the horizontal salsa.
Mambo. Horizontal mambo. Meredith and I, we're just friends.
Sexy friends.
You're like the worst, most juvenile human being I've ever met in my life.
You know the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem?
How many nurses have you slept with this week?
That's not a problem, man. That's an adventure.
[Pager beeps]
Carnage in the pit. My day's improving. [Cristina walks away and turns to her interns] Follow. [Interns run to follow her]
We're not gonna round?
Carnage trumps rounds, Three. Write that down. Carnage always trumps rounds.
How is he? Is he... okay?
MBMama Burke
He's Preston, he's a gentleman. So, he doesn't like to talk about it. And I just really don't know what to say to him.
Maybe, um, maybe you can tell him that he dodged a bullet. Marriage is... once you're in, you're in. Burke is smart, he didn't make a mistake. A mistake that, you know, is hard to take back, which even if you want to take back you can't. So, you can tell him that.
MBMama Burke
"Once you're in, you're in." Make sure you have that engraved on your wedding ring when you get married.
Oh, I'm already married.
MBMama Burke
You're already married? George O'Malley, Burke's friend, Burke's guy. Staying in a marriage out of obligation. That's no way to live, it's no way to love. And I think you know that.
[voiceover] The thing about addiction is it never ends well, because eventually, whatever it is that was getting us high stops feeling good and starts to hurt. Still, they say you don't kick the habit until you hit rock bottom, but how do you know when you're there? Because no matter how badly a thing is hurting us, sometimes letting it go hurts even worse.
S4 E3Let the Truth Sting
[voiceover] Doctors give patients a number of things. We give them medicine, we give them advice, and most of the time, we give them our undivided attention. But, by far, the hardest thing you can give a patient is the truth. The truth is hard. The truth is awkward, and very often, the truth hurts. I mean, people think they want the truth, but do they really?
Here I am stuck in the pit with those know-nothing interns. You think eventually I catch a break.
Cristina, are we ever gonna talk about this? The Burke thing?
I'm not Izzie. I'm not gonna lie at the bathroom floor all day. I'm gonna lie here... on the counter.
I'll trade you the hemiglossectomy.
What?
You take the hemiglossectomy and I will take the ER and your interns.
Are you sure?
Take the surgery. If it makes you feel better, you're starting to freak me out. [Meredith leaves]
I saw the whole thing, Yang. You can stop pretending.
Oh, I'm not pretending. I'm sad. I'm very sad. [makes a childish voice] Me so sad.
Maybe I should try it. See if I can get Grey to take my new intern.
Hey, forget it. Sad is mine. Go find your own pretend emotion.
Hey, I'm filling for Cristina, so how's it going?
I pulled a splinter out of a guy's toe, and now I'm writing about it.
Don't apologize to him!
What?
NNorman
Oh, Dr. Bailey's right...
Shut up, Norman! I'm not talking to you. [to Alex] He got in your way, he's been doing it all day. And when that happens, when an intern gets in the way of a resident, you're not doing what's best for your patient. Now, you almost missed diagnosing that kid today because Norman here thought it was drugs. So don't apologize. He should be yelled at.
Dr. Bailey, he's as old as the hills.
I don't care how old he is, Dr. Karev. He's still an intern, and interns are basically teenagers. We are not hard on them because it's fun, we're hard on them because this is a life and death job, they need to learn that. There is a reason why we have a pecking order in a hospital. It saves lives!
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