[to Lexie] Look, alone people don't like to hear about the together people, okay? Even if the alone people are alone by choice. It's just sort of mean. It's sort of like bringing a 6-pack to an AA meeting.
S5 E14Beat Your Heart Out
She said a thing about babies. Like babies are a totally ordinary idea. She's not afraid, she's ready.
When are you gonna do it?
Do what?
Shepherd's proposing.
No kidding? Outstanding! How're you gonna do it?
I don't know. Just decided.
Morning.
Shepherd's proposing.
Congratulations, that's a big step.
Thank you very much. [to Mark] You just gonna tell everybody now?
You need advice. Hunt, you ever proposed before?
Uh sorry I'm... not the guy to ask. When are you gonna do it?
[Meredith approaches]
Well more importantly how am I gonna do it?
:[sees Meredith, coughs] So, what do you use, like a twist drill for that?
[Webber leaves]
Well not if you don't want a partial, pridal hematoma!
[Derek, Mark and Owen do big fake laugh]
[confused] Hi... [walks away]
Hey, um did you eat? Let me change, I'll come with you.
No, no, no, I can't. I have to um, work.
Ok, listen. You have been acting like a basket case ever since I dropped that stupid little comment about babies. And I'm glad I dropped it, because if you don't want babies, or you don't want babies with me and my crappy DNA... just say so. You don't have to avoid me. You don't have to make up lame excuses about work.
Meredith, I want your crappy babies.
Hah, you do?
All of them.
Ok, do you wanna eat?
No... I... I... I have to work.
[voiceover] It seems we have no control whatsoever over our own hearts. Conditions can change without warning. Romance can make the heart pound just like panic can. And panic can make it stop cold in your chest. It’s no wonder doctors spend so much time trying to keep the heart stable, to keep it slow, steady, regular to stop the heart from pounding out of your chest from the dread of something terrible or the anticipation of something else entirely.
S5 E15Before and After
[voiceover] Every patient’s story starts the same way. It starts with them being fine, it starts in the before. They cling to this moment, this memory of being fine, this before, as though talking about it may somehow bring it back. But what they don't realize is that the fact they're talking about it to us, their doctors, means there's no going back. By the time they see us, they're already in the after. And while every patient's story starts the same way, how the story ends depends on us, on how well we diagnose and treat. We know the story hinges on us and we all want to be the hero.
[to Derek] I put you in a tiny box. After the divorce, I made you petty and inconsequential and nothing special so that you could fit into this tiny little box that would help me get out of bed in the morning. But now, now I have to take you out of the box because I need to believe that, uh, you can do this. That you can save my brother. I need you to be a god. Just today be a god.
What's she doing?
It looks like she's praying.
SSam
Mm, no. Addie doesn't pray.
What's she doing?
NNaomi
Uh, she's praying.
[chuckles] No, Addison doesn't pray. She must be hiding.
I can hear you! And I'm not hiding. I am trying to pray but I don't know how to pray because I'm a WASP and we only go to church on Christmas.
You guys go, I got this. [sits next to Addison]
I have no clout with God. God doesn't even know who I am. Which sucks because I could... I could use some help.
Dear God, I need your guidance. I kissed a peds surgeon.
You kissed a peds surgeon?
I never thought I'd end up with a woman, God, but, I mean not until lately, but that's not the problem. The problem is the peds thing. She's, she's perky... and has butterflies on her scrub cap. But she's also hot... really hot. So, help me get over the butterflies. Amen. [to Addison] You're an amazing doctor, you save babies. God knows who you are.
Do you really believe in all this? In God?
Sometimes. Most of the time. When it counts.
[Archer refuses surgery after being told he could die.]
AArcher
Look, I know you guys want me to go down fighting but I––
Coward.
AArcher
Excuse me?
I said "coward." You're a coward by trade. You're a neurologist. You guys feed off us, refer your patients to us, let us assume the responsibility and if god forbid something happens, well, I'll tell you what, I can assume the responsibility. The question is, can you?
S5 E16An Honest Mistake
[voiceover] There's this thing that happens when people find out you're a doctor. They stop seeing you as a person and begin to see you as something bigger than you are. They have to see us that way, as gods, otherwise we're just like everyone else, unsure, flawed, normal. So we act strong, we remain stoic. We hide the fact that we're all too human.
[about Addison still being at Seattle Grace] Admit it. Her being around your guy bugs.
It doesn't buy. You bug.
Karev, page Addison. Tell her I need her to stay.
Okay, it bugs a little.
[Derek, Meredith, Addison and Alex prep for surgery]
You're a good doctor. So am I. Let's just be good together.
Your guy and my guy work well together.
Well, my guy works well with everyone.
Exactly, I am the chief of surgery! And I don't have time to write letter to pump your ego. My head of neuro is being called a murderer, I have to fire my longest standing general surgeon because she won't retire, interns are mixing up blood samples in your clinic, and you want me to spend my time writing a recommendation so you can leave me!?
Leave you? Sir, I'm applying for a fellowship in pediatric surgery.
Which is not what we had discussed! Do you know how much of my time you wasted? Do you know the amount of work it takes to groom someone? You were supposed to become the next me!
You wanted me to become the next you. I'm not your son, or your daughter. You don't get to pin all your hopes and dreams on me, sir! [...] You're worried about your legacy, but I am not your legacy, and me applying to peds is not... You are not listening to me, sir. [stops after seeing Derek and Mark having a fight.]
[voiceover] Patients see us as gods or they see us as monsters. But the fact is, we're just people. We screw up, we lose our way. Even the best of us have our off days. Still we move forward. We don't rest on our laurels or celebrate the lives we've saved in the past. Because there's always some other patient that needs our help. So we force ourselves to keep trying, to keep learning. In the hope that, maybe, someday we'll come just a little bit closer to the gods our patients need us to be.
You're unmotivated, you're careless, selfish, distracted, and pretty much the people in this hospital I would least trust with my life. But that's the way it's supposed to be. You're interns. You're babies. And you're all lucky to work here. We're all lucky because we get to save lives. Every day, we get to save lives. That's what we do, that's our job, and... it's not something a lot of people get to do.
S5 E17I Will Follow You Into the Dark
[voiceover] Every surgeon I know has a shadow. A dark cloud of fear and doubt that follows even the best of us into the OR. We pretend the shadow isn't there hoping that if we save more lives, master harder techniques, run faster and farther it will get tired and give up the chase but like they say... you can't outrun your shadow.
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