[voiceover] Surgeons are detail-oriented. We like statistics and checklists and operating procedures. Our patients live because we enjoy following the steps but as much as we love to always rely on the numbers, the plan we also know that some of the greatest medical discoveries have happened by accident. Mold: Penicilin. Poisonous tree bark: a cure for Malaria, a little blue pill for high blood pressure, impotence be damned. It's hard for us to accept that it's not always the hard work or attention to detail that will get us the answers we're looking for. But sometimes we just have to sit back, relax and wait for happy accident.
S6 E16Perfect Little Accident
Lexie, this is Alex we're talking about. Emotionally, he's like me three years ago. You can't be having feelings for him. You realize that.
Yeah, of course not. No. It's just sex. Okay? There's no feelings involved.
Right. Because you are a no-feelings type of girl. Your heart lives in your vagina.
It does not... I swear, not this time.
Okay, sure
My heart does not live in my vagina!
You slept with my girlfriend and I find that when I look at you, I want to hit you with a brick.
Dude, that was like years ago.
Maybe, but jealousy's a green-eyed monster and if you ask any one of my kids, they'll tell you there's no reasoning with a monster. Dude, run away before I find a brick.
[voiceover] No matter how many plans we make or steps we follow, we never know how our day is going to end up. We'd prefer to know, of course, what curveballs will be thrown our way. It's the accidents that always turn out to be the most interesting parts of our day, of life, the people we never expected to show up, a turn of events we never would have chosen for ourselves. All of a sudden you find yourself somewhere you never expected to be and it's nice, or it takes some getting used to. Still, you know you'll find yourself appreciating it somewhere down the line. So, you go to sleep each night thinking about tomorrow, going over your plans, preparing your lists, and hoping that whatever accidents come your way will be happy ones.
S6 E17Push
[voiceover] Surgeons aren't complacent people. We don't put our feet up. We don't sit still. Whatever the game is, we like to win. And once we win, we get a new game. We push ourselves; residents, attendings. It doesn't matter how much we achieve. If you're a climber there's always another mountain.
Find a grown up who wants what you want, and date, like a grown up.
I don't know what that means.
Mark's trying to kill Alex.
What?
Well, I think I mentioned sleeping with Alex was a bad idea.
No, it's not a bad idea. It's happy and easy. You know much mental energy Mark took up? You know, I am telling you, ending it is the best thing that could have happened to me. And for him! Do you know how much happier he'd be if he could just move on?
Looked to me like he was trying to pick up Teddy.
Sure, he'll sleep with her. He slept with Addison. He'll screw anything that moves, but what, I'm supposed to check into a convent? Why is he hanging on like this?
[sarcastic] You're just that good, Little Grey. There's no getting over you.
Oh! [walks off, Cristina laughs]
You clear the room every time. You clear the room.
Mark's moving on. Like really.
Okay, well, that's good, isn't it? Isn't that what you wanted?
[starts crying] No, uh, that's great. That's... perfect. It's perfect.
[voiceover] They take pictures of mountain climbers at the top of a mountain. They're smiling, ecstatic, triumphant. They don't take pictures along the way cos who wants to remember the rest of it. We push ourselves because we have to, not because we like it. The relentless climb, the pain and anguish of taking it to the next level. Nobody takes pictures of that. Nobody wants to remember. We just wanna remember the view from the top. The breathtaking moment at the edge of the world. That's what keeps us climbing. And it's worth the pain. That's the crazy part. It's worth anything.
S6 E18Suicide is Painless
[voiceover] Dying isn't easy. The body was designed to stay alive; thick skulls, strong hearts, keen senses. When the body starts to fail, medicine takes over. Surgeons are arrogant enough to think there's no one we can't save. Like I said dying isn't easy.
You missed it. Altman tore Hunt a new one in the cafeteria. Whole hospital's talking about it.
Not to me. I walk in a room, and all the conversation grinds to a halt.
Oh come on, you don't talk locker room talk in front of the coach.
I'm not a coach anymore, I'm a player. I take a shower like everybody else.
Richard. You're a little bit like everybody else, but mostly, you're still the coach. It's a sign of respect. You'd be wrong to take it any other way.
If I wasn't happily married, I'd hit her, I'd hit her hard.
Sir, I think you wanted to say was, "I'd hit that".
I don't think you wanted to say that - at all.
[voiceover] Living is better than dying... until it's not. But even if letting a person die is the right thing to do, it's not what surgeons are built for. We are arrogant and competitive. We don't like to lose and death feels like a loss even when we know it's not. We know it's time. We know it's right. We know we did everything we could. But it's hard to shake the feeling that you could've done more.
S6 E19Sympathy for the Parents
[voiceover] Psychologists believe that every aspect of our lives, all our thought processes & behavior patterns, are the direct result of our relationship to our parents. That every relationship that we have is really just another version of that first relationship. It's just us trying over and over again to get it right.
If anything should happen to me, I don't want it to just be you.
Well we would make pretty babies.
So you're thinking about it?
Oh, I'm thinking about it.
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