[voiceover] We doctors, take pride in the fact that we can basically sleep standing up. Anytime, anywhere. But it's a false pride because the truth is, after about 20 hours without sleep, you might as well just come to work drunk, doctor, or not. So, it's no wonder that fatal medical errors increase at night. When we doctors are, proudly, sleeping on our feet. Recently, our communal pride has been shattered, and our egos have been wounded by new laws that require that we sleep all day before we work all night. We're not happy about it. But as someone who may one day need medical care, you really should be.
S7 E9Slow Night, So Long
Nice face.
At least I can do surgery. How's that hand?
It'd be better if you hadn't run your face into it.
[Teddy joins Mark, Callie, Miranda and Derek for a drink after her date]
Okay, so get this...his very first question: "So what's your favorite food?"
What'd you say?
French, but that's not the point. Why would he ask me what my favorite food was? Like he read that that's some good icebreaker from some internet handbook that was handed out at the loser fair? Ugh!
This is why you don't meet people on the internet.
You're married! You don't get to have an opinion about my pathetic forays into internet dating.
Remember the first day the chief said only two of us would make it?
AMAlex and Meredith
I thought it would be me and Cristina.
[voiceover] Under the cover of darkness, people do things they'd never do under the harsh glare of day. Decisions feel wiser, people feel bolder. But when the sun rises, you have to take responsibility for what you did in the dark and face yourself under the cold, harsh light of day.
S7 E10Adrift and at Peace
[voiceover] The first 24 hours after surgery are critical. Every breath you take, every fluid you make, is meticulously reported and analyzed. Celebrated or mourned. But what about the next 24 hours? What happens with that first day turns to two and weeks turn into months? What happens when the immediate danger has passed, when the machines are disconnected and the teams of doctors and nurses are gone? Surgery is when you get saved, but post-op, after surgery, is when you heal. But, what if you don't?
EEli
Look, if Dr. Bailey wants it put back in, then I will.
She's in surgery.
EEli
Well, then it'll just have to wait.
Fine. I'll do it myself.
EEli
You're not touching that patient.
Excuse me?
EEli
You have your list. But I have 12 years of experience that tells me putting that drain back in right now could actually put him at more risk for infection. 12 years I've been here. 12 years. Now, you residents, you come and go, but this is my home and you are my guest, and right now you are no longer welcome.
Listen, I don't know what's going on here but I know better than to mess with you on turf so do me a solid, nod and act as if we're havin' a big debate here 'cause Dr. Grey over there, she agreed to go out with me if I talked to you.
EEli
She's bossy.
I know, I dig it.
EEli
What's in it for me?
Seahawks. Sunday, box seats.
EEli
Parking?
Of course.
EEli
Okay. [shouts] Unless Dr. Bailey herself orders that drain put back in I...
Now mention how highly I think of her.
EEli
... I don't care if you think Dr. Grey is the best resident you've ever seen come through this program.
I understand, and I respect that. Thank you. [walks back to Lexie] Ah, I did what I could. What time do you get off?
What?! That's it? You didn't do anything!
See you at nine. [walks off]
You're going out with Sloan tonight?
One drink. And then you are gonna interrupt us and tell me that there#s a medical emergency.
There might be a medical emergency if you don't get that drain put back in your guy. I'm just sayin'. I guess you can observe when I'm taking out that gallbladder through dude's mouth.
Do you want to know what I think? I think you're reckless. I think you're reckless with your own life and today you were reckless with a patient's life. I don't care who you are. I don't want that in my OR, and I do not want that around my wife who is struggling just to hold on.
Your wife is struggling just to hold on because you married her and let it be OK for her to completely fall apart.
...
You are fearless, and I don't mean that in a good way. Most people don't tell the guy with the gun to shoot them. Most people are like Cristina. Most people are afraid. So what she needs isn't what you need. She isn't you, Meredith.
[voiceover] The goal of any surgery is total recovery - to come out better than you were before. Some patients heal quickly and feel immediate relief. For others the healing happens gradually, and it's not until months or even years later that you realize you don't hurt anymore. So the challenge after any surgery is to be patient. But if you can make it through the first weeks and months, if you believe that healing is possible, then you can get your life back. But that's a big if.
S7 E11Disarm
Meredith [voiceover] To a degree, medicine is a science...but I would argue that it's also an art. Doctors who see medicine as a science only, you don't want them by your side when your bleeding won't stop or when your child is screaming in pain. The clinicians go by the book. The artists follow their guts. The artists feel your pain and they go to extremes to make it stop. Extreme measures. That's where science ends and art begins.
I'm too mad to even look at you.
Well then roll over.
I am so deeply, deeply, deeply sorry for hurting you so much. I am so sorry because I'm so in love with you, and I will spend the rest of my life telling you that. I'll apologize to you every day if that's what you need, but, please, please don't walk away again. I came across the world to be with you. I love you. Please.
You had to fly across the world to get to me Arizona because you flew a whole world away without ever looking back. You just left. And this might be news to you — no, I think it kinda is — but you're not the only one in this relationship. There are two of us, and you came back today but I didn't.
Do you wanna get a drink?
Yeah, I do. I mean, not a real drink actually, because I'm trying to get pregnant and supposedly alcohol will make my baby have three heads and sixteen toes.
Umm, wanna get some crack cocaine?
Meredith [voiceover] Surgery is extreme. We cut into your body, take out pieces, and put what's left back together. Good thing life doesn't come with a scalpel because if it did, when things started to hurt, we would just cut and cut and cut. The thing is what we take away with a scalpel we can't ever get back. So, like a said, good thing.
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