[voiceover] We have a phrase in the operating room "Don't pet the lion". It means no matter how nice a tumor looks. How small it is. How perfect the margins may be. It's still a tumor and it's still dangerous and it can bite.
S8 E18The Lion Sleeps Tonight
What happened?
She has a lion for a pet is what happened. It tried to eat her and then it got away and it probably tried to eat other people because it is a lion. Who has a lion living in their house? I'll tell you who has a lion living in their house a crazy person does. Now because she's crazy doesn't mean she doesn't deserve excellent care. In fact, we're going to save that crazy lady's life just so I can tell her she's crazy.
I'm not gonna tell Mark what to do.
You're not?
They're gonna move in together either way. The man has always been easy to read. And the only thing that could change that is if he knew he still had a shot with you.
Really?
He's happy with the eyeball doctor. So make sure you want him back because you want him, not because he's with somebody else.
[voiceover] We all have heard the warnings and we've ignored them. We push our luck. We roll the dice. We play with fire. It's human nature when we've been told not to touch something we usually do, even if we know better. May be because deep down we are just asking for trouble.
S8 E19Support System
[voiceover] Every little kid knows the words to the song. "The foot bone is connected to the leg bone. The leg bone is connected to the knee bone. In med school you learn it's a bitter more complicated than that, but still the song not wrong. Everything is connected. "The foot bone is connected to the leg bone, the leg bone is connected to the knee bone. And if you take one piece out, the rest just falls apart.
[about a patient] Well, frankly, I don't know what you think I can do for him by 3:00 this afternoon.
Rise.
Excuse me?
You have it in you. Lost causes, right? Making the impossible possible? Rise to the challenge, Shepherd. I believe in you. Rise. [Derek stares at him]
Hey, um, I can't do ladies night. Sorry.
Mm.
What? But we need you.
Well, um, I can't come because, well, Ben and I are taking dance lessons tonight-- salsa.
[raises an eyebrow] You and Ben...
Yeah.
And salsa? No, you just want to go home and get laid.
[flustered] Hey, we have a long-standing salsa appointment tonight, and sorry. You're on your own. [leaves hurriedly]
[deadpan] Right.
I bet it's gonna be long.
[to Mark] You're a good doctor, and you may one day make a great chief of surgery. But you're a plastic surgeon, chief Sloan. You're a perfectionist. And you want everything by the rules so it'll end up pretty. Well, I don't need pretty. And I don't need perfect. What I need is for this to work. And what's gonna make it work is for me to take out that tumor and put these healthy organs inside my very sick patient. It won't be pretty, but it will work, and it will keep my patient alive.
[voiceover] The human body is made of systems that keep it alive. There's the one that keeps you breathing and the one that keeps you standing. The one that makes you hungry and the one that makes you happy. They are all connected, take that piece out and everything else falls apart. And it's only when our support system look like they might fail us, that we realize how much we've depended on all along.
S8 E20The Girl with No Name
[voiceover] When you are a kid you always want things to stay the same. The same teachers, the same house, the same friends... Being a surgeon is no different. You get used to the same attendings, the same scrub nurses, the same hospital. Of course that all changes the minute fifth year comes around and you have to find a new job.
Aw, Karev. Is this hard for you, having to beg for interviews while some of us just sit back and get wooed?
No one is begging.
Oh, yeah, maybe you should. Maybe that way, you'd actually get an interview.
Ha! I love mean Kepner.
I got an interview.
Oh, really, where?
At... places.
[voiceover] It's one of those things people say. You can’t move on until you let go of with the past. Letting go is the easy part, it's the moving on that's painful. So sometimes we fight it, trying to keep things the same. Things can't stay the same though. At some point you just have to let it go. Move on. Because no matter how painful it is. It's the only way we grow.
S8 E21Moment of Truth
[voiceover] Picture this, you've spent the past five years of your residency training to become a surgeon. But those five years, suddenly don't matter. The only thing that matters, the only thing between you and your career is a test. In a random hotel, in a random place with a random examiner asking you random questions. Nervous? You should be.
They hate each other.
They are professionals, they'll be fine...
No, it's awful, it's tense and it's cold and it's dangerous. It feels like diffusing a bomb...in a haunted house...that's built on a mine field, and there are bears...EVERYWHERE...and, the bears have knives!
Owen slept with someone.
Yeah.
Did you know it?
Yeah.
Does everyone know?
No. He thought you've told me, so he told me. Anyway that's how I know.
OK.
He is a pig and you deserve better. Are you still there?
Yeah. I'm still here
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