[voice over] There’s a stage you go through in childbirth and it’s the toughest part. It’s called the transition stage. You’ve been pushing so hard and so long. You’re exhausted, spent and there’s nothing to show for all of your effort. During this transition stage, it feels like you can’t go on but it’s because you’re very nearly there.
S10 E16We Gotta Get Out of This Place
[voice over] Transition is movement from one part of a life to a whole new one. And it can feel like one long, scary, dark tunnel. But you have to come out the other side. Because what’s been waiting there, might be glorious.
S10 E17Do You Know
[voice over] Do you know who you are? Do you know what’s happened to you? Do you want to live this way? All it takes is one person, one patient, one moment to change your life forever. It can change your perspective, color your thinking. One moment that forces you to re-evaluate everything you think you know. Do you know who you are? Do you know what’s happened to you? Do you want to live this way?
[voice over] If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the years, it’s that it only takes one person, one patient, one moment to change your life forever, to change your perspective, color your thinking. To force you to re-evaluate everything you think you know. To make you ask yourself the toughest questions: Do you know who you are? Do you know what’s happened to you? Do you want to live this way?
S10 E18You Be Illin
[voice over] The average person touches their face about eighteen times every waking hour. That leaves you susceptible to infection about one hundred times a day. Infection has a nasty habit of taking advantage of our everyday behaviours. It spreads by touching doors, desks, elevator buttons, pens, sharing cups, even money. All we can do is try our best to prevent it from spreading because once it's out there, the infection usually wins.
[Meredith walks into Derek's office to find him reciting his speech to baby Bailey, who is in his car seat]
I went up to daycare to find my son missing.
Yeah, I needed an audience. Look, sit down. Let me go over this again with you, okay?
Oh, no, no, no. I've heard that speech so many times I could do it myself. Stop boring our son.
Is it boring? I have 50 scientists from around the world coming here today. It's got to be charming. It's a big deal.
I know it's a big deal, which is why I will get out of your way.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm. [takes car seat] And I'm taking my son with me because I don't want his first word to be hypothalamus. [kisses Derek]
There are worse first words.
[worriedly] Are you okay?
Uh, if you can speak Estonian. My translator called in sick.
You don't look good. Are you getting this thing?
I don't get sick. It's an unspoken rule.
LMLeah Murphy
Spoken. Twice today.
[voice over] It's a known fact that doctors make the worst patients. We ignore our symptoms until we're face down on the ground. We like to think we're a different species to our patients but none of us are invincible. Eventually we have to face the fact that we're human and that, sometimes, even the mightiest of us need help.
S10 E19I'm Winning
[voice over] My Mom didn't think she would win, she thought it was a popularity contest, and she wasn't popular. She was a woman and a fellow, and her arrogance could rub people the wrong way. She hadn't allowed herself to imagine the possibility of winning, because she wanted it too much. And when they called my mom's name, she was genuinely shocked. It was validation of all her hard work and sacrifice. She came home and told me she didn't win the Harper Avery. She earned it.
S10 E20Go It Alone
[voice over] Surgery is a solo act. We step up at the table with a scalpel in our hands and we go it alone. The isolation can start to define you. Because even though you are surrounded by teams... what it really comes down to is your training, your choices, your wits.. your hands, your stitch.
S10 E21Change of Heart
[voice over] Over the past 20 years, one of the most valuable tools a doctor has is the algorithm. Your patient's main complaint goes into a box...and then the formula helps you decide what to do next. But what happens when a problem doesn't fix into a box? Well...you are suddenly on your own, unexpectedly, with about a thousand paths to choose from.
[looks at a scan Derek is analyzing] Is that a spinal schwannoma?
It is.
Extended into the retropleural space?
Mm-hmm.
[excitedly] Is that for me?
[smirks] We're overdue for a date. OR 3, you in fresh scrubs, me in a ferry-boat scrub cap. You in?
Well, this could take hours. What about the kids?
Amy's with them.
We have a babysitter named Amy?
Amy, my sister.
The junkie?
She's a recovering addict, and she loves kids.
I've only been gone a day.
The tumor involves the great vessels.
[smiles] I know what you're doing.
[smiles] Mm-hmm.
And it's working.
Mm-hmm.
[voice over] So, what do you do? How do you decide when you're left in the dark? How do you make sure you are not making the worst mistake in somebody's life? You close your eyes...you block out everyone and everything around you, and pray the voice inside you is right. Because once you decided...you can't ever go back.
S10 E22We Are Never Getting Back Together
[voice over] Sometimes you just need to get out of town. Get a new perspective. but you can't always see that you need a new perspective because you, well need a new perspective to see that. It's complicated.
I'm Dr. Shepherd.
And so am I. His sister.
Mm.
Good-looking doctors run in the family.
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