Grey's Anatomy · Season 6
Quit staring, I'm probably change it back anyway.
No, I get it. You get dumped by your boyfriend, and you go for the extreme makeover. Chicks always do that.
I didn't get dumped, okay? I did not do this for Mark. I just... It's Valentine's Day and I wanted to change something, and I could change... I wanted to do something for me. Okay? This, it was for me.
How's that different than what I just said? [walks off]
I'm changing it back.
So, Yang's with Hunt, Grey's with Shepherd, Torres with Robbins. And you were with Sloan, until he dumped you? It's a wonder you guys got any work done.
He didn't dump me. He forgot about me. He decided that we were going to start a family, and didn't ask me. He forgot I was even there. He left me lying in dirty dishwater.
What?
Nothing.
I'm pretty.
What?
In my family I'm the pretty one. You know, my eyes, and my smile and my body. I meam, you should see me without shirt on, it's kind of ridiculous. But my family is smart, driven, crazy overachievers. You know? And they look like they're smart. They don't look like me. Which has its perks, except that my family treated me like I'm pretty. They expected nothing from me. Ever. They never pushed me, never thought to. So I had to push myself. Hard. I didn't even tell them I was taking the MCAT's until after I aced them. My point is that you can't just change your hair. Okay? You wanna be unforgettable, you wanna not be mousey? You can't just change your hair. You have to actually change. Just sayin'.
[voiceover] We have to keep reinventing ourselves almost every minute because the world can change in an instant, and there's no time for looking back. Sometimes the changes are forced on us, sometimes they happen by accident, and we make the most of them. We have to constantly come up with new ways to fix ourselves. So we change, we adapt, we create new versions of ourselves. We just need to be sure that this one is an improvement over the last.
[voiceover] I've seen a lot of surgery residents come and go in my time and they're all addicted... to surgery. It comes before food, before sleep. It becomes the most important thing, the only thing. What they don't know is that living on that high can eat them alive. Some make it through they come out on the other side. They survive with their sanity intact. They become better doctors and stronger people. I didn't. I broke it. I didn't kill anybody and I give thanks for that every day. But I hurt people. Scared the hell out of myself. I am 45 days sober today. I am Richard and I am a grateful and recovering alcoholic.
Single most important step in the exam process. Anyone?
Physical exam.
No. No chocolate for you.
Lab and radiology evaluation.
Oh! Come on, people now you're embarrassing me.
Patient history.
Thank you! [throws a chocolate to her] Catch.
[While he's speaking to attendings, residents, interns nurses in the auditorium.] I solemnly pledge to consecrate my life to the service of humanity. I will give to my teachers the respect and gratitude that is their due. I will practice my profession with conscience and dignity. The health of my patients will be my number one consideration. I will respect the secrets that are confided in me, even after my patient has died. [voiceover] I will maintain by all the means in my power, the honor and the noble traditions of the medical profession. My colleagues will be my sisters and brothers. I will not permit considerations of age, disease or disability, creed, ethnic origin, gender, race, political affiliation, nationality, sexual orientation, social standing or any other factor to intervene between my duty and my patient. I will maintain the utmost respect for human life. I will not use my medical knowledge to violate human rights and civil liberties, even under threat. I make these promises solemnly, freely and upon my honor.
(Based on the Physician's Oath of 1968)
[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.
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.
[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.
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