At the infamous white board, The Chief is trying to figure out how to get all the surgeries completed when all of the newbie Doctors keep quitting, Shepherd is MIA and Sloan's hand is still out of commission. Sloan approaches the Chief to try and help out and damn his face looks like he got hit by a truck. I didn't notice this earlier, but McD seriously F-ed him up! The Chief is complaining about Derek falling from existence and doesn't know who will do his surgeries, when a tiny little man speaks up from the background. The Chief gives the surgery to Jim-as we learn his name to be. And we learn it at the same time that the Chief and Sloan learn his name, The Chief calls him John as he walks away.
Sloan approaches Jim to introduce himself and welcome him to Seattle Grace. Jim, however, has been at Seattle Grace for 10 years and was Chief of Neuro before McD and his fancy hair and experimental surgeries swooped in. He also reminds Sloan that they've met, three times. You see kids, even in the adult world the cool kids are still the cool kids, and the nerds are still ignored...until they get super rich.
Speaking of nerds, the bitchy band geeks are watching over Beth and complaining more about how she didn't even deserve to be in the band. Karev, an obviously former cool kid, gets sick of the nerds bitching and sends them out of there. Beth tells Karev how difficult it is to keep friends when you can't stop yourself from seizing at school. Which sucks but is understandable. Karev tell her to get over it since she can't help it, but ultimately relates to Beth when she asks him how he'd feel if he seized every time he went into surgery. We also learn that Karev was a wrestler in high school, but I'm going to move past that and forgive him for that. But there are only so many things I can forgive...
Down in a more melodramatic part of the hospital, Grey finds McD brooding behind two stacks of folders. One smaller stack and one much larger stack. He tells her that during his deposition, they presented these two stacks to him which represent those he saved and those he killed. His super cheery mood is the giveaway on which is which. Grey reminds him that he needs to look at the big picture, because most of his patients were always terminal, they just came to him as their last chance. That or they went to him bc Dr. Kavorkian was in jail. He says that he killed more people then some of the most notorious serial killers in history combined. Ok, I kind of am beginning to feel him on this one. That's tough to swallow. (That'sWhatSheSaid). Sorry, didn't want to get too dark!
After he stalks of, The Chief catches up with him to beg him to operate. McD tells him he's not operating and keeps walking. The Chief yells at him to do his job, and McD storms out of the hospital. McD is furious, his face is beat to hell, is suit is all messed up and DAMN if I've never found him hotter. I don't know why, but he's super sexy in this scene.
At lunch time, Yang and Grey go back and forth about who's boyfriend is more mentally disturbed. They compare stories and keep going back and forth with Izzie watching from the sideline. Izzie finally interrupts to call these two out on talking incessantly, never processing what the other one said. FINALLY, somebody said it. But Izzie thinks it's cute and imagines them as old women in senior center, yapping away to each other without listening. Weirdly enough, I can see that too. Izzie is obviously taking final stock of her life since she is obviously dying. I mean....Patient X is dying.
As Karev continues babysitting on the band nerd, he notices an irregularity in her heart that leads to a seizure.
The Chief, Yang, Grey and Bailey all work on stomach #1 out of the gastric trio. While working on her, the Chief and Bailey bicker back and forth like an old married couple about the best way to conduct surgery. The Chief also tells Bailey to go back to babysitting kids since that's what she wants to do. Way to be an asshole Chief. While in the tummy, they find a tumor. The brother and sister are shocked to learn this, as she got tested a couple months ago and was fine. Luckily, finding it this early, she will be fine. The other sister upon learning this, opts to have the surgery too.
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Comments (6)
I don't understand the Chief's looking at pediatric SURGERY as being a "soft" choice. It's still all the same surgeries, just on smaller people. And it often hurts more if they die. It just seems like a bad attempt to make the Chief seem like a jerk.
And I'm still not buying Torres as a lesbian. Yang I could believe....but not Callie, especially after the scenes with Sloane.
1 of 6 | Posted by cattyfan | Posted on March 19, 2009 12:24 PM
Not to be a brat, TWSS, but you left out the part where Yang & Izzie are in the Tornado Room and supposedly Izzie tells Yang she's Patient X.
I wish I had that vent in my house - it just looks fun!
Great recap!
2 of 6 | Posted by lexxi1129 | Posted on March 19, 2009 2:02 PM
I haven't read the recap yet...but did you skip an episode?
3 of 6 | Posted by winks523 | Posted on March 20, 2009 10:01 AM
great recap as alway TWSS
4 of 6 | Posted by jamz | Posted on March 20, 2009 10:21 AM
Fabulous recap, TWSS!
I am really starting to appreciate and love Yang. She is fierce.
I don't why Derek just suddenly realized that he loses more patients than he saves. That is always true of neurosurgeons. They are more than aware of this when they decide to specialize in the field.
I guess he just thought that his godlike skills would make him different. He sure has been an asshole this season. First he is obnoxious and condescending to Meredith (who I don't even like) and now he's a whiny baby.
5 of 6 | Posted by pixielated | Posted on March 21, 2009 6:20 PM
Great recap TWSS! I sort of stopped watching the show after Iz started having fantastic phantasmal sex.
Poor Izzie! If I were her, I'd head over to House's hospital, STAT, and have him take a gander. Over there, they are less concerned with breaking penises during illict sex in the breakroom, and more concerned with solving whatever trauma the Victim Of The Week has.
Sure, they will misdiagnose you at least five times, but in the end, House will wake up from his Vicodin stupor and discover it wasn't melanoma spread to every conceivable part of the body, merely the Mystery Meat that you ate in the hospital cafeteria that Wednesday a few weeks back when you forgot to brown bag it because you were too busy trying to decide whether to sleep with your dead boyfriend or live boyfriend. The MM took root in your stomach lining. Easily removed, bada bing, bada bang, all healed. :)
P.S.: Seriously, hospital food sucks. I swear it is made to make you worse so you spend another couple hundred on having them bring you Tums (with one Tums equaling about $75 a pop).
6 of 6 | Posted by jennaboa | Posted on March 22, 2009 11:36 AM