ABC
(Season 5, Episode 4)
“I’ll be in the clinic putting stupid band-aids on people who don’t have the balls to get real injuries.” – Cristina
Once again, I wonder how the heck Seattle Grace keeps running. It’s one thing to have interplay among the doctors, but it’s quite another when you involve the well-being of the patients. Grey’s Anatomy has a history of WTF moments in this regard, but the show isn’t meant to be a caricature of a hospital. It’s supposed to be a real hospital with real doctors and patients.
So here are my WTF Moments of this episode:
WTF Moment #1: Meredith, Cristina, and Izzie hanging out on a couch in the warm and fuzzy dermatology department, watching the sweet and caring doctors look after each other as they go about their day. Meanwhile, Mercrizzies’ patients need them back in the “real world.” Cristina’s patient almost dies! Sure, there might be, as Cristina says, “no mocking in derm, only warmth and light,” but that’s no reason to shirk your duties. Thank goodness George finds the girls and snaps them back to reality, or who knows how many patients would have suffered.
WTF Moment #2: George taking an 8-year-old kid into surgery to alleviate the kid’s fears about having surgery himself. This would be a WTF moment on its own, but George takes him into the WRONG surgery, and the kid sees some guy’s head gaping open on the operating table. And is it just me, or are there more bloody scenes on Grey’s these days? For a minute there, I thought I was watching one of those BBC shows where they take you into real-life operating rooms. Maybe it’s just because I was watching Grey’s at 3 a.m. while eating Kashi cereal.
WTF Moment #3: Izzie and Alex fighting over a patient, to the point where Izzie LIES to the patient about Alex’s mental stability. Whatever Alex has done to her, that’s truly a low-blow that would be detrimental to the hospital if it got out into the community. They both need to grow up. Alex is like a boy in the third grade who hits the girl he likes. Izzie needs to stand up and not take his crap, which she does in this episode — but in the wrong way.
On another note, I like the friendship between George and Lexie, but he needs to open his eyes and see her for who she is. The jury’s still out on whether they should hook up romantically, because they make great friends. But when he says she’s probably his best friend right now, and then runs off to tell the others about his success at passing the test, I can see why she’d feel miffed and slighted.
Derek and Meredith are never going to make it unless they have a place of their own. There’s only so many concessions he can make to appease her friends, and then he’s going to get really resentful. Plus, Meredith is already feeling cramped by having Derek there, especially when he discovers her mom’s diary in a box and keeps it out for her when she doesn’t even want it. Then again, maybe it’s good for her to see that side of her mom, and maybe Cristina is the only one who can truly understand her feelings about it. So that’s why those two ended up reading it together at the end.
The look on Bailey’s face when Callie was discussing her fears about the “south of the border” stuff with Erica was priceless. But even more priceless was Bailey’s monologue that followed:
“The va-jay-jay is undiscovered country. It is the motherland. You’ve never traveled there, and you don’t know its customs and ways. Now me, I’ve always wanted to go to Africa, but if I go, I’m going to have to learn a few things first. I’m going to have to prepare. I’ll need shots, bring my own syringes in case something goes wrong, and I’ll want to know how to get to the embassy. Just talk about it! Not with me, with the other one. Talk about the rules, the expectations, figure out how to gracefully demure if you find you don’t like the local cuisine. In Ethiopia, they eat stew off of spongey sour bread. That’s not for everyone. Alright then!”
Clacked by Jane Boursaw 
on Oct 17, 2008 @ 12:06 EST5EDT
