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From Zap2it By Lisa Todorovich
We knew the "what" of tonight's "Grey's Anatomy" long before the premiere. George died. Izzie lived. Seattle Grace and Mercy merged, bringing a whole bunch more doctors into our lives. What we didn't know was how -- how everyone would react, how their lives would change, how they held together. Now we know: grief.
The five stages of spoilers are coming right now...
Izzie wakes up as George is declared brain dead on the operating table, and because she's so fragile as she's recovering Alex doesn't want to tell her about George. At first there's a question of whether he'll have to, because Lexie doesn't believe that it's George on the table. Meredith has to face a hostile, incredulous crowd of co-workers and justify the "007" sign he made in her palm. But Callie identifies a Texas-shaped freckle on his hand, and they know it's true. George's mom, who's facing this alone because his brothers are on a fishing trip in Alaska (corrected -- not his dad and brothers. -- Lisa), asks Callie to be the one to decide whether to donate George's organs. Callie wants Izzie to help her decide, because she meant so much to George. And after she gets over the initial shock, they decide to donate everything they can.
Into this cloud of shock and dread come two patients. Clara (Zoe Boyle), a young Australian woman who bears a striking resemblance to "Dead Calm"-era Nicole Kidman, was in a speedboat accident that amputated both of her arms and essentially her leg. She's accompanied by a couple of travel companions who are anything but real friends, but who at least bring her arms to the hospital so they can be reattached. When they desert her in favor of Burning Man and a planned concert in Las Vegas, Cristina assigns Lexie to be Clara's friend and help her get through the unbelievably hard road she has ahead. She also nicknames Clara "ceviche" behind her back, but we'll get to that later.
The other patient is Andy, a teenage boy in severe pain, the cause of which no one can figure out. Doctors keep telling his mother he has "growing pains," but this is so much more. Martha Plimpton is wonderful as his worried, harried, distressed, protective mom, and never ventures into hysteria as she advocates on behalf of her son. Both kid and mom are lucky to have Arizona as their doctor, even if she's hugely frustrated by not being able to figure out what's wrong and is struggling to get Bailey involved, as her grief seems to threaten to envelop her.
And finally, enter the suits. The hospital board is planning to push the Chief out of the way, and offer Derek his job. Derek, being a straight shooter, gives the Chief a heads-up that he needs to put together a plan, one way or another, to address his shaky status. "I told them I'd think about it," Derek says. "I bought you some time."
A week later, everyone's preparing for George's funeral, and dealing with their grief -- or refusing to -- in very different ways. Derek and Meredith are having a lot of sex, which unfortunate people keep walking in on. Alex and Izzie are having none. Cristina and Owen are messing around but not going all the way on the advice of his therapist (Amy Madigan). Lexie's spending a lot of time with Clara, marveling at the postcards her idiot pals keep sending from the road and trying to get her to tell her mother what happened.
George's funeral is surreal; the sight of Amanda, the girl he saved, weeping continually and the sound of the priest reading Ecclesiastes 3.1 are too much for Izzie, who bolts for a quiet spot, followed by Alex, Meredith and Cristina. She's hysterical, but she's not crying -- she's laughing, and then they all start, in a kind of disbelief over everything that's happened to them. Not everyone's got that perspective. The Chief won't talk to Derek about what's going on with his job, except to say that no one appreciates all the things he does right. Bailey's barely speaking to anyone. Lexie feels guilty about the way she cut George out of her life.
Things progress. Ten days in, Izzie gets to go home from the hospital. Clara's putting a brave face on her healing and refusing to tell her mother. Andy's back, sicker than before, but no easier to diagnose. Callie, one of the few who's been crying a lot, decides to fight back when the Chief tells her the attending job that she'd be great for isn't open anymore because Dr. Chang's 401(k) took a hit and he can't retire yet. And boy does she let him have it. You're going to regret this, she says. I am excellent and any other hospital would be thrilled to have me, she shrieks in the hallway, right in front of the hospital board member (Mitch Pileggi) who offered Derek the Chief's job. Not a great example of chiefly leadership, but the guy's been all over the place for so long that I can't really feel sorry for him -- particularly when he refuses to authorize the expensive test Arizona wants to order to find out what's wrong with Andy and basically threatens her job.
George's mom comes to see Owen, trying to puzzle out in her head how George ended up joining the army. He responds in a way that makes it clear he's starting to put himself back together, describing George's skills and telling her how proud George gave her reason to be, because he was a tremendous person. Oh, Kevin McKidd, how you bewitch me. It's almost enough to make me forget "Made of Honor."
Clara has a breakthrough, able to wave her fingers at a departing Lexie, who's thrilled at her progress. But Clara's mortified that this is what her life has become, desperately screaming that they should have let her die and getting so upset that her wounds begin to blled. By the beginning of Hour 2, a.k.a., Day 21, she's better mentally, but gets thrown a new setback: an infection in her small bowel has become an abscess, and she needs surgery. When Cristina answers her question about the surgery and tells her a colostomy bag is a small possibility, she refuses. Which sets Bailey on the warpath against Cristina, railing at her for talking Clara out of the surgery. I'm torn between agreeing with Cristina that she was doing her job and being glad that Bailey's putting her in her place. It's the grief talking, and it's unfair to Cristina, but it's also partly right.
While Lexie struggles with deciding whether to move in with Mark (those Grey girls have their intimacy issues), Callie, who lives across the hall and is a little too familiar for Lexie's comfort (Does anyone really strip down and change their clothes in the middle of the building hallway?), is starting her new job as an attending at Mercy West. She thinks she's getting away from the Chief, but oh no. He's practicing his speech on the way to meet with the hospital board, runs a red light and ends up injured at Mercy West. And starts asking questions about how good the hospital is. And you can practically see the lightbulb going off.
Cristina and Owen start jointly seeing his therapist, who forces them to understand that until he starts talking about his trauma he can't recover from it. Duh. Clara's abscess is making her really sick, and Lexie starts playing hardball, forcing her to choose between the surgery and telling her mother. Arizona sends Andy to Callie at Mercy West, knowing there'd be no Chief to refuse the tests she thinks he needs, and Callie rightfully calls her on how inappropriate it is.
Izzie, freaked out that Alex won't touch her, tries to talk to him about it on Day 30. She's wishing she had a brain tumor so she could hallucinate George because she misses him all the time. She has this illness, this loss, and no job to distract her from what she's feeling, and she needs Alex to be a husband to her, physically. The old Karev pops out. "You miss George," he snarls. "Nice. Real seductive." Could it be that Alex didn't figure his marriage would last this long?
Derek confronts the Chief about the rumors that he's leaving for Mercy West, and it gets all snarly between them. Which makes Derek a prime target for Arizona, who tells him about her theory that Andy may have a tethered spinal cord that's causing his pain, and gets him to authorize an expensive test solely on the basis of the Chief having refused it. Turns out she's right -- there's a stray "thread" attaching his spinal cord to the tailbone. A little microsurgery and he'll be fine. Nice to see some good news in the midst of all this scary change.
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Clara, meanwhile, has sunk into a depression. She won't do her physical therapy, and seems to have given up. Until Lexie tells her not to go out like a sucker -- or ceviche, which is just sick enough to get her laughing and engaged again. Izzie gets some good news too. Her kick-ass oncologist, Dr. Swender, has handed her case over to a third year, because Izzie's cancer has shrunk to the point where it's not enough to interest Swender. With a cancer this aggressive, that's a big success. But it's still living with cancer, which Izzie wasn't expecting. And it's enough to make her mad while watching Amanda mourn helplessly on a bench outside the hospital. She stalks over to this poor shattered girl and quite rightly reads her the riot act for not going out and living her life -- a luxury George doesn't have. No one knows how to live their lives, she says. "But have enough respect for George to figure it out. Because if I see you sitting on this bench again, I will kick your ass from here to Sunday."
And suddenly around Day 40, the fog of grieving seems to start subsiding for some people, and they begin coping. After taking a few steps on her new leg, Clara asks Lexie to call her mom. Cristina and Owen have a breakthrough in therapy -- Owen was in a dream when he choked Cristina, and he was fighting for his life, not hurting her. Then they have ill-advised sex. Lexie starts moving things into Mark's apartment. Izzie confronts Alex until he's forced to admit that he's terrified, because she died in his arms.
But Bailey seems broken. Derek tries to get her to talk, but all she wants to do is remain in control. Her residents aren't her children, she says, and she's got to stop caring so much and giving away at work everything she should be saving for her own son. I'm a huge Chandra Wilson fan, and throughout these two hours she gives a remarkable performance. I love that they chose not to let Bailey lose it -- she seems so much more wrecked inside when she's stoic outside, even when it's just barely contained.
It hits Meredith too -- when the janitor finally cleans out George's locker, she lets it out. And it's always nice to see Meredith healthy enough to be able to cry. It hits Cristina when she's lying in bed with Owen, as if it could finally sink in now that the thing that had preoccupied her is no longer paramount. Nearly a month and a half later, it becomes real to her that George died.
Finally, on Day 40, the Chief addresses the troops, acknowledging the rumors and finally telling people what's up. They're merging with Mercy West, and it's going to be like the Wild West for a little while as people compete for jobs. And he won't look at Derek.
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From Zap2it By Lisa Todorovich
The Chief has spent the three days since announcing the merger holed up in his office, trying to figure out who was staying and who was going -- and, like the gold-star manager he is, has let his staff twist in the wind. It's awful to have to make choices about firing people, but there are ways of making this worse, and this is one. Seriously, Chief -- step up or step off, because you've been behaving like a bonehead for way too long. And, thankfully, Derek tells him as much.
So everyone's staying at the hospital for days on end, terrified to go home, terrified to sleep, terrified to make a mistake, and speaking way too quickly for me to properly transcribe any quotes. Izzie dons a long, auburn wig that actually doesn't look half bad (her mom sent it to her) and hauls herself in, determined to work while she still has a job to come to. Alex is trying to make sure she doesn't overdo it. Derek's barely containing his fury at the Chief. Mark is incredibly sanguine -- or ****y; I can't decide which -- about things working out well. Owen the trauma surgeon is trying not to think too far ahead. Meredith, whose freaky childhood has made her calm in the foxhole, is optimistic. Lexie and the rest of her resident class are freaking out with a capital F. And Cristina is sucking up to Arizona, convinced that peds is the safe specialty that'll make it through any cuts.
A woman (Adrienne Barbeau, looking really good) and her schizophrenic adult son (James Frain) are brought in, injured in a car accident. His wrist is mildly hurt, but he's convinced that aliens have impregnated his mother -- and judging from the pulsating mass in her abdomen, he's kind of got a point. It turns out to be a massive aortic aneurysm, but she refuses surgery because she can't leave her son. She spends most of her time in her initial exam talking to him, calming him down, and going through the rituals of distraction that help him block out the voices in his head.
Lexie totally gets how to help him, but things (of course) go awry when she's treating his wrist, and he ends up escaping and being chased through the hospital by security. After he takes an exceptionally nasty fall down the stairs, he ends up with a bleeding spleen -- which ends up being the way both Lexie and Bailey (who's been spectacular in trying both to cope with the merger and trying to convince her patient to have the operation) convince the mother to go into the OR. If they both have surgery, they can stay together -- and they make it through alright.
Cristina's attempt to relate to children -- which anyone in their right mind could see from miles away would be a disaster -- goes down in flames. And it gets worse after Callie tells Arizona about Cristina's plan -- she's predictably furious, which doesn't exactly quell Cristina's fears that she'll end up cut. And given how she seems to have no real sensitivity for the feelings of these kids -- I mean, not being a kid person is one thing, but come on. However, their surgery -- pretty much reattaching the arm of a newborn whose limb was nearly cut off during an emergency C-section, using an umbilical artery -- is pretty cool.
Alex turns out to be a big hero, trying desperately to keep Izzie on her meds regimen and force her to take care of herself, even when she pushes herself too far by being on her feet for a five-hour surgery. But for a few hours in surgery, she actually forgot that she has cancer and that George is dead -- and that's some blissful amnesia.
When the axe finally comes down -- in the form of an e-mail from HR -- the core group is safe. But the anxiety doesn't dissipate -- and of course the best way to handle it is playing baseball and beer, complete with Cristina actually getting a base hit.
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From Zap2it By Carrie Raisler
Tonight's "Grey's Anatomy" was all about obligations to your family, your spouse and your patients. Oh, and did I mention there were bears? Because yeah. There were bears.
Before we get into the resident drama, let's talk about our cases of the week. Case number one is Irving (Ralph Waite), who tells Mark he wants penile implant surgery for his erectile dysfunction because he hasn't had luck with pharmaceutical intervention and needs a little "lift" for his new girlfriend in the east wing of the nursing home. His son Charlie (the awesome Tom Amandes) thinks he's being ridiculous, considering surgery at 82 years old is pretty risky. No one does angry and incredulous like Tom Amandes, folks. Once Mark clears him for surgery, his son goes along with it but with one caveat -- if he gets the surgery, they're taking him out of the home and away from his lady friend. That's cold! Mark helps them see the light, however, and they even bring his girlfriend to see him after the surgery. Aw.
Izzy's case this week is to help Owen with repeat abdominal sarcoma patient Randy (Jocko Sims), who needs surgery to remove a new tumor. Her experience with cancer gives her an immediate rapport with Randy, but things take a bad turn when they open him up and there is too much damage to even get to the new tumor. When Owen wants to send Randy home to die in peace, Izzy argues for his right to fight the cancer, whatever it takes and no matter how painful it may be. Randy opts for a new, risky surgery, but in the end there's just too much damage and he doesn't make it off the table. Izzy blames herself, but Owen takes the blame off her and sets it directly on his shoulders for allowing her to talk him into doing the surgery, and for not recognizing that she wasn't ready to handle this type of case. It was his obligation to look out for the patient, and he feels he failed.
Now for our regulars! Alex's connection to obligation this week has to do with Izzy and his obligation to adapt to living with a wife who's living with cancer. His day starts as he rushes out of the trailer to find a bear in his front yard. Not just any bear, mind you, but a giant angry upright roaring bear. Stephen Colbert would not approve. Alex's very feminine (and hilarious) scream of panic says it all. Later at the hospital, Izzy tries to convince him that perhaps he saw a deer and not a bear. Because they look so much alike? I don't know. Alex's point? They have to move back in with Meredith and quit roughing it in the airstream lest he get devoured by a wild animal. Izzy isn't as keen, explaining that they can't move back to Meredith's house because she wants to move forward with her life now that she beat a death sentence, not backwards. Even Alex getting a neck tick doesn't dissuade her. It dissuades me from any late night snack I was considering, though, I'll tell you that. Yuck. Cristina gets Alex to see that he has to give Izzy this one thing right now given all she's been through. In the end, Izzy runs into the same bear and agrees: they have to move. If they do, I'm sort of going to miss the trailer. The exterior set is fantastic.
In merger news, the Mercy West team is about to arrive which means more cutbacks, more layoffs, and more characters for us to keep straight. This is terrible for me, since I still don't know any of the interns' names, and they've been on the show for a year. Oh, and it also means more scrambling from all involved for hours and the best procedures. Cristina is especially frantic, considering she hasn't "cut" in a week. "Desperate for a procedure" Cristina is really my least favorite Cristina, so here's hoping this doesn't last too long. To teach her a bit of a lesson, she ends up with Mark's penile implant surgery. Having to do this "meaningless" little surgery affects her so much that she goes to the Chief and tells him to either use her skills or cut her.
You know how Meredith has been happy and relatively drama-free thus far this season? Well, that's all about to change now that absentee father Thatcher (Jeff Perry) is back in her life, admitted to the ER in liver failure. Immediately, all she wants is for him not to need a liver transplant, because then he will be around the hospital (and by extension, her) for months. Come on, Meredith. Your father's illness, even if it was brought on by his former drinking problem, is not all about you. Shut up a little bit, 'kay? Especially since Thatcher can't get put on the transplant list until he's one year sober and he's only at 90 days. Lexie immediately offers to get tested to see if she's a match...and I think we all see where this storyline is going, don't we? Lexie isn't a match, and Meredith doesn't want to get tested. She seems convinced she would be happier if her father was dead, but I am skeptical. Lexie pulls Mere's medical records, sees they have the same blood type and begs her to donate part of her liver to Thatcher. Lovely little moment from Chyler Leigh, there. Meredith decides to donate, but Thatcher refuses to let her make the sacrifice. In the end, Meredith convinces him that she needs to save him not for him, but for Lexie, and then the door might be open for them to repair their relationship as well. It seems Meredith's obligation this week was to her sister, and that's a relationship that could really be explored in an interesting way, so bravo, show. The surgery goes off without a hitch, and Meredith and Lexie share a nice moment in her hospital room afterward.
Callie is still struggling on how she's going to ask the Chief for her job back. She practices what she will say all episode, but in the end all she has to do is offhandedly recognize how difficult a position the Chief is in right now and he immediately restores her position at Seattle Grace without her even having to ask. I know we're supposed to feel sorry for him, but this entire situation was his idea. So suck it up, Chief.
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From Zap2it By Carrie Raisler
Tonight on "Grey's Anatomy": the Mercy West doctors arrive, and the scene is completely Jets vs. Sharks, except with much less singing and dancing.
Tonight's theme is all about invasion, as the influx from Mercy West begins, and on first glance they are quite interesting. One of them is the hot guy from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2!! (Um, not that I've seen that movie. In the theater. On opening weekend. Moving on!) Another is the awesome Nora Zehetner from Brick! And yet another is the extremely amazing Sarah Drew from Everwood and Mad Men! Is it strange that I already like the newbies more than the regular cast, even though they haven't had one lick of dialogue yet?
Back to the matters at hand. The merger gets off to a rocky start when ****y young doctor Reed (Nora Zehetner) refuses to take her stuff out of George's old locker., almost causing a throwdown between her and Izzy. Aw, watching Izzy get feisty in the locker room reminds me of the good old days when I didn't hate her. Due to the sheer volume of cases in the hospital, the Seattle Grace and Mercy West crew are paired up and assigned "zones" to handle the mob scene. The cases are almost secondary this week, used as props to showcase how the new Mercy West gang are one-upping the Seattle Grace crew at every opportunity.
Lexie and Mercy West-er April (Sarah Drew) work together on the case of a burglar injured during the act, leaving him with a broken back. When Lexie is one-upped by the conniving April on the suggested course of treatment, her thieving patient helps her out by stealing April's notebook. In this notebook, Lexie discovers not case notes but self-pep talk notes April uses to bolster her flagging self esteem. Lexie cruelly uses the knowledge to tear April down, but immediately feels bad about her actions. She ends up apologizing to April, if you can call telling a person you dislike them but know you did them wrong and never actually saying the words "I'm sorry" an apology.
Cristina and Mercy West-er Jackson are working together to save a man stabbed by his friend for having a relationship with the friend's 19-year-old daughter. Although Cristina technically saves the patient's life by fixing the stab wound, Jackson gets all of the credit for doing some heroic tackling when the patient is threatened again by his friend. Cristina ends up in a crying fit in Meredith's hospital room over the downward spiral of her career, and how she felt alive when she was working with Burke and holding hearts in her hands every day. Now she feels none of that, she just feels lost. Why doesn't she just go back to cardiothoracic? Hahn isn't there to hold her back any longer.
Alex and Mercy West partner Reed spend the hour fighting over a man with both an adrenal mass and carotid stenosis. Alex and Reed are extremely antagonistic from the start, going so far as to argue about care in front of the patient and his daughter (Kathleen Wilhoite). In turn, the daughter rightfully yells at them and snaps them out of it...for about twenty seconds until they start up again.
Izzy and Mercy West-er Charles (Robert Baker) get paired up on Sarah Freemont, a young woman in desperate need of a kidney transplant and down to her last access point for dialysis. They seem to be getting along swimmingly until Izzy overhears him bragging to his Mercy West friends about her being his "surgical *****." In the midst of their troubles, Izzy almost kills patient Sarah by ordering a bum procedure and causing her to code. Bailey manages to save the patient, but because of her troubles she will lose her chance at the transplant kidney she's been waiting three years for.
Chief has to get down the the nasty business of firing people, and HR insists he use a specific speech because the last person he fired (the pregnant intern) is suing for wrongful termination. Who's getting the ax? None other than Izzy, who gets chopped for mishandling the kidney transplant patient. Considering she got a total free pass on the LVAD debacle, I can see why she's surprised. Still, she got a total free pass on the LVAD debacle, so it makes sense for her to be "on notice" for her next big mistake. She takes it extremely hard, to the point where she skips town and leaves Alex via a note taped to his locker. I suppose if Meredith and Derek can get married via post it Alex and Izzy can get divorced via a Dear John letter. I do feel horribly sorry for Alex, and Justin Chambers played his reveal scene superbly.
Off in her own world is Callie, whose Dad (Hector Elizondo) shows up wondering why they don't talk anymore. Perhaps because you were a complete jerk last time you were there, Pops? Just a thought. Turns out he's only there to "pray away the gay" from Callie, complete with his priest in tow for support. Callie is disgusted, but Arizona urges her to cut him some slack since her news was so shocking. They sit down to talk, but when her father starts using God to show Callie why her lifestyle is wrong, she perfectly throws everything back in his place by herself using the words of Jesus. Nicely played, Callie. Arizona talks to Callie's father and makes him see that Callie is still the same person, the person he raised. This makes him see the light, and he makes amends with Callie in the end.
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From Zap2it By Lisa Todorovich
Tonight's "Grey's Anatomy" was all about perspective -- what happened during the treatment of a patient who should have made it, from the point of view of every doctor who worked on her.
And to drive the point home, the story unfolded through the "Rashomon"-like recollections of the entire team, colored by their panic, confusion, bewilderment, and fear. Compelling, if not exactly a crowd pleaser. Amid the chaos, however, one thing became perfectly clear: The Chief is utterly falling down on the job. More on that in a minute.
Seattle Grace is hit with mass casualties from a hotel fire -- several burn victims, a chest wound (a guy with a fire ax sticking out of his chest) and a firefighter who fell from a ladder and sustained multiple injuries. But the central case is a woman named Kathy Becker, a young mom with a 5-year-old son who, despite some pretty serious burns on her leg and less serious burns on her chest, seems to be on her way to recovery. The problem is that there's no one doctor looking after her, and through the course of the night she's passed from pillar to post with no one overseeing her care.
April and Reed, two of the Mercy West residents, conduct the initial exam of mother and son, and everything seems all right. Then Sloan and Lexie take over care of the second-degree burns on her leg. Then in comes a 16-year-old burn victim who's really in a bad way, and they have to attend to him -- though Lexie really wrestles with her emotions watching this kid suffer. Then Reed gets pulled away to help Callie with the firefighter, who seems to be in pretty bad shape. April gets distracted by the insane sight of a patient coming in with a fire ax sticking out of his chest -- a situation made worse when Charles, who gave blood that day, passes out and dislodges the ax, sending a huge spray of blood all over everything.
Cristina orders some morphine to help Mrs. Becker, who's been complaining of pain. She ends up suffering from a collapsed lung, which Lexie, who had to leave her patient's room because she was so upset, tries to fix with a chest tube. Which she nearly screws up because she's distracted, and Avery helps her out by pounding Mrs. Becker's chest and relieving the pressure. The patient is stable, and for a minute we're distracted by Arizona yelling at Lexie to pull it together -- great stuff from Jessica Capshaw -- and Alex frantically trying to reach Izzie, who's been gone for a week, while having to stitch up the forehead cut of Charles, a.k.a. "Nosedive." Nice.
Mrs. Becker's having awful trouble breathing, and Alex has to perform an emergency cricothyrotomy to be able to open her airway. Then she starts to slide, wiith high carbon monoxide levels and labs all over the place before she begins bleeding out. At this point pretty much every doctor is working on her -- Cristina, Alex, Charles, Avery, Reed, and April -- but they lose her. Then it hits Reed: In her initial examination of Mrs. Becker, April was distracted and skipped checking her airway. Had she done so, she would have found soot and would have intubated the patient right away. One simple mistake led to a horrible end.
April gets fired, and even though all of the residents from both hospitals have been running around competitive and terrified, most of her Mercy West colleagues aren't exactly sympathetic. Cristina pulls a season one "that's one of us in there" moment and admonishes everyone, quite rightly saying that it could have been any of them, but their patients didn't die.
In the end, though, Derek totally wins this episode by putting the blame for the mistake on whom it belongs: the Chief. Derek says he found the trauma room in chaos, with too many doctors who don't know each other and don't trust each other -- and that's the system that's been in place since the merger. The Chief needs to take another look at who's responsible, Derek says. Can I get an Amen?
There's a legendary former editor of the Washington Post, Ben Bradlee, who was famous for running a newsroom fueled by "creative tension" -- pitting reporters against one another and letting them compete for stories. But it's one thing to run a newsroom that way; a hospital is a different story. No one dies if something's screwed up on the front page. We can only hope someone steps in and fixes this, because not only does it make for bad fake medicine, it's also not that interesting to watch over the long haul, even if it is true to life.
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