Grey's Anatomy
Thursdays 9:00 PM on ABCMeredith Grey Quotes
(to Susan and Molly) The baby is not breathing.
Doctors practice deception all the time. We give vague answers to hard questions. We don't talk about post-op pain. We say you'll experience some discomfort. If you didn't die, we tell you the surgery went well, but the placebo has to be the doctor's greatest deception. Half of our patients we tell the other truth ... the other half, we pray the placebo effect's real. And we tell ourselves that they'll feel better anyhow, believing help's on the way, when, in fact, we're leaving them to die.
Doctors practice deception every day — on our patients, on their families. But the worst deception we practice is on ourselves. Which is why sometimes it takes us a while to realize that the truth has been in front of us the whole time.
It's all anybody wants, right? Clean slate. A new beginning. Like that's gonna be any easier. Ask the guy pushing the boulder up the hill. Nothing's easy about starting over. Nothing at all.
Meredith: I used to be hardcore, now I'm softcore.
Derek: Did we just start talking about porn?
Well, the thong is unprofessional.
People are really romantic about the beginnings of things. Fresh start. Clean slate. A world of possibility. But no matter what adventure you're embarking on, you're still you. You bring you into every new beginning in your life, so how different can it possibly be.
The baby doesn't want to set up shop in a hostile uterus.
Cristina: It's like court-ordered community service.
Meredith: I'd rather be picking up trash off the side of the highway.
Meredith: I'm too mad to even look at you.
Derek: Then roll over.
She caught a fish and cried is not the whole story.
To a degree, medicine is a science...but I would argue that it's also an art. The doctors who see medicine as a science only, you don't want them by your side when you're bleeding won't stop or when your child is screaming in pain. The clinicians go by the book. The artists follow their guts. The artists feel your pain and they go to extremes to make it stop. Extreme measures. That's where science ends and art begins.
