Drama for Mama: Grey’s Anatomy
This was a hard episode to watch for us animal lovers. The new trauma surgeon, Major Hunt, began a teaching session by unveiling several sedated pigs strapped to operating tables. He took out a pocket knife and stabbed each one in the chest and then ordered the residents and interns to keep them alive by performing surgery. Izzie refused and left the room. Later in the episode she gave the new doctor a big piece of her mind about cruelty to animals. The only good part of the whole pig thing was that Christina actually showed some compassion for them, and she learned a lot by operating on them all day. In the end, they had to put the pigs to sleep because they would have suffered too much in healing from the surgeries.
While all the pig business was going on, Dr. Bailey was in charge of saving a human patient – a 10-year-old girl with an inoperable tumor wrapped around several major arteries. She assembled a team of doctors and eventually they figured out how to attempt to operate on the tumor. (They took out six major organs to do it! I couldn’t watch most of the surgery scenes. Way too gross.) Bailey and Erica had a big showdown after the surgery because Erica had been griping all day about the surgery and how it would never work. But it did work and the girl lived.
Erica was in a bad mood because, at the beginning of the episode, she opened up to Callie about how she felt about her realization that she’s gay. She was so happy that she cried, which freaked Callie out. Callie went running to the open arms of Mark Sloane in the on-call room – twice. She wanted to know if she’d feel differently or better about a man versus a woman. But ultimately she came clean about the cheating and told Erica. Then she told Sloane she wouldn’t be meeting him in the on-call room anymore but still wanted to hang out with him as friends.
Izzie and Alex are definitely more than friends these days. In fact, Alex asked Izzie to go steady with him – only he did it in his own backward, infuriating way. But Izzie decoded his mixed messages and the two are definitely becoming an item. Lexie and George patched things up as roommates after Lexie admitted that she sometimes gets too involved and takes things too personally.
The Chief had a talk with Meredith and said he sometimes can’t look at her because she reminds him of all his past failures and that if saying “I’m sorry” could heal it, he’d say it a thousand times a day. (I think she needed to hear that.) Later, back at Meredith’s house, she and Derek were going through her mother’s boxes while making room for Derek’s stuff. They found another huge box full of her mother’s diaries, which means Meredith has a lot more reading to do.
There were no preview scenes from next week’s episode, so I’m not sure if there’ll be a new one or a repeat. Check your TV guide next week or your Tivo to find out.
