1 A Hard Day's Night 2 The First Cut is the Deepest 3 Winning a Battle, Losing the War 4 No Man's Land 5 Shake Your Groove Thing 6 If Tomorrow Never Comes 7 The Self-Destruct Button 8 Save Me 9 Who's Zoomin' Who?
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Meredith Grey woke up next to a guy named Derek. And she promptly said good-bye to him, presumably for good, as she went off for her first day of work as a surgical intern at Seattle Grace Hospital. Meredith, along with fellow interns Cristina Yang, Izzie Stevens, and George O'Malley, all get assigned to surgical resident Dr. Miranda Bailey, but they would all come to know her as "The Nazi" (for her abrasive treatment of interns).
Meredith's first patient, a teenage
beauty pageant contestant, recently began suffering from seizures so severe
they threatened her life. As a neurological disorder that might need
surgery, a neurosurgeon new to Seattle Grace gets put on the case to work
with Meredith. That neurosurgeon is none other than Dr. Derek Shepherd,
Meredith's would-be one-night-stand. Derek wants to talk to Meredith about
the previous night, but Meredith wants none of that. He's an attending,
she's an intern, that's what their relationship should be.
Meredith forms an immediate bond with Cristina that gets quickly tested when
Derek chooses Meredith over Cristina to scrub in on brain surgery (it
would've been a first for either of them). Izzie is assigned to do rectal
exams amidst frustrating bouts of deciding when it's appropriate or not to
bother Bailey. And George gets selected by the arrogant Dr. Preston Burke to
actually perform a surgery - an honor he allegedly bestows on the intern who
shows the most promise, but in actuality is for the intern he just wants to
torture and make an example of in front of the others. George freezes up
during an appendectomy with Burke and gets branded "007" - license
to kill - by a fellow intern that rubs everyone the wrong way - Alex Karev.
Alex also insults Meredith, but he gets his comeuppance when she is able to
offer a proper diagnosis for one of Alex's patients in front of Dr. Richard
Webber, Chief of Surgery at Seattle Grace.
Dr. Webber, by the way, turns out to be a friend of Meredith's mother, the famous Dr. Ellis Grey (whom all the interns hold in the highest regard). We get the impression that the relationship between Meredith and Ellis wasn't the best - Ellis didn't think Meredith had what it takes to go to medical school -- but no one, save for Meredith, knows that early onset Alzheimer's Disease has left her a shell of the person shell of the person she once was, relegating her now to a nursing home.
