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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George and Izzie catch Derek sneaking out of the house,
finally figuring out that he's the mysterious stranger who's been sleeping
with Meredith. George immediately becomes jealous, but Izzie is bothered for
completely different reasons - no wonder Meredith is getting in all the good
surgeries lately.
A flu is going around the hospital, and Cristina feels sick to her stomach.
She blames Dr. Burke. A gunshot wound victim gets Alex's attention as he
awaits attention in the lobby. Alex wants to know why he isn't in the
emergency room. Answer: Because he has an appointment. It was a schedule
gunshot wound. His friend shot him... with permission. The scars,
apparently, make a great addition to his tattoos. Meredith assists Bailey on
a case where a normal sized teenager (who is not now, nor ever was, obese)
went to Mexico to get a gastric bypass operation - a bad one -- without her
parent's permission. Now they have to undo the damage that's been done.
Izzie has to help a man who swallowed his girlfriend's keys just as she was
dumping him.
George gets to be a part of the biggest surgery of the day -
well, at least initially he does. George works with Derek on the case of
toddler with terrible tremors. After viewing films of the girls' brain just
a couple months apart, Derek finds that her brain tissue is dying at too
quickly a rate, and that the only way to halt the deterioration is with a
hemispherectomy - in layman's terms: removal of half the brain (in a young
brain like hers, the remaining tissue still has time to adapt and learn how
to replace the missing tissue). To George it's an amazing procedure to be
done by a man who can seemingly do everything - including Meredith. But
George has one other issue on his mind: he swears he smelled bourbon on the
breath of Dr. Taylor, the anesthesiologist who is to scrub in on the
hemispherectomy. Dr. Taylor outranks George, though, and has a great
reputation behind him. George doesn't know if he should say anything...
Alex and the tattooed gunshot victim bond over the fact they both wrestled collegiate
in the state of Iowa. They also share the same ethos about pain being good
for you. Burke, who has seen this patient before, has a hard time hiding his
contempt for such self-mutilation. He prefers safer hobbies: like playing
the trumpet.
George speaks up to Dr. Taylor - in front of Derek - just before the
hemispherectomy. Dr. Taylor is offended George would even suggest such a
thing (essentially accusing him of being unfit to administer
anesthesiology). Derek, somewhat reluctantly, has to side with his fellow
attending Dr. Taylor, and George is kicked out of the surgery, replaced with
Cristina.
Meredith discovers that there is more behind her patient's troubles than
just a desire to be ultra-skinny. She's under extraordinary to live up her
Mother's lofty expectations for perfection. "Life shouldn't be this
hard" Meredith tells her. Unfortunately, the procedure to reverse the gastric-bypass
doesn't go well. There's complications, the least of which is the patient's
bowel exploding on Meredith. The girl, unfortunately, will have to struggle
to achieve proper nutrition for the rest of her life.
Alex's tattooed patient begins to crash, as the stress on his body from the
gunshot wound has ecsacerbated an infected tattoo he already had. They can't
fight the infection though, as it has spread too far, and the patient dies.
During the hemispherectomy, the little girl begins to wake up - as Derek is
in the process of removing half her brain! Her anesthesia is too light and
Dr. Taylor is fast asleep. Derek kicks Dr. Taylor out of the surgery, and
later apologizes to George, where he also comes clean about Meredith, and
his intentions with her.
Izzie, who's been giving Meredith a hard time all day, finally confronts
Meredith over her indiscretions with an attending. Izzie's vitriol, though,
subsides when she makes a startling conclusion: Meredith is actually in love
with Derek. And now Izzie isn't quite so upset. In fact, she feels a little
sorry for Meredith.
Cristina, thinking her flu-like symptoms might not be a flu at all, takes a
pregnancy test. Two of them. And doesn't like what she finds...
