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Grey’s Anatomy
Almost Grown
Original Air Date: Oct 21, 2010
Angelique – Associate Staff Writer
Angelique@thetwocentscorp.com
As part of their training, Seattle Grace’s residents are put in charge; the attending surgeons compete for a million-dollar grant. Can they make it? Will Meredith make it through a brain surgery without Derek. Does Cristina finally step up and get her head back in the game or will the navy scrubs scare her even more? Is Alex going to manage a peds case on his own and will he be able to deal with the tiny human makers.
Teddy is the first to pitch her idea; she wants to make heart surgery obsolete. She is talking about stem cell research. She’s made notes but discards them soon after she starts her pitch to Webber. She’s resentful towards Shepard and she shows that more then anything during her pitch.
Hunt follows her; his idea makes sense he says that all the doctors should have disaster training. He claims that if Dr. Bailey had disaster training she would have been able to help Charles Percy and he would still live. Now she was stuck on a floor with no OR because the elevators didn’t work, she had no way of helping him besides the things she already did, control the bleeding, apply pressure and give him fluids. If she had the training she would have been able to assess the situation faster and find an escape route. Hunt never wants to go through anything like that again because he knows that they could have saved Charles Percy and they could have prevented Bailey from going through that helpless situation; they failed them. Hunt says that he can’t face that ever again with the knowledge that they could have done something to prevent that.
Mark wants to expend the burn unit and upgrade the cosmetic reconstructive surgery unit because one hand scratches the other. He thinks that the cosmetic reconstructive surgery unit can help the burn unit. He then proceeds to tell Webber that he is an raw untapped source of power because he is not seeing anyone. After that very useful revelation Webber tells him to get out!
Callie hands Arizona tissues before she heads to Webber’s office. Arizona is confident that the tiny humans will get the million-dollar grant because they always win, who can deny the tiny humans what they need, right? She want to use the money for less invasive cancer surgeries. In her opinion the smallest change can dramatically improve the lives of the children. But Callie, mean as that was, got into her head and at the end of her pitch she asks Webber why he seems surprised and that is when it all goes wrong. She asks him if he thinks that she was going to cry and his reaction shows that indeed he thought that she would. That makes Arizona mad, so mad that she wants to punch someone because she is able to handle a professional situation and she hates that her colleagues see her as someone who would start to cry to get what she wants.
Callie pitches her newest idea, xeno grafting (Tissue or organs from an individual of one species transplanted into or grafted onto an organism of another species, genus, or family. A common example is the use of pig heart valves in humans.). But even though she has tried to get into everyone’s heads she is not doing so well either. Webber tells her that he had expected her to come with a pitch which was a little more inspirational, and he starts to make an example using Arizona’s pitch but she doesn’t even let him finish. She makes it personal, she wants to win because it would be something she could brag about, something she would have been better at then Arizona who is according to Callie went to Hopkins and is more renowned in her field and a better lesbian because she was a late bloomer in that area. Callie admits that she feels left out because Arizona is always a little better then her. So from that Webber concludes that she wants him to give her the million-dollar grant to level the playing field in her relationship. Crash and burn Callie, crash and burn.
Derek wants to find the cure for Alzheimer s, mostly because he is afraid of what will happen to Meredith if he doesn’t. A million-dollar grant is not the cure, but it is a start. He’s afraid that Meredith is even more then Ellis Grey and besides her looks and skills she also has her disease. He’s scared every time she forgets her keys or asks him what day of the week it is.
Bailey keeps it simple, there are three broken machines in the basement, she wants to repair them and hire a new night nurse. In my opinion it is not a bad idea, why would you keep a couple of broken machines in the basement when you can repair them. Besides she doesn’t believe that Webber might have a million dollars to give to anyone, Webber tells her that things might change in the next couple of weeks.
In the end Hunt’s idea wins, which was no real surprise. It is an idea which can be helpful, not just in a traumatic situation but in general also. Besides that he pitched his idea in a way that was professional yet personal, by using Bailey and Percy as an example.
While the surgeons are pitching their ideas to Webber the residents get to be surgeons for a day and wear the navy blue scrubs. Lexie Grey is the only one who doesn’t get them because she is not a fourth year resident. She is running around the hospital doing test and checking up on people. While Avery and Meredith are challenged by Derek to show him who should get the chance to do a mayor brain surgery. Alex is flying solo on a case of a thirteen year old boy who developed breasts. The boy wants to get rid of them by plastic surgery before he goes to high school but his mother thinks that it is ridiculous. Since it is both a peds and a plastics case he has Arizona and Mark watching over his shoulder and he has to please both of them. He manages to do so in true Karev style. April and Cristina are supposed to work together on a cardio case, but Cristina is again in a zombi like state. While April is running around like a headless chicken trying to please everyone.
I loved the way that Alex stepped up for the boy, I don’t know in my opinion Alex always seems to be the ‘high school bully’. It is just the way that he hold himself, his demeanor everything about him. I liked how he stepped up for the boy and in true Karev fashion he tells the mom why the boy wants the surgery. And basically what’s ahead of him if he doesn’t get the surgery. He doesn’t want the boy to get psychologically damaged because he had to take schoolyard crap for years, for something he can’t change without surgery. He might not talk to the boy’s mother the way Arizona would have talked to him but he does get the point across and Arizona seems pleased.
The pitches for the million dollars contest by the surgeons were mostly … bad. Seriously hardly anyone had anything interesting to say or well they were at least having a hard time to stay on topic. Teddy was taking things out on Derek. Callie’s playing mind games on everyone else, saying that she likes a good dogfight, but her own presentation is pretty bad as well. Bailey according to Webber didn’t put much effort into it. Arizona got mad and Callie made it personal. Well I guess that it was a good episode it made the surgeons way more human. They had to fight for something and most of them failed miserably. They are not perfect, far from it. I like that, do you? Leave your two cents below.
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