Grey's Anatomy

Previously on "grey's anatomy"... I passed?

You're not an intern anymore. George doesn't know I exist.

Do you want to go on a date with me? What if I'm not into it?

I'm not letting you do this to me, Alex. I know I'm being an ass.

I think I found a way to save lives. I could find patients

For a clinical trial.

The tumor's shrinking. The virus is working.

You keep a diary? It's not mine.

Whose is it? Your mother's.

I am a rock.

I am an island.

That's the mantra

Of pretty much every surgeon I've ever met.

We like to think we're independent,

Loners, mavericks...

That all we need to do our jobs is an o.R., a scalpel

And a willing body.

Is Yang on call tonight?

Uh, yeah. Why do you think it's so clean in here?

But the truth is,

Not even the best of us can do it alone.

Surgery, like life, is a team sport.

Can I just say,

The whole "taking it slow" thing?

Best idea ever.

It really takes the pressure off.

Mm. Yeah.

We can just, you know, Hang out without all the--

The expectations.

Why rush things? Exactly.

And eventually,

You've got to get off the bench and decide...

What team are you batting for?

You know, one of the joys of cohabitation

Is having breakfast together.

Well, I can't today because Bailey paged us in early.

Well, I guess you don't have time

To look at our work in a major medical journal.

They published our clinical trial? Mm-hmm.

It's on the cover.

"a new method in treating inoperable malignant gliomas--

The Shepherd method." what do you think?

It's a picture, a big picture of you. You're making a face.

I'm not making a face. I love that picture.

I have to go.

"the Shepherd method." it's about time this hospital

Got some good publicity for a change.

Oh, I heard you found a donor.

Yes, sir. The last piece of the puzzle

Finally fell into place. This is the day, dr. Bailey,

The day that seattle grace comes back swinging.

Shepherd on the front page of a national journal,

Bragging rights to a flashy surgery--

I don't see Mercy West taking on a project of this magnitude,

Do you? I'd rather wait to celebrate till we pull this thing off.

Yeah, that's a good call. We don't want to jinx it.

Eat that, Mercy West.

God, I've been looking everywhere for you.

Well, I had an early morning palatoplasty.

You see this? "the Shepherd method"?

Yeah, yeah, very impressive. Listen, last night, Erica--

You think they airbrushed his picture?

I mean, the man does not have one damn

Pore. Could you focus? I need you right now

All right, well, I'm a little exhausted,

But if you want to hop on and do all the work...

No, I need to talk.

Last night,

Erica and i... We...

We did it. Sort of.

Congratulations.

No. No, no.

It was not good at all.

I choked.

I couldn't go down there.

I-i tried, but it just felt so weird and clinical,

Like gynie rotation.

I left this morning before she got up.

I couldn't even face her.

What if--what if me and Erica are--

What if--what if we were a mistake?

Where are you going? I can't talk about this.

Oh, come on. You love talking about this stuff.

Girl on girl. It's hot. Two girls getting nasty and loving it? That's hot.

One girl talking about how much it sucked?

Depressing and wrong.

Just wrong.

The chief wants us to give George one of our interns?

Except for Grey. She already lost O'malley.

Just dump your dead weight. Oh, please. They're all dead weight.

That's why I need all four of them, not three.

George is filling out paperwork,

Getting his real live doctor wings,

So I thought now would be a good time to

Decorate his locker. Give me that coffee

Okay. I don't even want the credit,

But the clinical trial was my idea.

And I had to beg him to do it,

More than once. It's okay you want the credit

I would want the credit. When you screw the attendings, you get screwed.

They have all the power. Interns. You could screw interns.

I mean date. Residents could date interns,

'cause we're nonthreatening.

I read this study once that said that interns hardly ever file

Sexual harassment claims because we feel so weak and powerless

In the hospital environment, so that's good.

Interns-- the other white meat.

Where are we going? You'll see when we get there.

Dr. Bailey, I'm actually on dr. Sloan's service today.

Everyone's off their services. You're all with me. Where are we going?

You'll see when we get there. Hey,

Did you see your locker? I put a smelly candle in it

So now your scrubs are gonna smell like cinnamon bun. Gosh, thanks.

Dr. Bailey, dr. Sloan is doing a transpalatal advancement.

I've never seen one. Hahn said I could scrub in on her aortic bypass.

And I really need to get to the clinic. I've staffed it

With nurses and p.A.S, but I'm the only doctor on call,

And I've got administrative work to-- today is not about you.

It is not about whose services you wish to be on.

It's not about your career. This is about me.

This is a project I've been working on for a long time,

And it's very important to me,

Therefore it will be very important to you.

And the only way we can pull this thing off

Is iwe work together as a team,

So today, you are not 15 individual doctors,

You are one team of surgeons representing this hospital.

Is everybody clear othat?

Um, why would they need

So many doctors for one surgery? I don't know.

Because it's not just one surgery.

It's 12 surgeries-- 6 kidney transplants

In six o.R.S, all at the same time.

Paired matching kidney donation.

A 6-way swap-- 6 people donate kidneys

To total strangers,

Six people get kidneys from total strangers.

12 people walk away happy.

Paired matching kidney donation. Otherwise known as--

Dude, a domino surgery.

Stan Mercer, 46,

Chronic renal failure secondary to high blood pressure.

His wife here wanted to donate a kidney to him,

But she wasn't a match.

So she will be donating her kidney

To ms. Chen over there, who is a match,

While mr. Mercer will be getting a kidney

From this young man today. Nice to meet you.

P.J., please.

Uh, Kurt Walling, 58,

Chronic renal failure secondary to diabetes.

His son p.J. Wasn't a match, so mr. Walling will be getting

Ms. Herman's kidney today.

Thanks for the kidney, ms. Herman. Oh, call me Lindsay.

We're gonna be pretty close by the end of the day.

And so on and so forth. Why do you still look stupid

Well, maybe if we had a cheat sheet.

Ms.Herman gives her kidney to mr. Walling

Mr. Walling's son gives his kidney to mr. Mercer.

Mr. Mercer's wife gives her kidney to ms. Chen.

Ms. Chen's sister gives her kidney to mr. Patel.

Mr. Patel's wife gives her kidney to ms. Loring,

Who came in with her cousin, ms. Gomez, who's giving

Her kidney to mr. Cross, the professional

Flautist. For those of you without a photographic memory

It's up on a board in the conference room. And why do we have to do

All x transplants at one time? So no one backs out at the last minute.

Why would anybody back out? It's such an incredible thing

To be a part of. Well, passing the organ's kinda creepy. I'd back out.

Yeah, yeah, that's why this whole surgery

Is a giant house of cards. If we lose one donor,

We lose them all. So you will not only provide

Excellent medical care, but you will keep

Your patients happy.

We need to make sure this whole thing doesn't fall apart

Before the surgery. Any questions? Um,

I heard when the did a domino at boston gen

The residents all got to keep one of the dead kidneys

In a jar aa souvenir. I want a kidney in a jar.

Me, too, can I have a kidney? Well, if they get kidneys, I get a kidney.

Quantities are limited. I asked first.

Can we? No one is taking home a kidney in a jar

Diseased kidneys

Are not tchotchkes for your coffee table.

Now go. Go.

Hey, you okay?

Uh, Bailey snagged

All the surgical residents and interns,

So I'm stuck with the psych interns.

Not the sharpest. Okay, you're busy. I'll be brief.

I was thinking, if you weren't on call tonight,

That, uh, maybe we could, uh, go to my place,

Order in dinner, rent a movie.

Tonight? You want to get together again tonight?

Well, I had a lot of fun last night. Fun.

Anyway, just let me know.

Okay, as you may know, one of you is going

To O'malley today. Oh, me! I-i'll go if you need a volunteer.

I decide who gets to go after I decide

Which one of you sucks the most.