It was a very different Grey’s this week. A hotel fire caused a hot mess in the emergency room (or as Callie said last season, “we’ve got trauma coming out of our butts!”), and in the crazy confusion, one patient died. Truthfully, I’m willing to bet that several people died, but the death in question is of interest because of the massive neglect surrounding her care. The chief interviews everyone who had any interaction with the patient, which included almost everyone. So what we ended up with was multiple views of the same story, each illuminating a little more about what went down. In the end it was April who neglected to look at the patients throat when she did her initial exam (she got distracted for a moment and skipped that step). If she had done this then she would have noticed soot in the throat and prevented the entire mess that followed and the patient would certainly have survived. She got the axe (not to be confused with the axe in another patient’s chest). Poor April, fired from Grey’s and married to a gay man on Mad Men. She just can’t catch a break. The chief is satisfied that he’s found the responsible party and taken care of the situation. He thinks he’s doing a swell job with this whole merger thing. Derek points out what we are all thinking – that the chief is totally sucking:
''Maybe it's not one doctor, maybe it's too many doctors who don't know each other and who don't trust each other.'' - Derek
Although not involved with the dead patient in question, we got to Arizona lay down an awesome speech on Lexie telling her to stop crying, turn off her feelings, and do her job. She’s hardcore and is easily one of the most level headed and mature doctors at Seattle Grace. Seeing Arizona be so awesome kind of makes me angry that she hasn’t been around since the first season. BTW, is anyone else the tiniest bit concerned that they all treat Lexie like a resident instead of an intern? There weren’t any other interns running around, and Christina certainly wasn’t paying any attention to or caring about what she was doing.
Also, who is chief resident now that Bailey is an attending? Shouldn’t they have one of those?
Flash Forward
ABC is really racking up points on the gay front this year. Thursday is the night of the lesbians – meaning it is now home to the only lesbian characters on network TV. So that’s fun! Their date was a little awkward for me – maybe it was the image that Janis planted in our heads of a three way on the space station with her, Hillary Clinton, and Sarah Palin. Got to give FlashForward credit here, though. We saw Janis and Maya kiss three times, which is three more times than Callie and Arizona this season.
Also:
Dear ABC,
Please don’t show me commercials with Joseph Fiennes speaking with his natural accent right before returning to the show and his American accent. It weirds us out.
Thanks,
The Shapusens
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