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酒店管理专业的岳然、宁佳佳、苏珊、罗非、陆吴等人，来到全国首届一指的温泉度假酒店BYT实习。 三个月期间他们将会在不同部门轮岗，通过考核的进入下一阶段培训，没通过考核的直接开除。 跟梦想中华丽多彩的职场生活不同，实习生菜鸟们不但要面对各种奇德客人，还要小心应对挑别的上司和处处设防的老员工。每个人都在淘法边缘垂死挣扎。 岳然的运气更是不佳，上班第一天她就把微服私访的新任总经理谢先羽当成了变态，两人不打不相识，从此恩怨不断。宁佳佳一心想找个有钱人，但是每一段态情都无疾面终，苏珊和陆灵曾是人人称羡的校园情倡，而现实压力让他们愈走愈运。罗非像个透明人一样默默无闻，但是在那个患有间歇性失忆症的客人眼里她每天都是新鲜的。 BYT的老董事长一直守护着温泉水将要枯竭的秘密，好不容易把儿子谢梵羽从国外盼回来了，原本指望他能够力挽狂渊，谁知谢梵羽却在暗地里筹划着出售消店。由实习生们主导的守护酒店大作战正式上演！热播电视剧最新电影那一场呼啸而过的青春波尔多囚犯洪水2018两个好人福祸双至魔偶奇谭6一起用餐吧北京女子图鉴之助理女王十分钟年华老去：大提琴篇续命之徒：绝命毒师太空先锋第一季丑闻第一季梦寐以球废柴联盟 第五季家庭、权力与原教旨主义杜什一家2雷霆掃穴香草紫禁之颠迷路2024我的儿子2021刺心2018几度风雨几度秋绝夜逢生第一季关于莉莉周的一切大蛇对大蟒地狱厨房(美版)第五季亲，向前冲！
酒店管理专业的岳然、宁佳佳、苏珊、罗非、陆吴等人，来到全国首届一指的温泉度假酒店BYT实习。 三个月期间他们将会在不同部门轮岗，通过考核的进入下一阶段培训，没通过考核的直接开除。 跟梦想中华丽多彩的职场生活不同，实习生菜鸟们不但要面对各种奇德客人，还要小心应对挑别的上司和处处设防的老员工。每个人都在淘法边缘垂死挣扎。 岳然的运气更是不佳，上班第一天她就把微服私访的新任总经理谢先羽当成了变态，两人不打不相识，从此恩怨不断。宁佳佳一心想找个有钱人，但是每一段态情都无疾面终，苏珊和陆灵曾是人人称羡的校园情倡，而现实压力让他们愈走愈运。罗非像个透明人一样默默无闻，但是在那个患有间歇性失忆症的客人眼里她每天都是新鲜的。 BYT的老董事长一直守护着温泉水将要枯竭的秘密，好不容易把儿子谢梵羽从国外盼回来了，原本指望他能够力挽狂渊，谁知谢梵羽却在暗地里筹划着出售消店。由实习生们主导的守护酒店大作战正式上演！热播电视剧最新电影那一场呼啸而过的青春波尔多囚犯洪水2018两个好人福祸双至魔偶奇谭6一起用餐吧北京女子图鉴之助理女王十分钟年华老去：大提琴篇续命之徒：绝命毒师太空先锋第一季丑闻第一季梦寐以球废柴联盟 第五季家庭、权力与原教旨主义杜什一家2雷霆掃穴香草紫禁之颠迷路2024我的儿子2021刺心2018几度风雨几度秋绝夜逢生第一季关于莉莉周的一切大蛇对大蟒地狱厨房(美版)第五季亲，向前冲！
长篇影评
1 ) 我从来不是幽默的女生
我从来不是幽默的女生
不喜欢突然的一场雨
明知道你正伤心
却又默默离去
明知道下雨天的你
需要亲密的语气
说今天就快过去
雨会停 心将平静
我从来不是幽默的女生
只好为你淋雨
我从来不是幽默的女生
不适合这种情景
我从来不是幽默的女生
真不幸 坏了天气
——陈珊妮《我从来不是幽默的女生》
寒假前因为好友Dean的推荐而开始看《Grey's Anatomy》，不紧不慢地看了一个寒假，倒也就这样追到了第三季。
可以说，在昨天之前——或者更确切点，在我和Pheobe聊完天后看了第三季第13集以前——《GA》里我最喜欢的女孩虽然不能确定是谁，但一定不会是Christina Yang。
曾经带着几分偏见地认为：怎么可能会有人喜欢上Christina Yang这样的女孩呢？她不美丽、不温柔、固执、冷漠、而且还有着带几分功利的进取心。看着她每天一大早来到医院只为抢到好的病人，看着她想尽一切方法就为能上手术台，看着她不修边幅一心工作，觉得这个女孩除了优秀，似乎再也找不到一点讨人喜欢的地方了。
甚至，就连她与主治医生Burke的相恋，也让我觉得这只是她想要获得手术机会的一个手段而已。
到了第二季，一位身体中有炸弹的病人使整个医院都陷入了恐慌，Geroge和Izzie转移到了医院的另外一栋楼，而Christina和Grey却都留在病人所在的楼层。当时，Geroge和Izzie坐在墙角谈论着正陷入危险的那两位朋友，Izzie评论她们说：“因为她们都是行动派，而我们却大多时候在旁观。”
Christina的勇气让我对她有了改观。无论她留下的原因究竟是担心Burke，还是仅仅想要获得一个难得的手术机会，但她的确是一个毫无疑问的行动派。当医院出现身体释放不明毒气的女病人时，Sloan医生拒绝进入手术室处理病人，而Christina却立刻举起手对主任说：“我可以在游泳池不呼吸游三个来回。”于是渐渐觉得，这样一个有着几分傻气的行动派，似乎也不至于那么让人厌恶吧。
直到Burke意外中弹，Christina却退缩时，我才终于发现，这个女孩并不像自己表现的那样坚强。原来，这个优秀得近乎冷酷的女孩，也终究会有软弱的一面。而这样的软弱，竟让我对她有了莫名的好感。
Christina的确不是一个善于讨人喜欢的女孩，她与Burke斗气时小孩子般互不相让，她对Burke的母亲骄傲地报出自己的学历，她为了好的手术机会不顾一切……那样一个优秀且骄傲的女孩，却也会逃跑般离开Burke的手术台，也会在听到Burke说“marry me”时忍不住激动流泪。觉得这样的她，才是在那个躲在为了保护自己而假装坚强冷漠的外壳里的那个真实可爱的Christina Yang。
记得在女性文学课上，老师曾经谈到过文学作品中的女性形象：在大多数文学作品中，女性形象被简单地分成了两类——美丽温柔的天使形象与丑陋邪恶的恶魔形象。
在这种分类的无形影响下，女孩们从小就被教导着要做天使。她们会收到芭比娃娃、毛绒熊之类的礼物，然后每天自言自语般地在教导自己娃娃的同时也教导自己，说：要乖、要微笑、要顺从……
在我还足够年轻、可以拿年龄作为炫耀的资本的时候，很喜欢《小王子》中的小狐狸，并因为小王子最终的选择而感到伤心。可之后才渐渐明白，其实小玫瑰这样的女孩注定了比较容易得到幸福。
作者总是很喜欢通过文学作品来说话，而《小王子》的结局，是否可以理解为圣艾修伯里想要对女孩们说：聪明的女孩只适合做知己，而能陪伴一生的女孩不用太有思想，能够笑容甜美、用细软的声音说话就好。
也许正是这样，他才会选择文章中小玫瑰的原型——那个因为《小王子》没有献给自己而任性出走的康素罗。
那么多的故事，那么多的王子最后爱上的都是公主，而那么多的公主无一不是温柔美丽的。
也许，温柔美丽就足够了吧，麻烦到隔着十多层羽绒垫也容不下床上的一颗豌豆也完全没有关系，傻到除了等待王子的吻来拯救自己外什么都不会做也根本不是问题——温柔、美丽，这就是与王子过上幸福生活的资格。
印象中唯一一个能称得上拥有智慧的公主图兰朵，也只是被人们定义成为了一个因为有着阴暗的童年从而仇恨男人、报复社会的心理畸形的小姑娘而已。更不厚道的是，作者还要落井下石地给她安排了一个悲惨的结局，似乎是在坏笑着告诉那些蠢蠢欲动的女孩们，除了温良恭俭让之外，其他一切的优秀形容词都是为男人造的，想要把它们放在女人身上是要不得的。
难怪伍尔夫会感叹：“有谁能计算得出，一个诗人的灵魂被禁锢在女人的身体里时，会有多大的悲愤。”
可是，现实中的女孩实在无法被如此简单而不负责任地分成天使和恶魔两大阵营。就像Chritina Yang这样的女孩，虽然算不上恶魔，但也实在做不了天使。
即使明知道小玫瑰比较容易得到幸福，但毕竟不是每个女孩都做得了小玫瑰。
有些女孩，她们不知道怎么给人安慰，学不会如何讨人欢心，不甘心做别人光芒背后面容模糊的小女人，更演不来那些山盟海誓、缠绵悱恻的爱情肥皂剧……于是，有时候也会忍不住想，这些偏执倔强的女生们，还真是挺让人扫兴的吧。
好在看到Christina Yang的身边有了愿意将心放在她手上的Preston Burke，不然这些女孩，是不是该手拉手站出来向这个世界鞠躬道歉，说：“真不幸，坏了天气。”
不喜欢突然的一场雨
明知道你正伤心
却又默默离去
明知道下雨天的你
需要亲密的语气
说今天就快过去
雨会停 心将平静
我从来不是幽默的女生
只好为你淋雨
我从来不是幽默的女生
不适合这种情景
我从来不是幽默的女生
真不幸 坏了天气
——陈珊妮《我从来不是幽默的女生》
寒假前因为好友Dean的推荐而开始看《Grey's Anatomy》，不紧不慢地看了一个寒假，倒也就这样追到了第三季。
可以说，在昨天之前——或者更确切点，在我和Pheobe聊完天后看了第三季第13集以前——《GA》里我最喜欢的女孩虽然不能确定是谁，但一定不会是Christina Yang。
曾经带着几分偏见地认为：怎么可能会有人喜欢上Christina Yang这样的女孩呢？她不美丽、不温柔、固执、冷漠、而且还有着带几分功利的进取心。看着她每天一大早来到医院只为抢到好的病人，看着她想尽一切方法就为能上手术台，看着她不修边幅一心工作，觉得这个女孩除了优秀，似乎再也找不到一点讨人喜欢的地方了。
甚至，就连她与主治医生Burke的相恋，也让我觉得这只是她想要获得手术机会的一个手段而已。
到了第二季，一位身体中有炸弹的病人使整个医院都陷入了恐慌，Geroge和Izzie转移到了医院的另外一栋楼，而Christina和Grey却都留在病人所在的楼层。当时，Geroge和Izzie坐在墙角谈论着正陷入危险的那两位朋友，Izzie评论她们说：“因为她们都是行动派，而我们却大多时候在旁观。”
Christina的勇气让我对她有了改观。无论她留下的原因究竟是担心Burke，还是仅仅想要获得一个难得的手术机会，但她的确是一个毫无疑问的行动派。当医院出现身体释放不明毒气的女病人时，Sloan医生拒绝进入手术室处理病人，而Christina却立刻举起手对主任说：“我可以在游泳池不呼吸游三个来回。”于是渐渐觉得，这样一个有着几分傻气的行动派，似乎也不至于那么让人厌恶吧。
直到Burke意外中弹，Christina却退缩时，我才终于发现，这个女孩并不像自己表现的那样坚强。原来，这个优秀得近乎冷酷的女孩，也终究会有软弱的一面。而这样的软弱，竟让我对她有了莫名的好感。
Christina的确不是一个善于讨人喜欢的女孩，她与Burke斗气时小孩子般互不相让，她对Burke的母亲骄傲地报出自己的学历，她为了好的手术机会不顾一切……那样一个优秀且骄傲的女孩，却也会逃跑般离开Burke的手术台，也会在听到Burke说“marry me”时忍不住激动流泪。觉得这样的她，才是在那个躲在为了保护自己而假装坚强冷漠的外壳里的那个真实可爱的Christina Yang。
记得在女性文学课上，老师曾经谈到过文学作品中的女性形象：在大多数文学作品中，女性形象被简单地分成了两类——美丽温柔的天使形象与丑陋邪恶的恶魔形象。
在这种分类的无形影响下，女孩们从小就被教导着要做天使。她们会收到芭比娃娃、毛绒熊之类的礼物，然后每天自言自语般地在教导自己娃娃的同时也教导自己，说：要乖、要微笑、要顺从……
在我还足够年轻、可以拿年龄作为炫耀的资本的时候，很喜欢《小王子》中的小狐狸，并因为小王子最终的选择而感到伤心。可之后才渐渐明白，其实小玫瑰这样的女孩注定了比较容易得到幸福。
作者总是很喜欢通过文学作品来说话，而《小王子》的结局，是否可以理解为圣艾修伯里想要对女孩们说：聪明的女孩只适合做知己，而能陪伴一生的女孩不用太有思想，能够笑容甜美、用细软的声音说话就好。
也许正是这样，他才会选择文章中小玫瑰的原型——那个因为《小王子》没有献给自己而任性出走的康素罗。
那么多的故事，那么多的王子最后爱上的都是公主，而那么多的公主无一不是温柔美丽的。
也许，温柔美丽就足够了吧，麻烦到隔着十多层羽绒垫也容不下床上的一颗豌豆也完全没有关系，傻到除了等待王子的吻来拯救自己外什么都不会做也根本不是问题——温柔、美丽，这就是与王子过上幸福生活的资格。
印象中唯一一个能称得上拥有智慧的公主图兰朵，也只是被人们定义成为了一个因为有着阴暗的童年从而仇恨男人、报复社会的心理畸形的小姑娘而已。更不厚道的是，作者还要落井下石地给她安排了一个悲惨的结局，似乎是在坏笑着告诉那些蠢蠢欲动的女孩们，除了温良恭俭让之外，其他一切的优秀形容词都是为男人造的，想要把它们放在女人身上是要不得的。
难怪伍尔夫会感叹：“有谁能计算得出，一个诗人的灵魂被禁锢在女人的身体里时，会有多大的悲愤。”
可是，现实中的女孩实在无法被如此简单而不负责任地分成天使和恶魔两大阵营。就像Chritina Yang这样的女孩，虽然算不上恶魔，但也实在做不了天使。
即使明知道小玫瑰比较容易得到幸福，但毕竟不是每个女孩都做得了小玫瑰。
有些女孩，她们不知道怎么给人安慰，学不会如何讨人欢心，不甘心做别人光芒背后面容模糊的小女人，更演不来那些山盟海誓、缠绵悱恻的爱情肥皂剧……于是，有时候也会忍不住想，这些偏执倔强的女生们，还真是挺让人扫兴的吧。
好在看到Christina Yang的身边有了愿意将心放在她手上的Preston Burke，不然这些女孩，是不是该手拉手站出来向这个世界鞠躬道歉，说：“真不幸，坏了天气。”
2 ) Wonderful Voiceover
The best of this soap opera is voiceover in each episode. It intrigues me to scribble down every sentence of voiceover when watching it. It is food for thought. I like this way to say something about life, love, friend, job, responsibility, loneliness and so on in this series. It make me contemplating what has happened in my life.
Attached is what I record, share with "同好":
Season1
Episode 1: A hard Day’s night
The game. They say either a person has what it takes to play, or they don't.
There comes a moment when it's more than just a game. And you either take that step forward, or turn around and walk away.
E5: “shake your groove thing”
Remember when you were a kid and your biggest worry was, like, if you'd get a bike for your birthday, or if you get to eat cookies for breakfast. Being an adult? Totally overrated. I mean, seriously, don't be fooled by all the hot shoes and the great sex and the no parents anywhere telling you to do. Adulthood is responsibility. Responsibility, it really does suck. Really, really sucks. Adults have to be places and do things and earn a living and pay the rent. Kinda makes bikes and cookies look really really good, doesn't it?
The scariest part about responsibility: when you screw up and let it slip right through your fingers.
Unfortunately, once you get past the age of braces and training bras, responsibility doesn't go away.
It can't be avoided. Either someone makes us face it, or we suffer the consequences. And still, adulthood has its perks.
E6 “ If tomorrow never comes”
A couple hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. "Never leave that till tomorrow," he said, "which you can do today." This is the man who discovered electricity. You'd think more of us would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of pain, fear of rejection. Sometimes, the fear is just of making a decision. Because, what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo? Whatever it is we're afraid of, one thing holds true. That, by the time the pain of not doing a thing gets worse than the fear of doing it, it can feel like we're carrying around a giant tumor. And you thought I was speaking metaphorically.
The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we haven't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still, sometime we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore, until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin meant. That knowing is better than wondering. That waking is better than sleeping. And that even the biggest failure, even the worst, most intractable mistake beats the hell out of never trying.
E07 “ The self destruct button”
I mean, if life's so hard already, why do we bring more trouble down on ourselves? What's up with the need to hit the self-destruct button? Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know... ...maybe we just wouldn't feel real. What's that saying? "Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer?" "Because it feels so good when I stop."
E08 “Save me”
You know how when you were a kid and you believed in fairy tales? That fantasy of what your life would be. White dress, Prince Charming, Who'd carry you away to a castle on a hill. You'd lie in bed at night and close your eyes, and you had complete and utter faith. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Prince Charming, they were so close, you could taste them. But eventually, you grow up. One day you open your eyes, and the fairy tale disappears. Most people turn to the things and people they can trust. But the thing is, it's hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely. Cause almost everyone still has that smallest bit of hope, of faith, that one day they'll open their eyes and it will all come true.
E09 “who’s zooming who”
Secrets can't hide in science. Medicine has a way of exposing the lies. Within the walls of the hospital, the truth is stripped bare. How we keep our secrets outside the hospital...Well, that's a little different. One thing is certain. Whatever it is we're trying to hide, we're never ready for that moment when the truth gets naked. That's the problem with secrets. Like misery, they love company. They pile up and up until they take over everything. Until you don't have room for anything else. Until you're so full of secrets, you feel like you're going to burst.
The thing people forget is how good it can feel when you finally set secrets free.Whether good or bad, at least they're out in the open, like it or not. And once your secrets are out in the open, you don't have to hide behind them anymore. The problem with secrets is even when you think you're in control... ...you're not.
Season 2
E1 “Raindrops keep falling on my head”
To be a good surgeon, you have to think like a surgeon. Emotions are messy. Tuck them neatly away and step into a clean, sterile room where the procedure is simple. Cut, suture and close. But sometimes, you're faced with a cut that won't heal. A cut that rips it's stitches wide open.
The say practice makes perfect. Theory is, the more you think like a surgeon, the more you become one. The better you get at remaining neutral, clinical. Cut, suture, close. And the harder it becomes to turn it off? to stop thinking like a surgeon. And remember what it means to think like a human being.
E2 “Enough is enough (no more tears)”
I have an aunt who, whenever she poured anything for you, would say, "Say when." My aunt would say, "Say when," and of course we never did. We don't say "when" because there's something about the possibility of more. More tequila. More love. More anything. More is better.
There's something to be said about a glass half full. About knowing when to say when. I think it's a floating line. A barometer of need and desire. It's entirely up to the individual. And depends on what's being poured. Sometimes all we want is a taste. Other times, there's no such thing as enough. The glass is bottomless. And all we want is more.
E3 “Make me lose control”
Surgeons are control freaks. With a scalpel in your hand, you feel unstoppable. There's no fear, there's no pain. You're 10 feet tall and bullet proof. And then you leave the O.R. And all that perfection. All that beautiful control just falls to crap.
No one likes to lose control but as a surgeon there's nothing worse. It's a sign of weakness. Of not being up to the task. And still there are times when it just gets away from you. When the world stops spinning. And you realize that your shiny little scalpel isn't gonna save you. No matter how hard you fight it. You fall. And its scary as hell. Except there's an upside to free falling. It's the chance you give your friends to catch you.
E4” deny, deny, deny”
The key to surviving a surgical internship is denial. We deny that we're tired, we deny that we're scared, we deny how badly we want to succeed, and most importantly, we deny that we're in denial. We only see what we wanna see and believe what we want to believe. And it works. We lie to ourselves so much that after a while, the lies start to seem like the truth. We deny so much that we can't recognize the truth, right in front of our faces.
Sometimes reality has a way of sneaking up and biting us in the ass. And when the damn bursts all you can do is swim. The world of pretend is a cage, not a cocoon. We can only lie to ourselves for so long. We are tired. We are scared. Denying it doesn't change the truth. Sooner or later, we have to put aside our denial ... and face the world head on gun's blazing. Denial. It's not just a river in Egypt. It's a freaking ocean. So how do you keep from drowning in it?
E5 “Bring the pain”
Pain comes in all forms. The small twinge, a bit of soreness, the random pain. The normal pains we live with every day. Then there's the kind of pain you can't ignore. A level of pain so great that it blocks out everything else. Makes the rest of the world fade away. Until all we can think about is how much we hurt. How we manage our pain is up to us. Pain. We anaesthetize...ride it out, embrace it, ignore it... And for some of us, the best way to manage pain is to just push through it.
Pain. You just have to ride it out. Hope it goes away on its own. Hope the wound that caused it heals. There are no solutions. No easy answers. You just breathe deep and wait for it to subside. Most of the time pain can be managed. But sometimes, the pain gets to you when you least expect it. Hit's way below the belt and doesn't let up. Pain. You just have to fight through because the truth is you can't out run it. And life always make more.
E6 “Into you like a Train”
In general... people can be categorized in one of two ways. Those who love surprises, and those who don't. I don't. I've never met a surgeon that enjoys a surprise, because, as surgeons we like to be in the know. We have to be in the know. Because when we aren't, people die and lawsuits happen. Am I rambling? I think I'm rambling. Ok, so my point actually ... and I do have one. Has nothing to do with surprises or death or lawsuits or even surgeons. My point is this: whoever said what you don't know can't hurt you was a complete and total moron. Because for most people I know, not knowing is the worst feeling in the world.
As surgeons, there are so many things we have to know. We have to know we have what it takes. We have to know how to take care of our patients. And how to take care of each other. Eventually we even have to figure out... how to take care of ourselves. As surgeons we have to be in the know. But as human beings, sometimes it's better to stay in the dark. Because in the dark, there maybe fear... ... but there's also hope.
E8 “Let it Be”
In the 8th grade, my English class had to read Romeo & Juliet. Then for extra credit, Mrs. Snyder made us act out all the parts. Sal Scafarillo was Romeo. As fate would have it, I was Juliet. All the other girls were jealous but I had a slightly different take. I told Mrs. Snyder that Juliet was an idiot. For starters, she falls for the one guy she knows she can't have. Then she blames fate for her own bad decision. Mrs. Snyder explained to me that when fate comes into play, choice sometimes goes out the window. At the ripe old age of 13, I was very clear. That love like life is about making choices. And fate has nothing to do with it. Everyone thinks it's so romantic. Romeo & Juliet. True love. How sad. If Juliet was stupid enough to fall for the enemy, drink a bottle of poison and go to sleep in a mausoleum ... ... she deserved whatever she got.
Maybe Romeo & Juliet were fated to be together, but just for a while. And then their time passed. If they could've known that beforehand maybe it would've all been ok. I told Mrs. Snyder that when I was growing up I'd take fate into my own hands. I wouldn't let some guy drag me down. Mrs. Snyder said that I'd be lucky if I ever had that kind of passion with someone. And that if I did, we'd be together forever. Even now I believe for the most part love is about choices. It's about putting down the poison and the dagger and making your own happy ending ... most of the time. And that sometimes despite all your best choices and all your best intentions, fate wins anyway.
E09: “Thanks for the memories”
Gratitude, appreciation, giving thanks. No matter what words you use, it all means the same thing. Happy. We're supposed to be happy. Grateful for friends, family, happy just to be alive... Whether we like it or not.
Maybe we're not supposed to be happy. Maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful is recognizing what you have for what it is. Appreciate small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. Maybe we're thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe we're thankful for things we'll never know. At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing ... ... is reason enough to celebrate.
E10 “Much too much”
When you were a kid, it was Halloween candy. You hid it from your parents and ate it until you got sick. In college it was the heady combo of youth, tequila and well you know... As a surgeon you take as much of the good as you can get... because it doesn't come around nearly as often as it should. Cause good things aren't always what they seem. Too much of anything, even love is not always a good thing.
How do you know how much is too much? Too much, too soon. Too much information. Too much fun. Too much love. Too much to ask. And when is it all just too much to bear?
E11 “Owner of a lonely heart”
Forty years ago, The Beatles asked the world a simple question. They wanted to know where all the lonely people came from. My latest theory is that a great many of the lonely people come from hospitals. More precisely the surgical wings of hospitals. As surgeons we ignore our own needs so we can meet our patients' needs. We ignore our friends and families so we can save other people's friends and families. Which means that at the end of the day all we really have is ourselves. And nothing in this world can make you feel more alone than that.
400 years ago another well known English guy had an opinion about being alone. John Donne. He thought we were never alone. Of course it was fancier when he said it. No man is an island entire unto himself. Boil down that island talk and he just meant that all anyone needs is someone to step in. And let us know we're not alone. And who's to say that someone can't have 4 legs. Someone to play with or run around with. Or just hang out.
E12 “Grandma got run over by a reindeer”
It's an urban myth that suicide rates spike at the holidays. Turns out, they actually go down. Experts think that people are less inclined to off themselves when surrounded by family. Ironically, that same family togetherness is thought to be the reason depression rates actually do spike at the holidays.
There's an old proverb that says you can't choose your family. You take what the fates hand you... ...and like them or not, love them or not, understand them or not ... ...you cope. Then there's the school of thought that says the family you're born into is simply a starting point. They feed you and clothe you and take care of you until your ready to go out into the world. ...and find your tribe.
E13 “Begin the begin”
Fresh starts. Thanks to the calendar, they happen every year. Just set your watch to January. Our reward for surviving the holiday season is a new year. Bringing on the great tradition of New Year's resolutions. Put your past behind you and start over. It's hard to resist the chance at a new beginning. A chance to put the problems of last year to bed.
Who gets to determine when the old ends and the new begins? It's not a day on a calendar. Not a birthday, not a new year. It's an event, big or small, something that changes us. Ideally it gives us hope. A new way of living and looking at the world. Letting go of old habits, old memories. What's important is that we never stop believing, we can have a new beginning. But it's also important to remember that amid all the crap are a few things really worth holding on to.
E14 “Tell me sweet little lies”
As doctors we're trained to skeptical because our patients lie to us all the time. The rule is: every patient is a liar until proven honest. Lying is bad. Or so we're told. Constantly, from birth. Honesty is the best policy. The truth shall set you free. I chop down the cherry tree. Whatever. The fact is, lying is a necessity. We lie to ourselves because the truth, the truth freaking hurts.
No matter how hard we try to ignore it or deny it. Eventually the lies fall away. Whether we like it or not. But here's the truth about the truth. It hurts. So we lie.
E16: “It’s the end of the world”
It's a look patients get in their eyes. There is a scent. The smell of death. Some kind of sixth sense. When the great beyond is headed for you, you feel it coming. What's the one thing you've always dreamed of doing before you die?
E17 “As we know it”
In hospitals they say you know. You know when you're going to die. Some doctors say it's a look patients get in their eyes. Some say there's a scent. The smell of death. Something. There's just some kind of sixth sense. When the great beyond is heading for you. You feel it coming. Whatever it is. It's creepy. Because if you know. What do you do about? Forget about the fact you're scared out of your mind. If you knew this was your last day on Earth, how would you want to spend it?
(现在似乎流行这样的假设，在北美大学，流行”last lecture”)
E18 “Yesterday”
After careful consideration and many sleepless nights, here's what I've decided. There's no such thing as a grown up. We move on, we move out, we move away from our families and form our own. But the basic insecurities, the basic fears and all those old wounds just grow up with us. And just when we think that life and circumstance have forced us to truly, once and for all become an adult ... We get bigger, we get taller, we get older. But for the most part, we're still a bunch of kids. Running around the playground trying desperately to fit in.
We whisper secrets with our best friends in the dark. We look for comfort where we can find it. And we hope. Against all logic. Against all experience. Like children, we never give up hope.
E19 “ What have I done to deserve this”
Ok so sometimes even the best of us make rash decisions. Bad decisions. Decisions we pretty much know we're gonna regret the moment, the minute, especially the morning after. I mean maybe not regret, regret because at least you know we put ourselves out there. But still ... something inside us decides to do a crazy thing. A thing we know that'll probably turn around and bite us in the ass. Yet, we do it anyway.
What I'm saying is ... we reap what we sow. What comes around goes around. It's karma and any way you slice it ... ... karma sucks. Like I was saying ... ... payback's a bitch.
One way or another, our karma, will leave us to face ourselves. We can look our karma in the eye or we can wait for it to sneak up on us from behind. One way or another, our karma will always find us. And the truth is as surgeons we have more chances than most to set the balance in our favor. No matter how hard we try, we can't escape our karma. It follows us home. I guess we can't really complain about karma. It's not unfair. It's not unexpected. It just ... evens the score. And even when we're about to do something we know will tempt karma to bite us in the ass ... ... well it goes without saying ... ...we do it anyway.
E20 “ Band Aid covers the bullet hole”
As doctors patients are always telling us how they would do our jobs. Just stitch me up, slap a band-aid on it and send me home. It's easy to suggest a quick solution when you don't know much about the problem. When you don't understand the underlying cause ... ... or just how deep the wound really is. The first step towards a real cure is to know exactly what the disease is to begin with. But that's not what people want to hear. We're supposed to forget the past that landed us here, ignore the future complications that might arise and go for the quick fix.
As doctors, as friends, as human beings we all try to do the best we can. But the world is full of unexpected twists and turns. And just when you've gotten the lay of the land, the ground underneath you, shifts. And knocks you off your feet. If you're lucky, you end up with nothing more than a flesh wound. Something a band-aid will cover. But some wounds are deeper than they first appear and require more than just a quick fix. With some wounds, you have to rip off the band-aid, let them breathe and give them time to heal.
E21 “Superstition”
My college campus has a magic statue. It's a long-standing tradition for students to rub it's nose for good luck. My freshman roommate really believed in the statue's power... ...and insisted on visiting it to rub it's nose before every exam. Studying might have been a better idea. She flunked out her sophomore year. But the fact is we all have little superstitious things that we do. If it's not believing in magic statues, it's avoiding sidewalk cracks, or always putting out left shoe on first. Knock on wood. Step on a crack, break your mother's back. The last thing we want to do is offend the gods.
Superstition lies in the space between what we can control... and what we can't. Find a penny, pick it up, and all day long you'll have good luck. No one wants to pass up a chance for good luck. But does saying it 33 times really help? Is anyone really listening? And if no one's listening, why do we bother doing those strange things at all? We rely on superstitions because we're smart enough to know we don't have all the answers. And that life works in mysterious ways. Don't diss the juju...from wherever it comes.
E22 “ The name of the game”
A good basketball game can have us all on the edge of our seats. Games are all about the glory, the pain and the play-by-play. And then there are the more solitary games. The games we each play all by ourselves. The social games, the mind games, we use them to pass the time. To make life more interesting. To distract us from what's really going on. There are those of us who love to play games. Any game. And there are those of us who love to play...a little too much.
Life is not a spectator sport. Win, lose or draw...the game is in progress...whether we want it to be or not. So go ahead: argue with the refs, change the rules...cheat a little...take a break...and tend to your wounds. But play. Play hard. Play fast. Play loose and free. Play as if there's no tomorrow. Ok, so it's not whether you win or lose...it's how you play the game. Right?
E23 “Blues for sister someone”
The key to being a successful intern is what we give up. Sleep, friends, a normal life. We sacrifice it all for that one amazing moment. That moment when you can legally call yourself a surgeon. There are days that make the sacrifices seem worthwhile. And then there are the days where everything feels like a sacrifice. And then there are the sacrifices that you can't even figure out why you're making.
A wise man once said, "You can have anything in life, if you will sacrifice everything else for it." What he meant is, nothing comes without a price. So before you go into battle, you better decide how much you're willing to lose. Too often, going after what feels good, means letting go of what you know is right. And letting someone in means abandoning the walls you've spent a lifetime building. Of course the toughest sacrifices are the ones we don't see coming. When we don't have time to come up with a strategy, to pick a side or measure the potential loss. When that happens, when the battle chooses us, and not the other way around, that's when the sacrifice can turn out to be more than we can bear.
E24 “Damage Case”
We all go through life like bulls in a china shop. A chip here, a crack there. Doing damage to ourselves. To other people. The problem is trying to figure out how to control the damage we have done. Or that's been done to us. Sometimes the damage catches us by surprise. Sometimes we think we can fix the damage. And sometimes the damage is something we can't even see.
We're all damaged, it seems. Some of us more than others. We carry the damage with us from childhood. Then, as grown-ups, we give as good as we get. Ultimately, we all do damage. And then...we set about the business of fixing...whatever we can.
E25 “17 seconds”
In life, we are taught that there are seven deadly sins. We all know the big ones: Gluttony, pride, lust. But the sin you don't hear much about is anger. Maybe it's because we think anger's not that dangerous. That we can control it. My point is, maybe we don't give anger enough credit. Maybe it can be a lot more dangerous than we think. After all, when it comes to destructive behavior... ...it did make the top seven.
So what makes anger different from the six other deadly sins? It's pretty simple really. You give in to a sin like envy or pride then you only hurt yourself. Try lust or coveting and you'll only hurt yourself, and probably one or two others. But anger...anger is the worst. The mother of all sins. Not only can anger drive you over the edge, when it does, you can take an awful lot of other people with you.
E26 “Deterioration of the fight or flight response”
Human beings need a lot of things to feel alive. We can't control it.
Season 3
E01 “Time has come today”
In the OR, time loses all meaning. In the midst of sutures and saving lives, the clock ceases to matter. 15 minutes. 15 hours. Inside the OR, the best surgeons make time fly. Outside the OR however, time takes pleasure in kicking our asses. For even the strongest of us, it seems to play tricks. Slowing down, hovering....until it freezes, leaving us stuck in a moment, unable to move in one direction or the other.
Time flies Time waits for no man. Time heals all wounds. All any of us wants is more time Time to stand up... time to grow up. Time to let go.
E02 “I am a tree”
At any moment, the brain has 14 billion neurons firing at a speed of 450 miles per hour. We don't have control over most of them. When we get a chill, goosebumps. When we get excited, adrenaline. The body naturally follows it's impulses, which I think is part of what makes it so hard for us to control ours. Of course, sometimes we have impulses we'd rather not control. That we later wish we had.
The body is a slave to its impulses. But the thing that makes us human... Is what we can control. after the storm. After the rush. After the heat of the moment has passed. We can cool off and clean up the messes we've made. We can try to let go of what was. And then again...
E03 “Sometimes a fantasy”
Surgeons usually fantasize about wild and improbable surgeries. Someone collapses in a restaurant; we splice them open with a butter knife. Replace a valve with a hollowed-out stick of carrot. But every now and then, some other kind of fantasy slips in. Most of our fantasies dissolve when we wake. Banished to the back of our mind. But sometimes we're sure, if we try hard enough, we can live the dream.
The fantasy is simple. Pleasure is good. And twice as much pleasure is better. That pain is bad. And no pain is better. But the reality is different. The reality is that pain is there to tell us something. And there's only so much pleasure we can take without getting a stomach ache. And maybe that's OK. Maybe some fantasies are only supposed to live in our dreams.
E04 “What I am”
At some point during surgical residency, most interns get a sense of who they are as doctors, and the kind of surgeons they're going to become If you ask them they'll tell you. They're going to be General surgeons. Orthopedic surgeons. Neurosurgeons. Distinctions that do more than describe their areas of expertise. They help define who they are. Because Outside the operating room, not only do most surgeons have no clue who they are, they're afraid to find out.
E05 “Oh, the guilt”
First, do no harm. As doctors we pledge to live by this oath. But harm happens. Then guilt happens, and there's no oath for how to deal with that.
First, do no harm. Easier said than done. We can take all the oaths in the world but the fact is... most of us do harm all the time.
Sometimes even when we're trying to help, we do more harm than good. And then the guilt rears its ugly head. What you do with that guilt is entirely up to you. We're left with a choice... Either you can let guilt thrown you back into the behavior that got you in trouble in the first place, or learn from the guilt, and do your best to move on.
E06 “Let the angels commit”
To make it... really make it as a surgeon, it takes major commitment. We have to be willing to pick up that scalpel that may or may not do more damage than good. It's all about being committed. Cause if we're not, we have no business picking up that scalpel in the first place.
There are times when even the best of us have trouble with commitment, and we may be surprised at the commitments we're willing to let slip out of our grasp. Commitments are complicated. We may surprise ourselves by the commitments we're willing to make. True commitment, takes effort, and sacrifice. Which is why sometimes, we have to learn the hard way, to choose our commitments very carefully.
E07 “Where the boys are”
As surgeons we're trained to look for disease. Sometimes, the disease is easily detected. Most of the time, we need to go step by step. First, probing the surface, looking for any sign of trouble. A mole or a lesion, or an unwelcome lump. Most of the time, we can't tell what's wrong with somebody just by looking at them. After all, they can look perfectly fine on the outside, while their insides tell us a whole different story.
Not all wounds are superficial. Most wounds run deeper than imagined. You can't see them with the naked eye. And then there are the wounds that take us by surprise. The trick to any wound or disease is to dig down deep and find the real source of the injury. And once you've found it... try like hell to heal that sucker.
E08 “staring at the sun”
Many people don't know that the human eye has a blind spot in its field of vision. There's a part of the world that we are literally blind to. The problem is, sometimes our blind spots shield us from things that really shouldn't be ignored. Sometimes our blind spots keep our lives bright and shiny.
When it comes to our blind spots, maybe our brains aren't compensating. Maybe they're protecting us.
E09 “From a whisper to a scream”
As doctors, we know everybody's secrets. Their medical histories, sexual histories, confidential information that is as essential to a surgeon as a 10-blade. And every bit as dangerous. We keep secrets. We have to. But not all secrets can be kept.
In some ways, betrayal is inevitable. When our bodies betray us, surgery is often the key to recovery. When we betray each other, the path to recovery is less clear. We do whatever it takes to rebuild the trust. And then there are some wounds that are so deep, so profound, that there's no way to repair what was lost. And when that happens, there's nothing left to do but wait.
E10 “Don’t stand so close to me”
At the end of the day, when it comes down to it, all we really want is to be close to somebody. So this thing where we all keep our distance, and pretend not to care about each other...it's usually a load of bull. So we pick and choose who we want to remain close to. and once we've chosen those people we tend to stick close by. no matter how much we hurt them. The people that are still with you at the end of the day, those are the ones worth keeping.
E13 “Great Expectations”
No one believes their life will turn out just kind of ok. We all think we're going to be great. And from the day we decide to become surgeons, we are filled with expectation. Expectations of the trails we will blaze, the people we will help, the difference we will make. Great expectations of who we will be, where we will go, and then we get there.
We all think we're going to be great. And we feel robbed when our expectations aren't met. But sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes, the expected pales in comparison to the unexpected. You gotta wonder why we cling to our expectations, because the unexpected is just what keeps us steady...standing...still. The expected is just the beginning. The unexpected is what changes our lives.
E14 “wishing and hoping”
As surgeons we live in a world of worst-case scenarios. We cut ourselves off from hoping for the best because too many times the best doesn't happen. But every now and then something extraordinary occurs ... ...and suddenly best-case scenarios seem possible. And every now and then...something amazing happens. And against our better judgment, we start to have hope.
As doctors, we're trained to give our patients just the facts. But what are patients really want to know is. Will the pain ever go away? Will I feel better? Am I cured? What are patients really want to know is... ...is their hope. But inevitably there are times when you find yourself in the worst-case scenario. When the patient's body has betrayed them and all the science we have to offer has failed them. When the worst-case scenario comes true, clinging to hope is all we have left.
E15 “ walk on water”
Disappearances happen in science, disease can suddenly fade away. Tumors go missing. We open someone up to discover the cancer is gone. It's unexplained, it's rare, bit it happens. We call it misdiagnosis say we never saw it, any explanation but the truth. That life is full of vanishing acts. If something that we didn't know we had disappears, do we miss it?
E16 “drowning on dry land”
Like I said disappearances happen. Pains go phantom, blood stops running, and people fade away. There's more I have to say. So much more. But I've disappeared.
E17 “some kind of miracle”
There are medical miracles. Being worshippers at the alters of science we don't like to believe miracles exist, but they do. Things happen...we can't explain them, we can't control them, but they do happen. Miracles do happen in medicine. They happen every day just not always when we need them to happen.
At the end of a day like this, a day when so many prayers are answered and so many aren't... We take our miracles where we find them. We reach across the gap and sometimes against all odds, against all logic, we touch.
E18 “scars and souvenirs”
People have scars in all sorts of unexpected places. Like secret roadmaps of their personal histories... ...diagrams of all their old wounds. Most of our old wounds heal leaving nothing behind but a scar, but some of them don't. Some wounds we carry with us everywhere... ...and though the cuts long gone... ...the pain still lingers.
What's worse, new wounds which are so horribly painful... :...or old wounds that should have healed years ago and never did. Maybe our old wounds teach us something... ...they remind us of where we've been and what we've overcome. They teach us lessons about what to avoid in the future. That's what we like to think. But that's not the way it is, is it? Something's we just have to learn over and over and over again.
E19 “my favorite mistake”
Surgeons always have a plan, where to cut, where to clamp, where to stitch. But even with the best plans, complications can arise, things can arise and suddenly you're caught with your pants down.
The thing about plans is...they don't take into account the unexpected. So, when we're thrown a curve ball, whether it's in the OR, or in life. We have to improvise. Of course, some of us are better at it than others. Some of us just have to move on to Plan B and make the best of it. And sometimes... ...what we want... ...is exactly... ...what we need. But sometimes... Sometimes what we need is a new plan.
E20 “time after time”
A patient's history is as important as their symptoms. It's what helps us decide if heartburn's a heart attack, if a headache's a tumor. Sometimes patients will try to rewrite their own histories. They'll claim they don't smoke or forget to mention certain drugs, which in surgery can be the kiss of death. We can ignore it all we want. But our history, eventually, always comes back to haunt us.
Some people believe that without history our lives amount to nothing. At some point we all have to choose. Do we fall back on what we know... Or do we step forward to something new. It's hard not to be haunted by our past. Our history is what shapes us, what guides us. Our history resurfaces time after time after time. So we have to remember sometimes the most important history is the history we're making today.
E21 “Desire”
As interns we know what we want...to become surgeons. And will do anything to get there... Suffer through killer exams, endure 100-hour weeks, stand for hours on end operating rooms. You name it we'll do it. The tough part though is reconciling this huge thing we want, to be surgeons, with everything else we want.
To often, the thing you want most is the one thing you can't have. Desire leaves us heartbroken; it wears us out. Desire can wreck your life. But as tough as wanting something can be...(Addison pauses in front of the hospital)...the people who suffer the most are those who don't know what they want.
E22 “The other side of the life”
The dream is this: that we'll finally be happy when we reach our goals... ...find the guy, finish our internship. That's the dream; then we get there and if we're human, we immediately start dreaming of something else. Because if this is the dream then we'd like to wake up... ...now please.
At some point, maybe we accept that the dream has become a nightmare. We tell ourselves the reality is better. We convince ourselves it's better that we never dream at all. But the strongest of us, the most determined of us, we hold on to the dream. Or we find ourselves faced with a fresh dream we never considered. We awake to find ourselves...Against all odds...Feeling hopeful. And if we're lucky, we realize...In the face of everything, in the face of life...The true dream...Is being able to dream at all.
E23 “Testing”
A surgeon's education never ends. Every patient, every symptom, every operation...is a test, a chance for us to demonstrate how much we know...and how much more we have to learn.
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Season1
Episode 1: A hard Day’s night
The game. They say either a person has what it takes to play, or they don't.
There comes a moment when it's more than just a game. And you either take that step forward, or turn around and walk away.
E5: “shake your groove thing”
Remember when you were a kid and your biggest worry was, like, if you'd get a bike for your birthday, or if you get to eat cookies for breakfast. Being an adult? Totally overrated. I mean, seriously, don't be fooled by all the hot shoes and the great sex and the no parents anywhere telling you to do. Adulthood is responsibility. Responsibility, it really does suck. Really, really sucks. Adults have to be places and do things and earn a living and pay the rent. Kinda makes bikes and cookies look really really good, doesn't it?
The scariest part about responsibility: when you screw up and let it slip right through your fingers.
Unfortunately, once you get past the age of braces and training bras, responsibility doesn't go away.
It can't be avoided. Either someone makes us face it, or we suffer the consequences. And still, adulthood has its perks.
E6 “ If tomorrow never comes”
A couple hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. "Never leave that till tomorrow," he said, "which you can do today." This is the man who discovered electricity. You'd think more of us would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of pain, fear of rejection. Sometimes, the fear is just of making a decision. Because, what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo? Whatever it is we're afraid of, one thing holds true. That, by the time the pain of not doing a thing gets worse than the fear of doing it, it can feel like we're carrying around a giant tumor. And you thought I was speaking metaphorically.
The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we haven't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still, sometime we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore, until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin meant. That knowing is better than wondering. That waking is better than sleeping. And that even the biggest failure, even the worst, most intractable mistake beats the hell out of never trying.
E07 “ The self destruct button”
I mean, if life's so hard already, why do we bring more trouble down on ourselves? What's up with the need to hit the self-destruct button? Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know... ...maybe we just wouldn't feel real. What's that saying? "Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer?" "Because it feels so good when I stop."
E08 “Save me”
You know how when you were a kid and you believed in fairy tales? That fantasy of what your life would be. White dress, Prince Charming, Who'd carry you away to a castle on a hill. You'd lie in bed at night and close your eyes, and you had complete and utter faith. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Prince Charming, they were so close, you could taste them. But eventually, you grow up. One day you open your eyes, and the fairy tale disappears. Most people turn to the things and people they can trust. But the thing is, it's hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely. Cause almost everyone still has that smallest bit of hope, of faith, that one day they'll open their eyes and it will all come true.
E09 “who’s zooming who”
Secrets can't hide in science. Medicine has a way of exposing the lies. Within the walls of the hospital, the truth is stripped bare. How we keep our secrets outside the hospital...Well, that's a little different. One thing is certain. Whatever it is we're trying to hide, we're never ready for that moment when the truth gets naked. That's the problem with secrets. Like misery, they love company. They pile up and up until they take over everything. Until you don't have room for anything else. Until you're so full of secrets, you feel like you're going to burst.
The thing people forget is how good it can feel when you finally set secrets free.Whether good or bad, at least they're out in the open, like it or not. And once your secrets are out in the open, you don't have to hide behind them anymore. The problem with secrets is even when you think you're in control... ...you're not.
Season 2
E1 “Raindrops keep falling on my head”
To be a good surgeon, you have to think like a surgeon. Emotions are messy. Tuck them neatly away and step into a clean, sterile room where the procedure is simple. Cut, suture and close. But sometimes, you're faced with a cut that won't heal. A cut that rips it's stitches wide open.
The say practice makes perfect. Theory is, the more you think like a surgeon, the more you become one. The better you get at remaining neutral, clinical. Cut, suture, close. And the harder it becomes to turn it off? to stop thinking like a surgeon. And remember what it means to think like a human being.
E2 “Enough is enough (no more tears)”
I have an aunt who, whenever she poured anything for you, would say, "Say when." My aunt would say, "Say when," and of course we never did. We don't say "when" because there's something about the possibility of more. More tequila. More love. More anything. More is better.
There's something to be said about a glass half full. About knowing when to say when. I think it's a floating line. A barometer of need and desire. It's entirely up to the individual. And depends on what's being poured. Sometimes all we want is a taste. Other times, there's no such thing as enough. The glass is bottomless. And all we want is more.
E3 “Make me lose control”
Surgeons are control freaks. With a scalpel in your hand, you feel unstoppable. There's no fear, there's no pain. You're 10 feet tall and bullet proof. And then you leave the O.R. And all that perfection. All that beautiful control just falls to crap.
No one likes to lose control but as a surgeon there's nothing worse. It's a sign of weakness. Of not being up to the task. And still there are times when it just gets away from you. When the world stops spinning. And you realize that your shiny little scalpel isn't gonna save you. No matter how hard you fight it. You fall. And its scary as hell. Except there's an upside to free falling. It's the chance you give your friends to catch you.
E4” deny, deny, deny”
The key to surviving a surgical internship is denial. We deny that we're tired, we deny that we're scared, we deny how badly we want to succeed, and most importantly, we deny that we're in denial. We only see what we wanna see and believe what we want to believe. And it works. We lie to ourselves so much that after a while, the lies start to seem like the truth. We deny so much that we can't recognize the truth, right in front of our faces.
Sometimes reality has a way of sneaking up and biting us in the ass. And when the damn bursts all you can do is swim. The world of pretend is a cage, not a cocoon. We can only lie to ourselves for so long. We are tired. We are scared. Denying it doesn't change the truth. Sooner or later, we have to put aside our denial ... and face the world head on gun's blazing. Denial. It's not just a river in Egypt. It's a freaking ocean. So how do you keep from drowning in it?
E5 “Bring the pain”
Pain comes in all forms. The small twinge, a bit of soreness, the random pain. The normal pains we live with every day. Then there's the kind of pain you can't ignore. A level of pain so great that it blocks out everything else. Makes the rest of the world fade away. Until all we can think about is how much we hurt. How we manage our pain is up to us. Pain. We anaesthetize...ride it out, embrace it, ignore it... And for some of us, the best way to manage pain is to just push through it.
Pain. You just have to ride it out. Hope it goes away on its own. Hope the wound that caused it heals. There are no solutions. No easy answers. You just breathe deep and wait for it to subside. Most of the time pain can be managed. But sometimes, the pain gets to you when you least expect it. Hit's way below the belt and doesn't let up. Pain. You just have to fight through because the truth is you can't out run it. And life always make more.
E6 “Into you like a Train”
In general... people can be categorized in one of two ways. Those who love surprises, and those who don't. I don't. I've never met a surgeon that enjoys a surprise, because, as surgeons we like to be in the know. We have to be in the know. Because when we aren't, people die and lawsuits happen. Am I rambling? I think I'm rambling. Ok, so my point actually ... and I do have one. Has nothing to do with surprises or death or lawsuits or even surgeons. My point is this: whoever said what you don't know can't hurt you was a complete and total moron. Because for most people I know, not knowing is the worst feeling in the world.
As surgeons, there are so many things we have to know. We have to know we have what it takes. We have to know how to take care of our patients. And how to take care of each other. Eventually we even have to figure out... how to take care of ourselves. As surgeons we have to be in the know. But as human beings, sometimes it's better to stay in the dark. Because in the dark, there maybe fear... ... but there's also hope.
E8 “Let it Be”
In the 8th grade, my English class had to read Romeo & Juliet. Then for extra credit, Mrs. Snyder made us act out all the parts. Sal Scafarillo was Romeo. As fate would have it, I was Juliet. All the other girls were jealous but I had a slightly different take. I told Mrs. Snyder that Juliet was an idiot. For starters, she falls for the one guy she knows she can't have. Then she blames fate for her own bad decision. Mrs. Snyder explained to me that when fate comes into play, choice sometimes goes out the window. At the ripe old age of 13, I was very clear. That love like life is about making choices. And fate has nothing to do with it. Everyone thinks it's so romantic. Romeo & Juliet. True love. How sad. If Juliet was stupid enough to fall for the enemy, drink a bottle of poison and go to sleep in a mausoleum ... ... she deserved whatever she got.
Maybe Romeo & Juliet were fated to be together, but just for a while. And then their time passed. If they could've known that beforehand maybe it would've all been ok. I told Mrs. Snyder that when I was growing up I'd take fate into my own hands. I wouldn't let some guy drag me down. Mrs. Snyder said that I'd be lucky if I ever had that kind of passion with someone. And that if I did, we'd be together forever. Even now I believe for the most part love is about choices. It's about putting down the poison and the dagger and making your own happy ending ... most of the time. And that sometimes despite all your best choices and all your best intentions, fate wins anyway.
E09: “Thanks for the memories”
Gratitude, appreciation, giving thanks. No matter what words you use, it all means the same thing. Happy. We're supposed to be happy. Grateful for friends, family, happy just to be alive... Whether we like it or not.
Maybe we're not supposed to be happy. Maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful is recognizing what you have for what it is. Appreciate small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. Maybe we're thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe we're thankful for things we'll never know. At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing ... ... is reason enough to celebrate.
E10 “Much too much”
When you were a kid, it was Halloween candy. You hid it from your parents and ate it until you got sick. In college it was the heady combo of youth, tequila and well you know... As a surgeon you take as much of the good as you can get... because it doesn't come around nearly as often as it should. Cause good things aren't always what they seem. Too much of anything, even love is not always a good thing.
How do you know how much is too much? Too much, too soon. Too much information. Too much fun. Too much love. Too much to ask. And when is it all just too much to bear?
E11 “Owner of a lonely heart”
Forty years ago, The Beatles asked the world a simple question. They wanted to know where all the lonely people came from. My latest theory is that a great many of the lonely people come from hospitals. More precisely the surgical wings of hospitals. As surgeons we ignore our own needs so we can meet our patients' needs. We ignore our friends and families so we can save other people's friends and families. Which means that at the end of the day all we really have is ourselves. And nothing in this world can make you feel more alone than that.
400 years ago another well known English guy had an opinion about being alone. John Donne. He thought we were never alone. Of course it was fancier when he said it. No man is an island entire unto himself. Boil down that island talk and he just meant that all anyone needs is someone to step in. And let us know we're not alone. And who's to say that someone can't have 4 legs. Someone to play with or run around with. Or just hang out.
E12 “Grandma got run over by a reindeer”
It's an urban myth that suicide rates spike at the holidays. Turns out, they actually go down. Experts think that people are less inclined to off themselves when surrounded by family. Ironically, that same family togetherness is thought to be the reason depression rates actually do spike at the holidays.
There's an old proverb that says you can't choose your family. You take what the fates hand you... ...and like them or not, love them or not, understand them or not ... ...you cope. Then there's the school of thought that says the family you're born into is simply a starting point. They feed you and clothe you and take care of you until your ready to go out into the world. ...and find your tribe.
E13 “Begin the begin”
Fresh starts. Thanks to the calendar, they happen every year. Just set your watch to January. Our reward for surviving the holiday season is a new year. Bringing on the great tradition of New Year's resolutions. Put your past behind you and start over. It's hard to resist the chance at a new beginning. A chance to put the problems of last year to bed.
Who gets to determine when the old ends and the new begins? It's not a day on a calendar. Not a birthday, not a new year. It's an event, big or small, something that changes us. Ideally it gives us hope. A new way of living and looking at the world. Letting go of old habits, old memories. What's important is that we never stop believing, we can have a new beginning. But it's also important to remember that amid all the crap are a few things really worth holding on to.
E14 “Tell me sweet little lies”
As doctors we're trained to skeptical because our patients lie to us all the time. The rule is: every patient is a liar until proven honest. Lying is bad. Or so we're told. Constantly, from birth. Honesty is the best policy. The truth shall set you free. I chop down the cherry tree. Whatever. The fact is, lying is a necessity. We lie to ourselves because the truth, the truth freaking hurts.
No matter how hard we try to ignore it or deny it. Eventually the lies fall away. Whether we like it or not. But here's the truth about the truth. It hurts. So we lie.
E16: “It’s the end of the world”
It's a look patients get in their eyes. There is a scent. The smell of death. Some kind of sixth sense. When the great beyond is headed for you, you feel it coming. What's the one thing you've always dreamed of doing before you die?
E17 “As we know it”
In hospitals they say you know. You know when you're going to die. Some doctors say it's a look patients get in their eyes. Some say there's a scent. The smell of death. Something. There's just some kind of sixth sense. When the great beyond is heading for you. You feel it coming. Whatever it is. It's creepy. Because if you know. What do you do about? Forget about the fact you're scared out of your mind. If you knew this was your last day on Earth, how would you want to spend it?
(现在似乎流行这样的假设，在北美大学，流行”last lecture”)
E18 “Yesterday”
After careful consideration and many sleepless nights, here's what I've decided. There's no such thing as a grown up. We move on, we move out, we move away from our families and form our own. But the basic insecurities, the basic fears and all those old wounds just grow up with us. And just when we think that life and circumstance have forced us to truly, once and for all become an adult ... We get bigger, we get taller, we get older. But for the most part, we're still a bunch of kids. Running around the playground trying desperately to fit in.
We whisper secrets with our best friends in the dark. We look for comfort where we can find it. And we hope. Against all logic. Against all experience. Like children, we never give up hope.
E19 “ What have I done to deserve this”
Ok so sometimes even the best of us make rash decisions. Bad decisions. Decisions we pretty much know we're gonna regret the moment, the minute, especially the morning after. I mean maybe not regret, regret because at least you know we put ourselves out there. But still ... something inside us decides to do a crazy thing. A thing we know that'll probably turn around and bite us in the ass. Yet, we do it anyway.
What I'm saying is ... we reap what we sow. What comes around goes around. It's karma and any way you slice it ... ... karma sucks. Like I was saying ... ... payback's a bitch.
One way or another, our karma, will leave us to face ourselves. We can look our karma in the eye or we can wait for it to sneak up on us from behind. One way or another, our karma will always find us. And the truth is as surgeons we have more chances than most to set the balance in our favor. No matter how hard we try, we can't escape our karma. It follows us home. I guess we can't really complain about karma. It's not unfair. It's not unexpected. It just ... evens the score. And even when we're about to do something we know will tempt karma to bite us in the ass ... ... well it goes without saying ... ...we do it anyway.
E20 “ Band Aid covers the bullet hole”
As doctors patients are always telling us how they would do our jobs. Just stitch me up, slap a band-aid on it and send me home. It's easy to suggest a quick solution when you don't know much about the problem. When you don't understand the underlying cause ... ... or just how deep the wound really is. The first step towards a real cure is to know exactly what the disease is to begin with. But that's not what people want to hear. We're supposed to forget the past that landed us here, ignore the future complications that might arise and go for the quick fix.
As doctors, as friends, as human beings we all try to do the best we can. But the world is full of unexpected twists and turns. And just when you've gotten the lay of the land, the ground underneath you, shifts. And knocks you off your feet. If you're lucky, you end up with nothing more than a flesh wound. Something a band-aid will cover. But some wounds are deeper than they first appear and require more than just a quick fix. With some wounds, you have to rip off the band-aid, let them breathe and give them time to heal.
E21 “Superstition”
My college campus has a magic statue. It's a long-standing tradition for students to rub it's nose for good luck. My freshman roommate really believed in the statue's power... ...and insisted on visiting it to rub it's nose before every exam. Studying might have been a better idea. She flunked out her sophomore year. But the fact is we all have little superstitious things that we do. If it's not believing in magic statues, it's avoiding sidewalk cracks, or always putting out left shoe on first. Knock on wood. Step on a crack, break your mother's back. The last thing we want to do is offend the gods.
Superstition lies in the space between what we can control... and what we can't. Find a penny, pick it up, and all day long you'll have good luck. No one wants to pass up a chance for good luck. But does saying it 33 times really help? Is anyone really listening? And if no one's listening, why do we bother doing those strange things at all? We rely on superstitions because we're smart enough to know we don't have all the answers. And that life works in mysterious ways. Don't diss the juju...from wherever it comes.
E22 “ The name of the game”
A good basketball game can have us all on the edge of our seats. Games are all about the glory, the pain and the play-by-play. And then there are the more solitary games. The games we each play all by ourselves. The social games, the mind games, we use them to pass the time. To make life more interesting. To distract us from what's really going on. There are those of us who love to play games. Any game. And there are those of us who love to play...a little too much.
Life is not a spectator sport. Win, lose or draw...the game is in progress...whether we want it to be or not. So go ahead: argue with the refs, change the rules...cheat a little...take a break...and tend to your wounds. But play. Play hard. Play fast. Play loose and free. Play as if there's no tomorrow. Ok, so it's not whether you win or lose...it's how you play the game. Right?
E23 “Blues for sister someone”
The key to being a successful intern is what we give up. Sleep, friends, a normal life. We sacrifice it all for that one amazing moment. That moment when you can legally call yourself a surgeon. There are days that make the sacrifices seem worthwhile. And then there are the days where everything feels like a sacrifice. And then there are the sacrifices that you can't even figure out why you're making.
A wise man once said, "You can have anything in life, if you will sacrifice everything else for it." What he meant is, nothing comes without a price. So before you go into battle, you better decide how much you're willing to lose. Too often, going after what feels good, means letting go of what you know is right. And letting someone in means abandoning the walls you've spent a lifetime building. Of course the toughest sacrifices are the ones we don't see coming. When we don't have time to come up with a strategy, to pick a side or measure the potential loss. When that happens, when the battle chooses us, and not the other way around, that's when the sacrifice can turn out to be more than we can bear.
E24 “Damage Case”
We all go through life like bulls in a china shop. A chip here, a crack there. Doing damage to ourselves. To other people. The problem is trying to figure out how to control the damage we have done. Or that's been done to us. Sometimes the damage catches us by surprise. Sometimes we think we can fix the damage. And sometimes the damage is something we can't even see.
We're all damaged, it seems. Some of us more than others. We carry the damage with us from childhood. Then, as grown-ups, we give as good as we get. Ultimately, we all do damage. And then...we set about the business of fixing...whatever we can.
E25 “17 seconds”
In life, we are taught that there are seven deadly sins. We all know the big ones: Gluttony, pride, lust. But the sin you don't hear much about is anger. Maybe it's because we think anger's not that dangerous. That we can control it. My point is, maybe we don't give anger enough credit. Maybe it can be a lot more dangerous than we think. After all, when it comes to destructive behavior... ...it did make the top seven.
So what makes anger different from the six other deadly sins? It's pretty simple really. You give in to a sin like envy or pride then you only hurt yourself. Try lust or coveting and you'll only hurt yourself, and probably one or two others. But anger...anger is the worst. The mother of all sins. Not only can anger drive you over the edge, when it does, you can take an awful lot of other people with you.
E26 “Deterioration of the fight or flight response”
Human beings need a lot of things to feel alive. We can't control it.
Season 3
E01 “Time has come today”
In the OR, time loses all meaning. In the midst of sutures and saving lives, the clock ceases to matter. 15 minutes. 15 hours. Inside the OR, the best surgeons make time fly. Outside the OR however, time takes pleasure in kicking our asses. For even the strongest of us, it seems to play tricks. Slowing down, hovering....until it freezes, leaving us stuck in a moment, unable to move in one direction or the other.
Time flies Time waits for no man. Time heals all wounds. All any of us wants is more time Time to stand up... time to grow up. Time to let go.
E02 “I am a tree”
At any moment, the brain has 14 billion neurons firing at a speed of 450 miles per hour. We don't have control over most of them. When we get a chill, goosebumps. When we get excited, adrenaline. The body naturally follows it's impulses, which I think is part of what makes it so hard for us to control ours. Of course, sometimes we have impulses we'd rather not control. That we later wish we had.
The body is a slave to its impulses. But the thing that makes us human... Is what we can control. after the storm. After the rush. After the heat of the moment has passed. We can cool off and clean up the messes we've made. We can try to let go of what was. And then again...
E03 “Sometimes a fantasy”
Surgeons usually fantasize about wild and improbable surgeries. Someone collapses in a restaurant; we splice them open with a butter knife. Replace a valve with a hollowed-out stick of carrot. But every now and then, some other kind of fantasy slips in. Most of our fantasies dissolve when we wake. Banished to the back of our mind. But sometimes we're sure, if we try hard enough, we can live the dream.
The fantasy is simple. Pleasure is good. And twice as much pleasure is better. That pain is bad. And no pain is better. But the reality is different. The reality is that pain is there to tell us something. And there's only so much pleasure we can take without getting a stomach ache. And maybe that's OK. Maybe some fantasies are only supposed to live in our dreams.
E04 “What I am”
At some point during surgical residency, most interns get a sense of who they are as doctors, and the kind of surgeons they're going to become If you ask them they'll tell you. They're going to be General surgeons. Orthopedic surgeons. Neurosurgeons. Distinctions that do more than describe their areas of expertise. They help define who they are. Because Outside the operating room, not only do most surgeons have no clue who they are, they're afraid to find out.
E05 “Oh, the guilt”
First, do no harm. As doctors we pledge to live by this oath. But harm happens. Then guilt happens, and there's no oath for how to deal with that.
First, do no harm. Easier said than done. We can take all the oaths in the world but the fact is... most of us do harm all the time.
Sometimes even when we're trying to help, we do more harm than good. And then the guilt rears its ugly head. What you do with that guilt is entirely up to you. We're left with a choice... Either you can let guilt thrown you back into the behavior that got you in trouble in the first place, or learn from the guilt, and do your best to move on.
E06 “Let the angels commit”
To make it... really make it as a surgeon, it takes major commitment. We have to be willing to pick up that scalpel that may or may not do more damage than good. It's all about being committed. Cause if we're not, we have no business picking up that scalpel in the first place.
There are times when even the best of us have trouble with commitment, and we may be surprised at the commitments we're willing to let slip out of our grasp. Commitments are complicated. We may surprise ourselves by the commitments we're willing to make. True commitment, takes effort, and sacrifice. Which is why sometimes, we have to learn the hard way, to choose our commitments very carefully.
E07 “Where the boys are”
As surgeons we're trained to look for disease. Sometimes, the disease is easily detected. Most of the time, we need to go step by step. First, probing the surface, looking for any sign of trouble. A mole or a lesion, or an unwelcome lump. Most of the time, we can't tell what's wrong with somebody just by looking at them. After all, they can look perfectly fine on the outside, while their insides tell us a whole different story.
Not all wounds are superficial. Most wounds run deeper than imagined. You can't see them with the naked eye. And then there are the wounds that take us by surprise. The trick to any wound or disease is to dig down deep and find the real source of the injury. And once you've found it... try like hell to heal that sucker.
E08 “staring at the sun”
Many people don't know that the human eye has a blind spot in its field of vision. There's a part of the world that we are literally blind to. The problem is, sometimes our blind spots shield us from things that really shouldn't be ignored. Sometimes our blind spots keep our lives bright and shiny.
When it comes to our blind spots, maybe our brains aren't compensating. Maybe they're protecting us.
E09 “From a whisper to a scream”
As doctors, we know everybody's secrets. Their medical histories, sexual histories, confidential information that is as essential to a surgeon as a 10-blade. And every bit as dangerous. We keep secrets. We have to. But not all secrets can be kept.
In some ways, betrayal is inevitable. When our bodies betray us, surgery is often the key to recovery. When we betray each other, the path to recovery is less clear. We do whatever it takes to rebuild the trust. And then there are some wounds that are so deep, so profound, that there's no way to repair what was lost. And when that happens, there's nothing left to do but wait.
E10 “Don’t stand so close to me”
At the end of the day, when it comes down to it, all we really want is to be close to somebody. So this thing where we all keep our distance, and pretend not to care about each other...it's usually a load of bull. So we pick and choose who we want to remain close to. and once we've chosen those people we tend to stick close by. no matter how much we hurt them. The people that are still with you at the end of the day, those are the ones worth keeping.
E13 “Great Expectations”
No one believes their life will turn out just kind of ok. We all think we're going to be great. And from the day we decide to become surgeons, we are filled with expectation. Expectations of the trails we will blaze, the people we will help, the difference we will make. Great expectations of who we will be, where we will go, and then we get there.
We all think we're going to be great. And we feel robbed when our expectations aren't met. But sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes, the expected pales in comparison to the unexpected. You gotta wonder why we cling to our expectations, because the unexpected is just what keeps us steady...standing...still. The expected is just the beginning. The unexpected is what changes our lives.
E14 “wishing and hoping”
As surgeons we live in a world of worst-case scenarios. We cut ourselves off from hoping for the best because too many times the best doesn't happen. But every now and then something extraordinary occurs ... ...and suddenly best-case scenarios seem possible. And every now and then...something amazing happens. And against our better judgment, we start to have hope.
As doctors, we're trained to give our patients just the facts. But what are patients really want to know is. Will the pain ever go away? Will I feel better? Am I cured? What are patients really want to know is... ...is their hope. But inevitably there are times when you find yourself in the worst-case scenario. When the patient's body has betrayed them and all the science we have to offer has failed them. When the worst-case scenario comes true, clinging to hope is all we have left.
E15 “ walk on water”
Disappearances happen in science, disease can suddenly fade away. Tumors go missing. We open someone up to discover the cancer is gone. It's unexplained, it's rare, bit it happens. We call it misdiagnosis say we never saw it, any explanation but the truth. That life is full of vanishing acts. If something that we didn't know we had disappears, do we miss it?
E16 “drowning on dry land”
Like I said disappearances happen. Pains go phantom, blood stops running, and people fade away. There's more I have to say. So much more. But I've disappeared.
E17 “some kind of miracle”
There are medical miracles. Being worshippers at the alters of science we don't like to believe miracles exist, but they do. Things happen...we can't explain them, we can't control them, but they do happen. Miracles do happen in medicine. They happen every day just not always when we need them to happen.
At the end of a day like this, a day when so many prayers are answered and so many aren't... We take our miracles where we find them. We reach across the gap and sometimes against all odds, against all logic, we touch.
E18 “scars and souvenirs”
People have scars in all sorts of unexpected places. Like secret roadmaps of their personal histories... ...diagrams of all their old wounds. Most of our old wounds heal leaving nothing behind but a scar, but some of them don't. Some wounds we carry with us everywhere... ...and though the cuts long gone... ...the pain still lingers.
What's worse, new wounds which are so horribly painful... :...or old wounds that should have healed years ago and never did. Maybe our old wounds teach us something... ...they remind us of where we've been and what we've overcome. They teach us lessons about what to avoid in the future. That's what we like to think. But that's not the way it is, is it? Something's we just have to learn over and over and over again.
E19 “my favorite mistake”
Surgeons always have a plan, where to cut, where to clamp, where to stitch. But even with the best plans, complications can arise, things can arise and suddenly you're caught with your pants down.
The thing about plans is...they don't take into account the unexpected. So, when we're thrown a curve ball, whether it's in the OR, or in life. We have to improvise. Of course, some of us are better at it than others. Some of us just have to move on to Plan B and make the best of it. And sometimes... ...what we want... ...is exactly... ...what we need. But sometimes... Sometimes what we need is a new plan.
E20 “time after time”
A patient's history is as important as their symptoms. It's what helps us decide if heartburn's a heart attack, if a headache's a tumor. Sometimes patients will try to rewrite their own histories. They'll claim they don't smoke or forget to mention certain drugs, which in surgery can be the kiss of death. We can ignore it all we want. But our history, eventually, always comes back to haunt us.
Some people believe that without history our lives amount to nothing. At some point we all have to choose. Do we fall back on what we know... Or do we step forward to something new. It's hard not to be haunted by our past. Our history is what shapes us, what guides us. Our history resurfaces time after time after time. So we have to remember sometimes the most important history is the history we're making today.
E21 “Desire”
As interns we know what we want...to become surgeons. And will do anything to get there... Suffer through killer exams, endure 100-hour weeks, stand for hours on end operating rooms. You name it we'll do it. The tough part though is reconciling this huge thing we want, to be surgeons, with everything else we want.
To often, the thing you want most is the one thing you can't have. Desire leaves us heartbroken; it wears us out. Desire can wreck your life. But as tough as wanting something can be...(Addison pauses in front of the hospital)...the people who suffer the most are those who don't know what they want.
E22 “The other side of the life”
The dream is this: that we'll finally be happy when we reach our goals... ...find the guy, finish our internship. That's the dream; then we get there and if we're human, we immediately start dreaming of something else. Because if this is the dream then we'd like to wake up... ...now please.
At some point, maybe we accept that the dream has become a nightmare. We tell ourselves the reality is better. We convince ourselves it's better that we never dream at all. But the strongest of us, the most determined of us, we hold on to the dream. Or we find ourselves faced with a fresh dream we never considered. We awake to find ourselves...Against all odds...Feeling hopeful. And if we're lucky, we realize...In the face of everything, in the face of life...The true dream...Is being able to dream at all.
E23 “Testing”
A surgeon's education never ends. Every patient, every symptom, every operation...is a test, a chance for us to demonstrate how much we know...and how much more we have to learn.
3 ) 心灵的成长——关于Grey's Anatomy S3－16，17中的Cristina
从一开始，我就认定Cristina和Meredith是一类人：同样的聪明，同样的优
秀，同样在受伤时拒绝抚慰，拒绝关怀，同样的孤独，同样的要求心灵和身体的
自由，同样的对真爱抱有希望。所以，她们成为了朋友，最要好的朋友，虽然
Mere和Izze、Geroge住在一起，但对Mere来说，他们只是室友，只有Cristina才
是与Mere心灵交通的人。
曾经不理解，为何Cristina在Burk受伤，生命垂危时转身而去，终于在这里
找到了答案：由于9岁时目睹父亲因车祸流血致死，她害怕再次面对挚爱之人的
逝去，害怕自己在那一瞬间崩溃，害怕那种眼见着亲人在面前，生命一点一滴的
消失而无能为力的无助感。Mere何尝不是如此，眼看着被疾病慢慢夺走理智的母
亲，那种无助感也一直伴随着她，Cristina看到了，感觉到了，于
是，"Meredith Grey"成了“my person”.
面对着威胁着Mere的死亡，她又一次选择了走开，买便宜货，在酒吧里拼命
灌酒，妄图这样打发时间，逃避心灵的伤痛。幸运的是，Cristina身边还有Burk
在,有了Burk的激励，她终于选择了面对这一切，而不放弃希望，当她满含热泪
，用坚定的声音说try again的时候，这已经不是原来那个Cristina了，而是一
个成长了的，可以用理智来面和意志对艰难困苦的Cristina。
秀，同样在受伤时拒绝抚慰，拒绝关怀，同样的孤独，同样的要求心灵和身体的
自由，同样的对真爱抱有希望。所以，她们成为了朋友，最要好的朋友，虽然
Mere和Izze、Geroge住在一起，但对Mere来说，他们只是室友，只有Cristina才
是与Mere心灵交通的人。
曾经不理解，为何Cristina在Burk受伤，生命垂危时转身而去，终于在这里
找到了答案：由于9岁时目睹父亲因车祸流血致死，她害怕再次面对挚爱之人的
逝去，害怕自己在那一瞬间崩溃，害怕那种眼见着亲人在面前，生命一点一滴的
消失而无能为力的无助感。Mere何尝不是如此，眼看着被疾病慢慢夺走理智的母
亲，那种无助感也一直伴随着她，Cristina看到了，感觉到了，于
是，"Meredith Grey"成了“my person”.
面对着威胁着Mere的死亡，她又一次选择了走开，买便宜货，在酒吧里拼命
灌酒，妄图这样打发时间，逃避心灵的伤痛。幸运的是，Cristina身边还有Burk
在,有了Burk的激励，她终于选择了面对这一切，而不放弃希望，当她满含热泪
，用坚定的声音说try again的时候，这已经不是原来那个Cristina了，而是一
个成长了的，可以用理智来面和意志对艰难困苦的Cristina。
4 ) 大爱GA（看GA的一些随想）
《Grey's Anatomy》
关系
第一季开头，凌乱的现场，naked girlGrey在闹钟声中一把抓起地上睡得正酣的男人裹着的被单，并将一个枕头摔到了他的臀部上。
男人还想说什么，Grey请他马上离开，因为自己要上班了，而她还叫不出来他的名字。
他们分别前说的最后一句话是：“很高兴认识你。”
COOL！
男女平等，莫过如此。
enemy or competition
Dr. Burke得知 Dr. Shepherd是上司richard挖来，一向认为外科主任的位子在自己囊中的他，开始有了危机感。他去问下属，问intern，自己像不像外科主任？自己有什么缺点？
Dr. Shepherd大方邀约Dr. Burke下班一起去喝一杯。他的轻松微笑，理由是：要了解你的朋友，也要了解你的敌人。Dr. Burke则回答：you are not an enemy,you are just competition.
而在intern中间，竞争更无处不在，一个号召，都会有如林的手臂举起。
但他们的competition如此透明。
没有权谋、厚黑、算计，这样的competition，很好。
3R
God，我喜欢Grey的内心独白。喜欢她的3R理论。
她说，人生有3R:relatives,romance,roomates.
love story
最近看连岳，里面充满着这个时代混乱的感情，just like天涯上那一段段故事。老妈不知道我在看什么，里面的内容，她会吓坏的吧。到处是婚外情、一夜情、无性爱、无爱性、劈腿、三三，如果不是可爱的连岳，谁还会认为读这样的东西是一件美好的事情呢？
《ugly betty》里，时尚界内，更上一层楼，是同性恋、变性人的故事了，而Danile的老妈也在为走了一个三，又来了一个三而烦恼。
环球同此凉热啊。
Frankie的最爱就是GA，多么明晰的、蓝白色的医学世界，还有Shepherd和Grey，Burke和Yang.看上去那样美好。
情感问题
美好永远都只是一瞬间的事情。
Grey发现Shepherd原来是有老婆的。而真在选择面前，男人更狠。看上去冷面冷口冷心的Yang，我们以为她更冷静。但主任的位子，让Burke做出更冷的决定。
两个受伤的女人相拥而取得一点点人间的温暖。就像《Sex and the City》里的女人们。
越来越觉得，感情，真是一样复杂的东西。Emotion is a mess.forever.
good-looking man
和表弟论争，哪个医生帅？我觉得Burke太帅了，就像YANG的妈妈说的，真是good-lookingman，而且黑人中，好像很少有这样帅的男人。戴上很另类的花头巾，真是太酷了。Shepherd当然也不错，我记起来他拍过电影《sweet home alabama》。不过还是觉得Burke越看越帅啊。Anyway，我和Frankie都觉得Yang不好看，但看习惯了还是有一些风情。再说美国人眼中的亚洲美女都是此种类型，像Lucy liu式的。
Yang失去了一个男友、一个baby，一个输卵管，情绪终于崩溃大哭。Burke路过，拥住了她。很温暖。
不是每个故事都有美好结局。但我们希望如此，虽然有时只是希望。
老美女
Meredith当然是剧中的一号女主角，却有人不喜欢她。
老。声音不好听。
有人说。
我喜欢Meredith，包括喜欢她脸上那痛苦的皱纹，喜欢她有点哑哑的却特别真实的嗓音，像哑光一样不亮眼，却有质感，令人心折。Izzie当然也很可爱，却缺少Meredith那一种优雅的风度。
大多中国男人的审美观，就是青春可人，岁月的智慧，他们不懂得欣赏。
Pick me，choose me，and love me.
她对derek说。我真是爱死这句话，但又是喜欢又是心疼。她真是一个勇敢坚强可爱的女孩。只是很多男人，怕接受不了这样主动又独立的思想吧。
you deserve better.
you deserve better.
在剧中，男女分手时，我们常常可以听到这句话。不论是否出自真心，或是礼貌，这句话，总是代表着一种理性的方式吧。而在我们平日所看到的，分手大都很难看，仓皇、退避、谎言、拖欠、借口。
剧中分分合合很多，也许是为了剧情需要，但是，他们都很率直，能说出自己要说的，TO tell a lie，在美国的文化中，或许是被看作一种很大的过错，甚至人品格、人性的污点，而且他们，也总是有勇气去面对与改正。中国人，何时有这种勇气？
sense and sensibility
人给人生和社会规定了许许多多的规则。
《GA》里，Denny说，人生苦短，不可能都按规则来行事。
还有一句常说的话：We can make mistakes,everyone can make mistakes.所谓错误，也不过是在理智和感情的斗争中，人往往有时顺从了感情而非社会规则，或说，理性。更可怕的是，人往往不知道自己内心到底在想什么？往往，心和身体，就会背判大脑。
理智与情感，哪一个会占上风？
而意外，总是在计划时出现。
人生因为充满意外，因为不规则，才成为人生。
亲人
Meredith，对她好的，不是她的亲爸，而是Richard，她的stepmother，对她的关心也似亲妈。
她的亲爸，在知道老婆抢救无效时，给了她一个耳光。他真是一个懦弱无用的爹。在Mer溺水抢救时，他不知道在哪里，是Richard抢救她，不抛弃，不放弃。他明知老婆的死与她无关，为了泄愤，给了她一个耳光。而他谈到一张老照片，津津乐道地说，这是他的另外一个女儿。而Mer却说，那是我。
他的，他从小就离开的女儿。
我最深爱的人伤我却是最深。
不知为什么，我想到了郑欣宜。
It takes two.
A男和B女broke up，在我们这里简直是一石激起千层浪。
有人站在A一边，有人站在B一边。
其实，Baily说了，It takes two.
最近可能看多了连岳和GA，我以为，无论开始人的初衷有多么美好，世界在变化，人在变化。而快乐是不多的。
我希望A能快乐，我希望B能成长。因为，
It's time to stand up,time to grow up.
last episode
看到S4，舍不得看完，希望故事继续。看到S4，last episode，这一集，非常感动。
越来越理解Mere，她是一个单亲家庭的孩子，如同她的名字，grey,这名字真是好。dark,twisted,hesitate.她与derek的感情这样纠结，是因为她被伤害，她日常的生活少有温暖的底色,所以她犹疑，惶惑，近情情怯。
但她在努力，在成长。她敢于直面自己的问题，就是进了一步，她要从她母亲那里看到自己的缺陷，然后弥补，长大。就这一点，她就是一个talent,gifted,extraordinary的人。
GA，讲的就是这样一群有着各自缺点的，不完美的人，可是他们都在学习成长、学习修正自己的人性弱点，正如alex眼底滑落的那一滴泪一样，令人感动。
这才是真正的人，这才是真正的人生，这就是GA的意义。
关系
第一季开头，凌乱的现场，naked girlGrey在闹钟声中一把抓起地上睡得正酣的男人裹着的被单，并将一个枕头摔到了他的臀部上。
男人还想说什么，Grey请他马上离开，因为自己要上班了，而她还叫不出来他的名字。
他们分别前说的最后一句话是：“很高兴认识你。”
COOL！
男女平等，莫过如此。
enemy or competition
Dr. Burke得知 Dr. Shepherd是上司richard挖来，一向认为外科主任的位子在自己囊中的他，开始有了危机感。他去问下属，问intern，自己像不像外科主任？自己有什么缺点？
Dr. Shepherd大方邀约Dr. Burke下班一起去喝一杯。他的轻松微笑，理由是：要了解你的朋友，也要了解你的敌人。Dr. Burke则回答：you are not an enemy,you are just competition.
而在intern中间，竞争更无处不在，一个号召，都会有如林的手臂举起。
但他们的competition如此透明。
没有权谋、厚黑、算计，这样的competition，很好。
3R
God，我喜欢Grey的内心独白。喜欢她的3R理论。
她说，人生有3R:relatives,romance,roomates.
love story
最近看连岳，里面充满着这个时代混乱的感情，just like天涯上那一段段故事。老妈不知道我在看什么，里面的内容，她会吓坏的吧。到处是婚外情、一夜情、无性爱、无爱性、劈腿、三三，如果不是可爱的连岳，谁还会认为读这样的东西是一件美好的事情呢？
《ugly betty》里，时尚界内，更上一层楼，是同性恋、变性人的故事了，而Danile的老妈也在为走了一个三，又来了一个三而烦恼。
环球同此凉热啊。
Frankie的最爱就是GA，多么明晰的、蓝白色的医学世界，还有Shepherd和Grey，Burke和Yang.看上去那样美好。
情感问题
美好永远都只是一瞬间的事情。
Grey发现Shepherd原来是有老婆的。而真在选择面前，男人更狠。看上去冷面冷口冷心的Yang，我们以为她更冷静。但主任的位子，让Burke做出更冷的决定。
两个受伤的女人相拥而取得一点点人间的温暖。就像《Sex and the City》里的女人们。
越来越觉得，感情，真是一样复杂的东西。Emotion is a mess.forever.
good-looking man
和表弟论争，哪个医生帅？我觉得Burke太帅了，就像YANG的妈妈说的，真是good-lookingman，而且黑人中，好像很少有这样帅的男人。戴上很另类的花头巾，真是太酷了。Shepherd当然也不错，我记起来他拍过电影《sweet home alabama》。不过还是觉得Burke越看越帅啊。Anyway，我和Frankie都觉得Yang不好看，但看习惯了还是有一些风情。再说美国人眼中的亚洲美女都是此种类型，像Lucy liu式的。
Yang失去了一个男友、一个baby，一个输卵管，情绪终于崩溃大哭。Burke路过，拥住了她。很温暖。
不是每个故事都有美好结局。但我们希望如此，虽然有时只是希望。
老美女
Meredith当然是剧中的一号女主角，却有人不喜欢她。
老。声音不好听。
有人说。
我喜欢Meredith，包括喜欢她脸上那痛苦的皱纹，喜欢她有点哑哑的却特别真实的嗓音，像哑光一样不亮眼，却有质感，令人心折。Izzie当然也很可爱，却缺少Meredith那一种优雅的风度。
大多中国男人的审美观，就是青春可人，岁月的智慧，他们不懂得欣赏。
Pick me，choose me，and love me.
她对derek说。我真是爱死这句话，但又是喜欢又是心疼。她真是一个勇敢坚强可爱的女孩。只是很多男人，怕接受不了这样主动又独立的思想吧。
you deserve better.
you deserve better.
在剧中，男女分手时，我们常常可以听到这句话。不论是否出自真心，或是礼貌，这句话，总是代表着一种理性的方式吧。而在我们平日所看到的，分手大都很难看，仓皇、退避、谎言、拖欠、借口。
剧中分分合合很多，也许是为了剧情需要，但是，他们都很率直，能说出自己要说的，TO tell a lie，在美国的文化中，或许是被看作一种很大的过错，甚至人品格、人性的污点，而且他们，也总是有勇气去面对与改正。中国人，何时有这种勇气？
sense and sensibility
人给人生和社会规定了许许多多的规则。
《GA》里，Denny说，人生苦短，不可能都按规则来行事。
还有一句常说的话：We can make mistakes,everyone can make mistakes.所谓错误，也不过是在理智和感情的斗争中，人往往有时顺从了感情而非社会规则，或说，理性。更可怕的是，人往往不知道自己内心到底在想什么？往往，心和身体，就会背判大脑。
理智与情感，哪一个会占上风？
而意外，总是在计划时出现。
人生因为充满意外，因为不规则，才成为人生。
亲人
Meredith，对她好的，不是她的亲爸，而是Richard，她的stepmother，对她的关心也似亲妈。
她的亲爸，在知道老婆抢救无效时，给了她一个耳光。他真是一个懦弱无用的爹。在Mer溺水抢救时，他不知道在哪里，是Richard抢救她，不抛弃，不放弃。他明知老婆的死与她无关，为了泄愤，给了她一个耳光。而他谈到一张老照片，津津乐道地说，这是他的另外一个女儿。而Mer却说，那是我。
他的，他从小就离开的女儿。
我最深爱的人伤我却是最深。
不知为什么，我想到了郑欣宜。
It takes two.
A男和B女broke up，在我们这里简直是一石激起千层浪。
有人站在A一边，有人站在B一边。
其实，Baily说了，It takes two.
最近可能看多了连岳和GA，我以为，无论开始人的初衷有多么美好，世界在变化，人在变化。而快乐是不多的。
我希望A能快乐，我希望B能成长。因为，
It's time to stand up,time to grow up.
last episode
看到S4，舍不得看完，希望故事继续。看到S4，last episode，这一集，非常感动。
越来越理解Mere，她是一个单亲家庭的孩子，如同她的名字，grey,这名字真是好。dark,twisted,hesitate.她与derek的感情这样纠结，是因为她被伤害，她日常的生活少有温暖的底色,所以她犹疑，惶惑，近情情怯。
但她在努力，在成长。她敢于直面自己的问题，就是进了一步，她要从她母亲那里看到自己的缺陷，然后弥补，长大。就这一点，她就是一个talent,gifted,extraordinary的人。
GA，讲的就是这样一群有着各自缺点的，不完美的人，可是他们都在学习成长、学习修正自己的人性弱点，正如alex眼底滑落的那一滴泪一样，令人感动。
这才是真正的人，这才是真正的人生，这就是GA的意义。
5 ) 2006年最出色的美剧
GA在实习医生紧张的生活中加入了幽默的元素和人性的分析。
我觉得第二季是到目前最出色的，尤其是火车车祸，炸弹，大结局这几集，都无可挑剔。如果原本有看了第一季觉得一般的朋友，只要看了这几集肯定无法忘怀。
GA的人物、对白和配乐都很出色，唯一希望就是第三季少一些琼瑶戏，多一些出彩的病例。
希望“越狱”热潮中，GA能被更多人所识货。
GA专题：http://www.meijumi.com/default.asp?cat=16
我觉得第二季是到目前最出色的，尤其是火车车祸，炸弹，大结局这几集，都无可挑剔。如果原本有看了第一季觉得一般的朋友，只要看了这几集肯定无法忘怀。
GA的人物、对白和配乐都很出色，唯一希望就是第三季少一些琼瑶戏，多一些出彩的病例。
希望“越狱”热潮中，GA能被更多人所识货。
GA专题：http://www.meijumi.com/default.asp?cat=16
6 ) Meredith or Mrs Shepherd
Derek拿着离婚协议书犹豫再三的时候，我是欣赏这个男人的。即使我知道在第四季还是第五季的时候他就会和Meredith结婚。
一起生活了十几年的人，哪个人可以轻易的将她赶出自己的生活。
一起过的十几个生日，圣诞，结婚纪念日，还有一系列的其他。
抹去这些需要一点犹豫和不舍，一点也不过分。
这个决定和他的太太是不是那个曾经和他好朋友睡过的女人无关，舍不得的是时间。
Meredith是个好女孩。她大声对Derek说：choose me的时候，没有人会说她任性的。因为她无辜而又美好，甚至很难算一个小三。
Derek最最后面的选择是肯定的，Meredith才是女主角。
只是要一点时间和波折。
Derek坐在椅子上一脸痛苦。
Baily路过说:你知道做这个选择其实一点也不难，but painful
Bailey也是个聪明的一塌糊涂的胖女人啊。
一起生活了十几年的人，哪个人可以轻易的将她赶出自己的生活。
一起过的十几个生日，圣诞，结婚纪念日，还有一系列的其他。
抹去这些需要一点犹豫和不舍，一点也不过分。
这个决定和他的太太是不是那个曾经和他好朋友睡过的女人无关，舍不得的是时间。
Meredith是个好女孩。她大声对Derek说：choose me的时候，没有人会说她任性的。因为她无辜而又美好，甚至很难算一个小三。
Derek最最后面的选择是肯定的，Meredith才是女主角。
只是要一点时间和波折。
Derek坐在椅子上一脸痛苦。
Baily路过说:你知道做这个选择其实一点也不难，but painful
Bailey也是个聪明的一塌糊涂的胖女人啊。
ABC的套路，但是我很买账
Mc dreaming!
一向对专业剧爱到不行，从TVB到美剧，爱上格蕾，是因为她乱七八糟的人物关系，记得有个形象到不行的翻译《风流医生俏护士》大爱克里斯蒂娜杨和安迪森，
看到S04筋疲力尽实在看不下去了。我还是中意插科打诨多过这种家长里短。谁要管你们这些长得又不是很好看的人最后到底和谁在一起啊……
当你以为这是一部洗具时，它又实在是一部杯具。
看了两集就超级想要上班 想要那种忙碌的感觉
现在看来第一季作为一个引子基本算作圆满，更不用考虑原本是作为迷你剧来制作的这点原因。
越拍越狗血的剧集之一，建议只看前三季
慢慢补美剧看吧……这片子我还以为很医务，结果很言情，我喜欢house多多了。这片子最棒的是它里面的音乐。
我是C&B控。
买回移动硬盘干的第一件事就是把grey给补看掉了（还真堕落）。。。大家的口味是很正确的！
下班回家路上想到burke，我竟然流露出那种想到男朋友时的白痴表情。“thanks for the coffee”
终于现实一点
案体不算很精彩，这部医疗剧更强调在人性上
前三季最好看！
美国的琼瑶剧
很好看！
讨厌格雷，其他人都喜欢~
burke回来吧...................想你咧!!
还蛮好看的 跟白色巨塔调调完全不同//狗血，奇观，哲理，励志，主旋律，人见人爱的女主爱上住房车的男主。超刺激，人皮客栈之后终于有能满足我口味的了。美国人尼玛就是真善美怪不得叫美国。好吧，亚洲人真的太妖魔了。我觉得最巧的是，为了避免太刻意的结尾，正好可以让病人挂掉，反正这也符合常理。