Episode Report Card 34 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Stick a Fork in It
By Lauren S | Season 10 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.07.2013
Richard is in bed doing a crossword while CJ does her laps like a good patient and tells him her secret to making perfect meatballs. The two trade affectionate barbs until there's a crash, and then silence from the hall. Of course there are no doctors or nurses outside -- it's only a hospital, after all -- so Richard gets out of bed and works his way over to the door. He sticks his head out and sees CJ lying unconscious on the ground, so he manages to jog to her and kneel at her side. April rushes up to help but Richard waves her off as he starts CPR and begs CJ to hold on dammit.
The longest interview of all time has finally ended, and Arizona tells Emma that Callie loved her. Emma is still kind of weirded out by how "thorough" it was, but seems to feel pretty good. She then asks how long Callie and Arizona have been divorced, and Arizona is shocked and replies that they are not, fiddling with her wedding ring so that Emma notices it. Emma points out that they are seeing others as if this is a fact, though I have no idea how she'd know that unless she'd stumbled into a room where Leah and Arizona were occupied with one another. She then apologizes for getting so personal, but the interview kind of rubbed off on her. At Seattle Pres they apparently don't discuss each other's sexual antics over surgery. Arizona tells her that if she's looking for way too personal, she's found the right place.
Mere and Alex have gotten all of the other tumors, so it's time to tackle Number 8 -- the problem is that it's buried much deeper than they first realized. Alex thinks that they can't get it without removing too much of the liver, but Mere has fully internalized her own hype and insists she can do it. Steph runs in to show Mere a picture of the half-printed liver and Mere tells her to scrub in since they need some help. She then insists to Alex that for a kid this young, they have to be as aggressive as they can.
Bailey's surgery is just about done, so they run a test to make sure no leaks are found. The test is clean, and Princess and Ben are ready to celebrate. Bailey joins them only for a second, and then her mood abruptly shifts and she says they need a bubble test as well. When Princess has the nerve to ask if they need both, Bailey angrily lectures her about how bad a leak would be and again paints it as if Princess wants to play fast and loose with this guy's health. Ben watches this whole thing and then jumps up to say the test only takes one second. He pushes some air into the line while they pour saline into the guy's open chest, and voila! No bubbles. Except that Bailey is practically having a nervous breakdown, and decides she sees a tiny one. Ben defers to her even though he obviously thinks everything is fine, and points out that putting on an extra patch certainly can't hurt. I'm glad they did the second test because I think I just learned how my surgeon checked my lung for leaks in my own surgery – I knew they did a bubble test with it submerged in water, but I could never quite figure out HOW this would have worked without detaching it and throwing it in a tank as if it's a tire that had driven over a nail. Yay medicine!