Episode Report Card Lauren S: N/A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Hooking Up
By Lauren S | Season 7 | Episode 10 | Aired on 12.02.2010
Once in the OR Owen announces that there isn't time to scrub in and warns that he hopes that no one is wearing new shoes. He then slices into Jason's abdomen and a river of blood starts to gush out and on to the floor.
Let me share the notes that I took while watching the episode, as I think they perfectly describe the next scene: "Blood guts lots more blood guts." When the suction doesn't suck fast enough, Owen yells at Meredith to use her hands and scoop the blood and guts from Jason's abdomen, while he hollers at other people to get him material to pack the wounds; when the material isn't coming fast enough, he gets really agitated and yells a whole lot more.
The lake couldn't be more of an opposite setting, all quiet and tranquil as Derek gets the boat ready to go. Cristina then offers him some advice about how to mount their rods (hee!) (No, seriously, you have to admit you immediately regressed to 12 years old at any talk of mounting rods.) (Come on, don't even try to deny it) and at Derek's stunned face she admits that she did a bunch of internet research about fishing the night before. "I didn't want to be anything less than seaworthy." He tries to regain the upper hand by pointing out that it's a lake, not a sea, but then has to admit that she's got a good idea. This gives her all the encouragement she needs to start offering more advice but he cuts her off and asks if she's going to be like this all day. With the tiniest hint of desperation in her voice, she admits she can't help it.
Callie's Patient O'the Day is Ron, who needs a new hip, but had been putting it off because he didn't want to deal with the recovery time. Before he can say much his wife chips in that their daughter is an orthodontist in Sarasota because, well, she wants Callie to know that they have medical people in the family and aren't just nobody. I can already tell why their daughter is practicing orthodontia in Florida, about as far away as one can get from Seattle within the continental United States. Callie proudly shows them a new, minimally invasive procedure that will have him walking by the end of the week, and brags that she's the only doctor in the Northwest currently doing this and she can fit them in at 2pm.
The wife runs around behind the husband and proceeds to be worse than any doctor at this hospital ever was in terms of whispering things that are supposedly just between her and her husband. She wants him to ask why Callie isn't busier and then why no one else is doing the surgery if it's so great. Callie can't hide her irritation and points out that she can in fact hear all of these questions herself; she tells them she was on leave and is just getting her schedule back in order, and Alex chimes in to point out that she's the only surgeon so far even able to do this fancy new surgery. Ron seems rather embarrassed at the way his wife is acting but at the same time, he's obviously put up with it for years, so Ron doesn't get much sympathy on that front. She tells him to tell the doctors that they want a second opinion and he gets pretty flustered at how she continues to ludicrously act like the docs can't hear them but Callie cuts in and agrees that it's a good choice.