Episode Report Card LTG: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Get Away From Me!
By LTG | Season 3 | Episode 10 | Aired on 11.29.2006
In Papa O'Malley's room, Cristina and Dr. Hahn are reviewing the details of the surgery with George's parents. Cristina tells them that the surgery is very timely, because he's had a bunch of irregular heart rhythms just that morning. And then George bursts into the room and asks if they checked some level or other, because some mineral or other was high or low. Dr. Hahn's initial response is, "What are you doing?" followed by a "We've got a handle on things." Everybody looks a little freaked out (including George's moron brothers), and Cristina quietly suggests that George should probably step out of the room. With quite a bit of anger in his voice, he tells her, "You don't talk to me like that!" One of the brothers calls George a baby, so he continues his temper tantrum. Dr. Hahn calmly but sternly tells him to get out of the room. He refuses, and claims that she can't kick him out of the room because he hired her. You know, I'm pretty sure it's the insurance company that's footing the bill for this procedure. He tells Dr. Hahn that he's staying, and she does not shove her clipboard up his ass sideways. But she should have.
C-section. Things seem to be going fine, until the moment that Addison removes the baby from the womb. Meredith cuts the cord, but Addison just has a concerned look on her face, and she takes the baby over to the tiny little warming table and tells Mere that they have to stabilize the baby and get it into surgery. Susan starts to freak out and walk over to the table where they are working on the baby. Addison asks Mere to talk to her and calm her down, but Meredith just freezes, staring at her niece. And rather than calming Susan down, she freaks her (and Molly) out by telling her, "The baby's not breathing." Commercials.
Meredith walks into the scrub room, where Addison is prepping for the baby's surgery. Addison chastises Meredith for her freakout in the O.R., and Meredith (to her credit) simply apologizes without trying to make excuses. She offers to scrub in on the baby's surgery, but Addison wants her to stay with Susan and Molly and keep them informed of what's going on in the surgery. Meredith tries to get out of this duty, suggesting that Susan and Molly would much rather get updates from Addison (which, hello, she'll be operating) and that it would be super neato for her to observe the surgery. But Addison recognizes that it was a stupid mistake to let Meredith in the O.R. with her family, and unlike practically everyone else on this show, she actually learns from her mistakes and does not repeat them.