Episode Report Card Lauren S: A- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT How the West Was Won
By Lauren S | Season 5 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.15.2008
Izzie finds her would-be neuro patient, Arnie, all settled into a hospital room. She wanders in to find out what's up and can barely keep a calm face when he tells her that his new doctor, Dr. Karev, told him he's got a huge tumor in his head. He then asks if she's seen his wife, but Izzie can only ask through gritted teeth, "Your new doctor?"
Cristina has seen her patient even though the woman wanted a "nice" doctor, and called Sloane down to check out her rash. She's totally hoping it's something surgical with a name like horribleskintis surgerydiseasis, but he snarks that it's dermatitis. He orders her to get a tube of cream from dermatology, and never to page him again like that. Chastised, she slumps up the stairs, past the Chief yelling at workers about the OR ceiling, past Bailey yelling at some interns and past Izzie recommending that she stick a needle in Alex's throat. She finds dermatology, and pushes through the door... into a waiting room filled with soft light, wood furniture, and plants. A woman, Dr. Peppman, calls to her from the desk, asking of she needs help. Cristina tells her about the cream, and Daisy tells her that the nurses are busy, but if she can wait Dr. P will get it herself, and would she like some water with raspberries while she waits? The weirdest moment, though, is when a man comes up and wordlessly starts rubbing Dr. P's hand. She explains that he's the massage therapist, and that since they do such delicate work with their hands, they need to be kept healthy! Cristina seems unable to process everything that's going on, and asks disbelievingly if every attending gets their hands rubbed. Daisy corrects that no, the attendings have their own masseuse. This guy, Chris, is just there for the residents. She's a first-year resident, and just LOVING it! I'm worried Cristina might keel over.
Derek and Mark are at a computer, watching a virtual head have its face peeled off so that they can get to its brain through its forehead and then remove the tumor behind its eyes. Mark asks Derek which of his roommates will be assisting, and just after Derek tells him it will be Alex, Izzie storms in like a little kid whining to daddy about how Alex stole her patient. She actually tries to ask, "Remember when I was telling you..." but Derek cuts off their bonding moment to tell her he doesn't give a crap, they aren't roommates when they're at work, and he's got a resident already. Alex comes in just in time to see the end of this, and grins at her. She really gets him back, calling him a son of a bitch. He answers smarmily, "Go cry to someone who cares." I don't like that they've made Alex so much of a jerk that I hate both of them right now. They're both little bitches and kind of a waste of story time right now. Once Derek and Alex are gone, Izzie whines to Mark that it isn't fair. Wow, that's really going to do a good job of making you look like a competent, professional adult. Mark just tells her that surgery is like the Wild West. "You didn't get your claim to Montana from the bank, you got it because you put a fence around it and shot the ass off anyone who walked by. Karev's a cowboy. You're not." She gapes as he walks out, clearly thinking being whiny and indignant was enough to get her ahead in the world, I guess.