Look around, the chief of surgery tells all the young interns.
Say hello to yourcompetition.
How well will you play?
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The patients are an annoyance at worst, an exciting problem at best.
Dr. Bailey (Chandra Wilson) warns her interns about interrupting nap time.
The dying patient better not be dead when I get there, she says.
Not only would you have killed someone, you would have woken me for no reason.
When George (T.R.
Dance, Super Cool, are you getting the vibe here?
Are you sensing the goal is the opposite of serious?
I wouldve been a really good postal worker, says he.
Did they choose this field out of any sincere motivation to help people?
Maybe, but we dont see much of that.
Allowed into her first surgery, Meredith emerges ecstatic and spent and says, I dont know whyanybodydoes drugs.
For them,the action is the juice.
The interns have been running for nearly 24 hours, are lingering down in a corridor.
Izzie (Katherine Heigl) is doing yoga.
George is moaning about his first botched surgery, wondering if he shouldve gone into geriatrics.
Surgerys hot, says Cristina, Oh already playing the coolest doctor on television.
Its themarines, itsmacho, itshostile, itshardcore.
Geriatrics is for freaks who live with their mothers and never have sex.
The whole pilots like that: People talk about their job like theyre in a Hollywood pitch session.
But theGreyspilot captured some other strand in the culture.
This is workaholic pop-punk, a proto-Lean Inby way ofThe Art of War.
Rhimes already had a great knack for banter that was self-aware about its bantering.
Those deaths were sad, and they were part of the game.
