Friday, January 20, 2012

Season 8, Episode 12: Hope For The Hopeless

"There's nothing else we can do for you." These are the last words a surgeon wants to tell a patient. Giving up doesn't come easy to us, so we do everything in our power not to. For surgeons, a lost cause just means – try a little harder."

"When do you throw in the towel? Admit that a lost cause is something just that? There comes a point where it all becomes too much. When we get too tired to fight anymore. So we give up. That's when the real work begins. To find hope where there seems to be absolutely none at all."

Source: http://www.meredith-and-derek.com/quotes/155

Season 8, Episode 11: This Magic Moment

"Have you ever the starring role in a play? A solo in a recital? All eyes on you. Waiting for you to do what they came to see. Feeling the incredible pressure to perform. There was a time when they used to call operating rooms an operating theater. It still feels like one. Scores if people get ready for the show. The sets are arranged, there are costumes, masks, props. Everything has to be rehearsed, choreographed. All leading to the moment when the curtain goes up. You know what they say about the Carnegie Hall: there's only one way to get there."

"If only life was just a dress rehearsal. And we had time for do-overs. We'd be able to practice and practice every morning, until we got it right. Unfortunately, every day in our lives is its own performance. It seems like even when we get a chance to rehearse, and prepare, and practice… we're still not quite ready for life's grand moments."

Source: http://www.meredith-and-derek.com/quotes/154

Friday, January 6, 2012

Season 8, Episode 10: Suddenly

“Victims of a sudden impact are some of the hardest to treat. It's not just the collision that injures them. It's everything after. The centrifugal force keeps them moving, tossing them from vehicles, throwing them through windshields, slamming their internal organs into the skeleton. Their bodies are injured over and over again. So there's no way to know how much damage has actually been done. Until they stop.”

“You can't prepare for a sudden impact. You can't brace yourself. It just hits you. Out of nowhere. And suddenly, the life you knew before is over. Forever.”