Saturday, May 19, 2012

Season 8, Episode 24: Flight

"A month ago, you were in med school being taught by doctors. Today, you are the doctors. The seven years you spend here as a surgical resident will be the best and worst of your life. You will be pushed to the breaking point. Eight of you will switch to an easier specialty. Five of you will crack under the pressure. Two of you will be asked to leave. This is your starting line. This is your arena. How well you play? That’s up to you."

"The years we spend as surgical residents will be the best and worst of our lives. We will be pushed to our breaking point. This is the starting line. This is our arena. How well we play, that’s up to us."

Source: http://www.meredith-and-derek.com/quotes/167

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Season 8, Episode 23: Migration


"So, there's this bird. Some sort of swallow I think. Every September, thousands of them ditch rainy Seattle to winter in Mexico. These birds aren't dumb. And every year, rounds of people gather around in Seattle to drink beer and watch the flock take off. They call it the Great Migration."

"I don't know how those birds do it. Travel thousands of miles without getting lost. Banging into windows, being eaten by cats. But every spring, they're always here. I guess they come back to what they know. People say it's pretty cool, watching them go. They say you can actually see the moment when, at some mysterious signal, all at once the birds decide to leave. Whatever... there's always next year."

Source: http://www.meredith-and-derek.com/quotes/166

Friday, May 4, 2012

Season 8, Episode 22: Let the Bad Times Roll

"Carpe diem. How annoying is carpe diem? How are you supposed to plan a life? A career? A family? If you're always carpe-ing the diem? If we all seized every moment of every day, there wouldn't be doctors. Who would sit through Med school? We'd all be too busy, living in the now. Whatever that means."

"I'll admit that the Romans had a point. You gotta live life. And living means that every morning, when you wake up, you have to choose. Between seizing what life offers in the moment, and forging ahead, no matter the weather. Or closing the curtains, and shutting out the day."

Source: http://www.meredith-and-derek.com/quotes/165

Season 8, Episode 21: Moment of Truth

"Picture this: you've spent the past five years at your residency training to become a surgeon. But those five years suddenly don't matter. The only thing that matters, the only thing between you and the rest of your career is a test, in a random hotel in a random city, with a random examiner asking you random questions. Nervous? You should be."

"Kindergarten, high school, college, Med school, residency. Yet all leads to this moment. Some people can crack under the pressure. Others thrive. Either way, there's nothing left to do. No more studying, no more preparing. Like it or not, the moment has arrived. The only thing left for you to do is to show up."

Source: http://www.meredith-and-derek.com/quotes/164

Season 8, Episode 20: The Girl with No Name

"When you're a kid, you always want things to stay the same. The same teacher, the same house, the same friends... Being a surgeon is no different. You get used to the same Attendings, same scrub nurses, the same hospital. Of course, that all changes the minute you're fifth year comes around. And you have to find a new job."

"It's one of those things people say: you can't move on until you've let go of the past. Letting go is the easy part. It's the moving on that's painful. So sometimes we fight it, trying to keep things the same. Things can't stay the same though. At some point you just have to let go, move on. Because no matter how painful it is, it's the only way we grow."

Source: http://www.meredith-and-derek.com/quotes/163