'Grey's Anatomy': That's what friends are for

Awww. What would those “Grey’s Anatomy” peeps do without their BFFs?

After 100 phone calls didn’t do the trick, Bailey bullied Callie, and then Hunt, into trekking out to Derek’s trailer to try to convince him to get back to work at the hospital. But they just wound up commiserating and drinking his beer, which meant it was up to the Chief to get the job done. The Chief wasn’t going anywhere, no matter how much venom Derek spewed his way over blabbing about the ring to Meredith and destroying his life. Because true friends stick until their drunk, broken, melodramatic star surgeons decide to man up.

Which, as it turned out, happened in mere minutes. After all, Izzie’s got cancer in her brain — and seemingly everywhere else — and, as Meredith put it during their tentative reunion, Derek’s one of only 20 neurosurgeons in the world who can actually save her. Silly Mer. We all know Izzie doesn’t want saving; she wants a full-time film career.

But until that blessed (May?) day arrives, the ailing doc is gonna need to lean mightily on her friends. After sharing her diagnosis with Cristina last week, Izzie wanted her help about as much as Derek wanted the Chief’s — on the surface, not so much, but underneath it all, desperately. By the end of the episode, Cristina had broken through, and Izzie the doctor had become Izzie the patient, her white coat replaced by a blue hospital gown, as she climbed tentatively into a bed at Seattle Grace surrounded by her fellow residents. Anybody else get a smidge teary?

What did you think of how Cristina, about to perform her first solo surgery, delivered the Izzie news to Bailey and Alex? How funny was it to see Meredith go all Bailey on the interns over their personal drama? Were you happy to finally see more of George? And just how many hours do you think Blow-hole, the facial transplant patient, had to spend in the makeup chair each day?

-- Shawna Malcom

(Photo courtesy ABC)

Comments

[Mark Smith]

No one cares.

[Pat Hopper]

Is Izzy trying to leave the show?

[Jen]

I love GREY'S!!!!!
but please people get ur medical info accurate..... i mean seriously why make a point of showing us patient teaching of the use of an incentive spirometer if you don't even teach it right!!!!!!
Blowing into it :P you suck in!!! or what's the point?!!!

[RB]

Izzie better not die or leave the show. I will be so upset. She and Alex need to be together!