Grey's Anatomy (Season 17)

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Grey's Anatomy (2020-2021) is a primetime television medical drama, airing on ABC, that follows Meredith Grey, a first-year surgical intern at the beginning of the drama, and her fellow interns as they struggle to become doctors.

Season 17

All Tomorrow's Parties [17.01]

Meredith (voice over): I've heard that when tidal waves hit, there are often people watching on shore. They see the disaster coming, see the horizon disappearing. They don't really see until it's too late. There's a lecture we take in residency that's meant to prepare us for such surprises. It's called Disaster Ethics Where future surgeons imagine what they would do when the unimaginable happens. But it's imperfect. Because while it's good to plan for the worst, you can't really know how you'll handle it until you're smack dab in the middle of it, under the wave, trying not to drown.

Meredith (voice over): Disaster has a tendency to melt away everything else in life. So if you want to know who you'll be in a disaster, ask yourself: who am I now?

The Center Won't Hold [17.02]

Meredith (voice over):

Meredith (voice over): As proud as we surgeons are of our stitches, they aren't meant to be a permanent fix. Your body still has to do the real work. An army of different cells comes in to build new tissue. And eventually, you've produced enough collagen to heal. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you shouldn't obsess about technique. Because even one mistake, one slip, can cost a lot of blood.

My Happy Ending [17.03]

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You'll Never Walk Alone [17.04]

Meredith (voice over): Medical schools often ask applicants for an essay describing a time they faced adversity and how they overcame it. They want to know how people will cope with the challenges they'll face as a doctor. Some students worry they have nothing to write about. I didn't have that problem.

Meredith (voice over): Experts say the more resilient we are, the better we can face life's challenges. And the single biggest factor for cultivating resilience? Far away from home Positive relationships. So find your people and keep them close. Because when you're at your lowest those people get you through.

Fight the Power [17.05]

Bailey (voice over): My mom used to tell me never to judge people until you know their story. You might think you understand, but you don't. That's why, as a patient, it's important to have an advocate. Someone to tell your story, to be your voice to say your name. Especially when you don't have the voice yourself.

Bailey (voice over): Patients lose their power when they are referred to as "Bed number 4" or "arm pain guy". Even in their deaths, they are not faceless. They are not nameless. They are more than statistics. More than "co-morbid conditions" or "nursing-home patients". They are sons, brothers, and uncles who speak five languages and run restaurants - Wade Klein, 66. They are great-grandfathers who love Broadway - Jacob Lappin, 92. They are baseball loving nurses with an easy laugh - Dane Wilson, 45. They are the world's greatest mothers, and they are the most beloved wives - Elena Rose Bailey, 84.

No Time for Despair [17.06]

Meredith (voice over): When a virus finds its way into our bodies our immune system unleashes an attack. It puts up a good fight and then stands down. Or at least that's what it's supposed to do. Sometimes the system works so hard that it goes completely off the rails. Immune cells start attacking healthy tissue. They flood the lungs, clot the blood, cause vessels to leak, and shut down organs. Our own body wreaks havoc on itself. It's called the cytokine storm. And it takes a miracle to stop it.

Meredith (voice over): Sometimes, when you think the storm has passed, you realize you were just in the eye of it. Our love is like our music It's here, and then it's gone

In My Life [17.09]

Meredith (voice over): The day you discharge a patient who nearly died is a very good day. You say your goodbyes. And you hope like hell you never see them again. Because when a patient does return, there's a very good chance you screwed up.

Tradition [17.15]

Meredith (voice over): In some residency programs, graduating surgeons get a wooden chair, emblazoned with the emblem of their program. When those residents become attendings, the chair usually goes in their office, where it collects dust for the rest of their careers. You give your program years of your life, your sweat, your tears, and in my case, at least, your blood, and your program gives you a chair. I suppose it's a nice tradition, if you're into that sort of thing. And if you want a constant reminder of the hell you went through to get here.

Meredith (voice over): Traditions have never really been my thing. But at their best, they help us remember who we are, where we're from, and those who came before us. They give us something to pass on to future generations. 'Cause if you don't know where you're from, it's kind of hard to know where you're going. Unless, of course, where you're going is home.

I'm Still Standing [17.16]

Meredith (voice over): When we give test results to patients, we often say, "Normal". We look and analyze numbers within ranges, highs and lows. Because if history has shown us anything, one person's normal is another's complete chaos.

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