Grey's Anatomy

Grey's Anatomy

Episode 6: If Tomorrow Never Comes

By: Carlos Uribe

Grey's Anatomy is about a bunch of doctors. It has aired on ABC since 2005.

Spoilers Ahoy!

The sixth episode of Grey's Anatomy is a pretty good one when it comes to the medical drama. It features three patients. The first has a giant tumor. She's a woman who has allowed a tumor to grow to record size. The reasons he hadn't sought treatment for the tumor is because everyone that she knew that has gone to a hospital has died. She was afraid that if she went to the hospital, that would be the end. She waited until the last possible moment to go. She waited for too long. By being afraid of dying in the hospital, she ensured that when she finally went she was going to die. The surgeons tried to operate on her but she lost too much blood in the surgery. The episode had also used the patient to show the difference between Alex and George. Alex is shown to pretend to care about the patient, but then mock her behind her back. She manages to hear this and he upsets her. George actually does care about the patient but he isn't as good as a doctor as Alex is. It's an interest contrast between the two of them.

The second patient features another chance for Dr. Meredith Grey to connect with a patient due to her mother's condition. In this episode, a father has a disease that can be largely cured with brain surgery. He doesn't want to let them cut open in his brain while he's awake because he's afraid. His daughter is getting married in a month and she wants her father to walk her down the aisle. If he doesn't get the surgery, he won't be able to do that. Dr. Grey is able to connect with the daughter since she also has a mother who is dying in front of her eyes. She's able to convince the father to get the surgery and he gets a happy ending. It goes well and the day is relatively saved. While she's dealing with this patient, she also has to deal with Bailey's knowledge that she and Derek are currently sleeping together. Bailey isn't happy with this news but Meredith decides that she'll continue to see Derek. It even appears that the two are getting closer together.

The third patient is a man who has a clot in his system. He appears to be doing fine until it just happens that Izzie is all alone on the floor. She's supposed to have the floor with Alex, but he forgets to replace the batteries in his pager and he misses all his pages. Izzie has to run around the hospital, treating every possible patient. This becomes a major problem when she has to cut open a guy and get rid of a clot because it was an emergency. She had to do this all by herself and with only a nurse to help guide her. It was the first time she had ever done it but she managed to succeed. The guy's life is saved. She gets Preston to stitch him back up. It's a great way to show that while Izzie might easily freak out, she's able to act under pressure.

This was a pretty good episode of Grey's Anatomy. It managed to really build up the tension with Izzie's emergency cut and the surgery of the tumor. This wasn't a good episode for Alex as he just kept messing up this week. It was an episode that had some pretty great medical drama and the personal drama didn't overtake the episode by that much. After thinking about it, this will be the final episode that I review. While this series has managed to go from being unbearablly unwatchable to something that's at least entertaining, it's not really that interesting to review and neither has it been able to hook me. There's only three episodes left in this season but I don't find myself wanting to tune in to them at all-and that's still a problem for this show.