25-03-2007 05:01
20.00–22.00
Five returns to Seattle Grace Hospital for the second season of the award-winning hospital drama, currently the top-rated show in the US.
Ellen Pompeo plays Meredith Grey, who, alongside fellow surgical interns Cristina Yang, Izzie Stevens, George O’Malley and Alex Karev, juggles her personal issues with the everyday life-or-death decisons she faces at work.
In the first episode of tonight’s double bill, it’s Christmas at Seattle Grace, but not everyone is enjoying the festive spirit. George deals with a patient’s difficult family, Alex is quietly panicking about his looming board exams, and Cristina and Burke clash over the treatment of a young heart transplant patient.
“Anxiety attacks, aneurysms and ulcers...” remarks Webber, gazing at the board. “Must be December,” adds Bailey. The day’s rounds have provided the interns with a series of difficult cases, including George’s gastric ulcer patient Nadia.
She’s like the eye of a hurricane – remaining still and calm while the chaos that is her family rages around her. Nadia’s shrill mother, noisy father, rude husband and sullen teenage son are making life difficult for George, who is presented with the unenviable task of informing them that Nadia’s surgery keeps getting postponed. But when the constant strain of being surrounded by noise and stress gets too much for Nadia, George realises that he should have stepped in and protected his patient from her own family.
Alex, meanwhile, is focusing his energies on a final push to revise for his medical board retakes – knowing that if he fails this time around, he’s out of the door. Everyone offers to help him revise, but Alex has a hard time letting go of his ego and accepting their aid. “Okay, Evil Spawn,” says Cristina, exasperated. “You can nurse your pride and keep on being a nurse, or you can pass your test and be a doctor. Up to you.” Will he get his act together in time to pass?
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