While waiting for an ambulance to roll up with a patient.
Then again, Alex hasnt always been known for his sensitivity.
Do not make fat jokes when a nearly-700-pound man arrives for treatment.
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Or, on second thought,do.
Then he fell and broke his ankle.
The doctors couldnt figure out how to get him a CT, because of his size.
What about the zoo?
random Mercy Wester Charles suggested.
Theyve got to have a CT for, like, rhinos, right?
She handed over her clipboard and dismissed herself from the case without another word from Bailey.
Thus this became the official Super High Risk Surgery of the Night.
Almost too high to calculate.
Five times the risk of heart attack.
Slow healing, renal failure.
High risk of pulmonary embolism.
But the ex-Chief turned him around, talking him into not seeing every patient as a prospective lawsuit.
NEXT: Alex gets sassy
The patient sensitivity training, however, was just beginning in this case.
Of course, the wife happened by.
But then: First, how about you tell me how you like to do it with your husband?
Okay, so jokes about their sex life involving cafeteria food as visual aids were off limits.
Now all bets were off on when to joke and when not to.
Or joke with him.
Make him feel like a person.
Alex took her advice and also gave Bobby a large dose of his own advice.
You bringing my forklift around?
Then he added, I got a good one.
What did they call the guy who was so fat he couldnt get out of the house?
Because you left a 700-pound mess for your wife to clean up.
He furthermore added his own spin on the situation: You cant just walk out on her now.
Chances are youre going to die on that table; then you get what you want.
But at least your wife will think you tried.
Well said, sir.
Bobby went through with it, and despite a perforated colon, he made it through.
There is such a thing astoosensitive to a patients feelings.
Like when shes a hot, flirty girl with a knee injury from a bike accident.
Made even worse by their hand-holding later.
Everyones capable of patient sensitivity.
It turned out she was having a heart attack.
When Teddy asked Cristina to look after the ladys daughter while she went into surgery, Cristina balked.
Its patient sensitivity day, Teddy reminded her.
Its not aday, Cristina snarked.
She reluctantly took the girl before muttering, Wheres Callie?
Shes been whining for a kid.
First youll feel like you couldve done more to help her, but thats not true.
You did everything you could.
It wont feel that way, but remember me telling you this: You did everything you could.
And itll hurt every time you think of her.
But over time it will hurt less and less.
And eventually youll remember her and itll only hurt a little.
Oh, Sandra Oh, you never fail to make me cry.
Do not make faces.
(If you will recall from last week, he did the exact opposite.)
The grimace, he surmised (correctly), meant Derek had told Meredith the truth.
And he was worried shed tell Cristina, too.
(Honestly, she was lucky those were some particularly gruesome surgery shots.)
Control your face, he told her, before also forbidding her to tell Cristina about Hunts non-recommendation.
Do not let dead patients husbands sit in on depositions about their case.
while the womans husband of 32 years sat at the table.
I loved her for half of my life and you decided to kill her in less than a minute?
he said, later adding, Youre a coward and a killer.
Still, it turned out there was no case.
Do not underestimate the power of a grown-up relationship decision.
Its this cute girls number, and I cant get it off, Callie explained.
And Im not going to use it.
But I cant stop wondering if maybe she wants a baby someday.
Just like that, they knew: They had to break up.
What do you think, PopWatchers?
What might the promised game-changing season finale have in store?
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Will Arizona and Callie reconcile?
