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Hypermom
Member
08-13-2001
| Monday, May 11, 2009 - 9:33 am 
Miz, yes. The kids were in a SUV that was hit by a semi.
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Gurliegirl
Member
06-20-2006
| Monday, May 11, 2009 - 11:34 am
Rissa, I had the same thought too. She's not a student, she's a surgeon. Why wouldn't she have money? She doesn't own a home, she lives with someone. Where is all her money going?
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Monday, May 11, 2009 - 11:37 am
Oh good, I am not alone. LOL It's a silly plot-point and wrecks the whole episode for me.
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Hypermom
Member
08-13-2001
| Monday, May 11, 2009 - 12:09 pm
Callie and Bailey are residents. I asked my cousin how much a chief resident makes...he's an ER doctor. He said a chief resident in the ER makes around 37,000.00 per year. A resident, probably around 28-30,000.00 per year. It's after the residency, that you make the big bucks.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Monday, May 11, 2009 - 12:15 pm
I'm reading "Hot Lights, Cold Steel" now about an orthopod (Callie's specialty) at Mayo. Intern, junior resident, senior resident, chief resident, attending.
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Hypermom
Member
08-13-2001
| Monday, May 11, 2009 - 12:22 pm
Thanks Color.
Oh, and for the salary, you get to work 60-80 hours a week.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Monday, May 11, 2009 - 12:39 pm
It may not be a high salary, but Callie said she was living off her dad's money, and he had shut off her account. What made it illogical to me was that she would have paid her salary into a bank account presumably, and her dad would have had no right to shut off that account, so why isn't that money still there? I suppose she could have used her own money first, then dipped into her dad's for extra, but it seemed a bit silly.
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Mamabatsy
Member
08-05-2005
| Monday, May 11, 2009 - 12:58 pm
I'm retired and I "earn" a lot less than that between my pension and SS. I have a nice apartment and do not go hungry. I even go to nice restaurants now and then. I can not believe that she has no money.
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Ladybug007
Member
08-13-2000
| Monday, May 11, 2009 - 1:02 pm
Thought this was good...
www.greyswriters.com
Shonda Rhimes on "What a Difference a Day Makes"...
Original Airdate: 5-7-09
Okay. So…100.
100 episodes.
Which means I was so tired last night that I forgot to blog. But I’m blogging now. I’m here now.
First, a warning: this is our last blog of the season. It’s also our last podcast and today will be my last tweets of the season.
We’re going dark, people.
Why? Because next week’s episodes (two in one night) are so explosive and cliff-hanger-y that we, the writers, have all agreed that we can’t even talk about them. For fear of giving anything away. We honestly can’t say a word. But know that we are proud. Of the episodes. And of you. For sticking with us. For 100 plus episodes. For going through the good and the bad. For having faith in us. And our characters. We thank you and we appreciate it. There are not words to express how much we appreciate it.
So this is the last you will hear from us until next season.
What can I say about the 100th? Well, there was a wedding. Which made some of you cry and made some you mad. There was Denny. Which made some of you cry and some of you mad. But mostly, there was a point.
I had a point!
That happy woman you saw? Doing her solo surgery and smiling at the Chief? The one giving her wedding away with warmth and joy? THAT WAS THE SAME WOMAN WHO TRIED TO DROWN HERSELF. That was our dark and twisty girl. All grown up. Whole. Healed. FOR REAL. It was a day I never thought we’d see (well, I did think it but…hell, you know what I mean). For once, Mer is the calm one. The happy one. The one who is fine. For once, Mer is whole and healed and happy. She doesn’t have a problem other than the Chief peeking over her shoulder during her solo surgery. She is excited about her marriage. She is calm. She doesn’t need her eyebrows shaved off to be numbed into the submission of marriage. She is fine.
That is shocking, I think. So I’m going to say it again. SHE. IS. FINE.
That was my point. After 100 episodes, Meredith Grey is grown up. She is the thing her mother wished for her. She is extraordinary. Because, to get past the crap of your past? To move on? To let the past go and change? That is extraordinary. To love? Without fear? Without screwing it up? That is extraordinary. It makes me happy to see her happy.
Now, Izzie’s got some problems. Her tumor is back. And she is scared to death. But the thing is, Alex has grown up too. Look at him. Standing at the altar and saying those vows like a man. He’s grown up. And the two of them are married. Which is unbearably sad because you know and I know the wedding wouldn’t be happening if it wasn’t clear that Izzie is maybe going to die. But he’s become a man who can step up. And I love him for it.
I went up to the editing room when the show was being editing and I saw my first images of Izzie lying in the hospital bed bald. And I started to cry. And I said to Susan Vaill, our brilliant editor, I said, “Ummm…I think Izzie is really sick.” And she hollered at me “YOU MADE HER SICK!!!!”
But here’s the thing. Until I saw my Izzie, bald and pale and wheezing in that bed…I mean, she’s sick. She’s really sick. And I didn’t see it coming. My brain got ahead of my heart on this one. It hurt my heart to see her so sick. The magnitude of one of our own, that sick, it was shocking to see off the page and on the screen. She’s sick. She’s really sick. And now I’m a little scared.
In this episode, Denny comes back. Not as her boyfriend. Not as the guy she hallucinates having sex with. No. Denny comes back as death. Death with a capital “D”. Did you notice the black clothes? The way he speaks sparingly? He’s death. He’s death standing over her. I kept chanting the Emily Dickinson poem --- “because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me”. That’s Denny. I gotta admit, I’m crossing my fingers that he goes away. Because, as much as I love Denny (and y’all know how I love him), I want him to get out of there. Like Bailey says “YOU TELL DENNY TO GO HOME.” Because I don’t want Death to get Izzie.
Did you see George follow Owen’s advice and go where he was needed? Right to Izzie’s side to help her down the aisle? He wasn’t the hero. He was on the team. He went where he was needed. And Lexie? Saying “you’re breathing?” One of my favorite moments ever.
And Callie? Oh my god, do I love Callie. And I love her with Arizona, a whole healed person in her own right. There was something so painfully poignant about Callie admitting that she is broke. That the relationship is no longer on equal footing. That she feels like she is in over her head because her father disowned her and cleaned out her bank account. I love that Arizona says “I like the girl who has the sandwiches.” I like that they make me feel hopeful about love. Callie deserves a little happy.
Owen and Cristina are still in pain, however. I am rooting for them and you should be too. He’s a good man, that Owen. He’s good for Cristina. And, if they can get past the choking, maybe they will make it.
But I’m coming back to Mer and Der. Happy. Completely and totally happy. Which is rare for anyone. But shocking for Meredith and Derek. They really are soul mates. And they really are perfect for one another.
I had a point.
So, what’s left? The final two episodes. Will Mer and Der get married? Will Izzie live? Will Owen and Cristina get together? What’s going to happen to Bailey? To George? To everyone?
There’s a point to that too. You watch and you’ll see.
Thank you. From the bottom of my heart. For all 100 times you’ve watched. For all 100 more you watch in the future.
I’m grateful.
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Sia
Member
03-11-2002
| Monday, May 11, 2009 - 1:10 pm
Maybe Callie's been forced to pay Georgie big-time alimony, LOL. That would explain where all her money has gone. I'm just kidding here, but if the writers are reading this, it would show how sweet George O'Malley is if he'd have saved all the alimony payments and then give them back to her when he hears of her money troubles.
That's far-fetched! But I love George.
Does anyone think, like I do, that Callie went from zero to 60/way too fast by jumping into her current relationship? When she was rebounding from her failed marriage to George, I seem to remember that Mark Sloan was her guy to go to for release. When she met Dr. Erika Hahn she wasn't sure she was ready for a committed gay relationship and even used Mark to help her figure things out. She flip-flopped between the two, Mark and Erika. Now all of a sudden she's just crazy for some girl she barely knows? I just don't find that part believable. Wasn't there another girl at the hospital Callie was interested in before the current blonde doctor? I can't remember.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, May 11, 2009 - 3:33 pm
I just remembered something that I wanted to ask. The writers have said that the ceiling fan was what caused Owen to chock Christina, the ceiling fan over her bed. But I thought she was at the hospital when he did that because someone came in and he stopped. Do I remember it wrong?
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Monday, May 11, 2009 - 3:34 pm
Yes
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Monday, May 11, 2009 - 4:09 pm
Someone heard the noise (Callie?) and busted in on them and made Owen stop, but it was in Christina's room at her and Callie's apartment.
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Sia
Member
03-11-2002
| Monday, May 11, 2009 - 6:08 pm
Yes, Kitt, I think it was Callie who pulled Owen off Cristina in Cristina's bedroom, if I remember correctly. That was so eerie, because you could just see his flashback coming on. The whir of the ceiling fan blades clicked something in his brain and he got a glazed-over look in his eyes and just flipped out. Brought back some scary memories, as I dated a guy who was a Viet Nam War veteran. Those flashbacks are very, very real for many vets. It's heartbreaking. SUPERB acting on the part of the guy who plays Owen. Don't know his name, but he's awesome--and I can't help but like his character. He won me over when he grabbed Cristina and kissed her before he had to ship out to return to Iraq.
I can see both sides where Cristina is concerned: I can see her forgiving him and trying to help him, but I can understand if she'd feel like she needed to walk away to protect herself, too. It's not like she's without her own emotional baggage to begin with. Burke walking out on her on their wedding day really left her deeply scarred--not to mention the scars she carries from her parents' influence on her when she lived at home.
LOVE SANDRA OH!!
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Ladybug007
Member
08-13-2000
| Monday, May 11, 2009 - 9:31 pm
The same thing happened to
Owen when he was on the hospital roof with McDreamy from the helicopter
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Monday, May 11, 2009 - 9:53 pm
He's Kevin McKidd from Scotland.
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Spelll
Member
09-16-2005
| Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 6:03 pm
OMG! What an incredible season finale! Brilliant!
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 6:09 pm
Matt from FNL is on GA.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 7:16 pm
Those recording Grey's on TiVo, did TiVo screw up on the second hour?
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 7:59 pm
So what happened? Did Izzie die? Did they leave her alive until the next season?
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 8:02 pm
It's a cliffhanger.
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Neko
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 8:07 pm
So normally I pride myself on seeing thing before they happen on shows, and calling them early on in movies...
That being said, TOTALLY didn't see John Doe being O'Malley even after Meredith figured it out. I was like "WO7? What does that mean?" Until she explained it for me. LOL
My guess is that Izzie's going to die, since Katherine wanted to leave the show so badly, but O'Malley isn't going to die, but they'll have a different actor (accounting for the facial trauma) playing him. They made sure to say that he should have full use of his arm, so they can make sure he can come back to the hospital after they've work out all his rehabilitation drama.
And now he'll have a girlfriend to boot! LOL
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 8:27 pm
O'Malley storyline reminded me of ER and IIRC the character was Dr. Dennis Gant. He came into the ER as a John Doe. Someone (Abby?) called Dr. Gant's cell phone. The John Doe's cell phone rang.
What is the meaning of W07?
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Taysmomcj
Member
03-24-2008
| Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 8:31 pm
"007" is what Alex called O'Malley...a nickname
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Terolyn
Member
05-06-2004
| Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 8:43 pm
ehh.. ok for me, once again not up to the hype.
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