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• Grey's Anatomy Caption Contest CLXXXV (11/21/2009)

  Lexie: Where's my change? Sloan: -shrugs- Lexie: Seriously? Sloan: -deadpan stare- Lexie: Seriously?! Sloan: -rolls eyes- Lexie: SERIOUSLY?! Sloan: Seriously. Lexie: I will kill you!
  

• What Did You Think of "Holidaze"? (11/21/2009)

  I have to admit, I didn't love this episode as much as I thought I would; granted, I still found it good, however, I felt it was rushed. Can you blame me? I have "Thanks for the Memories", "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer", and "Begin the Begin" as precedents for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's episodes. It got the focus of the holiday, and to tell you the truth, I may be spoiled on the Meredith VO, but, she had a specific holiday-tailored VO for each episode, and this one was well.. for a "Thanksmas's Year" episode, the VO was Christmas-centered. Even in "Good Mourning" and "Goodbye", it took two episodes to reflect 30 days, which I could buy, which I did buy, however, one episode to span 36 days? I feel it was condensed and some of the progress of the episodes were abridged to fit in the time. Despite being a good episode, it was a little too much for me in the alotted period. anuflas, I could not agree with you more. I mentioned it on the ABC.com boards that I hoped Teddy would be more like a la Addison season 2 when compared to her other cardio-mentors post-Burke: Marlowe was interested more in just teaching her, Hahn didn't want to teach her, and Dixon seemed like she couldn't teach her. When Addison came on board, despite being hated by both characters and audience members a-like, she still taught, and taught well, and made people not hate her. Remember what Meredith said to Derek in "Make Me Lose Control" about Addison... "You have a wife, who's not easy to hate, whose annoyingly kind, and painfully smart, and currently saving my friend's life." I feel the same about Teddy; she isn't easy to hate. She's smart, kind, compotent, and has her GA-quirks about her. She's not actively trying to get inbetween Owen and Cristina, she's mentoring Cristina in cardio, and I think she's a good fit within the attending staff. I honestly feel like the Chief Attending of Cardiothoracics is like the post of Defense Against the Dark Artsn (yes, I'm a HP geek as well). Hopefully it stops soon, and I honestly wouldn't mind if it was Teddy.
  

• Grey's Anatomy Promo: "Invest in Love" (10/30/2009)

  Dude, Cristina is going to go cardio-rogue? Awesome. Bought time that girl got in some heart-time!
  

16 Forum Posts

• Can someone answer me this question???plzzzz... (9/22/2009)

  Alkis94, It depends on what surgical specialty a surgeon will practice. Each residency has a minimum-number of years before a surgeon can sub-specialize in that specialty. When a surgeon elects to sub-specialize, they need to train for a minimum number of years for that sub-specialty: that's called fellowships; during this period, surgeons are referred to as fellows. A surgical attending is a doctor who's completed a surgical residency (and/or surgical fellowship) and can practice that speciality without supervision. Depending on the hospital structure, one can technically gold an "attending" status but not the official position; like in Callie's case, she had to apply to become an attending. According to one of the season 6 promos, Dr. Cheng, who is the Ortho-attending, needs to step down for Callie to be promoted to attending-status. Here are the surgical residencies and their fellowships: General Surgery Residency - minimum of 5 PGYs - Can sub-specialize in the following: - Pediatric Surgery (2 years of fellowship) - Cardiothoracic Surgery (2-3 years of fellowship) - Trauma Surgery (2 years of fellowship) - Surgical Oncology (2 years of fellowship) - Plastic Surgery (2 years of fellowship) Neurosurgery - minimum of 7 PGYs Orthopedic Surgery - minimum of 5 PGYs OB/GYN - minimum of 4 PGYs Otolaryngologists (ENTs) - minimum of 5 PGYs The intern year is the first year of residency; one needs to pass the intern-exam, otherwise known as the Step-3 exam to become a 2nd-year resident.

• Can someone answer me this question???plzzzz... (9/8/2009)

  Hiearchy in a hospital is determined by the residency year, or PGY (post-graduate year).

  During seasons 1-3, Bailey was a 4th-year general surgery resident (PGY-4) and her interns, Grey, Yang, O'Malley, Stevens, and Karev were first-year general surgery residents/interns (PGY-1). When the interns became 2nd-year residents, Bailey because a 5th-year resident. In general surgery, the 5th to 7th years are considered senior resident status, enabling those residents eligibility to a general surgery sub-specializiation/fellowship.

  Even though by 4th and 5th seasons, Bailey's original interns were residents, they were not of the same "position"; Bailey is still an upper-level that outranks the other lower-level residents. Her position as Chief Resident allows her to outrank even 5th-year residents.

  Hopefully, this answers your question!

• Are you an actual doctor? (7/27/2009)

  Mcdreamteam, you'll figure out what type of surgical residency you want when you being clinical rounds in your third and fourth year of med school. The important thing is to score as high as you can in your second year of med school for your Steps-1 exam. That determines your residency, and if you score low, it lowers your options of what surg residencies you want. Currently, the RRC has approved these surg residencies:- general surgery- neurosurgery- OB/GYN- ophthalmology- ortho - ENT- plastics (2 methods)- urology

  Most of the subspecialties like peds surg, CT, trauma, and surg onc are fellowship-programs after GS, even plastics is a fellowship post-GS if you don't elect the PS-residency method.

  There are a lot of options, but when that second year of med school comes, aim high so you can get your pick of the bunch.