Exposed Corroded Artery

So this week's Grey's Anatomy seems hell bent on grossing me out. Once again, its all about the patients, each one meant to shock, induce catharsis and just plain freak out the audience. First up, we have the guy with the exposed corroded artery. He's a young man whose narcissistic girlfriend just broke up with him because exposed corroded arteries just weren't a turn on for her. He's been flirting and noticing Lexie all day and Lexie, the valiant girl she is, has been fending him off because of her almost thing with Alex. Sure enough, Ava shows up and convinces Alex to let her watch his surgery from the gallery so she can swoon at the idea of her lover being a hot shot surgeon. In the gallery, Ava runs into Lexie and lets the cat out of the bag; that is in fact, not supposed to be there but her super hunky boyfriend Alex let her watch. This causes Lexie to go back to the guy with exposed corroded artery and the two of them plot how they're going to get revenge on their exes. As they laugh about the various and sundry ways they will torture their exes, his exposed corroded artery explodes all over Lexie, who stands there in shock. We will have to wait to see what happens with this guy until next episode, as the writers have so generously left us with a cliffhanger.

Izzie and Cristina are in competition to be on Hahn's service; Cristina because cardio is her passion, her everything, her entire life, and Izzie because she wants to prove to Cristina that she can be as badass as Cristina. However, the patients needy youngest children grabs hold of Izzie and begs her to promise her dad will be ok. Izzie, being Izzie, complies and in a singsong fairy tale voice promises that they will do everything they can to fix her dad's "hurting heart". This causes Hahn to all but growl her disgust and Hahn chooses Cristina to be on her service. However, this assignment is short lived because Bailey insists that Cristina come help her with her patient. Izzie is freed up to prove just how badass she can be. But nothing really dramatic happens and the surgery is as ho hum as all the other surgeries featured on Grey's.

Cristina is called on by Bailey who has a white supremacist as a patient and he won't let her examine him because she is black. Since Cristina is neither black, nor white (the fact that she's not white drives home Bailey's point), she is chosen to perform the examination. While examining his abdomen, she finds a huge black swastika tattooed from his chest to below his navel. Her great grandparents evidently died in a concentration camp, which leads to Cristina doing everything in her power to keep from killing him herself. Both Cristina and Bailey get him into surgery so they can repair his lacerated liver, but of course, all he can think about is getting a white doctor in the OR to make sure the black girl and the asian don't kill him on purpose on the table. O'Malley is chosen for that job. While in surgery, Bailey realizes she is late for her lunch with her husband, where they were going to talk about their marital problems because she is elbow deep in "a nazi". She takes a moment to look around the room and declares that nobody better ever call her the nazi again. The present surgeons bow their heads in understanding.

Meredith is dealing with a pair of EMTs trapped in an ambulance after another ambulance careened into them, sending the vehicle rolling until it landed on its top. One of the EMTs has no chance of living as he is trapped in a door with a large piece of metal cutting him in half. Meredith is sent to find his wife, who coincidentally works in the hospital, to give her the worst news of her life. Meanwhile, the Chief decides he needs to bring the medical equipment out to the ambulance so they can see what is wrong with the other EMT before they move him and work desperately to save his life. This EMT has a piece of oxygen equipment piercing his back, which has torn a hole in some vital organs. Moving him without knowing exactly what they will do once they have him out of the ambulance would result in serious ramifications. As Meredith crawls through the passenger side window of the ambulance, and over the dead EMT, with the ultrasound equipment, she announces that they're "losing him".

McDreamy is off flirting with the nurse from last episode, insisting with all his charm and machismo that the two of them are friends and are allowed to talk even though Meredith decided earlier that she doesn't like the idea of her boyfriend dating other women. Before she gets around to actually telling McDreamy this, he finds out that the pretty nurse was once engaged, but it didn't work out because she knew exactly what she wanted and he didn't. Which is exactly the same problem McDreamy is having with Meredith. Isn't that convenient? Anyways, his patient is the girl who caused the accident with the ambulances after she had a seizure behind the wheel. Apparently she's never had a seizure before, but thanks to that tumor in her brain, she's had two. McDreamy's plan is to drill a hole in her head and go in with a computer guided needle to remove the tumor. But wouldn't you know it, right after he gets himself inside her brain, the computer that guides the needle breaks. Looks like he's flying solo on this one.

All in all, this episode was weak for what ABC advertised as "A Grey's Anatomy Event". Sure there is a second half and maybe the plot will pick up and make me actually care about these patients, but so far it seems the writers are relying and shock and gore to grab the audiences attention. And I have to say, it's all been done before. If I wanted shock and gore, I'd watch CSI. No thanks. Where's all my drama?