Out With God || Greys Anatomy

Give Peace a Chance

~Ask most surgeons why they became surgeons, and they usually tell you the same thing- It was for the high, the rush, the thrill that comes from cutting someone open and saving their life. For me, it was different. Maybe it's because I grew up in a house with a brother and a crazy mom-- No, definitely because I grew up in a house with a brother and a crazy mom. But it was the quiet that drew me to surgery. ~

"How are you doing?" Robin asks to Christina.

"Fine. Why, did Meredith say something to you?" She asks back.

"She mentioned you were a little down about the merger, lack of a cardio god."

"Your future sister-in-law is dead." She says looking at the attending. "As soon as her liver grows back, she's dead."

"Be glad she did. That's why I put you on my service. You need a god? Neuro god right here." Robin says being cocky about herself.

"Godly? Your entire day consists of putting shunts in people." She says.

"Today? Temporal Lobectomy." Robin says with them walking in at they hear a conversation already going on.

"Our schedule for several months now. Hospitals across the country have reported substantial savings..." Richard Webber says.

"How bad is it today?" Robin asks Bailey.

"The chief's implementing a computer model for scheduling our surgeries from now on. Something about efficiency and progress." She replies back.

"And to make sure this was the right decision, I have enlisted one of our own to do a trial run for the last month. Dr. Sloan." Webber says introducing Mark.

"I know what you're all thinking. It's a machine. It doesn't know me. It doesn't know what I like. But after using this new system for the past month, I gotta say, people, i'm a convert. This computer knows me better than I know me." Mark says, smiling a little.

"Chief, this thing has rearranged me and Robin's entire schedule for the entire week. I mean, haven't we had enough change here already?" Derek says turning around so the people can see him.

"Change is good, everyone." Webber says kinda yelling. "Embrace it"

"You two need to stop bickering. It's unattractive." Bailey says walking away without looking at anyone.

~The operating room is a quiet place, Peaceful. It has to be in order for us to stay alert, Anticipate complications. When you stand in the OR, your patient open on the table... all the world's noise, all the worry that it brings... disappears.~

~CT ROOM~

"Dr. Avery."

"Isaac, if you don't stop calling me Dr. Avery, I'm seriously gonna have to cut you off." Robin says turning to him.

"Right. Forgot. Robin."

"Thanks" Robin says turning back to the scans.

"I have your scans, Robin."

"I didn't order any scans." She says confused.

"I think they're for a consult, but I can come back if your busy."

"No, It's ok."

~A calm settles over you, time passing without thought... For that moment, you feel completely at peace.~

"Oh. It's a tumor on the spinal cord," She says sighing, "Possibly a hemangioblastoma."

"You've seen one before?" Isaac asks.

"Not this big." Robin says in amazement. "You see how the tumor has worked its way up the spine? It's taken over the blood supply. It's a perfect tumor. You know if the patient still has leg function?"