Extraordinary

The year you spend as a surgical intern is arguably the most important. It's what makes or breaks a Doctor and what separates the strong from the weak. It's almost like a game. There are rules and judges, setbacks and victories, challenges and trials and not everyone makes it out alive.

My mother taught me how to play the game and she taught me well. I was barely out of the womb before the scalpel was back in her hand. I saw the inside of an OR before I saw the inside of a school and I sat in the Gallery watching surgeries the way my peers watched cartoons.

I couldn't be anything other than a surgeon if I tried. She raised me to be extraordinary, but all I ever seem to do is fall short.

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Meredith Grey copes with her trauma in some unhealthy ways. Will Addison be able to intervene before it's too late?