Grey's Anatomy (TV Series)

It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) (2016)

Ellen Pompeo: Dr. Meredith Grey

Quotes 

• Dr. Meredith Grey : I just don't understand how you didn't see it happen.

  Dr. Ben Warren : You do. You know. You should know. You're surgeons. You know what it's like. You... When you operate, when you control if a person breathes another breath, when... when you hold their beating heart in your hand, when you are responsible for that life, you don't see or hear or feel anything else... The rest of the world just disappears. You know that. You all do. You can't tell me you don't.

• Dr. Meredith Grey : [voiceover]  Surgeons have a saying: all bleeding must stop. It's sort of our version of "this too shall pass". Every crisis will eventually come to an end. You either save your patient, or you won't. So, one way or the other, the bleeding will stop. Actually, as far as sayings go, this one's really not all that comforting. All bleeding must stop. Sometimes, it does so at a cost. You lose the arm, remove the organ. You choose to live with the loss because at the end of the day, you'll do whatever you can to stay alive and sometimes, by some miracle, it works. The bleeding stops, but sometimes, now matter how hard you try, it's still not enough.