𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘶𝘮𝘢, 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘥𝘺 - 𝙂𝙧𝙚𝙮'𝙨 𝘼𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙮 (ON HOLD)

twenty - "dnr" - twenty

"Being chief is about responsibility. Every single surgical patient in a hospital is your patient. Whether you're the one who cut them open or not. The scalpel stops with you. You need to be able to look at her family. And to tell them your team did everything they could to save someone's child. Their husband, their wife, you get caught up. Taking care about the people's families. And responsibility... it makes you... you take care of other people's families. And you sacrifice your own."
-Richard Webber, S3E25, "Didn't We Almost Have It All?"

"In the practice of medicine, change is inevitable. New surgical techniques are created. Procedures are updated. Levels of expertise increase. Innovation is everything. Nothing remains the same for long. We either adapt to change, or we get left behind. Change, we don't like it. We fear it but we can't stop it from coming. We either adapt to change or we get left behind. It hurts to grow. Anybody who tells you it doesn’t is lying. But here's the truth: sometimes the more things change, the more they stay the same. And sometimes, oh, sometimes change is good. Sometimes change is everything."
-Meredith Grey, S4E1, "A Change is Gonna Come"

"In the hospital, we see addiction every day. It's shocking how many kinds of addiction exist. It would be too easy if it were just drugs and booze and cigarettes. I think the hardest part of kicking a habit is wanting to kick it. I mean, we get addicted for a reason, right? Often, too often, things that start out as just a normal part of your life at some point cross the line to obsessive, compulsive, out of control. It's the high we're chasing, the high that makes everything else fade away. The thing about addiction is it never ends well, because eventually, whatever it is that was getting us high stops feeling good and starts to hurt. Still, they say you don’t kick the habit until you hit rock bottom, but how do you know when you’re there? Because no matter how badly a thing is hurting us, sometimes letting it go hurts even worse."
-Meredith Grey, S4E2, "Love/Addiction"

"Doctors give patients a number of things. We give them medicine, we give them advice, and most of the time, we give them our undivided attention. But, by far, the hardest thing you can give a patient is the truth. The truth is hard. The truth is awkward, and very often, the truth hurts. I mean, people say they want the truth, but do they really? The truth is painful. Deep down nobody wants to hear it, especially when it hits close to home. Sometimes we tell the truth because the truth is all we have to give. Sometimes we tell the truth because we need to say it out loud to really hear it for ourselves. And sometimes we tell the truth because we just can't help ourselves. And sometimes, we tell them, because we owe them at least that much."
-Meredith Grey, S4E3, "Let The Truth Sting"

Burke's mother was running around the hospital while Cristina was hiding from her. Today was Yang and Burke's big day. Addison came back to work. Dr. Burke used surgery as a distraction from his wedding day jitters.

"Anna?" Izzie asked, "Do your parents let you wear makeup? I can do yours before the wedding. Oh, and your hair."

"They always said I could wear makeup after I turned 13." Anna told her.

"Great! This'll be fun!" Izzie grinned, excited, "I'll talk to Dr. Montgomery."

"George? Alex?" Anna asked, "Are you going to the wedding?"

"Like Meredith would let us skip it." Alex answered, nonchalantly.

"Right." Anna said.

"I still can't believe Cristina's getting married." George said, "She always said she wasn't the marriage type, but then again, I said the same thing."

"You got married in Vegas. Not really the same thing." Alex said.

"Hey," George defended, "A marriage license is a marriage license. Doesn't matter how or where you get married. Legally, it's all the same."