Meredith Gray's Monologues

"We've all heard the buzz words, streamline, optimize integrate, adapt. Everyday someone comes up with a new strategy or tool or t...

"Patients who undergo an amputation often feel a sensation where the missing limb was as if it's still there. The syndrome is call...

"The big day is here. The day you're gonna hear the news, the test result. Is the biopsy malignant or benign? Am I gonna live or d...

“In order to properly treat a problem, a surgeon needs as much information as she can get. So we ask questions. Things like when did the pa...

“The adrenal system reacts to stress by releasing hormones that make us alert and reactive. The problem is the adrenal system can't te...

"Most people hate hospitals. But not the interns… for them, the hospital is a magical place. It's poetic... the rhythm of the mac...

 “‎Can two people really be meant to be? M-F-E-O. Soul mates. It would be nice if it’s true, that we all have someone out there waiting for...

“Doctors have never had all the answers. There was a time when you were sick. We’d just drain your blood like you were getting an oil change...

"Sometimes, things are simply out of your control. You can't change them. You can't bend them to your will. It doesn't mat...

"The clothes a surgeon wears help to present an image. The lab coats and badges and scrubs all work together to indicate a person of a...

"Surgeons don't compromise. We defy death, we exceed perfection. We operate for seventeen hours straight if we have to. We aren...

"I had this memory game when I was a kid. A bunch of cards, face down, in rows. Each card has a picture. You turn one over, look at it...

"Dying changes everything. There is the emotional fall out, sure. But there's also the practical stuff. Who's going to do your...

"A month ago, you were in med school being taught by doctors. Today, you are the doctors. The seven years you spend here as a surgical ...

"So, there's this bird. Some sort of swallow I think. Every September, thousands of them ditch rainy Seattle to winter in Mexico. ...

"Carpe diem. How annoying is carpe diem? How are you supposed to plan a life? A career? A family? If you're always carpe-ing the di...

"Picture this: you've spent the past five years at your residency training to become a surgeon. But those five years suddenly don...

"When you're a kid, you always want things to stay the same. The same teacher, the same house, the same friends... Being a surgeon ...

"Every little kid knows the words to the song: the foot bone is connected to the leg bone, the leg bone is connected to the knee bone. ...

"We have a phrase in the operating rooms: don't pet the lion. It means, no matter how nice the tumor looks, how small it is, how pe...