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Losing My Mind
Season 4, episode 15
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Meredith and Derek visiting their clinical trial patient.
Episode Information
Airdate

May 15, 2008

Written by

Debora Cahn

Directed by

James Frawley

Episode Guide
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"The problem with being a resident is you feel crazy all the time. You haven't slept in years. You spend everyday around people in massive crisis. You lose your ability to judge what's normal, in yourself or anyone else. And yet people are constantly asking you to tell them how you're doing. How the hell are you supposed to know? You don't even know how you're doing. Don't wonder why people go crazy. Wonder why they don't. In the face of what we can lose in a day, in an instant, wonder what the hell it is that makes us hold it all together."
Meredith Grey

Losing My Mind is the fifteenth episode of the fourth season and the 76th overall episode of Grey's Anatomy.

Contents

Short SummaryEdit

The Chief's mentor comes to town for more than just a visit, at Erica's excitement and eventually her dismay as she may threaten her career. Meredith tries to quit therapy, Cristina is acting out of character after learning about Burke's achievement and George becomes the Chief's intern. Mark and Izzie suspect something is wrong with Rebecca, and Izzie confronts her, leading to Rebecca breaking down.

Full Summary Edit

Greta
Greta
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The Chief’s mentor, Dr. Walter Tapley, visits the hospital and wants him to arrange a double valve replacement and tricuspid repair for him. The surgery is extremely dangerous, and Erica refuses to risk the life of one of the pioneers in the cardiothoracic field. The Chief eventually convinces her to do it, and they manage to pull it off. Walter Tapley praises George for running around the hospital, and tells him that it makes him a better doctor.

The Chief gets George, now the Chief’s intern, to draft an email to ask his wife out for dinner. She replies with a wink, which he mistakes for a typo. After George clarifies his confusion, the Chief praises him for his good work. Meanwhile, Bailey’s son was sent home from the daycare center after punching another boy. Bailey fights with her husband over Tuck. George offers to take Tuck from Bailey, so she can try to fix things with her husband.

Cristina continues to act out of character, going as far as cleaning her messy apartment and sitting out of cardiothoracic surgeries. She even refuses to scrub in on Walter Tapley’s surgery. She also insults George for trying so hard to impress the Chief, and tells Lexie that Meredith hates her.

Izzie confronts Rebecca about her fake pregnancy, but Rebecca insists that she is pregnant and has always wanted a baby. She is confused when Izzie points out that she already has a baby. With Rebecca’s approval, Izzie tells Alex that Rebecca is not pregnant, but Alex tells her to stay out of his life. Rebecca wants Mark to give her breast implants, causing Mark to suspect that she may have an acute stress disorder after undergoing extensive reconstructive surgery. Izzie confirms his suspicions, as Rebecca seems to be having an hysterical pregnancy. Alex sees the ultrasound for himself, and tells Rebecca that she was never pregnant. However, she goes into denial and cries after thinking that she miscarried their baby.

Mark decides to turn over a new leaf, and refuses Callie’s invitations for sex. Callie tries to tempt him with the idea of a threesome with Erica. Later, Erica tells Mark that he could not handle the both of them, and plants a kiss on Callie. Mark is once again aroused, and gets a stunned Callie to follow him to the on-call room.

Meredith fires her therapist, Dr. Wyatt, who tells her that she is a quitter. Meredith vehemently denies this, and insists on getting her file back. After Dr. Wyatt overhears Lexie forgiving Meredith for treating her so badly, Meredith agrees to go back to therapy. Dr. Wyatt tells Meredith that she is constantly waiting for Derek to fail, so that she can use it as an escape clause. The session ends badly after Dr. Wyatt suggests that her mother is probably the reason Meredith is careless with her life.

Andre
Andre shocks everyone by showing up.
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The latest clinical trial patient, Greta, requests that Derek and Meredith push back her surgery by a few hours so that she can wait for her boyfriend, Andre, to arrive. Greta’s sister tells the doctors that he is probably a figment of her Greta’s imagination as no one has ever seen him except for Greta. More doubts are raised when Greta’s recount of her meeting with Andre is similar to the story of Cinderella. Meredith wants to perform the surgery immediately, but Derek insists on waiting and letting Greta enjoy her fantasy a little longer. However, Andre does not show and Greta is devastated that Andre is not real. During the surgery, Andre arrives. Unfortunately, there was too much swelling in Greta’s brain, and she is now in a coma.

Meredith is shaken after realizing that true love may exist, and goes back to therapy. She reveals that when she was little, her mother tried to kill herself after the love of her life disappeared. Insisting that she is not a quitter, she challenges Dr. Wyatt to fix her.

Cast Edit

Main CastEdit

  • Dr. Meredith Grey
  • Dr. Cristina Yang
  • Dr. Izzie Stevens
  • Dr. Alex Karev
  • Dr. George O'Malley
  • Dr. Miranda Bailey
  • Dr. Richard Webber
  • Dr. Callie Torres
  • Dr. Mark Sloan
  • Dr. Lexie Grey
  • Dr. Erica Hahn
  • Dr. Derek Shepherd
  • Dr. Katharine Wyatt
  • Rebecca Pope
  • Dr. Walter Tapley
  • Greta
  • Nurse Rose
  • Greta's Sister
  • Tucker Jones
  • Andre

Guest StarsEdit

MedicalEdit

Music Edit

Song Performer Scene
"Walk Like an Egyptian" The Puppini Sisters
"Your Red Dress (Wedding Song at Cemetery)" Alaska in Winter
"Uh Oh" Electrocute
"About Today" The National
"The Wolves (Act 1 and 2)" Bon Iver
"Sky" Joshua Radin feat. Ingrid Michaelson

Notes Edit

  • This episode's title originated from the song Losing My Mind, originally sung by Maroon 5.
  • This episode scored 15.55 million viewers.
  • Bailey's baby, Tuck is 14 months old. This means 14 months of Grey's time has passed since the two-part, superbowl episode which aired in season 2. The episodes are It's the End of the World and As We Know It They were episodes 16 and 17 of season 2.
  • The Chief's phone is a Blackberry Curve 8000 series.

GalleryEdit

Quotes Edit

Rose: We spent a night together and then you vanished, now I wish that I was secure enough to handle that without a bruised ego and a lot of processed sugar, but I'm not.
Derek: Wait, wait, wait. Can't we just make this easier? Look, I don't want … See, I've done complicated. I don't wanna do that again. Can't this just be easy? Fun? We don't need that fairy tale thing right now. We just need a little happy. Hmm? (They walk out hand-in-hand out the door)

George: Dear Adele. Eat with me. The love train is leaving the station and you know you want to be on it. Take a ride on my love train.
Richard: O'Malley!
George: With all due respect, sir, I didn't come up with the train or the station.

(Mark goes to go on the elevator, the doors open and Erica and Callie are standing there)
Mark: Ladies.
Callie: He's thinking about a threesome.
Mark: I am not.
Callie: You are. You have been … all day.
Mark: Okay, fine. I got a new leaf, not a lobotomy.
Erica: You couldn't handle the two of us.
Mark: Oh, but I could. I won't, but I could.
Erica: You wouldn't find it intimidating?
Mark: Not at all.
(Callie laughs. Erica grabs her face and kisses her)
Erica: See? Too much for 'ya.
(She exits the elevator, leaving Callie standing there shocked.)
Mark: Damn it! On-call room, right now.
(He exits the elevator, Callie is still in shock, it takes her a minute to follow him.)
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