Shake Your Groove Thing

"Remember when you were a kid and your biggest worry was, like, if you'd get a bike for your birthday or if you'd get to eat cookies for breakfast. Being an adult? Totally overrated. I mean seriously, don't be fooled by all the hot shoes and the great sex and the no parents anywhere telling you what to do. Adulthood is responsibility. Responsibility, it really does suck. Really, really sucks. Adults have to be places and do things and earn a living and pay the rent. And if you're training to be a surgeon, holding a human heart in your hands, hello? Talk about responsibility. Kind of makes bikes and cookies look really, really good, doesn't it? The scariest part about responsibility? When you screw up and let it slip right through your fingers. Responsibility. It really does suck. Unfortunately, once you get past the age of braces and training bras, responsibility doesn't go away. It can't be avoided. Either someone makes us face it or we suffer the consequences. And still adulthood has it perks. I mean the shoes, the sex, the no parents anywhere telling you what to do. That's, pretty damn good."

- Meredith Grey

 is the fifth episode of the first season and the fifth overall episode of Grey's Anatomy.

Short Summary
Meredith realizes she could be sued for making a mistake on a surgery. Her life gets more hectic hiding her mother's secret. George finds a towel in a patient, Izzie throws a party and Bailey catches Meredith having sex with Derek.

Full Summary
Episode in detail.

Main Cast

 * Ellen Pompeo as Dr. Meredith Grey
 * Sandra Oh as Dr. Cristina Yang
 * Katherine Heigl as Dr. Izzie Stevens
 * Justin Chambers as Dr. Alex Karev
 * T.R. Knight as Dr. George O'Malley
 * Chandra Wilson as Dr. Miranda Bailey
 * James Pickens, Jr. as Dr. Richard Webber
 * Isaiah Washington as Dr. Preston Burke
 * Patrick Dempsey as Dr. Derek Shepherd

Guest Stars

 * Brent Sexton as Jerry Frost
 * Jonathan Scarfe as Hank
 * Kathryn Joosten as Stephanie Drake
 * Barry Shabaka Henley as Mr. Patterson
 * Kate Burton as Ellis Grey

Co-Starring

 * Jeff Doucette as Warren Sterman
 * Steven W. Bailey as Anesthesiologist Jeremy
 * Kate Forster as Jane Richie
 * Moe Irvin as Tyler
 * Jane Morris as Ms. Goff
 * Andre Panossian as Perfusionist

Ellis Grey

 * Diagnosis:
 * Alzheimer's Disease


 * Doctors:


 * Treatment:

Ellis's Alzheimer's had progressed to the point where the lawyer who was controlling her estate said it was time for her to sign things over to Meredith while she was still lucid enough.

Mrs. Patterson

 * Diagnosis:
 * Angina
 * Tear in the ventricular wall
 * Anorexia


 * Doctors:
 * Preston Burke (cardiothoracic surgeon)
 * Meredith Grey (surgical intern)


 * Treatment:
 * Coronary artery bypass graft
 * Surgery

Mrs. Patterson was having surgery. While they were operating, Meredith nodded off and squeezed her heart and her fingernail popped through the glove she was wearing. When they tried to take her off bypass, she flatlined. They were able to stabilize her and close. Post-op, Meredith checked on her and she was doing okay. When she started bleeding from her incision, they took her back into surgery. Meredith then confessed that she popped the glove and that she suspected that she nicked her heart. They discovered a large tear in her heart, much larger than a fingernail. Her heart walls were very thing to start with it. Her husband said that she recently lost 100 pounds and was in the best shape of her life.

Stephanie Drake

 * Diagnosis:
 * Hyperinflated lungs
 * Foreign object in lung


 * Doctors:
 * Richard Webber (general surgeon)
 * Miranda Bailey (surgical resident)
 * George O'Malley (surgical intern)


 * Treatment:
 * Bullectomy
 * Foreign body removal

Stephanie came into the hospital with difficulty breathing. A chest x-ray revealed hyper inflated lungs and bullae, so they planned a bullectomy. They also noted that she'd had surgery at the hospital years prior. She says that she quit smoking, but she never felt like the first surgery helped. When they took her into surgery, they discovered not bullae, but a cloth, left from her prior surgery. They removed the cloth.

Jerry Frost

 * Diagnosis:
 * Chronic back pain
 * Drug addiction
 * Spinal fusion
 * Subdural bleed with midline shift


 * Doctors:
 * Derek Shepherd (neurosurgeon)
 * Alex Karev (surgical intern)
 * Izzie Stevens (surgical intern)


 * Treatment:
 * Central line
 * Brain surgery

Jerry came into the hospital with severe back pain due to three-lumbar fusion. He had track marks on his arm and that, among other things, led Alex to suspect that he was a drug seeker. Derek told him to give him medicine and then refer him to a drug rehab and discharge him. Despite those instructions, Alex didn't start the central line. Derek found out and immediately told him to go start it. After he was given the drugs, he was much happier. Derek came in to have him discharged and told him to get some help. As they tried to discharge him, he fell on the ground and hit his head, causing a bleed. They took him into surgery. Post-op, he was referred to rehab.

Warren Sterman

 * Diagnosis:
 * Bowel obstruction


 * Doctors:
 * Izzie Stevens (surgical intern)


 * Treatment:
 * Surgery

Izzie checked on Warren Sterman, who had had surgery for a bowel obstruction. He had neither pooped nor passed gas, so he had to stay another night. Eventually, he did poop.

Notes and Trivia

 * This episode's title originated from the song , originally sung by Peaches and Herb.
 * This episode scored 17.90 million viewers.
 * Goof: Richard mentions that Mrs. Drake underwent this surgery before in '99. But when Cristina is looking at the paperwork from the original surgery, it says the surgery date was 10-18-2000.
 * Goof: Richard and Bailey who are general surgeons are performing a laprascopic surgery on Mrs. Drake's lungs; this would normally have been done by cardiothoracic surgeons as they specialize in organs within the thorax (e.g. heart, lungs).

Quotes

 * George: Who else did you invite?
 * Cristina: Izzie, we said the list was jocks only. Surgery, Trauma, Plastics. Who else?
 * Izzie: Just some people from peds.
 * Cristina: You invited the preschoolers to Meredith’s house? The next thing you’ll say is you invited the shrinks.
 * (Izzie looks away)


 * Cristina: She invited mental defects. This party’s DOA.