What I Am

Season 3, Episode 4, Aired
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Shawn Sullivan, a car salesman who just had surgery, wants to get back to his routine so he doesn't lose his renown. Addison works with a pregnant woman named Rebecca who may need a C-section and Addison doubts her medical skills. Rebecca wants to have the baby naturally. Derek and Mark's opinions clash when the try to decide the course of treatment for a burn victim. Izzie gets surprised. Cristina pushes Burke to get better faster.moreless
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  • OMG!

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    By sweet_em, Jan 29, 2011 Report Abuse
    I just can't believe it. WHAT!! 8 Million Dollars SERIOUSLY!!!!
    OK now that that's out...
    Addison I love you. Every one of your scenes is delicious. Loved the Addison/Meredith talk. Loved the fact that Mer was doped up half the episode.
    Derek decided to be the better man and he will end up with the gil. He's relating too much to Webber and Ellis when he should know that he's not Webber and Mer is definately not Ellis.
    Loved the scene with all of Mer's boys in her room. Bailey showing up McSteamy. McSteamy and Callie. OK everything about this episode was good.
    The opening bit when the guy lit himself on fire OMG!!! That was even better than the bomb explosion in S2.
    Shonda, you rock!!! I love this show and will totally be there when your next show comes out.moreless

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  • Meriderth gets sick and needs appindectoryhow you spell Christina thinks that Merideth is pregnant.Mark get's the nickname McSteamy or he at least finds out about it. Addison is mad when mer wants to talk to her since Mer is high because of the morhine.moreless

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    By Caite94, Jan 29, 2011 Report Abuse
    This episode was so exciting. Merideth may be pregnantmshe is constantly vomitting all over the place. And merideth says something like "if your gonna run more tests can i at least have some morphine. They give some to her and she keeps clisking the little button that give's her morphine. So eventually her tone in her voice is super high which the tone in her woics is always low. Sorry this is still a summary but those parts I just talked about were hilarious.Oh and when addison says what do you need grey(because merideth was callling her) merideth said "hi" and addison said "oh yes you are."moreless

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  • A really funny episode that puts an end to the awkward Mer-Der-Finn Triangle and brings Mark to the game. Good lessons regarding identity are lectured on this very special episode of Grey's anatomy.moreless

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    By g_anatomy, Jun 25, 2010 Report Abuse
    I really loved this episode. A very good way to get over 03x03"Sometimes a fantasy, which was indeed very boring. I really loved the "ways of knowing who you are" that are shown here, because it's a really interesting issue that this episode spins around. Mark, I just love him, he's a great character and he's gonna bring a lot of problems to the rest, and I want him to be with Addison so bad...! I liked how everybody handles Mer's condition, and it was really funny to see Finn and Derek "coping". I think Meredith made the right decision, and it's what we always have wanted since Addy apeared. Little things that I really didn't like: the way Denny's father talked to Izzie, refering her as not intelligent, not Denny's tipe...and money-starved, it really was mean, and also I didn't like how Callie reacted to George raking care of Izzie situation, she was to understand that friends come first! All in all, it was a really funny and touching episode that deserves a 9.60moreless

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  • Grey gets sick and needs surgery. Addison deals with Mark coming back to work at the hosptial. George and Callie break up. Derek tries to make a decision for Mereidth, but she has a decision of her own.moreless

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    By breezy2281, Apr 14, 2010 Report Abuse
    I thought every scene where Meredith was high on Morphine were absolutely hilarious. I loved when Grey calls Addison in and Addison replies "you bellowed Dr. Grey?", in which Meredith says "Hi." and Addison responds "You certainly are, aren't you?" Ha-Ha. So Meredith had to get her appendix taken out, what a surprise. Everyone got a scare there thinking she was (as Addison hilariously put it)pregnent with "an adulterous love child." I also thought the comment my girl made (Cristina) was funny. "McBaby." Derek makes the decision to walk away and let Fin have Meredith with him out of the way, but Meredith decides she wants Derek anyway. I think Mark is an arrogent jerk, and i really can't much stand him. After Callie makes the decision for George and breaks up with him, we find out she invites Mark back to her hotel room. I think that would be a huge mistake, i really like Callie. Izzie has a meeting with Denny's father who at first thought she was after Denny's money, but when he finds out the truth he gives Izzie an envelope and the number to listen to a message that Denny left for her before he died. He left her almost eight million dollars! How ridiculous is that? I thought the scene where Miranda was talking to the burn victim (Mr. Sullivan) was great. So, Derek chose to be a big man and walk away, because he thinks Fin will be the better man for Meredith. Meredith let's Fin go because she still wants Derek, but sort of wishes she didn't because she too thinks Fin is a great guy. A great episode as usual. Cristina finds out Burke is still having tremors in his hand, so she helps him perform a surgery on a corpse. Still no idea yet where this is going.moreless

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  • Who we are outside the hospital?

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    By vukcevic, Apr 14, 2010 Report Abuse
    Amazing and hilarious episode.
    Mark comes to work to Seattle Grace but Derek can't stand him and Addison refuses to give him another chance. Shawn had a surgery and everything went just fine but then he lit the cigarette and his face completely burned.
    Meanwhile Meredith has a puking problem and she thinks that she is pregnant but she needs actually an appendix removed. George will scrub in and while Meredith is on drugs she says so many things that are absolutely HILARIOUS !
    Addison simply can't function with Mark around and she has a patient she can't control and whose life depends on her. Amazing episode. Season 3 so far is absolutely AMAZING.moreless

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    • Goof: When Cristina is talking to Meredith about 9 minuet's in, Meredith hands move from behind her head to her stomach between shots. Edit

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    • Original International Air Dates: The Netherlands: January 29, 2007 on Net 5 Italy: February 26, 2007 on Foxlife Brazil: February 26, 2007 on Sony Entertainment television New Zealand: March 1, 2007 on TV2 Belgium: March 8, 2007 on VijfTV Australia: March 11, 2007 on Channel 7 Sweden: March 28, 2007 on Kanal5 Switzerland: April 2, 2007 SF 2 Israel: April 2, 2007 on Yes Stars 1 Great Britain: June 14, 2007 Livingtv Ireland: August 7, 2007 RTE Two Finland: September 19, 2007 on Nelonen Croatia: October 1, 2007 on NOVA TV Norway: September 4, 2007 on TV2 Romania: February 12, 2008 on TVR1 Edit
    • Music Featured In This Episode: 1. If Looks Could Kill by Camera Obscura plays at the start of the episode 2. Standing In The Way Of Control by The Gossip plays when everyone is staring at Mark, who has showed up with the Chief 3. Back In Time by Au Revoire Simone plays when Derek and Mark are fighting over Shawn the salesmen's surgery 4. So - Lo by Kate Havnevik plays when Meredith asks Addison how she knew Derek was "the one" 5. Province by TV On The Radio plays when Meredith is going into surgery 6. Fall For Nothing by Mindy Smith plays when Izzie is listening to the message Edit

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    • Finn: Meredith tells me that you fish. Derek: She does? Finn: She tells me a lot of things. Have you been up to Cornet Bay? It's mostly Chinook, some rockfish. Derek: You fish? Finn: As much as I can. My wife hated it. Derek: You had a wife? Finn: I did. She died. Derek: I'm sorry. I didn't know. Finn: Meredith doesn't tell you a lot of things, only me. Derek: Funny. Finn: You know when I heard she was sick...people come through appendectomies all the time. She'll be fine right? Derek: You really like her, don't you? Finn: Yeah. Derek: You're a good guy. Edit
    • Burke: I can't hold it still long enough to attach the graft. Cristina: You told me that... Burke: I can't. Cristina: You told me that your hand was fine. Burke: But it's not fine! You wanted to believe it was fine. You wanted it to be fine. You wanted...I wanted... damn it! My hands are the only things that I have that are of any value to me. To you. Cristina: Not to me. Burke: Yes, to you! You want Preston Burke. My hands...these are who I am. If I can't do this...if I can't finish this surgery, than... Cristina: What if I held the vessel? What if I hold the vessel? Come on. Burke, if I hold the vessel... Burke: I can attach the graft. Cristina: So if I put my hand... (she holds the vessel and Burke sews it up seamlessly) No one has to know. Edit
    • Cristina (to Meredith's pained expression and hand on her stomach): Woman troubles? Meredith: Men troubles. I think this dating two guys thing is getting to me. The stress of it. Finn, Derek. Derek, Finn. I think I'm getting an ulcer. Cristina: McDreamy and the vet making you sick? Meredith: I just need to make a choice and get it over with. Edit

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    • Episode Title: What I Am The title of this episode is a reference to a song that was released by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians in 1989. Edit
    • Meredith says that the last time George scrubbed in the operation he almost killed the guy. This is a reference to the first episode of this show, 1x01 "A Hard Day's Night, when George was known in hospital as 007 when he scrubbed in on the very first surgery, an appendectomy, and screwed up. Edit

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