Grey’s Anatomy S5E20: Sweet Surrender

Defeat isn’t an option, not for surgeons. We don’t back away from the table until the last breath’s long gone.  Terminal’s a challenge.  Life threatening’s what gets us up in the morning.

We’re not easily intimidated.  We don’t flinch.  We don’t back down and we certainly don’t surrender.  Not at work, anyway.

To do our jobs, we have to believe that defeat is not an option, that no matter how sick our patients get, there’s hope for them.  But even if our hope gives way to reality and we finally have to surrender the truth, it just means we’ve lost today’s battle… not tomorrow’s war.

Here’s the thing about surrender.  Once you do it, actually give in.  You forget why you’re fighting in the first place.