When Izzie came to after her surgery (and just before she displayed that appalling short-term memory loss), her doctor friends were standing around her bed, all smiles, making happy talk, and it was mentioned ever so casually, just in passing, that they were keeping an eye on her kidneys. The moment I heard that, I knew she was doomed.
It’s just tv… but i still don’t want them to kill Izzie and O’Malley… sometimes i hate cliffhangers.
Grey’s Anatomy is alright, but i don’t watch it for medical procedure, but for the characters. I used to know a guy like O’Malley, so that’s why i’m pulling for him. I also like House, and Legend of The Seeker but i absolutely refuse to watch Law and Order.
Totally. This is the show where a few weeks ago a the guy who received the face transplant was perfectly fine and presentable about twenty minutes after his surgery, and where in the season finale a soldier wanted his leg amputated and replaced with a prosthetic so he could immediately return to Iraq.
We’d probably get a plot line where the arm that was mutilated and nearly severed is a little bit shaky when George performs surgery.
He got amputated but did he actually get a prosthetic? Callie kept telling him that even if she did the amputation, it might not get rid of the pain, and even if it got rid of the pain it would be at least a month before she could start finding a prosthetic, and even even she did that there was no guarantee the army would take him back.
They might both be dead, but I’m pretty sure we’re meant to interpret it as still being up in the air whether they live or die.
First, because of the precedent that’s already been established. Other characters (in particular, Meredith, after the drowning incident) have already “coded” and had near death experiences. In fact, Meredith’s experience was also set in the hospital, and she was seeing not only people who had died but one (her mother) who was on the verge of death. In that case, Meredith ended up being resuscitated but her mother was not.
Also, I read an interview somewhere with Shonda Rimes (the show’s creator) where the interviewer asked “Do you already know which one lives and which one dies?” and she answered “Well, I don’t know if you should say it like that, but yes, I know what happens to both characters.” I took this as an implication that they might both live or might both die, rather than one of each. But more importantly, she certainly didn’t seem to think the audience already knew what happened to the characters. (Note that this interview was after the finale aired.)
Yes, but you can’t expect TV shows to present things realistically.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to get back to writing a post on how guys with physics Ph.D.s (like me) don’t actually act like the characters from Big Bang Theory. 
And just in case anyone thought I was kidding, here it is.
Another question I had about the finale is…
The doctors realize that John Doe is Omally. Why, at that moment, do they rush him to the OR. Does the fact that they know him make him a priority? He seemed fine, wouldn’t that be sorta discriminating against other patients. They’re like… oh that’s o’mally… RUSHES TO OR. then he starts dying.
They were already prepping him for surgery when they realized it was him. It didn’t get him moved up in the rotation, it just significantly upped their sense or urgency.
Mark said that he could save the arm and restore it to full function if he got to it “in the next couple of hours”. That was about midway through the second hour of the finale, and while I don’t remember it being mentioned that he did successfully performed the operation, it wouldn’t make any sense for George to live through the operation and not be able to use his right arm.
Hmm… Got it. It does still seem like they rushed him faster then they would otherwise.
Also… I do think O’Mally will die. His face has had pretty much irreversible damage, and I don’t see them ‘fixing his face’ and making it all better, that kind of damage would have tons of scars.