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What We’ve Learned From the Delightful Docs at Seattle Grace
By Erin Dailey

Tending to the sick. Helping those in need. Saving lives. It’s all part and parcel of being a doctor. You want to touch people, heal them, make their worlds a little brighter with the knowledge that their doctor really, truly cares about them.

But how can you do all this without it getting in the way of your active social life? Do you really have to pay attention to the patients? Because sometimes that part of the job kind of sucks. When do you get to have fun? When do the big bucks start rolling in? Who’s the new attending and what’s his number, because sister’s gettin’ antsy. . . .

If these are questions you’re asking yourself as you enter into the challenging world of make-believe medicine, don’t worry-the answers are within reach. And, luckily, they’re delivered by the toothsome doctors and doctresses of Seattle Grace Hospital. Or is it Seattle Memorial Grace Hospital? Or Seattle Grace Holy Virgin Cathedral Memorial Hot DAMN That New Intern Is FIIIIIINE Hospital? Oh, who cares? We’re too busy learning life lessons along with the interns and watching Derek and Meredith do their never-ending dating dance to bother with silly things like hospital names!

Somehow, our favorite interns and their supervisors manage to care for their various patients while maintaining friendships and romances with each other that the average human being with a typical nine-to-five job couldn’t handle with a personal assistant and a staff of ten for support. And on top of  …

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