hard bargain
season 9 ep 15
🎵Light-Sleeping At Last🎵
"I will always hold you close but I will learn to let you go"
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Madelyn puts her phone back in her pocket after messaging Lucy letting her know she's now at Dereks house and will be gone much longer than an hour
"I am telling you, once we got these doctors talking, it was a horror show" Callie says
Arizona interrupts her wife "Shh. I just got Sofia back down"
Callie lowers her voice "Oh, and, uh, Portland Gen has quotas now. Yeah. It's unspoken, but it's understood that you have to churn out a certain number of procedures"
"And no research?" Madelyn asks
"Nope. Pegasus is only interested in high-volume, high-price-tag procedures. Barely any patient interaction" Callie exclaims
"So no research, no innovation, no opportunity to do what it is we got into medicine to do" Madelyn asks again earning a nod from Callie
"Well, we won't let that happen to us here" Arizona says confidently
"Oh, yeah?" Callie says "That's what they said at first. And then the people that fought management got fired, and the rest wore down or they left. I don't want to leave"
"None of us do" Meredith says
"You guys, come on. We have to do this. We have to buy the hospital" Callie says
"Whoa. Hold on" Derek replies
"Maybe she's right" Meredith says to Derek
"Just wait" Derek replies
"What if we don't want to?" Arizona asks
Meredith picks up her phone texting Cristina again while the others continue to argue
"I'm sorry. It's never been my dream to run a hospital" Derek says
"Okay, well, you might not have to run it" Callie replies
"Cristina should be here" Madelyn says
"I have been texting her" Meredith reassures
"I just got back to work" Arizona says "And, Derek, you just got your hand back. Don't you want to just work?"
Callie scoffs "Work where? I don't want somebody telling me which patients I can and can't treat. Or putting a stopwatch on how much time you can spend with them.Yeah, if we ran the place, we could make policy decisions based on experience"
Derek interrupts "Uh, no offense, but that is a naive way of putting it. The job is much harder than you think. I wanted it once, and I hated it. I made a deal with Pegasus that apparently will help the sale"
"What... deal?" Meredith questions
"Nothing, it's stupid" Derek replies
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