[Warning: The following post contains MAJOR spoilers about Grey’s Anatomy Season 21 Episode 8, “Hit the Floor.”]
It’s no secret that Ben Warren (Jason George) has had some main points in his medical profession at Gray Sloan Memorial Hospital. He was competent sufficient as an anesthesiologist, however as a surgical resident, he has usually struggled to observe the principles. Bear in mind when he was on probation for doing a C-section with out the best tools, even after the elevator opened for him to get assist? Now that he’s again on the hospital full time, it appears his pattern of agitating authority figures goes to proceed apace on Gray’s Anatomy. Solely this time there is perhaps actual penalties.
Within the midseason premiere, the hospital offers with the fallout of Ben’s determination to not shut the emergency division to traumas in the course of the heatwave, which was a direct defiance of Teddy Altman’s (Kim Raver) orders. Certain, he was considering like a primary responder — and begrudgingly so — however he immediately disobeyed his massive boss, and now there are penalties.
After the mud settles on the day, and Altman has to play clean-up for one more intern’s mistake, Ben approaches her with an concept that’s not altogether horrible. He needs to couple his firefighter knowhow together with his medical coaching and replace the emergency protocols of the hospital, which is one way or the other nonetheless unprepared for pure disasters regardless of all the things that’s occurred to its medical doctors over time.
After Teddy provides a tough cross, he asks her to elucidate, and she or he places him into his place with out mincing phrases: “As a lot as you possibly can’t appear to understand this, you’re a resident on a trial foundation. You don’t have any enterprise devising protocols which you can’t observe. If I have been you, I’d spend much less time assuming that you’ve a everlasting place right here and extra time proving that it is best to have one. We’re accomplished right here, Dr. Warren,” she says.
Jason George did warn followers in an interview with TV Insider that his return to the hospital (and to Gray’s full time after the conclusion of spinoff Station 19) wouldn’t be easy crusing, warning that Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson) has cause to fret “if he’s truly going to make it by means of this system” as a result of Ben’s the form of man who’ll “danger his job” to do the best factor. And now it looks like he’s already acquired not less than one strike towards him the place the reigning chief of surgical procedure is worried. To be continued…
Elsewhere within the episode, we study that the gunshot heard within the midseason premiere teasers was taken not by any of our heroes, however by the comfort retailer robber himself, with Lucas Adams (Niko Terho) left affected by some post-traumatic stress. Fortunately for him, Ben is nice at calming individuals down throughout a panic assault, and he helps him by means of it.
Additionally, Jo Wilson (Camilla Luddington) walks away with out bodily harm however finds out that the stress of the stick-up threatens to trigger preterm labor. She’ll want a process to shut her cervix, and as a lot as she hates the thought of a youthful OB intern doing it, she wants it now. Hyperlink (Chris Carmack) is a numbskull about it till Miranda units him straight, so all’s properly on that entrance, too.
We’ll have to attend and see whether or not and the way Ben will take Teddy’s recommendation to coronary heart when subsequent week’s episode finds him treating an sudden crash sufferer alongside Dr. Ndugu (Anthony Hill).
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