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Grey's Anatomy
Meredith's Speech
Meredith teaches the new interns about how to talk to families about death.
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keep him in mpo
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Hans
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what the [censored] is going on
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sorry
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I haven't returned who says you sent him upstairs to tell my patient did I'm giving them a crash course in Breaking Bad news they need it I'll crash course
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is that how this goes no it's not how this goes that is not how this works great this is a teaching hospital we teach from experience now I've given them
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the 4L for hours and not enough these interns they need a lot more course they need more that's why they have to do it they have to
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experience it
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to live it
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and learn it they had to
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be up close and
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deal with it
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when you walk into a rule
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to tell someone that their loved one has died
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it's more than just
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a list of bullet points
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you've memorized
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yours is the face they will remember
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for the rest of their life
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they were fine before they met you
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they picked up their children from school
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they made dinner
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and they got a call
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the police showed up at their door
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and brought them here
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with those children
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to this room
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so that you
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can give them the worst news
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of their entire life
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you are changing this person's life forever
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you are responsible for this moment
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for the instant
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that person
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goes from wife
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to Widow
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is you
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all you
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nobody but you
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so this person isn't an inconvenience
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they are not a box on a list to be checked off
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you are a part of their life now
