1. A Hard Day's Night
Air date: 2005-03-27 · 60 min
Meet Meredith Grey, a woman trying to lead a real life while doing a job that makes having a real life impossible. Meredith is a first year surgical intern at Seattle Grace Hospital, the toughest surgical residency program west of Harvard. She and her fellow first-year interns were students yesterday; today they're doctors in a world where on the job training can be a matter of life and death. Meet the young people struggling to become doctors and the doctors struggling to remain human. It's a world filled with intensity, humor, sex and pain, in which the interns discover that neither medicine nor relationships can be defined in black and white -- real life only comes in shades of grey.
Open episode 1 ↗2. The First Cut Is the Deepest
Air date: 2005-04-03 · 60 min
Meredith tries to figure out her relationship with Derek as George and Izzie move in with her.
Open episode 2 ↗3. Winning a Battle, Losing the War
Air date: 2005-04-10 · 60 min
Meredith Grey has discovered that the rules of residency are the same as the rules of life. Everything is a competition.
Open episode 3 ↗4. No Man's Land
Air date: 2005-04-17 · 60 min
Cristina's encounter with a former nurse, now a patient at Seattle Grace, changes her forever; Derek and Meredith treat a construction worker who has miraculously survived an injury but is now faced with tough decisions about his future; and a patient recognizes Izzie from a lingerie ad, which makes her the subject of hospital gossip.
Open episode 4 ↗5. Shake Your Groove Thing
Air date: 2005-04-24 · 60 min
Meredith is overwhelmed causing her to make a mistake during surgery that could jeopardize her career.
Open episode 5 ↗6. If Tomorrow Never Comes
Air date: 2005-05-01 · 60 min
Alex gains the trust of Annie, a nervous patient with an extraordinarily large tumor, only to humiliate himself in front of her later. Meanwhile Derek chooses Meredith to assist with an elderly Parkinson's patient who may need surgery -- but Bailey disapproves of their relationship and is determined to make Meredith suffer -- and tensions escalate between Burke and Shepherd.
Open episode 6 ↗7. The Self-Destruct Button
Air date: 2005-05-08 · 60 min
George and Izzie find out about Mer and McDreamy while Cristina faces a test she's not quite prepared for.
Open episode 7 ↗8. Save Me
Air date: 2005-05-15 · 60 min
Meredith grows increasingly dissatisfied with the unknown details of Derek's life. Meanwhile, Alex treats Devo, a patient whose religious beliefs jeopardize her chances for recovery; Izzie contemplates reconnecting with her estranged mother; Zoey, a pregnant woman in her 40s who's been diagnosed with cancer, disagrees with Cristina's medical advice; and the interns are mystified by Cable, a patient who's being treated for seizures and who thinks he's psychic.
Open episode 8 ↗9. Who's Zoomin' Who?
Air date: 2005-05-22 · 60 min
An outbreak of a sexually transmitted disease affects several members of the hospital staff, prompting Chief Webber to call a meeting. Meanwhile, the chief reluctantly confides to Dr. Shepherd about his own medical concerns; Izzie and Cristina are worried by a patient's wife and daughter who are at odds over his care; Burke treats Bill, a college buddy whose medical diagnosis raises some questions regarding his wife's actions; and, just as Meredith and Derek grow more intimate, a bombshell is dropped, on the season finale of Grey's Anatomy .
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