原題: Winning a Battle, Losing the War
邦題: 私はあなたの”ゲーム”
First aired: 2005/4/10
After a while, the rules of residency become the rules of life. Rule #1: Always keep score. Rule #2: Do whatever you can to outsmart the other guy. Rule #3: Don't make friends with the enemy.
It's Dead Baby Bike day in Seattle the day of an annual bike race with no rules (sponsored by the Dead Baby Bar). This throws off the hospital's entire surgical schedule, filling up the surgical floor with free spirited albeit injured bike messengers, including one named Viper with spokes sticking out of his abdomen. Meredith and Alex both want him, but Viper immediately takes to Alex's handling of the situation Alex just yanks out the spokes and lets him get back to the race, leaving Meredith to suture and do the paperwork. Meredith reluctantly discharges the charismatic Viper, but not before he kisses her in front of a jealous Derek who claims not to be jealous.
今日は、Seattleでは年に一度のDead Baby Bike day、ルールなしの自転車レースの日だ(Dead Bay Bar主催)。スポークをお腹に刺さったViperという名の男など威勢のいい怪我をしたバイクメッセンジャーで病院の外科スケジュールをめちゃくちゃになる。MeredithとAlexはViperを取り合うが、AlexがViperのスポークを抜き、レースに戻らせようとする。Meredithは傷を縫い、事務処理に入る。Meredithは、しぶしぶ超人的に復活したViperを退院させる。そのとき彼はMeredithにキスをする。それを見てDerekは嫉妬するが、嫉妬していないと言い張る。
The race isn't all just cuts and bruises. There is a casualty. Izzie and Cristina are put in charge of an unidentified visitor to Seattle (has no wallet, just a hotel key card), who was hit by a car when jumped out of the way of the racers. The patient is put on the clock if there's no sign of brain activity in 6 hours, he's to be declared brain dead. This is a very troubling prospect for Izzie.
レースは傷や打ち身だけではない。死ぬ場合もある。IzzieとCristinaは、Seattleにやってきた身元不詳の患者を任される。彼はレースのコースから飛び出し、車に轢かれたのだ。6時間以内に反応がなければ、脳死を宣告しなければならない状態。これはIzzieにとっては、もっとも嫌な事態だ。
George gets a special assignment from Richard, attend to a close, personal friend who's been admitted with liver failure. When the male patient makes a pass at George, George becomes paranoid that others in the hospital namely his crush Meredith might think he's gay.
GeorgeはRichardから、肝不全を患うRichardが個人的に親しくしている友人を担当するように指示を受ける。その男性患者はGeorgeに言い寄る。Georgeは片思いのMeredithが自分をゲイと思っていることを知り、とても落ち込む。
Should Cristina and Izzie's patient be declard brain dead, Izzie wants to make the guy's death meaningful by getting his organs donated. But that's nearly impossible when the person is a John Doe. Cristina wants his organs donated, too, but really just because she wants to be in a harvest. While the man's family is tracked down, though, the patient crashes, needing a blood transfusion as well as surgery to keep his body viable as a donor. Izzie and Meredith do the transfusion, but Burke has to do the surgery, and he doesn't believe in operating on patients that are already dead (the six hours are almost up). So he declines. And without Burke's surgery, it won't be much longer before the heart fails again.
CristinaとIzzieの患者は脳死の宣告を受け、臓器提供により死ぬことに価値を見出せればいいと思っていた。しかし氏名不詳ではまず不可能。Cristinaにとって、臓器提供はただ臓器移植の経験したいだけ。家族が突き止めることができたが、患者は機能停止になってしまう。ドナーでいるには輸血が必要になる。IzzieとMeredithは輸血をするが、Burkeは手術をすべき、まだ脳死状態(6時間経っていない)でないとの意見。それで、彼は拒絶する。Burkeが手術しなければ、そのうち心臓が止まってしまうだろう。
Derek lets Meredith in on a little secret: "You want Burke to do the surgery, get Richard on board first." And they do, by going to George and getting him to tell Richard that they may have a liver for his friend. It works, but not without raising Burke's ire. The surgery is done, the family is tracked down, and now all they need to do is get the patient's wife to agree to organ donation. It's a job that Cristina can't really handle, as observed by Bailey (who shows she can be as thoughtful to patients and family as she can be tough on her interns).
DerekはMeredithに知恵を授ける。「Burkeに手術をして欲しかったら、Richard部長を味方につけろ」彼らは、その助言の通りに、Georgeのところへ行き、Richardに友人に提供できる肝臓があることを伝えさせる。その試みはうまくいく。Burkeの怒りをかわないようにすることはできなかったが。外科手術は施され、家族がみつかる。あとは、患者の妻に臓器移植の同意をとるだけである。Baileyから見て、Cristinaの手に負える仕事ではない。(インターンに厳しく接するが、患者やその家族に思いやりを示すBaileyからみて)
Viper returns, but not for another kiss with Meredith. He's sustained a life threatening injury and Bailey and Meredith have to save him. The prospect of the harvest, though able to give the man's death more meaning, still isn't satisfying to Izzie. She really wanted the patient to wake up, to live. And Burke understands where she's coming from. The bittersweet harvest is done, giving Richard's friend a new liver, and when Izzie comes in to sew up the brain dead guy (who's now just dead guy) so he can be presentable to his family, Cristina sticks around to help, seeing the patient as a human being.
Viperが戻ってきた。Meredithとキスをしに来たわけではない。怪我で命に危険が迫っている。BaileyとMeredithは彼の命を救うのが職務だ。臓器摘出は、死を意味あるものにすることではあるが、Izzieはすっきりしないものを感じる。Izzieは、本当は、患者が起き上がり、生き返って欲しかった。Burkeは彼女の思いを理解していた。悲喜こもごもの摘出が終わり、Richardの友人に新しい肝臓が提供さる。そのときIzzieは脳死状態の患者(今や死体)の切り口を縫い合わせる。それで家族に渡すことができるようになる。患者を人間と見ることができるようになったCristinaは近くでじっとしていた。