Previously on Grey's Anatomy: Erin recapped awesomely. Also, Mere slept with George; McDreamy asked Mere to be his new best friend; Izzie developed a crush on a heart patient; and George moved out of Mere's house and into Burke and Cristina's.

So we open, naturally, on poor sad George, who is staring at himself in the bathroom mirror. Mere voice-overs, "As doctors, patients are always telling us how they would do our jobs. 'Just stitch me up, slap a Band-Aid on it, and send me home!'" George looks at himself determinedly, if a little queasily, picks up a pair of fingernail scissors, and starts cutting his hair off. Yes, because making yourself look like you got your hair cut down at the Institute for the Blind...that'll really show Meredith!

Mere voice-overs that it's easy to suggest a quick solution when you don't know much about the problem, or how deep the wound really is. We cut to Mere and McDreamy on a nature trail somewhere, chatting it up and playing fetch with Doc. Come on. Mere says her friends are still upset about the awful thing she did, the very bad, horrible thing she won't tell him about. McDreamy says he doesn't want to know what it is, anyway. "Although we are friends." Mere agrees, they are. Seriously? If you're such good friends, why do you have to keep saying it so damn much? McDreamy goes on to say that, since they're friends, and you tell friends things, she could technically come to him with this kind of problem, since, you know, they're friends and all. Mere says she'll keep that in mind, and turns it around: "What about you? Any problems you want to tell me about?" McDreamy lies that he doesn't have any problems. Not a single one. I can think of a ninety-five pound problem walking right next to him, but who am I to judge the mysterious world of friends? Friends, friends, friends.

Cristina wakes up and stumbles towards the coffee. Mere voice-overs, "The first step to a real cure is to figure out what the disease is to begin with. But that's not what people want to hear." Just then Burke and George and George's Haircut for the Blind come in from their early-morning five-mile run. They've bonded, you see. George is all excited, and asks Burke if he wants pancakes. He does! The mix is on the top shelf! Cristina pours her coffee and stares at them. Finally she can take it no longer, and demands to know what's wrong with George's hair. Burke tells her to leave the man alone. "He's got issues." Hee. Mere voice-overs something about ignoring complications that might arise and going for the quick fix, but I can't hear it over the sound of Burke and George making out with each other as they prepare cappuccinos.

A short time later, at the hospital, the interns make their way upstairs. Izzie asks Mere and Cristina what happened to George's hair. "Is he having a nervous breakdown?" Cristina practically spits that he's got issues, then goes on to complain about the bonding he's been doing with Burke. "You should see them together, like, doing things, like running and cooking and talking." She tells Mere to just go apologize to George. Mere says she's tried, but he won't listen. George, clearly hearing every word, walks up front with Bailey and makes pouty faces. Alex runs up behind them. "What's up with O'Malley's hair? He looks like a hobbit." Ha! He asks Izzie why she never called him back last night; is she avoiding him? Izzie innocently asks why she would be avoiding him, and we cut to...

...the reason she's avoiding him. Denny Duquette, Izzie reports, is 36 and having trouble breathing and chests pains. She says his breath sounds are still a little junky, and Denny flirts, "Did you just call me a junkie? That's not very nice." Izzie grins and blushes. Alex rolls his eyes. Burke tells Denny that his congestive heart failure is getting worse despite the meds. Denny asks how they should proceed. Burke asks the interns; Izzie goes to answer, but is interrupted by Alex. "Titrate up his nitrate drip! Hit him with diuretics!" Izzie counters, "ACE inhibitors! Beta blockers!" Burke says he wants someone monitoring Denny at all times. Izzie says she'll stay. Alex: "Me too." Gah.

Addison, Bailey (who is carrying her extremely cute baby in a sling), and the rest of the Gang report on the next patient: a pregnant woman named Mrs. Gibson, whose membranes ruptured at 28 weeks, so she's been on bed rest for the past seven weeks. Mrs. Gibson wants the baby out ASAP, as does her husband. Addison wants to get her labs back before they make a decision. Mrs. Gibson gets up to use the rest room, and her husband takes this opportunity to thank Addison, and also flirt heavily with her. "You bear a striking resemblance to a young Catherine Deneuve!" She really does, y'all. Addison is kind of taken aback, but eating it up at the same time. Everyone is uncomfortably watching this, and Bailey says from the back, "Been told I look like Halle Berry." Heeee. You too? People tell me that all the time, you wouldn't even believe it. Mr. Gibson enthuses, "Beautiful! Catherine Deneuve. And you too, of course." Addie says she'll be back later to check on them. Mr. Gibson can't wait.

Bailey's pager goes off, along with lots of other pagers, and she tries to juggle her crying baby while walking and telling Addison the nursery is full. Webber walks over, all, "Uh...you brought your baby...to work? You're not going to take him into surgery with you...?" Bailey says she doesn't have anything scheduled for today. Webber: "...Yet." Bailey says she can't solve a problem until there's a problem to solve, dig? Addison, who has taken the fussy baby and is patting him furiously on the back, says, "Yeah. Is there a problem to solve, Richard?" Heh. Richard says there isn't.

Cut to George ignoring Meredith and Meredith telling him that, at some point, he's going to have to talk to her. George says he's going to take the stairs, and bolts. Mere goes to find the nurse who paged her, and she shows Mere to a couple behind a curtain who are making out in a most conspicuous way. The nurse says it may be neuro, and we see that the male half of the couple has an ice pack on his groin. Mere says it doesn't look neuro to her. Nurse: "Not him." The man says he's fine; it's his wife. The wife, who is played by one Miss Natalie Cole, says it's so embarrassing, but they didn't know what else to do. She turns around to reveal a fork lodged in her neck. Unforgettable! (Oh, come on, I had to.) Credits.

We return to McDreamy examining Miss Cole. She says she's fine, really. Her husband explains that Natalie was giving him "some special attention" under the table. Natalie says that, while she was down there, something happened, and she...clenched. Her jaw. And her husband panicked and stuck a fork in her neck. As you do. Natalie's all, "It doesn't hurt that much, really. We just didn't want to pull it out, because it's in there pretty good." Mere tries to keep from laughing and tells them they did the right thing. McDreamy wants to do an X-ray just to make sure there's no nerve damage, and he also wants to find out what's causing the clenching. Natalie keeps mum, but her husband says it may have something to do with her brain aneurysm. McDreamy is intrigued; Natalie just wants the fork out of her neck so she and her husband can leave. She finally tells him that she has an inoperable brain aneurysm, and that's why she and her husband are in Seattle -- they're seeing all the things they've ever wanted to see before she drops dead. They're very cute together, Natalie and her husband, but McDreamy doesn't care: he tells Mere to do an MRI.

Ambulance bay. Bailey's about to get a surgery! But first she

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