Episode 6x13 "State of Love and Trust" monologues

Opening monologue: Derek Shepherd

We ask a lot of our patients.
We put them to sleep, cut them open, poke around in their brains,
make cuts with sharp instruments.
We ask for their blind trust.
Irony is, trust is hard for surgeons.
Because we are trained from day one that we can not trust
anyone but ourselves.
The only instincts you can count on are your own.
The only skills you can count on are your own.
Until one day, you elave the classroom and step into the OR.
You're surrounded by others, a team of others.
A team you have to rely on...
whether you trust them or not.


Closing monologue: Derek Shepherd (speech form)
I know it's been a long day and we're all anxious to get home.
But I feel like we got off on the wrong foot this morning.
I don't expect to win your trust overnight.
But I want each of you to know, you have mine.
Which is why I felt it was important to personally
come in here and apologize.
I want to clear some things up,
I am neither pro nor anti-merger.
From this point on everyone has a clean slate.
I am not focused on the past.
I'm looking into the future, to all the promise this
hospital has to offer.
I plan to honor Richard Webber and his legacy, not undo it.
Which is why I'm both humbled and honored to be your new
Chief of Surgery.