Greys Anatomy 'Meredith Voice Over'

3x19: My Favorite Mistake
Original Airdate: 3/22/2007

MVO: Surgeons always have a plan, where to cut, where to clamp, where to stitch. But even with the best plans, complications can arise, things can arise and suddenly you're caught with your pants down.

MVO: The thing about plans is...they don't take into account the unexpected.
MVO: So, when we're thrown a curve ball, whether it's in the OR, or in life.
MVO: We have to improvise.
MVO: Of course, some of us are better at it than others.
MVO: Some of us just have to move on to Plan B and make the best of it.
MVO: And sometimes...
MVO: ...what we want...
MVO: ...is exactly...
MVO: ...what we need.
MVO: But sometimes...
MVO: Sometimes what we need is a new plan

3x20: Time After Time
Original Airdate: 4/19/2007

MVO: A patient's history is as important as their symptoms. It's what helps us decide if heartburn's a heart attack, if a headache's a tumor. Sometimes patients will try to rewrite their own histories. They'll claim they don't smoke or forget to mention certain drugs, which in surgery can be the kiss of death.

MVO: We can ignore it all we want.
MVO: But our history, eventually, always comes back to haunt us.
MVO: Some people believe that without history our lives amount to nothing.
MVO: At some point we all have to choose. Do we fall back on what we know...
MVO: Or do we step forward to something new.
MVO: It's hard not to be haunted by our past.
MVO: Our history is what shapes us, what guides us.
MVO: Our history resurfaces time after time after time.
MVO: So we have to remember sometimes the most important history is the history we're making today.

3x21: Desire
Original Airdate: 4/26/2007

MVO: As interns we know what we want...to become surgeons. And will do anything to get there...
MVO: Suffer through killer exams, endure 100-hour weeks, stand for hours on end operating rooms. You name it we'll do it.
MVO: The tough part though is reconciling this huge thing we want, to be surgeons, with everything else we want.
MVO: To often, the thing you want most is the one thing you can't have.
MVO: Desire leaves us heartbroken; it wears us out. Desire can wreck your life.
MVO: But as tough as wanting something can be...the people who suffer the most...are those who don't know what they want.

3x22: The Other Side of This Life (Part 1)
Original Airdate: 5/3/2007

MVO: The dream is this: that we'll finally be happy when we reach our goals...
MVO: ...find the guy, finish our internship. That's the dream; then we get there and if we're human, we immediately start dreaming of something else.
MVO: Because if this is the dream then we'd like to wake up...
MVO: ...now please.