The first shift for new surgical interns Meredith, Cristina, Izzie, George, and Alex proves eventful and backbreaking.

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A rape victim is admitted, who managed to hold onto part of her attacker. Izzie has difficulty with a patient who cannot speak English. Meredith becomes concerned about a sick baby.

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Izzie and Cristina are assigned a close-to-brain-dead John Doe who may be a viable candidate for organ donation, and helpful to George's patient, who needs a new liver. Meanwhile, Meredith and Alex butt heads over a patient of their own.

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Alex uses Izzie's modeling against her, and her last ad causes a patient to reject her care. Meredith finds parallels between a patient and her mother, and Christina must deal with a hospital-savvy patient.

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Meredith worries she did something wrong during a heart bypass, an error in a past procedure is discovered, putting a staff member's conduct under scrutiny, while a party thrown by Izzie to introduce her boyfriend becomes a fiasco.

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A woman with a massive tumor is admitted, with all the surgeons required to scrub in. In their absence, Meredith is assigned a patient with Parkinson's and, because Alex's pager is not working, Izzie is left in charge of the floor herself.

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Izzie and George find out about Meredith and Derek, while Cristina makes a discovery of her own. George thinks an anesthesiologist is drinking on the job, and Meredith deals with a young girl who has had illegal surgery.

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Meredith wants to learn more about Derek, but he remains cagey. Meanwhile, a supposedly psychic patient proves bothersome, Alex must convince a young girl to agree to a life saving operation, and Cristina is conflicted about her pregnancy.

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George finally gets laid but gets syphilis. It's rampant among staff. Surgeon Webber is losing his sight. He wants Shepherd to operate secretly. A male patient has an ovary. A lifesaving autopsy's performed without consent.

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