Let this be a lesson to all of us when Shonda Rhimes says a season finalewill be on fire, shes not kidding around. As in, were gonna go into next weeks episode with the hospital actually ON FIRE.

And leave it to Greys to have a literal explosion not be the only shocker of the night. Lets just scrub in and get right to all of it

Alex tracks down Jos husband Alex Karev has a particular set of skills, and hell use them to locate the abusive estranged husband youre hiding from and fantasize about punching him in the face. Alex has indeed found Dr. Paul Stadler (Glee alum Matthew Morrison) and is lurking around the hotel where hes attending a medical conference, conflicted as to whether he should approach the guy and what he should do. First, he imagines chatting Paul up at the hotel bar, introducing himself with a fake last name and getting drunk with him before throwing punches at him outside. But that daydream ends with police sirens and Alex in jail, and nobody wants to worry about him getting arrested again (raise your hand if you were glad that was just imaginary, because Im right there with you).

Then, he imagines doing his best Liam Neeson/Taken impression to the guy before he gives a speech at the conference, casually walks over, and warns that hes watching him, and how if he ever goes near Jo again, hell find him and kill him. That scenario also takes a nightmare turn when he imagines coming back to Seattle to find Paul strangling her. (Raise your hand if you were glad that was imaginary, too.)

But then we see the non-imaginary, no-one-dies-or-gets-arrested scenario play out: Paul cuts in front of Alex on the street to get a cab, then apologizes and offers to share it, if hes heading to the airport as well. Our dear Dr. Karev stares at him, but ultimately doesnt say anything about Jo and lets the cab drive away. Much less dramatic, but is this the last well see of the two of them in the same place?

Owens shocking sister newsWhen Owen gets a knock at the door and two Army officers are waiting outside, it doesnt look like the news is good. And at first, we think it isnt all we hear is that its news about his sister, and then Owen goes into work in a shell-shocked daze. When a mother tearfully thanks him for stopping their baby daughter from choking, hes abrupt and non-Owen-like with them and walks off. Amelia sees this and goes after him, and once theyre alone in one of the supply closets, he tells her theyve found his sister alive.

He tells her Megan Hunt was found in a basement in a rebel-held neighborhood and shes now in an Army hospital in Germany. Hes still in shock and cant bring himself to believe its really her, and Amelia calmly says theyll find out for sure.

After getting on the phone with Dr. Altman (Teddy! Kim Raver!) and showing off some impressive conversational German Amelia learns Megan is being transferred to the U.S. and asks if she can be brought to Grey Sloan once shes stateside. She also tells Owen shes called a PTSD expert, not just for Megan, but for him as well.

For Owen, the news his sister is alive and coming home has him wracked with guilt. He thinks about how he got married, divorced, and married again, going on with his life for the past 10 years while she was being held captive and tortured. I stopped looking, he says, breaking into tears in Amelias arms. I gave up.

What does Megans return mean for Mer and Riggs? Well, Mer had just decided to take another huge step with Riggs letting him meet her children and sleep over for part of the night when she comes home to Amelia sitting with a sleeping Owen on the couch. Amelia tells her about his sister being alive and how shell be arriving in Seattle in the next few days, and Meredith asks if Riggs knows yet. He doesnt, because Owen hasnt told anyone else yet, not even his own parents. Mer decides she has to tell him immediately because if Derek were alive, shed want to know as soon as possible.

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The Geisel School of Medicine'sAnatomical Gifts Program will hold a memorial service on May 25.

Source: Courtesy of James Reed

While technology and computer simulations have become more efficacious in modeling the human body, many medical schools continue the tradition of using human cadavers for anatomical instruction. Dartmouths Geisel School of Medicine is just one of the schools that continue to place value on cadaver-based teaching, and each spring, Geisels Anatomical Gifts Program conducts a memorial service honoring the anatomical donors whose bodies are used in the first-year anatomy class.

According to director of the anatomy laboratory James Reed, Geisel first-years take three terms of anatomy before they finish the first year, working in small groups on one cadaver throughout that time. Reed said that using human bodies to teach anatomy is the best way to teach the subject, as it allows students to examine normal human variation something that simulations have yet to truly emulate. He said that it is important for students to know not only the standard structures of the human body, but also whether a deviation from that standard structure is actually normal human variation or pathology, which is best learned by interacting with actual bodies.

The Anatomical Gifts Program, overseen by Geisels Department of Anatomy, receives applications from donors who reside in and pass away in New Hampshire and Vermont to be included in the anatomical lab, according to Reed. There are 1,600 bodies in Geisels program currently, and the average age of the donors at death is in the mid 80s, though the donors may be as young as 21 as long as they die of natural causes. The program requires that donors bodies be intact namely, that they do not die of traumatic accident or have an autopsy post-death and do not have infectious or rare diseases. In addition, because Reed and Anatomical Gifts Program administrative director Hanna Riendeau embalm the bodies, the donors must not have had vascular issues and circular diseases or have undergone recent surgeries. Reed said that in order to protect the dignity of the donors, anatomical tissue is not transported outside the facility once they arrive.

Reed said that most donors participate in the program for altruistic reasons, such as giving back to Dartmouth. The program has accepted Dartmouth alumni, former professors and former doctors from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hospital and Veterans Affairs in the past. This year, Reed said there was a high number of local people who signed up to be in the program, exemplifying how strong the Dartmouth-Upper Valley connection is. He noted that this strong connection is one reason why Geisel has not had to outsource for cadavers very often.

Briana Goddard Med20, who interviewed donors families in preparation for the memorial service, said that many said the donors had a love of education and wanted to help contribute to medical education.

Diana Funk Med20 said that knowing that the people who are in the program truly wanted to be there was what allowed her to overcome the initial shock of working on a human body.

That was really [a] meaningful sentiment that I think helped a lot of people through their initial fear and grief: knowing that every single one of them wanted to be there to teach us, she said.

John Damianos 16 Med20 agreed that he had to strike a balance between respecting the humanity of the donors who may still have living family members and being cognizant that the donors made the conscious decision to be teachers even after death. Damianos said that knowing the donors desired to be used for the purpose of teaching allowed him to avoid being too gingerly in dissecting the bodies.

He added that the medical school made a concerted effort to put the cadaver-based instruction into perspective, especially as it fits into the larger medical journey, through sessions on the psychology of illness and a panel on the anatomical donations. The panel included a retired Geisel faculty member whose body will be donated to the Anatomical Gifts Program once he passes.

During the panel, Damianos said it was impressed upon him and his peers that the donor is their first patient, that the body is not just cells, tissues and organs to dissect, but a person with scars and tattoos, and whose brains were formed by the memories and experiences they had in their lifetime. According to Riendeau, students are given the names of the donors as well as a brief background, which gives students context for their subjects.

Damianos said incorporating the different bio-psycho-social factors of the patient into the class emphasized that medicine is a humanistic science. Furthermore, he said that the class has changed his view on medicine in the pedagogical realm.

Pre-med education trains you to think that medicine is a science, but its really not theres science in medicine and theres biomedical sciences, but medicine in itself is an art and a practice. When you look at pre-med education curriculum, you dont see that, he said. [In organic chemistry there is] always an answer, [and in] cell [biology] theres always an answer. But the one remarkable thing about anatomy is that each body is different.

Funk added that working on human bodies has demonstrated that much of the study of medicine relies on what is handed down from person to person, whether that be information or tangible bodies. She said that knowing that this is the type of scheme that she and her peers are a part of made her feel connected to the people who came before and after her. She also said she realized the importance of actually touching and feeling body parts in studying medicine.

Damianos echoed a similar statement, saying that holding a brain in his hands was the most impactful part of the process.

To actually hold a human brain in my hands this is the brain that is formed by this persons experiences and emotions, this brain enabled them to speak, enabled them to love, enabled them to cry that just blew my mind, he said.

To commemorate the impact the donors have had on the students studies and medical journeys, and to meet the families of the donors, first-year students plan and conduct a memorial service each year. Funk and Goddard are preparing reflections from families of donors and students, and Damianos will perform with the a cappella group the Dermatones, along with other student performers at the service.

Reed said that the group extends invitations to everyone who has been in the lab throughout the year in order to express the gratitude of the entire community to the donors families.

He also said that this service provides closure for the families that have been delayed for up to two years, given that they do not bury their loved one as most people do.

Its not the typical end of life procedure; youre not triggering what would be considered the societal norm of having a large funeral with a casket, Reed said.

Through the reflections, Funk said she and her peers hope to juxtapose the students reflections on what the learning experience meant to them with who the donors were in their lifetimes and how excited they were to be a part of the program. She said that knowing that every person in the program had specifically intended their bodies not just to go to science, but also to the Geisel anatomy program in particular was meaningful.

Hopefully [this] will bring together the families and the students in a way that they can be mutually grateful for each other, Funk said.

The Anatomical Gifts Program will hold its service at Rollins Chapel on May 25 at 5 p.m. The event is open to the entire Dartmouth community.

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