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.

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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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The river

From its terminus at Montreal, with tributaries that reach deep into the heart of central Canada, the Ottawa River drains more than 146,000 square kilometres a larger footprint than many European countries, including Ireland, Hungary andGreece.

Yet the river is also one of Canadas most regulated waterways, with 13 major reservoirs and more than 50 major dams and hydroelectric generating stations along thesystem.

So how can a river with so many controls still manage to flood its banks, causing loss of life and what will almost certainly turn out to be many millions of dollars in property damage? The answer is that most of the controls and all of the reservoirs are on the upper third of the riverbasin.

Ile Mercier covered in floodwater is seen on the Riviere des Prairies on the north part of Montreal, on May 8,2017.

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The southern two thirds of the basin essentially has no substantial storage on it, says Michael Sarich, a senior water-resources engineer with the Ottawa River Regulation Secretariat, which oversees procedures related to water levels on theriver.

This means once water gets beyond the reservoirs and is running freely through the most populated regions of the Ottawa Valley, regulators have no capacity to hold water back at times when flows are unusually large or respond to rising levels due to precipitation that falls below thereservoirs.

Spring is normally a high water season because of snow melt that feeds the Ottawa River at this time of year. On top of that, accumulated rainfall in April was at its highest in at least two decades throughout the Ottawa Valley region inundating the river basin with more than double the amount of precipitation that falls in average years. Most of this rain fell in areas below the reservoirs, creating a growing and effectively uncontrolled potential for flooding that set the stage for what happenednext.

In the first week of May, two more bouts of heavy rain added still more water to the swollen rivers. At the same time, reservoirs upstream were already at capacity and discharging large volumes of water a necessary measure to avoid dams being overtopped anddamaged.

Data from Canadas RADARSAT-2 satellite was used to construct this view of flooding around Lac des Deux-Montagne in Quebec, where the Ottawa River encounters the island of Montreal. The blue in the image shows the extent of open water on May 7, 2017, while the outlines of flooded lands appear in lighterblue.

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For example, on May 5, the Timiskaming Reservoir was effectively at its maximum level and discharging close to 1,900 cubic metres per second, far more than the entire Ottawa River at periods of low flow. A few days later, on May 8, outflow at the Carillon Dam at the bottom of the river had reached a record high of nearly 9,000 cubic metres per second. What happened between the top and bottom of the river during those three days is something that system managers say they were helpless to prevent ormitigate.

Its just an unprecedented event, says Mr. Sarich. So then it becomes a problem of people in the floodplain, and thats just a more difficultquestion.

As unprecedented as the rainfall was, scientists say residents can expect more of the same in the years ahead and its unlikely the outcome will be any different from a water management point ofview.

These are the types of events brought by climate change that climatologists have been predicting for 30 years theyre just starting to show themselves now, says Adam Fenech, who heads the University of Prince Edward Islands climatelab.

Flooded homes are seen on Monday, May 8, 2017 in Rigaud, Que., west ofMontreal.

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The thermodynamics behind the trend are well-established: for every degree Celsius that a parcel of air warms, the amount of moisture the air can hold rises by about 7 per cent. Average annual temperatures in parts of the Ottawa River basin have already increased by close to one degree in the past 60 years and the warming trend is only projected to accelerate due to greenhouse-gasemissions.

That means more water is being ferried up to the region when weather patterns carry moisture from the Gulf of Mexico, and the potential for periods of high precipitation is greater now than in thepast.

An additional factor may be the jet stream that some scientists say is more likely to take on a meandering pattern rather than a straight west-to-east flow as the Arctic warms. The bends in the jet stream can act as roadblocks that tend to keep weather patterns in place over a given region for longer stretches of time. In other words, when it rains it rains longer, putting more pressure onwatersheds.

As to whether this past weeks flooding can be attributed to climate change, Blair Feltmate, who heads the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation at the University of Waterloo, compares the situation to that of a baseball player onsteroids.

You cant say any single home run is due to the steroids, said Dr. Feltmate. But as the players total home run count starts to climb, its increasingly obvious that the drugs are having aneffect.

Patrice Pepin walks along a barrier of sandbags holding back the Ottawa Rivers waters at the home of his brother Christian Pepin and wife Marie-Pierre Chalifoux on Fournier street in the municipality of Saint-Andre-dArgenteuil, on May 9,2017.

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If major floods cant be prevented and also show every sign of increasing in frequency in the coming decades, what does that mean for property owners and theirinsurers?

In a word, it means morerisk.

Flooding is the elephant in the room for Canada, says Dr. Feltmate. That is the most challenging aspect of climate change and the most costly to thecountry.

And increased flooding is not just a problem that will be restricted to major waterways like the Ottawa River. The phenomenon of microbursts sudden downpours that can overwhelm storm drains and sewer systems when they strike in a geographically localized area can affect homes and neighbourhoods that are far from any natural shoreline. In areas where drainage systems converge, some homes that never knew flooding are now in a position to be struck by repeated events, to the point where they become uninsurable. The problem, says Dr. Feltmate, is that both governments and homeowners are still very much in the mode of management by disaster, which means they tend to pay attention to the flooding problem only while a flood is underway.

Meanwhile, there is plenty of work that homeowners can do, starting with making sure that their homes are covered by the different kinds of flooding overland and sewer backup that can occur. To the extent possible, homes should be protected with features such as plastic covers over basement window wells and sump pumps with backup generators so that they dont shut down when the power goesout.

Municipalities, meanwhile, need to generate accurate flood maps so that high-risk areas can be identified ahead oftime.

And if theres one message that Canadians should be taking away from the Ottawa River flood of 2017 its this, Dr. Feltmatesaid:

These floods were realizing now are small compared to whatscoming.

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Each one greater and more terrible than thelast.

An important thing to know about me is that I own and cherish a 16 oz plastic wine glass that reads recently divorced. Ive never been divorced(let alone married), but I relish the premise: the simple pleasure of beingblissful, enthusiasticallyalone. To me, it isa triumphant vision: lounging in asilk bathrobe, in proximity to chardonnay, perusing the obits section.

In film, spinsterhood tends tofigure as an inscrutable, and distinctly feminine, brokenness. Plenty of moviessee hersolitude as something the plot must overcometo achieve ahappy ending: in Cactus Flower, the rakish Julian makes the once-prickly Miss Dickinson bloom; The Doctor Takes a Wife stages a similar scenario, as does The African Queen, Now Voyager, and Quality Street.In this way, the spinster hasno truemale peer. The staunchbachelor may be unwed, but he is never demonized for his singlehood; never dismissed asself-absorbed, unfulfilled,orabnormalfor choosing not to marry. The bacheloris regular, every day; he can never sublimate into myth.

I wontdenythat the cinematic spinster is wrought with problematic and negative connotations but Ireject them in favor of a more celebratory reading. Below, I have assembled a cohort of fictional women who sought definition outside of matrimony, who achieved the eternal joyofbeing left the fuck alone.

Because the spinster requires adegree of financial independence, youll find the list below runs fairly rich (and consequently, fairly white). Youll also note that, while at odds with my beloved wine glass, Ive disqualifiedfilms concerning liberateddivorcees (e.g. Auntie Mame, Living Out Loud, and An Unmarried Woman). These are not quite spinsters, but soft, milquetoast shades of the real deal.

Speaking of which

Top: (L) Katharine Hepburn as Jane Hudson; (R) Maggie Smith as Jean Brodie Bottom: Judy Davis as Sybylla Melvyn.

Jane is an Ohio elementary school secretary fulfilling her lifelong dream of vacationing alone in Venice. Along the way she has a fling with thirsty stereotype Renato, and observes the fragility of her fellow travellers marriages. Jane enjoys the affair, but knows nothing can come of it. Peacefully waving goodbye to mediocrity, she abandons her emotionally distraughtfuckboy at atrain station after which she presumably moves to Tuscany, buys a vineyard, and lives out her life as a legendary hermit.

Jeans not a regular boarding school teacher, shes a cool boarding school teacher. She strays from the curriculum, takes her students on unconventional field trips, and is transparently, enthusiastically, unwed. Unswayed by insipid marriage proposals to lackluster suitors who will never be enough, Jean is devoted, a-line collars and all, to tuning her students to her independent streakfor better or worse.

Sybylla wants two things: to write for a living, and to not marry Sam Neill. Filled with determination to get to know herself, Sybylla eludes monogamy, perfects her messy bun, and gleefully disappoints her parents. Presumably her Brilliant Career was finding creative ways to get men to go fuck themselves.

Top: Lillian Gish as Rachel Cooper Bottom: (L) Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest as Frances and Jet Owens; (R) Colleen Dewhurst as Marilla Cuthbert.

Rachel Cooper has no time for Reverend Harry Powells charismatic serial killer nonsense. Shes a tough old broad-armed with the fear of God and a Remington Model 10. Shes get off my lawn personified. While she considers children the best of humanity, men are shit in the wind to Rachel. And shell be there, alone, shotgun in hand, a strong tree with branches for many birds.

Witchy aunts Frances and Jet Owens are subject to a family curse: any man they fall in love with dies. Theyve had heartache in the past but have found unconquerable happinessin each others company; in midnight margarita parties, in floppy garden hats, and in mentoring the next generation of hermetical Massachusetts witches.

Marilla lives in rural P.E.I. and has no interest in being a mother but she does need some child labor to help with farm chores. Cool, formidable, and crisp were it not for her softy brother, Marilla would 100% have sent Anne packing. Fortunately, Marilla clocked a kinship with Anne a fierce desire for independence most properly edified by an elder spinster.

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Organized by CHS anatomy students, the blood drive will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday, May 12 at Cloquet High School. The morning of the blood drive there will be a pancake breakfast, while snacks and drinks will be offered during the donation.

If you are interested in donating or would like more information, contact Tim Anderson as soon as possible at tanders1@isd94.org or 218-879-3393, ext 1004.

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It's been rumored for months that actress Jerrika Hinton might be taking leave of Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital sometime this season, and the newest teaser for Grey's Anatomy's upcoming episode certainly paints a grim picture for her very near future on the show.

Hinton, who's played Dr. Stephanie Edwards since the series' ninth season, is the focus of this clip from TVLine, which shows the halls of the hospital swarming with police as Chief Bailey (Chandra Wilson) frantically searches for Edwards while Jackson Avery (Jesse Williams) laments his decision to leave Edwards with the apparently dangerous patient she's shown wheeling around.

When it was first reported that Hinton might be leaving Grey's, the news was that she wouldn't return as a series regular, leaving open the possibility of her still coming in as a guest star. However, if this teaser is any indication, her departure might just be more final than anyone expected ... which wouldn't be too much of a surprise, given how murder-happy the Grey's writers have been with their medical staff over the years.

Hinton is expected to star in Wes Ball's new HBO dramedy series, Here, Now later this year.

Grey's Anatomy airs Thursday nights at 8/7c on ABC.

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People who have made good faith estimates are hoping that our human system of criminal justice gets it right 95% of the time. If we got it right 95% of the time there would still be 110,000 innocent people in jail. -- Laura Caldwell, co-editor, "Anatomy of Innocence"

In recent years, wrongful conviction stories like the ones in Serial and Netflixs Making a Murderer have captivated audiences. The characters in these stories are ordinary people. That's what makes the stories so intriguing this could happen to anyone.

Anatomy of Innocence is a new anthology that tells the stories of over a dozen people who were convicted of crimes they did not commit. What makes it unique is that the stories are told by the actual exonerees, with the help of thriller and mystery writers like Sara Paretsky, Lee Child, Brad Parks, and Laurie King. Laura Caldwell and Leslie Klinger teamed up to co-edit the collection of stories.

Author Laura Caldwell is a professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. In 2008, she founded Life After Innocence at Loyola, which provides resources for innocent people who have been affected by the criminal justice system as they re-enter society. Leslie Klinger is best known for his annotated editions of Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, and the works of H.P. Lovecraft.

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They worked together on Anatomy of Innocence to examine the real life consequences of wrongful convictions. The idea was to present them almost like a novel to present the arc, to present the typical experience of the exonerees, Klinger says. From the very first moment from the arrest all the way through reentering society and the mental adjustments.

Sales of the book support Life After Innocence, and if it sells well enough, some of the proceeds will go to the exonerees who tell their stories. The book sites statistics from the National Registry of Exonerations, a registry kept by Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, which says there are about 2,000 cases of exonerations that have been publicly recognized.

Klinger says they worked hard to mirror the overall demographics of the wrongfully convicted: almost a third are black, about 10% were first arrested under the age of 18, and half were under the age of 25 when they first became involved in their case and ended up incarcerated.

Its not always about being at the wrong place at the wrong time.

67% of wrongful convictions that involved big level felonies involved prosecutorial or police misconduct, Caldwell says. Now, that is not to say that the majority of police or prosecutors engage in misconduct unfortunately we have seen such egregious things happen on behalf of police and prosecutors.

When we were envisioning this book Making a Murderer wasnt out, but Serial was. The average person wasnt as well versed in wrongful convictions, Caldwell says. By the time we got to actually publishing, the hope is that you understand that this happens. Its a human system it's bound to happen for various reasons so now that its bound to happen for various reasons what does it feel like to be in that person's head? What does it feel like to be in their soul? What does it feel like to be in their eyes?

For the full conversation with Laura Caldwell and Leslie Klingerclick on the audio player above.

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Greys Anatomy Season 13 has been writing Stephanie Edwards off the show for ten episodes now, but perhaps the end of her storyline will take a violent turn.

A new promo suggests Steph will be going out not with a whimper but with a splat.

Stephanie has become increasingly disillusioned with surgery, and now shes even suspended from the OR, so a career change could be nigh.

But this promo for Season 13 Episode 23 airing this Thursday, May 11 has us worried this doc will actually fall to her death.

In the teaser, we see Stephanie treating her potential murderer, a patient at Grey Sloan Memorial.

Help me, he beseeches her.

Were guessing hes the dangerous patient mentioned by ABCs synopses for both this episode and the May 18 season finale perhaps hes mentally ill.

In the next shot, the man is throwing Stephanie against a wall and pressing a sharp object to her throat.

Next, we see her hurriedly open a door with a keycard. Then, we see her stagger down a flight of stairs in his grasp, followed by a vertiginous shot looking straight down the stairwell.

Above the tense music, we hear a snippet of dialogue. It sounds like shes saying, I cant.

Then comes the scariest shot: The patient is seemingly pushing Stephanie so that shes leaning far out over the stairway railing.

The rest of this promo hypes another major plot twist. At home, Owen answers a knock at the door, and an offscreen male voice asks, Owen Hunt?

Cut to: a shot of Owen sobbing, with Amelia comforting him.

Could we finally be seeing the return of Megan Hunt, Owens sister and Nathans ex? Megan has been missing since their days serving as Army docs together she disappeared on a helicopter trip through unprotected airspace.

If youll recall, Megan discovered Nathan was cheating on her, and Owen encouraged her to board that ill-fated chopper just to get away from Nathan.

Fans have speculated that Megan is due for a reappearance, especially now that Nathan is getting cozy with Meredith. Your new boyfriend finding his ex-girlfriend after years of her being MIA? Thats peak Shondaland, if you ask us.

And we havent even mentioned the first clip of this promo, in which Bailey announces a code orange situation, which often means hazardous materials are at play.

If thehottest Season 13 finale spoilers are any indication, those hazardous materials are of the flammable persuasion

And that would mean Steph and Owen arent the only docs rocked by drama as Season 13 concludes!

Greys Anatomy Season 13 Episode 23 True Colors airs Thursday, May 11 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.

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Even the tiniest view of a surgical procedure can be too much for non-medical professionals, but for actual surgeons, more visibility is a real asset. But there is only so much to be seen with the naked eye, so medical navigation technology and mixed reality company Scopis has launched a new tool to give surgeons enhanced visibility when performing spinal surgery.

By merging the capabilities of Microsoft HoloLens with their surgical navigation platform, Berlin, Germany and Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Scopis has developed the Holographic Navigation Platform. By donning a pair of the HoloLens glasses, surgeons can see a 3D overlay of the pre-planned positioning of screws, allowing the surgeon to interactively align their instruments with the holographic visualization and find the proper location more quickly. Additionally, surgeons can keep their eye on the operative field, and they can also used gestures to place virtual monitors onto their visual field.

Scopis Holographic Navigation Platform is a universal solution that offers specific advantages for spinal surgeries and can also be applied in the many other areas where the highest levels of precision and speed are critical. In neurosurgery, for example, brain tumors could be located faster and with higher accuracy, Scopis CEO and founder Bartosz Kosmecki, said in a statement. The development of this holographic platform further highlights Scopis leading role in medical mixed and augmented reality.

The holographic platform also seeks to work in the place of fluoroscopy devices, which are used today to determine screw placement positioning but have the negative side effect of radiation exposure to the patients and medical professionals.

In other three-dimensional surgical technology news, Dublin-based 3D4Medical, which makes apps for medical education and fitness, unveiled its new suite of the clinical apps for iPhone and iPad collectively called Compete Consultation. The idea is to facilitate conversation and education between doctors and their patients on a range of areas including orthopedics, cardiology, internal medicine and trauma.

Previously, the company launched a version of the app in 2013, but only to the largest and most familiar hospital chains in the United States. Now, orthopedic surgeons and clinics around the world will have access, and the app is free to the general public.

With 3D technology and animations, Complete Consultation is intended to help healthcare professionals more thoroughly educate their patients, allowing them to give visual pointers on anatomy of the part of the body in question, potential pathologies and treatments (including step-by-step animations).

Maurice Neligan, director of Orthopedic Surgery at Irelands Beacon Hospital and associate clinical professor at University College Dublin School of Medicine, pointed to the technology as a significant advancement in engaging patients.

It dispenses with the need for plastic models and scribbled diagrams, replacing them with top-quality illustrations, animations, and information that are personalized to the patients pathology and treatment, Neligan said in a statement. It is well-known that better-engaged patients have better outcomes and the information generated from patient engagement with Complete Ortho allows a more robust consent process for treatment, lowering the risk of malpractice litigation and the process can be seamlessly incorporated into existing practice models with little or no increase in consultation time.

We last heard from 3D4Medical in mid-2015, when the company raised $16.4 million. 3D4Medical's flagship app, calledEssential Anatomy, is a medical reference application that displays male and female models with 11 systems and8,200 anatomical structures. Essential Anatomy also allows medical students to create customized pins with notes that they canplace anywhere on the model, slice through certain structures using a plane tool, create bookmarks, and take interactive quizzes. The company is also an Apple Mobility Partner, and in 2012, AppleCEO Tim Cookhighlighted3D4Medicalina video playedatWorld Wide Developers Conference that showeda few apps that had made an impact in peoples lives. 3D4Medicaloriginally started off as a medical stock image company, but when the iPad came outthe company started to offer educational content.

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The "Grey's Anatomy" Season 13 finale will be "very on fire." Literally? We'll see.

Episode 24, "Ring of Fire" (hint, hint?) airs Thursday, May 18 with this synopsis: "The doctors' lives are at risk after a dangerous patient escapes the hospital room. Alex must make a hard choice in his relationship with Jo while Meredith has some big news for Nathan that brings things to a turning point."

Executive producer Debbie Allen (Catherine Avery) directed the finale, and she told Entertainment Weekly, "There's actually two events going on at the same time that are pretty big that affect the entire hospital community. You should be worried. There's cause for worry. There's an amazing cliffhanger that will have everybody thinking, 'Wow, where is this going?!'" She added that they'll "plant more seeds that fuel the fire for what is going to happen next season."

Allen added, in a separate EW interview, "I think Season 14 is going to be spectacular. We're planting some seeds that you won't see coming, but you will be waiting to see how it's all going to play out." Show creator Shonda Rhimes is the one who teased, to EW, "Debbie Allen and I like to say that the episode is on fire. That's the only way we're going to describe it. It's a pretty exciting episode that's very on fire."

Kelly McCreary (Maggie Pierce) previously teased the "event" of the finale, telling EW, "It's a great big event that will keep everyone on the edge of their seats. It really is shocking. There were so many gasps of horror and surprise at the table read. It was delicious. It was just so much fun." A while back, Kevin McKidd (Owen Hunt) told TVLine the finale would be "pretty dramatic and pretty intense. It's pretty dark and very good."

We're excited to see the cliffhangers, and what they mean for Season 14, but it's the relationship stuff with Mer, Riggs, and Jolex that really has us curious.

Before we get to the finale, we have one more episode to get through, "True Colors," which airs May 11 with this synopsis: "The doctors of Grey Sloan encounter a difficult case involving a dangerous patient. Meanwhile, Owen receives life-changing news that pushes Amelia to step up to support him, and Alex attends a medical conference after making a shocking discovery."

Jo's hubby, comin' in hot? Hmm..."Grey's Anatomy" airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. on ABC.

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