Tonight on ABC their hit drama Grey’s Anatomy returns with an all-new Thursday, May 5, 2022, season 18 episode 16 and we have your Grey’s Anatomy recap below. In tonight’s Grey’s Anatomy season 18 episode 16 called “Should I Stay Or Should I Go,” as per the ABC synopsis,“Bailey faces an unhappy Catherine who is facing audits for several of her Foundation hospitals. Meanwhile, Addison is back at Grey Sloan; tensions rise between Meredith and Richard, and Owen returns to work.”
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In tonight’s Grey’s Anatomy episode, the hospital was on probation. The Residency Accreditation Council was thinking of revoking their accreditation if things didn’t change at the hospital and Grey Sloane was so bad that all of Catherine Fox’s hospitals were being reviewed. So, naturally Catherine found out about it. She flew to Seattle and she started yelling at everyone. She was especially disappointed in Bailey.
Bailey should have stopped this. Bailey should have been at the top of her game. She usually was and so how did this happen? Several of the fellows had found out about the probation and they’re already jumping ship. Things were so bad that Addison even found out about it. Addison was back to help with a case and so she got to watch along with everyone else as Catherine was ripping both Bailey and Richards to shreds.
The only people not watching that scene play out were the ones with patients. Teddy and Owen were in the ER when someone came in with a severed arm. He got caught in a conveyor belt. His friend had the arm. The friend kept passing out and so she was also admitted. Teddy treated the friend. Owen treated the man with the missing arm. It was Owen’s first surgery back and it failed to happen. Before the arm could be reattached, the patient went under. They were able to revive him only that meant he was too unstable for surgery and so they had to call it off. Life before limb is what counts.
But that meant that surgery couldn’t happen while the man was unstable. The longer it takes the less likely the arm can be reattached and so it was heartbreaking. Too heartbreaking for Owen to deal with. Owen has gotten really emotional about helping patients. He now wants to do anything and everything to help them. It helps to take his mind off his own life as well as his problems. Owen is struggling with PTSD from his time in the military. He also has a son who wants to be a girl. Owen and Teddy’s son Leo wants to be a girl. He’s currently a little boy. Teddy thinks if they put him in therapy that it would solve all their problems.
Owen on the other hand was refusing to see the issue. He didn’t want to admit that Leo’s situation wasn’t going away and he didn’t want to admit that he was struggling with his own mental health. Teddy tried to get him to engage. Nothing worked. Owen instead focused on the arm. He didn’t want the limb to die while they wait to reattach it and so he decided to use a new procedure that the military was kickstarting to keep the limb alive. Teddy thought that was a bad idea. She didn’t think they needed the military’s attention at the moment. And Owen just kept telling her that it was fine when they both knew it wasn’t.
Saying it was fine was Owen’s way of dealing with everything. Teddy tried talking to him about Leo again and Owen told her that then wasn’t the time because he was trying to save the arm. After he was able to save the arm, that’s when he said that he accepts their son wanting to be a girl. Teddy tried to tell him that Leo was still young and that he could change his mind tomorrow. Owen said if he did then they would just tell everyone he’s a boy again. but his focus was on accepting his son no matter what Leo wanted to be. It didn’t matter if he wanted to be a boy or a girl. As long as Leo was happy then everything was fine.
Addison’s patient meanwhile took a turn for the worst. The patient’s name was Tovah and she had a transplanted uterus. She used the last sperm from her late husband to get pregnant. So, she needed the pregnancy to work. Only she got a blood clot. Addison tried to treat it in surgery and she got help from both Meredith and Richard who still weren’t talking to each other. But in the end, the pregnancy wasn’t salvageable. The woman lost her pregnancy. They had to perform a D&C. This case took a toll on everyone including Schmitt because this was Schmitt’s first case being back. And unfortunately that’s the moment Catherine swooped in to yell at Meredith.
Catherine had just found out Meredith was leaving. She threw a fit like with everyone else. She tried to yell at Meredith in front of Addison and so Addison took her to task. They just lost a pregnancy. Now, wasn’t the time to be yelling at everyone. Catherine calmed down and she stopped yelling at everyone in general. The program might lose their surgical residency. It was better for everyone that they accept that possible loss and so Bailey told one of her most promising residents that he should go back to Minnesota. She said that if the program shut down that might not be a place for him to go and it was better that he left while the going was good.
Even Bailey needed a break from the doom and gloom. She was going to use her vacation days. It will be her first vacation in years and so she didn’t care what Catherine had to say. As for Richard, he heard from Addison how he was looking at the past through rose-tinted glasses. It would be better for everyone if he just admits that there’s always been problems in the residency program.
But Meredith was choosing to stay long enough to save the residency program. Once she saved it, that’s when she’ll leave and in the meantime she was staying and her boyfriend Nick was using his vacation days to stay on in Seattle as well.
THE END!
