Text review assignment – Kim Merrick
For this assignment I chose to analyze Grey’s Anatomy season where there is a merger between two hospitals and things go south and eventually people are very short staffed. During this time period there a doctor who steps in to help for a day to help at the hospital and does not want to listen to anyone or allow anyone to help him except the “nazi” who is Miranda Bailey. Doctor Bailey offers help and is shut down immediately because one she is a woman and two she was an African American woman. The male doctor is a white man who thinks he has authority over everyone and has the power to do anything he wants. This in my opinion is an injustice because of how he treats dr. Bailey even though she is one of the most knowledgeable and strongest doctors at the hospital. The male doctor also uses his identity and thinks because he is the male doctor he knows more she can do everything alone because he is “ better” and dr, Bailey and Meredith are women who he considers useless and a subaltern/other. Which relates to the concept we learned in class and he doesn’t not allow them to show how capable they are. Through this whole episode he keeps declining her help and sending her on a mission to find the great and all mighty nazi who is known for being brilliant not realizing it was her. It is not till when dr. Webber who is the chief, has a conversation with Bailey and says “this is why they call you the nazi” that the male doctor heard and feels like he now has no power or authority because of how little respect he showed dr. Bailey. During this whole episode Dr. Bailey was treated as the “other” by her race, and her gender. This proves that people need to be slow to make assumptions until they get to know the other affiliates. Dr. Bailey felt as if she was useless at first because she could not believe how this doctors actions allowed him to feel so powerful yet so rude. She did not say anything to him even though she could have but she did not feel as if she needed to prove herself.