Greys Anatomy Recap: Is Derek Cheating on Meredith?

After three weeks of medical traumas, the doctors on Grey's Anatomyare back to focusing on their love lives and all is right(ish) in the Grey Sloan world.

Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) is distracting herself from thinking about Derek by throwing herself into work - i.e. taking on extra cases and starting her morning rounds in the middle of the night, not to mention pitching a "no-hitter" since the middle of November. But can she keep up the streak?

Not sooner does Jo (Camilla Luddington) bring up Meredith's record to Stephanie (Jerrika Hinton) than an earthquake shakes Grey Sloan, conveniently leaving Maggie stranded in an elevator with the (super cute) radiology staffer Ethan, and Bailey (Chandra Wilson) needing protection from Ben (Jason Winston George) in the hallway, loath as she is to admit it. Ben's knight-in-shining-armor routine leaves Bailey with the perfect opportunity to ask if he's called his transgender sister lately. (He hasn't.)

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After a few weeks' absence, April (Sarah Drew) is back on the floor, Maggie (Kelly McCreary) and Callie (Sara Ramirez) are dealing with a very sexually adventurous elderly patient, and Alex (Justin Chambers), Jo and Meredith are treating a group of skiers who were on a lift when the earthquake hit. Meanwhile, Owen (Kevin McKidd) picks up an emergency call from a young girl whose mother is injured.

Turns out the skiing injuries belong to a dysfunctional group who are being forcibly merged together through marriage. "Sometimes adversity can make a family stronger," Meredith - who, at the moment, is choosing medical charts over her husband - lies through her teeth.

A quick Dr. Herman update! Remember her? She's texting Arizona (Jessica Capshaw), but is still blind. I'm guessing this is the last we'll see of that story line ...

Elsewhere in the hospital, Jackson (Jesse Williams) and Ben are working with a patient who wants a breast augmentation (but it's just to please her boyfriend), while Maggie and Callie are arguing over their patient wanting a surgery that will rejuvenate her lady parts, at the possible expense of her heart.

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A fringe benefit of Owen counseling "Ruby" through treating her mother (Read: literally giving instructions to a 10-year-old on how to properly stab a s'mores skewer into her mother's ribcage, and then perform CPR) is that it provides him ample bonding time with Amelia (Caterina Scorsone). And she's impressed not only with his medical prowess, but also his ability to interact with children - "Stayin' Alive," anyone? Points for Owen!

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Greys Anatomy Recap: Is Derek Cheating on Meredith?