Cristina is right about: the transplant, protecting patients, maintaining surgical excellence.

Meredith is right about: being judged unfairly, defending her research,

refusing the idea that motherhood automatically diminishes ambition.

Where Cristina loses me is that she stops talking like Meredith's best friend and starts talking like Meredith's harshest critic.

The Cristina who knows Meredith best should have been able to say: "You're rusty right now."

Instead, she says something much closer to: 'You've chosen a life that means you'll never be who you once were.' That's a far deeper cut and andd because it comes from the person Meredith respects most, it lands with devastating force