The Race for Chief

The scene: we’re in an elevator with Chief of Surgery Doctor Richard Webber and Mark Sloane is standing towards the back.  The elevator stops and a woman steps on.  The elevator starts moving again and the woman comments that Webber is wearing a nice sweater.  That point is when we all needed to pull out an awkward turtle.  Webber starts going on about how his wife got him the sweater and how they are divorced but he’s not a bad guy, and the audience erupts in laughter.  Webber is making it so awkward that the woman gets off at the next stop when the floor she was going to was a few more up.  The best part by far is when Mark offers to help and the Chief says something along the lines of, “so you’re going to get chief by getting me laid?” 

The race for chief has been a tumultuous one that has resorted all the attendings to acting like children to vie for Webber and the Board’s attention (although after last night’s episode, I am seriously wondering if Webber is in fact really leaving).  And I personally love it.  The elevator scene (not the previously mentioned awkward one) where all four attendings and Richard end up in the elevator and can’t figure out what’s different about him?  Priceless.  It’s even better when they all figure out he dyed his hair and the boys start cracking comments and giggling like school girls while Addison tries to get them to stop.  All four of them try to come up with ridiculous plans for the future (I believe it was a ten year plan) when the new Doctor, Colin Marlow, comes in to try to get the position with the exception of Mark.  In every episode there’s been something where the four of them try to out do one another, and I’m sure there will be until something is official.            Now, it is very probable that Preston Burke will get the position.  He has after all taken over the position of chief before and seems to be the favorite. 
Addison is leaving anyway and Derek is out because of Meredith….plus, he’s one of those guys that thinks with his heart more than with his head when it comes to personal stuff, which would lead him to not always put being chief first.  The finally contestant is Sloane, whom I would personally LOVE to see get chief over everyone else.  He is the ultimate bad boy, came to Seattle for
Addison and stayed there for her (up until last night) and he is cocky, full of himself, and tries to bed every girl he meets.  Imagine the craziness that would ensue…and the major fit that Derek would throw!