Category: Grey’s Anatomy

Medical TV series showing working environment and personal struggles of doctors have always been popular. Take these shows – Doctor House, Hospital Central, or Scrubs – they all reveal doctors’ dark secrets, skeletons in the closet, fears, and other unpleasant things proving that they are not gods, just simple mortals with a very responsible task. They show us how complicated their work is and that’s not exactly a job but a vocation. In 2005 a new drama project was launched on American television by Shonda Phimes – Grey’s Anatomy – telling a story of a young surgical intern in the Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital in Seattle, Dr. Meredith Grey, who tries to figure out what to do with her life meanwhile saving lives and having numerous romantic affairs.
The number of characters that appear in this series is quite extensive – interns, surgeons, attending physicians, their lovers, friends, and many others. They all are struggling to unite two crucial parts of their lives, work, and personal relationships. Often they find both in their colleagues. Meredith is the main heroine and narrator telling about their ups and downs in finding a golden mean between their hectic work and personal life. Currently, their adventures make this series one of the longest on American TV – more than 290 episodes have already been released. There is everything in this TV series – love, passion, anger, ambitions, betrayal, death, etc., which makes it so engaging to watch.
Being the daughter of famous surgeons, Meredith wants to follow the steps of her parents and become a surgeon herself. She enrolls as a surgical intern in the Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital with a couple of other trainees – Christina Young, Izzie Stevens, Alex Karev, and George O’Malley. They are all very different people with incompatible past but with one big obsession of becoming the best-qualified surgeons in America. And they are ready to work hard in order to achieve their dreams. Their mentor is Miranda Bailey, notoriously famous for her tough character and nicknamed the Nazi.
The night before she has to begin her training, Meredith meets with a stranger in a bar – it ends with a one-night stand and shouldn’t have any continuation. That’s a typical scheme for her. There is one rule Meredith follows in her personal life – never hang out with the same man twice. Having had a trauma in her childhood, she doesn’t want anything serious yet. Imagine her surprise when that guy turns out to be her new boss, Derek Shepherd, the head of neurosurgery department in the hospital where Meredith is now an intern. From that moment, her new life begins, full of secrets and intrigues.
Of course, the newly formed team has a lot of conflicts at the beginning of their common duties. Christina can be overambitious and selfish but very devoted to her work. Izzie has been working as a model before becoming an intern to be able to pay her student loan and sometimes she’s being teased and called Doctor Model. Alex starts being a rogue of the group – arrogant and irritable boaster he slowly transforms into a decent man. The shiest member of the team, George, suffers from low-esteem but is, in fact, a kind loyal friend and a really skilled surgeon who just needs to believe in himself.
All of them meet every morning arguing to get a patient with more complicated symptoms and learn something new. Every season stands for one year – thirteen years of their lives have passed bringing a lot of changes. If you want to know how their lives change, watch Grey’s Anatomy.