History Series / GreysAnatomy

* ArtisticLicenceExplosives: Specifically, the episode where a patient has a shell from a homemade bazooka embedded in his chest, and when it detonates it ''completely vaporizes'' three bomb squad technicians. Completely as even their ''body armor'' is turned to ash. No homemade explosive in an amount small enough to fit inside a homemade shell from a homemade bazooka is going to have that much power. Even the ''original'' shell from a WWII bazooka didn't have that kind of power and wasn't intended to. It was designed to penetrate a tank's armor, then once inside the explosive charge would kill the tank crew with shrapnel, not turn them to mist. And if the explosion was powerful enough to completely vaporize three men (and their body armor), it would have also destroyed a large section of the hospital floor and killed Meredith outright, as she was standing less than 20 feet away.

''Grey's Anatomy'' is a [[LongRunners long-running]] Creator/{{ABC}} MedicalDrama. Its creator and showrunner was Creator/ShondaRhimes, for whom it serves as a StarMakingRole.

** Dr. Castello, who declared how there was no time for a CT scan [[spoiler:and by doing so killed Derek]], should have been reviewed by the medical board [[spoiler:after Derek died]]. CT scans of the head are the protocol of most hospitals for anyone who may have suffered a concussion. [[spoiler:In real life, with this outcome, Meredith would have been in the right to sue the hospital. It's quite strange she didn't do anything and waited five years to accuse him of incompetence.]]

** Meredith's Morality is most definitely [[JustForPun Grey]]. She tampers with the Alzheimer's Trial to help Webber's wife, which puts her in a very bad spot with her husband who accuses her of not knowing [[BlackAndWhiteMorality the difference between Right and Wrong]].

** So the characters who won the lawsuit in season 9 are all set buy the hospital, only they don't have enough money. The investor they hoped to get last minute rejected their proposal on the grounds that none of them have any kind of experience running a hospital. When they get Richard, who has many years of experience as the chief, to help them out, the investor still rejects them because he just isn't that interested.

** Alex walks into the apartment he shares with Jo and finds her nearly naked with [=DeLuca=] lying on top of her and reaches the wrong but understandable conclusion. He proceeds to beat the crap out of [=DeLuca=] so badly that he has to be hospitalized. Rather than let it go, [=DeLuca=] files a police report and Alex is arrested and charged with felony assault; he also is suspended from his job and has to work in the clinic.

* PromotedToOpeningTitles: Something like twenty actors have managed to score this trope for themselves. [[note]] Creator/KateWalsh in early Season 2, Creator/SaraRamirez in Season 3, Eric Dane in early Season 3, Creator/ChylerLeigh in Season 4, Creator/BrookeSmith in early Season 4, Kevin [=McKidd=] in late Season 5, Creator/JessicaCapshaw in Season 6, Kim Raver in late Season 6, Sarah Drew and Jesse Williams in Season 7, Creator/CamillaLuddington, Gaius Charles, Jerrika Hinton and Tessa Ferrer in Season 10, Creator/CaterinaScorsone and Kelly [=McCreary=] in Season 11, and Jason George, Martin Henderson, and Giacomo Gianniotti in season 12.[[/note]]

* MoreExperiencedChasesTheInnocent: Mark Sloan, also known as "[=McSteamy=]", is an infamous playboy, whose [[ReallyGetsAround sexual appetite]] becomes such an issue that the nurses at Seattle Grace ''unionize'' in protest. Lexie Grey on the other hand is TheIngenue: upbeat, highly intelligent, and [[WideEyedIdealist idealistic to the point of naivete at times]]. While she has dated in the past, she's mostly depicted as a SmittenTeenageGirl for George up until now. When Mark shows interest in Lexi, everyone tells him to back off, and he begrudgingly does...until [[InvertedTrope Lexi goes to his apartment]], strips in front of him, and asks him to [[SexualEuphemism teach her]]. Mark relents and the two start seeing each other soon after, [[spoiler:eventually [[LadykillerInLove falling in love]]]].

** He also catches Alex pulling pranks in "Idle Hands" and chew him out....for lacking imagination.

* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Season 17 has Meredith talking to ghosts, including [[Spoiler:Derek and George. George knows about Meredith's children. When Meredith says they were all born after he died, George explains "I check in sometimes." Meredith also notes George looks a little older than when she knew him.]]

** One episode featured the surgeons lying about the time of the surgery, as the patient's insurance benefits had just lapsed and it wouldn't be covered if it was recorded as being done on the actual date, so they backdated it to the previous day. That's ''insurance fraud'', it's a ''criminal offense'', and the insurance company ''will'' find out about it. Not only will the surgeons face charges, but the hospital could very well lose its accreditation.

** Somehow George is shipping out to Iraq within days of enlisting. He still needs to graduate both Basic Training and Officer Candidate School, which would require him to spend months in training.
*** Actually, no. While he would not be shipping out within days of commissioning (not enlisting. Officers are ''commissioned'', not enlisted), but neither would he be attending either Basic Training or Officer Candidate School. Basic Training is for enlisted, Officer Candidate School is boot camp for commissioned officers. George would not attend either one, as he would be ''directly commissioned'' into the Medical Corps as a Captain (O-3). Doctors and nurses are simply too badly needed by the Department of Defense to be put through boot camp with a risk of washing out. George would instead attend Commissioned Officer Training, which is a two or three week course where he would be issued his uniforms, attend classes on military customs and courtesies, learn military history, get briefings from other doctors on what being a military doctor is like, etc. He'd have a private room, there's no getting kicked out of bed at 5am, there's no "drop and give me twenty', etc.

''Grey's Anatomy'' is a LongRunning Creator/{{ABC}} MedicalDrama. Its creator and showrunner was Creator/ShondaRhimes, for whom it serves as a StarMakingRole.

* LongRunner:

-->'''Jackson:''' How could this ever be kept secret at all?
-->'''Catherine:''' Money, honey. Good God don't be naive. A fortune was paid to silence those woman.

-->'''Sloan''': Does it ever stop raining in his hellhole?
-->'''Alex''': Not really

** Syphilis results are picked up from the Hematology lab.....which studies cells and has NOTHING to do with bacteria. In real life, results for syphilis would be picked up from the microbiology lab.

** Alex has a patient with c-diff in one episode, a young woman. They give her a fecal transplant to restore the bacterial culture in her stomach, which is a wholly unnecessary procedure. C-diff is very common in hospitals, it happens a lot with patients on iv antibiotics, and the treatment is to simply wait it out. Other measures might be taken if a patient is very sick or elderly, but not when you're a young, healthy person.

** CPR and defibrillation is depicted as reviving patients back to the shape they were in before coding. In reality CPR is a violent procedure that is likely to break ribs. People who are elderly and/or have multiple underlying illnesses are unlikely to survive it. Among those who do, cerebral function can be severely compromised. One episode of the show has an old lady who goes into cardiac arrest over and over and over, each time easily revived with CPR and defibrillation, never with any negative effects. The likelihood of that happening in real life is... slim.
*** It's also common on the show for the doctors to defibrillate the patients several times in succession, without performing CPR in-between. You ''need'' to perform CPR between each defibrillation, or it doesn't work.

** In Season 10, Episode 9, Dr. Torres is sued by a patient alleging medical malpractice that resulted in the amputation of both of his legs. Twice during the episode, characters speak as though they are in a criminal trial, rather than a civil suit. First the patient's lawyer, concluding his case, announces to the judge "The Prosecution rests", rather than "the Plaintiff rests". Then at the end, the jury foreman announces "Not Guilty", rather than "We find in favor of the Defendant."

* MoreExperiencedChasesTheInnocent: Mark Sloan, also known as "[=McSteamy=]", is an infamous [[ReallyGetsAround playboy]], whose [[AnythingThatMoves sexual appetite]] becomes such an issue that the nurses at Seattle Grace ''unionize'' in protest. Lexie Grey on the other hand is TheIngenue: upbeat, highly intelligent, and [[WideEyedIdealist idealistic to the point of naivete at times]]. While she has dated in the past, she's mostly depicted as a SmittenTeenageGirl for George up until now. When Mark shows interest in Lexi, everyone tells him to back off, and he begrudgingly does...until [[InvertedTrope Lexi goes to his apartment]], strips in front of him, and asks him to [[SexualEuphemism teach her]]. Mark relents and the two start seeing each other soon after, [[spoiler:eventually [[LadykillerInLove falling in love]]]].