Meredith is a first year surgical intern at Seattle Grace Hospital, the toughest
surgical residency program west of Harvard. She and fellow first-year interns
Cristina Yang, Izzie Stevens, George OMalley and Alex Karev were students
yesterday. Today theyre doctors and, in a world where on the job training can
be a matter of life and death, theyre all juggling the ups and downs of their
own personal lives.
The five interns struggle to form friendships in
this most stressful and competitive atmosphere. Merediths medical ambition is
overshadowed by a troubling secret: Her mother, a noted pioneering surgeon, is
struggling with a tragic and devastating illness. Cristina is highly competitive
and driven, but lacks tact when it comes to bedside manner. Isobel "Izzie"
Stevens is the small-town girl who grew up dirt poor and, in spite of paying for
her medical career by modeling. Sometimes she cares a little too deeply about
her patients. George OMalley is the warm but insecure boy next door who always
manages to do or say the wrong thing at the wrong time. In spite of his
attraction to women, hes treated as "just one of the girls." And Alex Karev,
the intern the other interns love to have, masks his working class roots with
arrogance and ambition.
The interns are guided by an established team of
doctors who are determined to shape them into skilled surgeons or break them:
Miranda Bailey, a senior resident responsible for training them, is so tough
that shes nicknamed "The Nazi." Derek Shepherd is the flirtatious but very
capable surgeon who shares a forbidden but undeniable sexual attraction with
Meredith. Preston Burkes arrogance is second only to his skill with a scalpel.
Overseeing them all is Dr. Richard Webber, Seattle Graces paternal, but
no-nonsense chief of surgery.
Greys Anatomy focuses on young people
struggling to be doctors and doctors struggling to stay human. Its the drama
and intensity of medical training mixed with the funny, sexy, painful lives of
interns who are about to discover that neither medicine nor relationships can be
defined in black and white. Real life only comes in shades of grey.
Official Site: Greys Anatomy
at ABC.com
Theme Song: "Cosy in the Rocket" by
Psapp
Broadcast History (in the USA):
First Season: Sundays on
ABC at 10:01PM Eastern
Second Season: Sundays on ABC at 10:01PM Eastern (And
a later switch in the season to 10:00PM after the Super Bowl episodes)
Third
Season: Thursdays on ABC at 9:00PM Eastern
The show was originally titled
Greys Anatomy. ABC changed to the title to Complications briefly
before changing it back. It has always aired under its current
title.
Ratings:
So far during the 2005-2006 Season Greys
Anatomy is taking 6th place among network primetime series with a rating/share
or 11.9/19 and 16,231,000 total viewers for the first 4 episodes of the second
season (236 minutes in length).
