
The daughter credited “Grey’s Anatomy” for showing her the proper steps to save her mom.Īnd it raised awareness for a critical illness. The show may have helped save a real life.Ī girl credited “Grey’s Anatomy.” Gene KimĪccording to the Hollywood Reporter, a 10-year-old girl successfully administered CPR when her mother had an asthma attack. In 2008, Heigl opted out of her Emmy nomination for “Grey’s Anatomy.” According to the New York Times, she said in a statement that she didn’t feel the writers had “given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination” and she “did not want to potentially take away an opportunity from an actress who was given such materials.” Per Us Weekly, Heigl left the show shortly after in 2010. Katherine Heigl plays “Izzie.” Buena Vista Television Katherine Heigl rejected her Emmy nomination for Izzie. “It’s pretty gross,” she admitted, according to RTE. To make the surgeries look real, Sarah Drew said that they use cow organs and fake blood made up of chicken fat and red gelatin. The organs and fake blood are made from some pretty nasty materials. She also revealed that on “Scandal,” it’s “political political.” Rhimes wrote, “Meredith will say, ‘I need a medical medical to medical!’ And someone else will go, ‘Well I have medical medical.’ ‘Well hand me the medical!” But until the advisors filled in the jargon, the writers just put “medical medical” as placeholder text in the script, according to show creator Shonda Rhimes’ book “Year of Yes.” ABC/Mitch HaasethĪccording to UW Medicine, the show employs real doctors as medical advisors to make sure the writers are getting everything right.

The show takes its medical scenes seriously. “The nurse in that scene, Bokhee, is a real surgical nurse,” Oh wrote. And according to a tweet from Sandra Oh, who played Cristina Yang, Bokhee really knows what she’s doing. She may not say much, but she’s been a staple background character of the show for years. But the interior shots are done on a soundstage at Loz Feliz’s Prospect Studios, according to the outlet. The Veterans Administration Sepulveda Ambulatory Care Center in California serves as the entrance for Grey Sloan Memorial, according to Los Angeles Magazine. “It was ‘Doctors’ and then ‘Surgeons’ and then ‘Complications’ and I was like, ‘What a b- show title!’ Walsh recounted. Kate Walsh, who played Addison Montgomery on the show, told BuzzFeed that the show’s name was changed three times before “Grey’s Anatomy” was chosen. “Grey’s Anatomy” wasn’t actually the original show title. “Gray’s Anatomy,” written by Henry Gray, is still in print today. The show’s title comes from a real medical textbook. Here are 26 things you probably didn’t know about the hit medical drama. Not even “Lexipedia” Grey herself could be expected to remember all of these surprising facts about “Grey’s Anatomy.”

But even though fans have been watching for over a decade, and likely re-watching thanks to its presence on Netflix and status as a great binge-watching show, there’s no way to know everything about the series. It’s been a wild, sometimes devastating ride for fans – but they’re still tuning in 14 years later.Īccording to Variety, a whopping 7.5 million viewers tuned in for the Season 14 finale, which bid farewell to longtime cast members Sarah Drew (April Kepner) and Jessica Capshaw (Arizona Robbins). In that time, it’s had 15 seasons, over 300 episodes, and multuple major doctor deaths. “Grey’s Anatomy” is the longest-running scripted primetime show on ABC having been on the air since 2005. Every “Grey’s Anatomy” title is a song title except for one.There have been two spinoffs from “Grey’s Anatomy.”.“Grey’s Anatomy” has been on the air for 14 years.Grey’s Anatomy has been running for over 10 years.
