Grey’s
Anatomy
Meet
Meredith Grey. She's a woman trying to lead a real life while doing a job
that makes having a real life impossible.
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 O'Malley and Alex
Karev were students yesterday. Today they're doctors and, in a world where
on the job training can be a matter of life and death, they're 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. Meredith's medical ambition is overshadowed by a
troubling secret: Her mother, a noted pioneering surgeon, is struggling
with a tragic and devastating illness. Cristina is a study in
contradiction; highly competitive and driven, she eschews any favors in
order to make it on her own. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens is the
small-town girl who grew up dirt poor and, in spite of paying for her
medical career by modeling, still struggles with her self-esteem. George
O'Malley 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, he's treated as "just one of the girls." And Alex Karev,
the intern the other interns love to hate, 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
she's nicknamed "The Nazi." Derek Shepherd is the flirtatious
but very capable surgeon who shares a forbidden but undeniable sexual
attraction with Meredith. Preston Burke's arrogance is second only to his
skill with a scalpel. Overseeing them all is Dr. Richard Webber, Seattle
Grace's paternal, but no-nonsense chief of surgery.
Grey's Anatomy focuses on young people struggling to be doctors and
doctors struggling to stay human. It's 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.
Grey's Anatomy stars Ellen Pompeo as Meredith Grey, Patrick Dempsey
as Derek Shepherd, Sandra Oh as Cristina Yang, Isaiah Washington as
Preston Burke, Katherine Heigl as Isobel "Izzie" Stevens, Justin
Chambers as Alex Karev, T.R. Knight as George O'Malley, Chandra Wilson as
Miranda Bailey and James Pickens, Jr. as Richard Webber.
Shonda Rhimes (Introducing Dorothy Dandridge) is creator and
executive producer. Mark Gordon (Saving Private Ryan), Betsy Beers
(200 Cigarettes) and Jim Parriott (The American Embassy) are
executive producers. Peter Horton is co-executive producer. Grey's
Anatomy is a Touchstone Television Production.
(Source:
ABC.com)
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