After attending medical school, Meredith secured a spot at Seattle Grace Hospital as

a surgical intern and moved from Boston to her mother's house in Seattle. She
attended Dartmouth College.
Because of her mother's reputation, Meredith was often treated differently from other doctors,
sometimes favored and sometimes disliked. Meredith showed promise as an intern, she made a
difficult diagnosis on her first day and during the rest of her internship, she assisted in several
advanced procedures, particularly neurosurgicalcases.
After correctly diagnosing a patient with a brain tumor, she approached Derek Shepherd with the
idea of a clinical trial. On their thirteenth patient, they had a success and the clinical trial was
published in a medical journal and named The Shepherd Method. But she was not too pleased,
to find that she was not mentioned in the article and was somewhat upset to hear from Derek
that he was the one taking the risk, despite her doing all the work.

Soon after, Meredith discovered numerous journals belonging to her mother, while she learned
more about her and also picked up some surgical skills and even a doll from her past, Anatomy
Jane, which helped her save a young girl.

On her wedding day, she was given a colon removal operation, from Derek, as her first solo
surgery, as a wedding present. Without any intervention from other doctors, she successfully
completed the surgery, despite Richard and Mark observing in the background. Richard Webber
informed her that her mother would have been proud, while Meredith said that her mother was
likely to have been glad that she didn't kill anyone instead.

She later also performed a solo neurological surgery by herself, as Derek, the attending doctor,
was occupied with another patient in another OR. When Derek was setting up the Alzheimer's
trial, Meredith was there to assist him. But she was not entirely pleased to find out that he chose
Alex, over her, to help him. It was only later, that Alex explained that Meredith was more suited to
be his assistant, as she had personal experience, in dealing with the patients and family. But
when she tampered with the sample that Adele was supposed to get, Alex suspected that
something was amiss. That culminated in him outing her, while he was drunk, and she being
suspended, before being fired by the board. Richard took the fall for her, but she and Derek
agreed that they shouldn't be close at work too, so Meredith decided to leave neurosurgery.

Electing general surgery as her specialty, Meredith passed the boards and is now
the Head of General Surgery at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.

Notes and Trivia Edit

Meredith's Catch Phrases/Running Gags:
1. Commonly using well-known phrases, but trails off at the end and replaces the
last word with "whatever" e.g. "You're my knight in shining whatever"
2. "Mc" Labeling: "McDreamy, McSteamy, McGuilty, McVet, McAss"
Meredith loves tequila.
Meredith states that Duran Duran, The Go Go's, and The Eurythmics are right answers to
"What's your favorite 80s band?", suggesting that she enjoys their music.
Meredith does not like big weddings.
Her favorite ice cream is strawberry ice cream.
Her first patient was Katie Bryce.
Her blood type is AB.
Meredith hates it when people change channels during the commercials.
She's had both her appendix and spleen removed. She also donated part of her liver to
her father, but a liver regenerates.
She was the angry pink hair kid in high school.
She knows how to swim.
 Meredith used an iPhone with the password 1515 until she bought a new phone after
Derek's death.
She does not play video games.
According to Chief Webber, Meredith has the best surgical skills. This is later reinforced by
Callie agreeing with him.
Meredith is happy and cheerful when she is hopped up on morphine or drunk.
Meredith is a very intuitive surgeon with a natural flair for medicine.
In the original pilot script, Meredith was mentioned to be 32 when she started her
internship, although it was never mentioned in the TV series. In Before and After, Meredith
told Sadie that they were no longer 25, sleeping their way through Europe. Because a
medical school application cycle takes at least a year in the US, and the medical school
takes 4 years to complete, Meredith would have been at least 31 when she started her
internship. When her dad left home, Meredith was 5. Because Thatcher was said to be
only eventually remarried and Lexie is 24 when she started the internship, it also suggests
that Meredith was at least 30 or 31 when she was an intern.
In the episode Thanks for the Memories, Cristina says to George over the phone in
reference to alcohol "How is that possible? She's a W.A.S.P." This confirms that she's a
W.A.S.P.
She lost her virginity to Paul Waxmen when she was 16 in her sophomore year of high
school. She says he had absolutely no idea what he was doing.[57]
According to Meredith, she is a girl with abandonment issues.[58]
Her mother and Richard Webber met when she was three.
She is Richard Webber's and Cristina Yang's medical proxy.
She had 4 letters of recommendation for her internship at Seattle Grace Hospital.
Throughout the first trimester of her pregnancy, she cried often, whether she was angry or
happy.
Meredith requested that her roommates be non-smokers, have no pets, and absolutely no
Bush supporters.
Meredith hates Chinese food.
She snores loudly, a trait which she inherited from her father, Thatcher.
Meredith is one of the "Grey Sloan Seven".
Meredith is one of the "Seattle Grace Five".
Meredith cares about the environment, which is the reason she initiated carpooling with
Amelia, Maggie, Alex, and Jo.
Her password on her old phone was "1515". Her current phone password is "1008", which
she revealed to Jo during a surgery.[59]
She used to drive a Mercedes-Benz GL350 with license plate MRH 273. She currently
drives a Lexus LX 570 with license plate NYL 360.
Amelia has referred to herself, Meredith, and Maggie as "Lady Chief Trifecta", "The House
of Lady Chiefs", and "Sister Lady Chiefs".
When Meredith became an attending, she chose a plain purple scrub cap. However,
after her husband'sdeath, she now wears his favorite ferry boat scrub cap in his honor.
Her favorite Christmas gift was a suture kit.
Her emergency contact is Alex Karev.
She is not a Bush supporter.
Her pager extension is 2120.