Greys Anatomy: Meredith As A Positive Role Model

Have you been in search of a television show that is appropriate for all ages and is about saving lives? If so, Greys Anatomy is the show to watch. In the television show Greys Anatomy, Meredith Grey serves as a positive role model through courage, intelligence, and leadership, while working in and outside of Seattle Grace Hospital. Each season, Meredith is faced with situations regarding patients, friends, and family. At the same time, she struggles to balance her personal life with the hectic work and training schedules. When these problems arise, she shows a tremendous amount of courage, along with intelligence, and leadership.
In the show, Meredith shows courage when she performs surgeries on patients that can be risky. If calls have to be made on a surgery, Meredith has to be brave and believe in herself that she is making the right decision. When she is not at the hospital, there are moments where accidents occur and she goes out of her way to help save people. For example, in season 8, Meredith gets in a plane crash with her best friend Christina Yang, her husband Derek Shepherd, her friend Mark Sloan, and her sister Lexie Grey. As a result, of the crash, Lexie, Mark, and Derek get severely injured. Once Meredith found out, she was devastated, but continued to stay strong for her

friends, through the difficult time. Through the many surgeries and casualties in the show, she is able to keep calm in able to save lives and that is what makes her such a courageous person and doctor.
After Meredith became a resident, she began partaking in surgeries where she was the one making all the calls.

Progressively, she was able to memorize all the procedures and gained more knowledge from them. In one particular episode, she was awarded the Harper Avery Award for her valiant efforts, to successfully complete a surgery that had never been done before. This award goes to show how intelligent Meredith is and how she tries anything to save a patient's life. One of the many characteristics she improves upon, through the years, is intelligence. From this characteristic, young adults who are going into the medical field are inspired by Meredith's insight on

medicine.
At the beginning of each season, there is a new group of interns that join Seattle Grace Hospital. Since Meredith is a doctor, she must teach the new interns what strategies and techniques are best for surgery and diagnosing a patient. Through her teaching ethics, she displays leadership by staying positive and giving every intern the opportunity to scrub in on surgeries. Also, when confronting a patient, she has students read off the history of the person who is sick, as a way for the apprentices to learn. In season 12, Dr. Bailey, another coworker of Meredith's, offers her a promotion to become chief of surgery. Granted that she was given this advancement, Dr. Bailey realized how well the interns were doing from the guidance of Meredith and thought she deserved to be the new chief of surgery.
In conclusion, Meredith Grey serves as a positive role model to all ages through courage, intelligence, and leadership. From being courageous during surgeries, to her intelligent views on operations and teaching skills that convey leadership, her character motivates viewers.