what happened to meredith's husband on grey's anatomy
Meredith Grey Meredith is widowed when Derek is killed in a car accident and was taken to an understaffed hospital. The doctors failed to recognize his head injury in time and allowed personal conflicts to interfere. Derek is declared brain dead, and Meredith must go to the medical center to consent to remove him from life support, shortly before she's hit with the first waves of morning sickness. She tells Penny, the intern who was assigned to Derek that every doctor has "that one" patient who dies on their watch and haunts them forever and "that one will make you work harder, and they make you better."
Grey's Anatomy The season four premiere introduces several new interns, to be trained under Meredith, Yang, Karev, Stevens, and eventually O'Malley.[b] Among them are Dr. Steve Mostow (Mark Saul) who continues to make appearances,[96] and Dr. Sadie Harris (Melissa George) who formed a friendship with Meredith while the two were in college.[145] Harris is fired in the fifth season, due to not actually having a medical degree, and departs the show immediately after.[105] Meredith and Shepherd's relationship reaches a toll, and the two separate, leading Shepherd to entertaining a relationship with Rose (Lauren Stamile), a nurse.[98] Rose appears frequently until season five, when Derek and Meredith decide to rekindle their flame.[102] Throughout the fifth season, Stevens experiences full-out hallucinations of Duquette,[103] signaling that she is ill,[146] and once she is lucid, he departs, marking his final appearance.[144] Following the announcement of her relationship with Robbins, Callie's father Carlos Torres (Hector Elizondo) initially contests his daughter's concurrence in homosexuality,[147] but eventually accepts it,[110] and he reappears several times throughout the series.[115]