Grey’s Anatomy
Dr. Derek Shepherd , played by Patrick Dempsey , or " McDreamy " as Meredith and her fellow medical intern take for him , is the new Head of Neurosurgery at Seattle Grace Hospital when we first run across him in the pilot episode of the hit primetime medical drama , Grey ’s Anatomy .
He is also the love interest of our distaff protagonist , Dr. Meredith Grey , played by Ellen Pompeo . As the school principal of his department , Derek is invariably in the operating room dealing with difficult and/or high profile type and they do n’t always have a happy ending .
Webber
At the ending of time of year one , Derek discovers a tumour onDr . Richard Webber’soptic nerve and needs to operate . The surgery itself is hazardous , but the fact that Derek is operate on on his honcho makes an already nerve-racking state of affairs even that much more anxiousness - inducing .
Dr. Webber is not only an experient sawbones , but he ’s also the Chief of Surgery and Derek knows that if this operating room does n’t go well , he would never be able-bodied to live it down .
Bonnie
After a massive gear accident , the hospital is deluge with injuries . The most extreme injury being two the great unwashed , Bonnie and Tom , who have both been impaled through their midsections by the same metal gat .
After careful research and consideration , the Dr. decide to hit Bonnie from the pole because her injuries are more severe and she is less likely to subsist no matter what they do . Derek has a particularly hard fourth dimension with this surgery , break down in the lift once Bonnie is gone and he saves Tom ’s lifetime .
Hayley May
Derek face up a very hard case when a young girl is admitted into the infirmary show signs of a mental breakdown or even dementia praecox . At one point , the patient , Hayley May , played byDemi Lovato , becomes very inculpable and render to dig herself in the tenderness with a syringe because what she is experience is too much for her to manage .
The difficulty of this grammatical case comes from having to diagnose it . Derek ca n’t project out what ’s wrong , but once he does , he ’s able to run with ease knowing that the patient role ’s lifespan will be so much better Emily Price Post - operation .
Burke
After his colleague , Head of Cardiothoracic , Dr. Burke is shoot in the parking lot of Seattle Grace , Derek has to make a ruffianly call on the best manner to go . The heater is lodged in Burke ’s shoulder , in what Derek view as " dangerous territory . "
If they manoeuver , they risk cheek scathe in Burke ’s sleeve and hand , which would make it impossible for him to execute surgeries , but if they do n’t operate , he could mislay all function in his script . Derek make the call to run .
Isaac
A lab technician approaches Derek with some disco biscuit - beam of what has been deemed an inoperable neoplasm . Derek takes one smell at the scans and agrees with the diagnosing . The research lab technical school , Isaac , inform Derek that it ’s his tumor and he wants Derek to try out to remove it because he knows if anyone is cut out for the Book of Job , it ’s Dr. Shepherd .
Derek gibe to the surgery and later to a 2d OR against Chief Webber ’s orders because of how risky the function is . Derek cease up using " eenie , meenie , miney , mo " to adjudicate which nerve to slue in the OR and he guesses correctly , induce the surgery a success .
Henry Lamont
Henry is at the infirmary for a spinal implant . During rounds , the interns brief Miranda and Derek on Henry ’s condition as Henry and his wife rick on the video in his room , which is act porn .
Henry explains that he ’s sensitised to pain medicine , so his old doctor recommend that he view erotica as part of his botheration direction , since his psyche releases endorphin while he ’s watching it . get to do such an vivid OR on a patient role , who , Derek knows wo n’t be capable to negociate his post - surgery pain creates a reasonably stressful situation for the doctor .
Heather Douglas
Heather was born with VATER syndrome , which devote her knockout scoliosis . Her spine is so curving , she ca n’t stand up flat . She ’s ab initio admitted to the hospital for kidney stones and to have a few ribs take away to transfer pressure on her lungs from being hunch forward over .
Derek is telephone in for a consult and figures out a direction to fix Heather ’s spine . Heather wants the surgery , despite the danger of palsy and with a little help from Izzie ’s inheritance , Derek is able to operate on on Heather successfully .
Addison’s Brother
In time of year five , Addison returns to Seattle Grace infirmary with her brother , Archer , and her friend from her fresh praxis in Los Angeles . Her buddy has been receive seizures and with Addison ’s help and instant nature , he is diagnosed with neurocysticercosis , meaning he has larva in his brain .
Addison asks Derek to operate on her brother to remove the declamatory from his mastermind and Derek agrees . It ’s a difficult operation and the fact that it is Derek ’s x - brother - in - legal philosophy on the board , makes it even more nerve-racking , but Derek is successful .
Jen Harmon
Jen Harmon , apregnantpatient played by Jennifer Westfeldt , is pregnant and admit into the hospital after she incidentally hits her hubby with her gondola . After a hatful of mental test , Derek finds an aneurism in Jen ’s mind . In the surgery to remove the aneurysm , Derek clips it , have a hemorrhage .
Jen recovers from her first surgery , but ca n’t speak and is having small strokes . Derek claim Jen back into surgery , but this time , it does n’t go well and a despairing Derek loses his patient on the table .
Izzie
When Izzie is diagnosed with a brain tumor , Derek has to function . Derek is extremely nervous on the twenty-four hour period of the surgery . He knows how much Izzie means to her co - workers and Quaker , particularly Meredith , and if he ’s the one responsible for Izzie not making it , he knows he would never be able to forgive himself .
After a successful surgery , Derek is feel so good , he asks Meredith to wed him , with the service of some of the other doctors .
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