Grey’s Anatomy
More often than not , the ax tends to fall on a doctor inGrey ’s Anatomy . Whether it ’s due to negligence , incompetence or cut down , a major character reference loses their job about once every two seasons . The rate at which Dr. lose their job is almost alike to the rate at which they step down . A number of medico have decide to abuse out on their own term too .
fortuitously , in the long - running medical dramatic play , unemployment is n’t everlastingly . Most of the doctors who get fired get rehired quite rapidly or shore a job elsewhere . They are the effective doctors in the mankind after all , and staying unemployed for too foresightful would n’t make sentiency . While some job personnel casualty incident have been painful , others have been intelligible , grant the condition .
Meredith
Meredith was discharge double , first fortampering with Derek ’s Alzheimer ’s trialand then for insurance fraud . The first time she got fired , she and Derek were examine to adopt Zola . Her sack almost be them the acceptance since the officer investigate their suitableness as parents learned about what had transpired .
During the policy sham face , Alex , Richard , and Andrew all essay to help her but they ended up in trouble too . Though there was a real menace of Meredith losing her licence and going to prison house , she pull round it all and managed to come back to employment .
Dahlia Qadri
Dahlia became disgruntled after Meredith ’s dismissal . She and Jo found themselves in a dilemma after Shirley Gregory , the affected role they were working on , insist on being lock on by Meredith . Jo thus fare up with the theme to video call Meredith during the surgery so that she could aid .
After the surgery , Bailey found Dahlia shout out and upon ask her what the problem was , sheaired out her frustrations regarding Meredith ’s dismissal . She explained that Meredith was the rationality she came to the Grey Sloan and that she want to find out from her , not just check her from a TV screen . Instead of empathise with her , Bailey fired her , telling her that she and Meredith had something in usual now .
Eliza Minnick
Eliza was brought in to revamp the operative residence programme , but she ended up getting fire for a misunderstanding that was n’t related to her line verbal description . After an oxygen tank explosion caused a fire at the hospital , Jackson instructed Eliza to tell the law that Stephanie was miss . However , Eliza block to do sosince she was preoccupy with get the patients out of the building .
Though she did her best to defend herself , Bailey fired her , claiming the hospital did n’t call for robots who only postdate protocols and could n’t make alternative decisions . After being give the axe , she go out of her flat with Arizona and refuse to talk to her .
Leah Murphy
Leah openly admitted that she fix into the surgical program easy because of Mark Sloan , who had been romantically involve with her mother . However , she had a hard time in the OR and she eventually got dismissed by Richard . The worst affair aboutLeah ’s dismissalwas that she had already hear rumors that someone was become to get fired .
Worried it might be her , she begin accent - eating . Her awe were reassert when Richard called her away and told her that she was a honorable Dr. but not a full surgeon . Luckily , she managed to redeem herself . Leah went on to mould at Forster Hospital where she improved her accomplishment significantly . She was then rehired at Grey Sloan .
Vikram “Vik” Roy
Vik ’s liberation was perhaps the most justified . When a affected role named Tad hail to the hospital with a epistaxis , Vik assumed it was nothing serious . He parked him in a bottom and promise to come and hold in on him later . Vik did n’t check over on him until 5 hours had passed and when he came back , the affected role was coughing up rakehell .
Koracick step in to help and was shocked to find out that Vik had n’t ordered any tests . Despite their right efforts , the patient role died . And when Koracick asked Vik to call the time of death , he resist , claim the responsibility was n’t his . What ’s funnier is that Vik thought Alex was giving him a solar day off when he told him not to total in the next day . In reality , he was getting sack .
Teddy Altman
Unlike other firings , this one was linked to the adult word picture . As the Head of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Seattle Grace Mercy West , Teddy did a secure job of mentor Cristina during the final age of her residency . She also worked on a research labor involving stalk cell regenerative heart medicine . This research drew the attention of the US Army Medical Command ( MEDCOM ) .
MEDCOM approached her and offered her a job as Chief Of Staff . However , she was loath to go . sleep with it was too good an opportunity to deform down , Owen decided to give the axe her so that she would have no choice but to take the occupation . Cristina realized what Owen had just done and thank him for it .
Izzie
Dr. Isobel " Izzie " Stevens go through the worst stages of her Crab but just as she was looking forward to a brighter future , she got fired during Seattle Grace ’s merger with Mercy West . Other doctors believed that she still needed to stay at homesince body of work would put unnecessary stress on her . Izzie took this personally , conceive it was all Alex ’s fall .
She subsequently came back to Seattle and Derek promised to rehire her if he was made Chief . Unfortunately , she could n’t stand it when Alex tell her he wanted something new . Izzie could also have been fired originally in the serial publication when she cut the LVAD wire . Luckily , she was only put on probation for this .
Megan Nowland
Megan started out as one of Meredith ’s interne before becoming a occupier at Seattle Grace . She was keen on being a pediatric surgeon but soon found herself among the doctors who were dismissed during the merger with Mercy West . Even worse , she was n’t told the news face to look . She knew about it through an e-mail notification .
Angry , she opted to sue for wrongful termination . Megan believed her pregnancy was a factor in her dismission , as play off to cost - cutting off . fight for what you consider is right helps sometimes and Megan eventually got her job back after Derek Shepherd was promoted Chief of Surgery . Even better , he promise her that she would n’t be dismissed even if there were other cutback .
Alex Karev
Alex recently came tight to losing his job at Grey Sloan when he set on Andrew . While his line of work at the democratic infirmary has mostly been dependable , he had to bear with being discharge from another medical center . At one point , he temporarily quit his job at Grey Sloan and joined the Lebackes Pediatric Surgery Clinic in ordering to make more money so he could pay off his college debts .
Sadly , Maggie Pierce accidentally mess up this when she walk into an OR and note that there were plans to make Alex a appendage of the add-in . Upon pick up this , Oliver Lebackes fire him with immediate effect . Luckily , the door were still open at Grey Sloan and he was have back as an attending pediatric operating surgeon .
April Kepner
April was first fired during the incident in which a hotel ardour bring in hundreds into the ER . April forgot to check for crock in a patient role ’s air passage and the situation eventually sprain tragic . After all the doctors were interrogated , April was found guilty of carelessness and fired .
Though not technically a firing , Seattle Grace resist to give her a permanent caper after she failed her board exams in another incident . No other infirmary was uncoerced to take her either so she incite back to her parent ' farm . Owen would by and by add up to get her and take her back to the infirmary .
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