full size Meredith Looks Sad on Grey's Anatomy, February 17,
2011 Credit: Danny Feld/ABC Television Group © 2010 Disney
Meredith Looks Sad on Grey's Anatomy, February 17, 2011
Obviously, Grey's Anatomy tweaks actual medical circumstances
for the sake of giving fans the very best of a soapy hospital
drama. But, would Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) really have been able
to tamper with the Alzheimer's trial results the way she did?
And would she be able to get away with it if she had?  As it
turns out, tampering with the trial results is the least of the
medical BS Shonda Rhimes has been feeding us. First of all, if
Meredith and Derek were real doctors, they wouldn't even be
doing a trial to find a cure for rapidly progressing Alzheimer's
to begin with. Apparently, that's not something real docs care
about. "Rapid AD [Alzheimer's Disease] just isn't a concept that
our field thinks about," says Dr. Bruce L. Miller, director of
the Memory & Aging Center at UC San Francisco, in a recent
article in the LA Times.  Joshua G