More oft than not, the ax tends to autumn on a doctor in Grey's Anatomy. Whether it's due to negligence, incompetence or cut downs, a major character loses their job most once every two seasons. The charge per unit at which doctors lose their jobs is almost like to the rate at which they resign. A number of doctors have decided to pace out on their own terms too.

Luckily, in the long-running medical drama, unemployment isn't forever. Most of the doctors who get fired go rehired quite apace or land a job elsewhere. They are the all-time doctors in the world after all, and staying unemployed for too long wouldn't make sense. While some task loss incidents have been painful, others have been understandable, given the circumstances.

10 Meredith

Meredith was fired twice, first for tampering with Derek's Alzheimer'south trial and so for insurance fraud. The first time she got fired, she and Derek were trying to adopt Zola. Her dismissal virtually cost them the adoption since the officer investigating their suitability as parents learned near what had transpired.

During the insurance fraud case, Alex, Richard, and Andrew all tried to aid her but they ended upwardly in trouble too. Though in that location was a real threat of Meredith losing her license and going to prison, she survived it all and managed to come back to work.

9 Dahlia Qadri

Dahlia became disgruntled afterwards Meredith'due south dismissal. She and Jo found themselves in a dilemma after Shirley Gregory, the patient they were working on, insisted on existence operated on by Meredith. Jo thus came up with the thought to video call Meredith during the surgery and then that she could assist.

After the surgery, Bailey plant Dahlia crying and upon asking her what the problem was, she aired out her frustrations regarding Meredith'south dismissal. She explained that Meredith was the reason she came to the Grey Sloan and that she wanted to learn from her, not just watch her from a TV screen. Instead of sympathizing with her, Bailey fired her, telling her that she and Meredith had something in common now.

8 Eliza Minnick

Eliza was brought in to revamp the surgical residency programme, but she ended upward getting fired for a mistake that wasn't related to her job description. After an oxygen tank explosion caused a burn at the hospital, Jackson instructed Eliza to tell the police that Stephanie was missing. However, Eliza forgot to exercise and so since she was preoccupied with getting the patients out of the building.

Though she did her best to defend herself, Bailey fired her, claiming the hospital didn't need robots who only followed protocols and couldn't brand alternative decisions.  Afterward being dismissed, she moved out of her apartment with Arizona and refused to talk to her.

7 Leah Tater

Leah openly admitted that she got into the surgical programme easily because of Marker Sloan, who had been romantically involved with her mother. Nonetheless, she had a hard time in the OR and she eventually got dismissed past Richard. The worst thing virtually Leah'south dismissal was that she had already heard rumors that someone was going to get fired.

Worried information technology might be her, she began stress-eating. Her fears were confirmed when Richard called her bated and told her that she was a proficient doctor but non a good surgeon. Luckily, she managed to redeem herself. Leah went on to work at Forster Hospital where she improved her skills significantly. She was and so rehired at Grey Sloan.

6 Vikram "Vik" Roy

Vik's dismissal was perhaps the most justified. When a patient named Tad came to the hospital with a nosebleed, Vik assumed it was nil serious. He parked him in a bed and promised to come up and check on him after.  Vik didn't check on him until five hours had passed and when he came dorsum, the patient was cough up blood.

Koracick stepped in to help and was shocked to detect out that Vik hadn't ordered any tests. Despite their best efforts, the patient died. And when Koracick asked Vik to call the time of death, he refused, claiming the responsibility wasn't his. What's funnier is that Vik idea Alex was giving him a day off when he told him not to come in the next mean solar day. In reality, he was getting fired.

five Teddy Altman

Dissimilar other firings, this one was linked to the bigger moving picture. As the Head of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Seattle Grace Mercy West, Teddy did a good task of mentoring Cristina during the final years of her residency. She also worked on a inquiry project involving stem cell regenerative middle medicine. This enquiry drew the attention of the US Ground forces Medical Command (MEDCOM).

MEDCOM approached her and offered her a job as Master Of Staff. Yet, she was reluctant to go. Knowing it was too skilful an opportunity to turn downwards, Owen decided to fire her so that she would have no choice only to take the job. Cristina realized what Owen had just done and thanked him for information technology.

4 Izzie

Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens went through the worst stages of her cancer simply only as she was looking forward to a brighter hereafter, she got fired during Seattle Grace'due south merger with Mercy W. Other doctors believed that she still needed to stay at home since work would put unnecessary stress on her. Izzie took this personally, believing it was all Alex'south fall.

She later came back to Seattle and Derek promised to rehire her if he was fabricated Chief. Unfortunately, she couldn't stand it when Alex told her he wanted something new. Izzie could besides have been fired earlier in the serial when she cut the LVAD wire. Luckily, she was only put on probation for this.

iii Megan Nowland

Megan started out as ane of Meredith's interns before becoming a resident at Seattle Grace. She was keen on being a pediatric surgeon just soon found herself amongst the doctors who were dismissed during the merger with Mercy Due west. Even worse, she wasn't told the news face to face. She knew virtually it through an email notification.

Angry, she opted to sue for wrongful termination. Megan believed her pregnancy was a cistron in her dismissal, as opposed to cost-cutting. Fighting for what you believe is right helps sometimes and Megan somewhen got her job dorsum subsequently Derek Shepherd was promoted Main of Surgery. Even meliorate, he promised her that she wouldn't be dismissed even if in that location were other cutbacks.

2 Alex Karev

Alex recently came close to losing his job at Grey Sloan when he assaulted Andrew. While his task at the popular hospital has by and large been secure, he had to bear with being fired from some other medical center. At one point, he temporarily quit his job at Grey Sloan and joined the Lebackes Pediatric Surgery Dispensary in order to make more money so he could pay off his college debts.

Sadly, Maggie Pierce accidentally messed this when she walked into an OR and mentioned that in that location were plans to make Alex a fellow member of the board. Upon hearing this, Oliver Lebackes fired him with firsthand issue. Luckily, the doors were still open at Grey Sloan and he was taken back as an attending pediatric surgeon.

1 April Kepner

April was kickoff fired during the incident in which a hotel fire brought hundreds into the ER. April forgot to cheque for soot in a patient's airway and the situation eventually turned tragic. Subsequently all the doctors were interrogated, April was constitute guilty of negligence and fired.

Though not technically a firing, Seattle Grace refused to give her a permanent job after she failed her lath exams in another incident. No other hospital was willing to take her either and so she moved dorsum to her parents' farm. Owen would later on come to get her and take her back to the hospital.

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