‘Grey’s Anatomy’: 10 Worst Doctors, Ranked
Some Grey’s Anatomy surgeons are renowned for their Catherine Fox Award-level surgical skills, their caring bedside manner, and their collegial spirit. These are not those surgeons.
The MDs here, in fact, are our picks for the ABC medical drama’s worst doctors — because they have no business being in an operating room, exhibit crude or even criminal behavior, or sow discourse in the hospital. To the docs below, it wasn’t long before we said, “Pack your 10-blades and go.”
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10. Robert Stark (Peter MacNicol)
He stole Alex’s (Justin Chambers) ping pong idea. He didn’t respond to Meredith’s (Ellen Pompeo) many pages. He tried ratting on Arizona (Jessica Capshaw). And he acted passive-aggressive when April (Sarah Drew) rebuffed his advances. Robert Stark was Seattle Grace Mercy West’s head of pediatrics, but he was basically a child himself.
9. Margaret Campbell (Faye Dunaway)
By the time we meet Seattle Grace’s first female surgeon, she’s only doing the occasional routine surgery, and one goes awry when she nicks a bile duct. Rather than acknowledging her mistake in stride, “Her Highness” Margaret gets defensive, and her colleagues practically have to wrest the scalpel from her hand.
8. Lauren Boswell (Hilarie Burton)
As a superstorm battered Seattle, this craniofacial surgeon wreaked emotional havoc at the hospital. Lauren flirted with Arizona — even while knowing that Arizona was married to Callie (Sara Ramirez) and even after Arizona told her not to. Calzona’s days were numbered, and arguably, it was Lauren’s fault.
7. Eliza Minnick (Marika Domińczyk)
Sure, she’s a double-board certified orthopedic surgeon, but she was also an educational consultant who started a civil war at the hospital, put Stephanie (Jerrika Hinton) on a start-to-finish surgery that resulted in a patient’s death, and then unwittingly put Stephanie in charge of babysitting an attempted rapist.
6. Colin Marlow (Roger Rees)
It had been years since his professor-student relationship with Cristina (Sandra Oh), and yet this chief-of-surgery candidate still gives her an unsolicited butt squeeze when he meets her again? And then when she rejects him, he gets all whiny, saying the job of chief was beneath him anyway? Good riddance.
5. Sadie Harris (Melissa George)
We meet a hitherto-unmentioned ex-BFF of Meredith’s. OK, fine. They have nicknames for each other, “Die” and “Death,” that are kind of a stretch. Sure. But then Sadie has another intern do an unsanctioned appendectomy on her for practice? And Sadie’s medical knowledge has been sub-par all along? Sadie had to go.
4. Vikram Roy (Rushi Kota)
First this intern lies about being high on weed cookies because he wants to scrub in on a surgery. Then he gets fired. Then he gets his job back after claiming wrongful termination. Then he neglects a nosebleed patient who later dies. Alex was right for firing this guy a second time. If only the first firing had stuck!
3. Paul Castello (Mike McColl)
In Season 11, this was the Dillard Medical Center doc who opted against giving Derek (Patrick Dempsey) what would have been a life-saving CT scan, ignoring Penny’s (Samantha Sloyan) protests and sealing McDreamy’s fate. Then, in Season 16, he chairs Meredith’s licensure hearing and acts just as arrogant. (Despite all that, Mer still tries to save his life when he has a seizure.)
2. Jason Myers (Charles Michael Davis)
Alex called this OB/GYN “super douche” and “assface,” and that was before he learned that the guy abused Jo (Camilla Luddington), his girlfriend at the time. Jason gave her a black eye during one of her fights, and he had the gall to want to call the cops on her.
1. Paul Stadler (Matthew Morrison)
Before Jo Wilson was Jo Wilson, she was Brooke Stadler, the wife of this abusive general surgeon, who stalked her to Seattle. In addition to being scum of the earth, Paul must have been a bad doctor, too, since he ignored medical advice after a car accident and fatally struck his head on his own hospital bed.
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