Grey's Anatomy Resorts to Recycling Diseases From Previous Seasons

Grey's Anatomy is one of the most famous long-running medical dramas on television today. Over the course of 19 seasons, it seems like the writers have given us almost everything they could.

Unimaginable life-saving stories, a lot of unexpected romance and character developments that were not always for the better.

But it seems that the writers are actually running out of ideas on how to make the patients of the show suffer.

Or maybe on the contrary, they are just trying to highlight how easy it is to catch even some nonsense disease and die unexpectedly and tragically from it. So everybody should be taking care of their health.

In the most recent episode of the show, we witnessed a truly heartbreaking development for Teddy. Her breakdown in episode 20 was both unexpected and devastating.

The only thing that had been bothering Teddy lately was her toothache. But the speed with which her illness progressed made her collapse a real mystery. But the show had seen someone collapse after a minor toothache in the past.

This happened in season 17 of the show when Byron Gibbis was found unconscious on his front porch.

He quickly became a symbol of how mental health affected people during the pandemic, even in cases where patients hadn't contracted Covid-19.

While Byron's fear of the virus almost led him to refuse treatment, he did end up at Grey Sloan Memorial for endocarditis. That infection got worse after he didn't go to the dentist for a toothache because of the pandemic.

While the circumstances of the two toothache collapses are somewhat different, there's still a connection between the two cases. And a good one at that.

Just as the medical staff helped Gibbis recover, they might be able to help Teddy, whose fate is now undecided.