The Amelia Story of Grey’s Anatomy Season 21 Was Honored 1 of Derek Shepherd’s Best Case 15 Years Ago

Warning! Spoilers about Grey’s Anatomy season 21, episode 3 ahead.

Meredith and Amelia’s Alzheimer’s research in limbo refocuses Amelia’s attention on a difficult surgery, mirroring and honoring one of Derek’s cases of Gray’s Anatomy
Season 6. Since Catherine and Meredith stopped talking about Amelia and Meredith’s Alzheimer’s research To treat the lesions on Catherine’s liver, Amelia’s working days became emptyJust returned to Gray Sloan Gray’s Anatomy Season 20’s mass firings and not focusing every moment on Alzheimer’s research. The case Teddy brought Amelia into Gray’s Anatomy Season 21, episode 3 made Amelia’s day around because of the positive result they achieved beating the insurmountable odds.

Although Derek and Amelia had already spent some time together at Gray Sloan, working simultaneously as neurosurgeons at Gray’s Anatomy Seasons 10 and 11, their relationship is always complicated. Indeed, While Amelia was always a formidable neurosurgeon in her own right, she often felt like she was in Derek’s shadow.Even if Derek brought her to Seattle to take over his old job. Derek’s death nevertheless made things difficult, simultaneously making it impossible for Amelia to work through her Derek-related confidence problems as he was alive and making her feel bad about the findings of her and Meredith’s research.

Amelia’s Grey’s Anatomy Season 21 Case Mirrors Derek’s “Perfect” Tumor in Season 6

Derek’s Impossible Surgery Saved Isaac’s Life Grey’s Anatomy Season 6 Episode 7

If Amelia’s last memories of Derek were always in relation to her groundbreaking research with Meredith erasing Derek’s Alzheimer’s work, Gray’s Anatomy Season 21, episode 3 finally gave Amelia the opportunity to push the surgical boundaries in a similar way as her brother. Only 15 years earlier. The impossibility of Rhianna’s operation was very different from Isaac’s Gray’s Anatomy Seasons 6, episode 7, but it still seen Amelia put her patient’s wishes first, just as Derek did when he approached his “perfect” tumor without cutting the cord In “Give peace a chance.”

Derek’s revolutionary surgery on Isaac was successful, as he removed the “perfectTumor without leaving Isaac forever impaired, just as he asked him. However, it briefly cost Derek his job, as Richard fired him once he realized that Derek disobeyed him to try the impossible surgery. Amelia’s approach and outcome are diametrically opposed, because not only the boss has brought her the case, but Teddy also wanted Amelia to try everything for her patient, helping her become a reference for pregnant patients whose cases other neurosurgeons said no to.Making Amelia’s name even bigger Gray’s Anatomy Seasons 21.

Amelia makes up for destroying Derek’s research with her surgeries in Grey’s Anatomy Season 21

Consider “Impossible“Surgeries that other neurosurgeons have said no to make Amelia effectively follow in her brother Derek’s footsteps After her groundbreaking Alzheimer’s research with Meredith destroyed the findings of those who came before them, including Derek. While Amelia and Meredith had already rationalized that Derek would want them to continue their promising research even if it disapproved of his work, Giving a chance to risky cases can make Amelia feel closer to Derek, because he wouldn’t back down from a challenge, especially if that’s what the patient asked for.

With Amelia and Meredith’s research temporarily stalled by Catherine’s liver lesions, Amelia can return to making a name for herself as a neurosurgeon, this time following her big brother’s example. This could help Amelia finally come out of the shadow of the shepherd name Gray’s Anatomy season 21, Bring her closer to her brother Derek by honoring his work as a surgeon, even if another part of Amelia’s work effectively made Derek’s findings obsolete As you and Meredith’s Alzheimer’s research seemed to do in Gray’s Anatomy.

Gray’s Anatomy Season 21 releases new episodes every Thursday at 10pm ET on ABC.