I have been on a Grey’s Anatomy binge recently, and as the class was progressing talking about medical neglect people of color have consistently received, Grey’s Anatomy was actively covering it on their episodes. I believe it was on like season 17 during the George Floyd protests. Since those episodes, coverage continued, more representation for other races and their struggles came out. And I was able to learn from those episodes. Their was an episode about a 12 year old kid who came in because he got shot by police at his own home. The kid had lost his key and was trying to climb in using the window. The police saw him and shot him. The kid was conscious at the hospital but died later in the episode. Afterwards, the doctor spoke with a couple of police officers, and the officers claimed that it was a judgement call, which pissed the doctor off (understandably so) because it was not a judgement call, he made a choice to kill that boy. Overall, they do a decent job covering racial issues on the show especially in later seasons, where they show how big events in the real world can affect people. There is another part where a lot of black people were going to protests after George Floyd got murdered. At the end of that episode, a bunch of the patients coming into the hospital as well as the black doctors showed off their scars from past protests and movements. However, they weren’t victimizing themselves, it was powerful. There is a lot more I can add, like there was another episode about an Asian patient who came into the hospital and died because the disease he had wasn’t common for white people, but moreso for Asians. They went into the detail the idea of the importance of considering race when it comes to medical evaluations, there isn’t a textbook method to diagnose and treat someone.

I’ve also been binge watching Grey’s Anatomy since I started college and I’m only on season 8. I still have a long way to go but I totally agree on the coverage of real world issues and how the show covers them. So far the most recent one I remember was the gun-violence topic they touched on for a few episodes. How the depicted officers were barely doing anything, the fear and cries of victims and doctors hiding for their lives but also simultaneously keeping the oath they took and doing the best to care for their patients under hard circumstances during the lock down. There was so much raw emotion, accuracy, you could really see the message they were trying to send through these few episodes as a stance against gun violence.
Hello! Big Grey’s Anatomy fan here, I love how they represent problems in our societies. A scene that really stuck with me was when one of the doctors was stopped by the police for no reason and was searched thoroughly. It really aggravated me because I’m not black and never thought this could happen. I am, however, a hijabi woman, and I did not really enjoy how Grey’s portrayed their only hijabi resident. I think a lot of TV shows have no idea how to represent muslims/hijabis, so they represent them in terribly inaccurate way.