He admitted he was blaming himself for the miscarriage as he figured it happened due to the stress that his job was causing her. Ben told her that he would quit for her but Miranda told him not to, as his job did stress him out, but she knew that this was what he wanted to do. She told Richard she had handled losing her best surgeons and friends but couldn't handle this loss of her daughter. Richard Webber has gone from being chief of surgery to being fired from the hospital to being a patient. In the season finale, a gunman enters the hospital, believing that the staff had failed his wife. Worried she might be right, Bailey fetched Maggie for a cardiac work-up, which revealed her heart was fine. She felt lonely without him when Tuck was at his father's and the fence needed some repair work. Security took him to Bailey's office, where Andrew quit his job rather than accept a suspension. During the point in time when Izzie Stevens, her former intern, and resident, was diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma that had spread to her liver, skin, and brain, Dr. Bailey was with her all the way, as her doctor and her friend. Later, Cormac Hayes informed Bailey that Joey was refusing to do his PT. Afterward, Bailey joined Taryn on an elevator to take Phoebe Moss up to the OR to procure her organs for Cece Colvin. When she was still a resident, Webber once pointed out that she disliked nearly every attending she worked under; the attendings take her seriously due to her formidable reputation as an excellent surgeon. She and her family live at 1017 Hawthorne Ave. Seattle, Washington 98105. On her first day back, Andrew updated her on all the injured resident. Her wedding got delayed because of Adele Webber, who had undergone emergency surgery, which was performed by Bailey. A week later, she witnessed as Catherine took Tom into a private meeting. After handing over Chief of Surgery to Meredith Grey last season, it was unclear if Miranda Bailey would be back. She enjoys extra thick strawberry milkshakes. She didn't want to go because people would congratulate her like it was all over, but she was not cancer-free. She convinced Bailey to buy the expensive C7500 TurboMix, pointing out the joy it would bring her. His time as a surgical resident had plenty of hiccups, though. Ben told her that he thought she wanted him to wait for her after she broke up with him and that she was unclear. Religion April is of Christian faith and always prays for her patients before going into surgery. [63], Bailey and Meredith operated on Adele, before returning to her wedding and tying the knot with Ben.[64]. Bailey told him they should talk. When she heard that there was a plane crash, she brought Zola to Meredith. Although Erica saved her son's life, she temporarily stopped the surgery until Bailey left and when Bailey asked Erica for help on a surgery, the whole day Erica was quite negative and kept putting Bailey down. Begrudgingly, she told him she was proud of him for standing up for himself like she had taught him. The character was created by series creator and producer Shonda Rhimes, and has been portrayed by actress Chandra Wilson since the show's inception in 2005. He later woke up with normal cognitive function.[54]. That was news to Bailey, though she stuck with her decision regarding Andrew. Ben responded to the call and after the penthouse was cleared, he offered Bailey a ride home on the aid car. After the meeting, she informed Richard of what Andrew had done, after which he ran off instead of joining her to the ER. Following the investigation, it was deduced that Dr. Bailey was contaminated with MRSA, an aggressive infection which resulted in the deaths of all three patients. He agreed to her offer and they hugged. "[7], USA Today TV critic wrote in 2006 that Emmy voters could consider Chandra Wilson because she adds "warmth and humor to Bailey without making her go all squishy. He told her that fixing the inside from the outside wouldn't work and that she needed to get real help. Miranda had some inhibitions, as she had only ever had sex with her ex-husband, she had a child, she was divorced, but Ben didn't care. Even though Arizona claims the Chief is the major factor in the decision, the implication of Addison's referral should make a much larger difference than any other doctor she could have, as Addison is a world-class neonatal surgeon, hopefully outranking most other letters of recommendation Bailey has. Bailey apologized and they agreed neither of them would make big decisions again without consulting the other. Bailey spent a great deal of time trying to save the residency program at Grey Sloan Memorial, at the risk of her own health. He told her he was on call on Christmas, so they might see each other in the pit. Maggie then planned to perform a keyhole procedure. After surgery, the two of them watched Joey sleep. They went inside and celebrated Valentine's Day in the bedroom. He thanked her for being a great teacher who also let him grow up. Chandra Wilson has received multiple nominations for her portrayal of Dr. Miranda Bailey. Bailey related to the feeling. Her new nickname is "BCB", which means Booty-call Bailey because of her frequent "contacts" with. While he thought that that was just the first step to a divorce, she desperately told him that she needed to try because she couldn't breathe every time she thought about him getting hurt. As they watched one mother with her baby in the NICU, Joey admitted he was impressed. In the ER, they came across Owen and Teddy rushing to save a pregnant woman. The reputation of Nazi precedes Bailey, and the "Nazi" is said to have ". Bailey later informed him of this. . The scene, suffice to say,. Together, they cried over their loss. Instead of not doing any work, he acted as an attending anesthesiologist which angered Miranda because she felt that he wasn't taking his probation seriously, but she couldn't do anything about it, as she wasn't in control over the anesthesiologist department. [11] Margaret Lyons of New York Magazine was happy with the evolution of Bailey and Torres' friendship in the first half of the ninth season, calling it "the one bright spot": "They joke, they tease each other, they offer sage love advice to one another, now that they're both on their second marriages. Their marriage was strained while he was at UCLA, but Ben came to Seattle to vist Miranda every once in a while. Ben told her to focus on the beauty of the world with him for a moment. He made her step back behind the tape. Ben operated on a man in the psych ward with a clipboard and operated on a pregnant women without proper consent in a hall and she died. She was told byMaggie that she was pregnant with her second child and perimenopausal . In Season 17, as Grey-Sloan treats patients for COVID-19, Bailey feels guilty as she has just moved her parents into a local nursing home. She then noticed he was building her that treehouse and promised she would never call time-out on them again. She appointed Andrew as Chief Resident to clean up the mess his girlfriend had made as he had failed to warn them about it before it came out. Later, Andrew confronted her about sidelining him, suspecting she did so because of his relationship with Meredith. After the break, Bailey barged into the room and talked about how Meredith had been breaking the rules since day one, and even though she deserved to be fired over it, she did not deem it fair for her license to be taken away. Dean Miller informed her that Ben was among the people inside though not hurt. She voiced her concerns over Andrew's behavior regarding Suzanne's case. Bailey is a fifth year resident now and at some point Bailey becomes chief resident after Callie fails at the job. Bailey scoffed at the idea and then informed him of her own marriage sabbatical. Later in the day, Bailey found Andrew in Richard's room. She launches a genome mapping program, and Meredith is the first one to test it. Bailey wanted to make recommendations but he turned her down, knowing she would recommend the people she had impulsively fired. At this Miranda broke down in tears hugged the Chief. She was mad upon finding out Andrew had taken off on foot to retrieve a donor liver at Seattle Pres and got upset with Link for discharging Joey in the middle of a blizzard. Bailey finds out Ben is trapped inside the bar. Arizona is said to have been extremely bright from a young age. He told her she was wasting his time by barking orders at him while she was not his Chief. Meredith found her and brought up Jo's plan to create a surgical innovation fellowship for her. She ran some tests to confirm. She hired Alex back and appointed him interim Chief and decided to fund Jo's fellowship with her own money from the TrailBlazer. After their marriage, Ben had gotten a surgical internship at UCLA and had to leave. Bailey lost her virginity to her ex-husband. Later, Ben quit his job because he felt he didn't see Miranda or Tuck, his stepson. Meredith found him in the OR about to cut himself open. At the end of the day, she tried to get Alex to give her her job back, but he had become good at it and insisted on finishing out the contract. That independence has certainly gotten in the way of her personal relationships. When Owen decided to step down as Chief of Surgery, Richard told Bailey she'd become his successor. Bailey is offended when Meredith violates the rules of the Alzheimer's clinical trial in order to help the Chief's wife. They produce human beings who know when not to follow the rules too strictly, which she came to realize Eliza couldn't do.[7]. Her fellow residents make fun of her which prompts her to break up with him. She found out that Ben had a burn, which he tried to hide from her. As Alex brought up his difficult past and his turning into the guy that Bailey had trusted to run her hospital and keep her secrets. Bailey shut down Meredith's suggestion to write a retraction since they never get read. She then told him that she was focusing so much on her physical health since the heart attack that she had neglected her mental health. It took some time for Bailey to notice, but Peds was in her interest. She had a hard time accepting that, unlike she and her colleagues had done for injured residents, there was nothing she or anyone else could try to save her. He said it is not as easy to get over as people make it seem, which is why he had developed a habit of lighting a candle on what would have been the kids' birthdays. is a fictional character from the medical drama television series Grey's Anatomy. She told him that it was a meeting and blew him off, so he just dropped her off and drove to his job. [58], But after the shooting at Seattle Grace, she broke off her relationship with him, saying she had to put herself back together. Bailey was doing well for a while, but her pressure dropped and Maggie inserted an intra-aortic balloon pump. [22], While Meredith was breaking the hospital's longest surgery record, Bailey helped out in the ER with the mass overdose victims. He also wrote that he had decided to stay in Baldwin City to complete the family Izzie had started by using their embryos to have twins. Maggie suggested it was hormonal and drew blood to run a full panel. 95. Bailey settled the "Dad" issue by telling Tuck to call Ben by his name again as it hurt his father's feelings. Andrew showed up with a cocky attitude, knowing she needed help, which didn't help to calm her down. She's afraid of snakes, large spiders, and sharks. [43], Together, they arrived in the ambulance bay as the trauma doctors took in the residents. Privately, she measured her blood pressure, which was way too high. She then begged Alex not to quit as she needed more time to straighten things out. At one point, before her very risky surgery, Izzie gave Bailey a green knitted scarf which she had made during her cancer treatment. "[10] Fellow Los Angeles Times critic, Carina MacKenzie, welcomed Bailey's "flirtation" with Ben (Jason George) because it was "nice to see her fun, flirty side" presented with a bit of humor after the deterioration of her relationship with Tucker. She had tried to ignore the voice of the patriarchy in her head telling her she couldn't rest because she was a woman, but she decided to listen to her own voice and take the sabbatical after all. The strength part is great because it really does make her a really good physician. While playing cards, Richard blanked and stopped playing. Afterward, Bailey went to see the parade in the peds ward and learned that Teddy had dressed up her babies as zombies, which made Bailey suggest she buy costumes next year.[39]. Why did Bailey and Eli . Bailey later witnessed Jackson put the hyperbaric chamber to good use to debride Nisha's wound in there for a better outcome. Travis Montgomery gave a speech to congratulate the pair though he ruined it by calling it a late-life pregnancy. She admitted she felt betrayed by someone she raised. [16], Despite their sabbatical, Ben returned to the house to board up the windows in preparation for the windstorm. Status Her son is born during a bomb scare at Seattle Grace while her husband is being treated in surgery for injuries from a car crash. Teddy was worried that she was a bad mother because she hadn't provided amazing self-made costumes for her kids. [48], Her unilateral decision angered Ben, who went to sleep on the couch. Afterward, she found a disappointed Dahlia crying in a hallway and found out that Dahlia resented her for firing Meredith, who was the sole reason she, like many others, had worked so hard to get herself matched to Grey Sloan. Miranda starts on a quest to cure fistulas and encounters a nurse, Eli, whom she starts dating. Contents 1 History 1.1 Early Life 1.2 Internship 1.3 New Interns 1.4 Pregnancy 1.5 Becoming Chief Resident 1.6 Interest in Peds 1.7 Izzie's Cancer and George's Death Bailey loses the post of Chief Resident to Callie Torres. He later became a firefighter, which scared Miranda as he was the one running into the fire, not running away. Much later than expected, Miranda and Ben got married. Bailey said the world is a scary place, no matter how well you raise your kids. While she was trying to get a hold of Ben, she came across Joe's bar, where the Station 19 crew was working to extract a car that had crashed into Joe's bar, trapping everyone inside. During a talk with Richard, they found out he thought Catherine had been at the Conference with him. Despite Evan's misguided attempts to spare Max from the pain, Max had found out that his mother was dying and he ran off into the city. He also appreciated the fact that people got to see "a softer side" of her while she kept "all the biting satire and sarcasm that made the character great. Then when Izzie cut Denny's L-VAD wire, Bailey really had a disliking for her. The board members voted and Bailey was appointed Chief of Surgery. Disillusioned by how little she can help patients as a surgeon, Bailey pushes to open a free clinic at Seattle Grace. Also like the next episode she got a seat on the board just because the parents chose not to sue, but bailey didn't get any consrquences for her actions. At home, she told Ben about having found joy that day and how Tom was shocked in the nads by Owen, which made her laugh. Ben gave her a pep talk to go find herself joy. He is the father of twins, Alexis and Eli, with his ex-wife and current partner, Izzie Stevens. They become engaged nonetheless, and new interns at Seattle Grace-Mercy West refer to her as BCB ("Booty Call Bailey"): whenever Ben is in town she is giddy and has sex with him as much as possible. The medication was effective and she was cleared to return to surgery. When Ben told her that he was going to be a firefighter, Bailey began to ignore him and their relationship was strained. Her first marriage to George collapsed after the intern left her for his best friend, Izzie. Bailey had to assist to repair a bleeding but Jo pulled it off successfully. She was criticized for the events at a Morbidity and Mortality conference, with one colleague questioning outright her competence at juggling career and motherhood. At the end of season five/beginning of season six Bailey becomes a first year attending. While her confidence has been somewhat restored since then, she still feels bad about not spending enough time with her son, once making a late-night call to sing "God Bless the Child" to him. When they were on the plane, which was transporting her, Richard, and the sedated plane crash victims to Seattle, she said that she wished they sedated her too.[4]. Much to her dismay, she discovered that a display with pictures from all past and present Chiefs had been installed in the cafeteria, with Alex's picture last. Miranda Bailey, a graduate of Wellesley College, is an attending general surgeon. Afterward, Bailey and Ben lied down on top of the engine and talked about their baby possibly being a girl. They gathered the top attendings, who all agreed to quit unless Tom agreed to their terms. She's really good at her job and she continues to evolve and she continues to look at ways to be 'value added' at the hospital and is incredibly independent. The crew got everyone out. Her mother (Elena) was very protective of her because she had lost another daughter before Miranda Bailey. Bailey was the first character to appear in every Grey's Anatomy Universe show. Debbie got her coffee, but she got her revenge and had Bailey do scut for an entire month.[1]. Later, she was approached by both Ben and Teddy with concerns about Jo's wellbeing. She then received a reassuring text from Ben to tell her he was safe and she broke down crying. As soon as they arrived, the guests gathered for a speech, but that was interrupted by Owen and Tom's fight and a supposed fire in the kitchen. Later, she came to him in nothing but a trench coat and thong and proposed to him, but they didn't immediately get engaged because Ben told her he was offered a surgical internship at UCLA. Richard later visited Bailey in her office and she explained to him that she wasn't giving him the job because she didn't want to add to his plate with his struggles after Ollie's death. At the end of the day, Ben and Bailey left together. While she was talking about his poor survival odds, he told her she was bleeding. After things ended with Eli, she got back together with Ben. Bailey then told Meredith she could have her job back, which Meredith accepted. Due to an order to shut down the elevators, Dr. Bailey is unable to get Charles to an operating room to perform the surgery he needs. She had also written Ben's name on the presents she had got Tuck herself, but she promised to also give him Ben's gifts. He told her he was bone tired, which she said sounded like depression. Andrew aggressively objected to the decision, but Bailey told him to walk away before saying something he would come to regret. She cried over the ultrasound pictures before heading home. Izzie was not her favorite in the beginning. While in her residency, she was known as The Nazi to her interns, due to her tough and no-nonsense personality. is a fictional character from the medical drama television series Grey's Anatomy. She informed him that Alex had left everyone behind to be a father. Bailey Never Checked In When George & Arizona Cheated When it came to love, Callie didn't have the best of luck in that department. She cares about her patients and is a committed surgeon. Later that season, Miranda Bailey gets hospitalized due to a heart attack. For instance, Bailey stayed by Cristina during her pregnancy scare and her initial recovery; she also held Izzie's hand when Izzie was giving bone marrow for her daughter. Bailey hushed Andrew when he objected in the OR and later made him step in when there was bleeding from the suture line. Maggie later came by with her blood results. Since Bailey started to panic, Jo had her recite Tuck's bedtime routine as a baby, which surprisingly helped. Bailey told him she had other services cover their absence and joined Andrew in Suzanne's room. He told her that she had told him to follow his bliss, but then she turned on him and left him over it. She also confirmed a list of incidents involving Meredith to be true. As a resident, Bailey was well-known amongst the attendings for being no-nonsense and unafraid to call them out for what she perceives to be ineptitude. In season 4, Bailey decides to back up Callie Torres in her post of Chief Resident, which the Chief observes. After Teddy's husband Henry Burton dies, the trial was not mentioned again. Minister of Canadian Heritage and Quebec Lieutenant Pablo Rodriguez will also be in attendance. Bailey called him into her office and told him Meredith would be taking over the case from him so he could finally sleep. Following the investigation, Dr. Bailey became reclusive and refused to operate, testing herself repeatedly for MRSA. In season 9, an investigation takes place on Bailey after three of her patients contracted an infection and died. Bailey had been warned Catherine might try to ditch her party, but she couldn't resist the party. She won a 2007 Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance in the show's third season. Everyone was evacuated. Ben convinced her not to back down. Miranda Bailey of all people should know that. April also impresses Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd) and she is ultimately granted the position of Chief Resident in the season seven finale.. What episode does Bailey become Chief resident? She had noticed the residents had been sulking around since she fired the three attendings, so she reminded them that she shaped Alex and Meredith into the surgeons they are today and offered to shape them, too. Bailey later admitted that she thought she would have eventually become Chief of Surgery after him.[65]. Bailey felt very hot and Jo suggested that her heart was in distress because of the stress caused by the article. She then also discovered that Alex had been handing off paperwork to the interns. She has also been praised for her performance in Grey's Anatomy at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, receiving three nominations along with the other cast members for "Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series" each year from 2006 to 2008, with the 2007 Awards marking a victory. She wanted to have time to innovate and fall in love with the OR again and spend more time with her loved ones. She then said it was a matter of luck that Alex became the person that he is today. Disillusioned by how little she can help patients as a surgeon, Bailey decided to open a free clinic at Seattle Grace. She told him it was not his fault, pointing out that it happened when he wasn't on duty. He told her he would handle it and started throwing stuff on the ground as she left. Chief Webber realized that she was the one doing the amazing work, and as such gave her the position of Chief Resident. Did Derek actually cheat on Meredith? Instead, his colleagues formed a human chain around him, indicating they thought of him as the danger, while he yelled at them in an attempt to make them see things his way. She says she was the only female intern in her year, but she was the best and she won the first solo surgery. Bailey later pursueda new project of genome mapping that will arm doctors the necessary information to treat diseases at the source rather than treating the symptoms as they arise.