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Warning ! SPOILERS about Grey ’s Anatomy season 19 , episode 12 ahead . While the shocking result ofGrey ’s Anatomyseason 19 , episode 11 and 12 majorly hit other characters , Mika Yasuda ’s chemical reaction hinted at a storyline play up a important change in how interns reply to disgraceful situations in the medical drama . Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital was never a alien to attacks and disasters , and many of those assume out several Doctor of the Church in the Seattle infirmary . While the slay - and - prevail in effect targeted only Addison and OB / GYN trainer Tia , witness the event after a day spent fend off anti - abortion protesters outside the clinic have a price on Yasuda , whose response deeply differed from those of previous houseman who found themselves in similar crisis .

When face with unpredictable and life-threatening berth , previous interne often demonstrate reckless and rash , with Meredith tuck her hand in a patient to keep a bomb calorimeter stable inGrey ’s Anatomyseason 2 , which was the most strikingly gooselike response . When put on the fleck , phallus of MAGIC and more late houseman all tended to exhibit dopy bout of valor . Instead , Yasuda ’s response inGrey ’s Anatomyseason 19 , instalment 12 went the diametric means , pointing to Mika ’s ego - preservation rather than an inclination to do something recklessly brave .

Yasuda Freezing Shows Grey’s Anatomy’s Season 19 Interns' Are Different

Yasuda ’s shock hints atGrey ’s Anatomy ’s fresh interns ’ pragmatism over their predecessors ’ heroics . Her being seemingly okay but then ineffectual to continue working because she was overtaken by fearfulness highlighted Yasuda ’s entirely unlike approach to disasters shoot Grey Sloan Memorial , one perchance more realistic than Meredith ’s preceding gutsy deed of conveyance . Yasuda ’s admission that she did n’t know how to deal with the violent tone-beginning because the victims could have been any of them and her fear of not being cut out to be a surgeon because she freeze in action proved she had a human response , the reverse to the proactive heroic meter of her houseman predecessors .

Richard acknowledge Yasuda ’s freeze as a natural human reaction to a traumatic issue also highlighted a alteration in how Grey Sloan ’s giving medication dealt with the interns being in harm ’s way . After all , Meredith grabbing the turkey inGrey ’s Anatomyseason 2 was never celebrated but never punished . Richard ’s words of support to Mika Yasuda hint at things exchange enough at Grey Sloan that heroic are n’t needfully carry . rather , fear - induced self - preserving reactions are viewed as the norm .

Yasuda’s Story Highlights Grey’s Anatomy’s Troubling History With Hotheads

Grey ’s Anatomy ’s preceding interns could do whatever unsafe thing they imagine of , conscious that they would n’t necessarily endure the consequences of move that way . FromGrey ’s Anatomyseason 5 ’s interns who would operate on themselves , frustrated that they could n’t on patient , to Meredith , Cristina , George , and Izzie cutting Denny ’s LVAD wire inGrey ’s Anatomyseason 2 , Grey Sloan has a long history of being lenient with hotheads , especially if their intentions were n’t nefarious . This was true even with more recent whipping , like Schmitt ’s Webber method operating theater that terminate with one patient dead .

Having Richard support Yasuda showed that Grey Sloan Memorial does n’t let its intern and resident treat their loss and harm alone inGrey ’s Anatomyseason 19 . Indeed , even if Schmitt did n’t realize what state Yasuda was in , Richard Webber did , offering her a helping hand that was almost all inexistent for previous interne . This way , Grey ’s Anatomyseason 19 fundamentally showed Grey Sloan Memorial change how it deal its intern and house physician in demand .

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Ellen Pompeo as Meredith Grey in Grey’s Anatomy S2 and Midori Francis as Mika Yasuda in Grey’s Anatomy S19

James Pickens Jr. as Richard Webber and Midori Francis as Mika Yasuda in Grey’s Anatomy S19

Ellen Pompeo as Meredith Grey and Sandra Oh as Cristina Yang in Grey’s Anatomy S2

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