<P> In season 14 Meredith is doing surgery to remove a women's spleen when the computers and whole hospital (including lights and AC) are hacked into . Meredith removes the women's spleen but weeks later the patient comes back in with the same symptoms . They scan the patient to find she has produced mini spleens . This inspires her for her next research project . She gets chosen to continue her project by the Grey Sloan research contest . However Meredith needs a polymer that is patented by a man in Europe . Meredith learns the man has died a week before his meeting . She then meets his daughter who she recognizes as her "aunt" Ellis' former best friend . To give Meredith access to the polymer she demands that the Grey method be renamed for Ellis and her and as was a key part and Ellis cut her out . Meredith refuses and looks for other polymers to continue her project . </P> <P> Pompeo discovered Grey's Anatomy after an extended period of doing nothing in the acting profession . Her agent suggested she audition amongst other projects . While casting actresses for the part of Meredith Grey, series' creator Shonda Rhimes said: "I kept saying we need a girl like that girl from Moonlight Mile, and after a while, they were like,' We think we can get that girl from Moonlight Mile .' I spent time with her and got to know her, and then we started casting for the men ." She reported that Grey was not an easy role to cast because of the strong verbal possibilities . Rhimes was informed that the actress in question was Pompeo, who had a deal in place with ABC, having previously tested for a pilot show on the network . It has been speculated that Pompeo was the first character to be cast, but when asked, she said she did not know of this . When asked of how she created Pompeo's character, Rhimes said: </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> "(I was) in my pajamas at home, which is where I spent a lot of time writing . I kept asking myself,' What kind of woman should the heroine be?' I thought she should be someone who had made some big mistakes . As it turns out, Meredith also has another problem: She is trying to live up to her mother's renowned career in surgery . Meredith is the daughter of a mother who basically never spent any time with her--the daughter of a mother who now has Alzheimer's and doesn't even remember her ." </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> "(I was) in my pajamas at home, which is where I spent a lot of time writing . I kept asking myself,' What kind of woman should the heroine be?' I thought she should be someone who had made some big mistakes . As it turns out, Meredith also has another problem: She is trying to live up to her mother's renowned career in surgery . Meredith is the daughter of a mother who basically never spent any time with her--the daughter of a mother who now has Alzheimer's and doesn't even remember her ." </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr>

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