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Originally appeared on E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n If we stayed up with you all night, rest assured we’re probably watching Grey’s Anatomy<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n The heart-stirring ABC medical drama is in its 22nd season, the unsettling death count among the doctors at Seattle Grace deterring neither patients nor more bright, hot medical minds from joining the staff since the show’s 2005 premiere.<\/p>\n And the doors keep revolving<\/a>, with Ellen Pompeo<\/strong><\/a>, Chandra Wilson<\/strong> and James Pickett Jr.<\/strong> the only remaining stars from season one, though Meredith Grey’s physical presence hasn’t been a constant since 2022.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve been doing it for 20 years, so it was time to step away,” Pompeo, who’s also an executive producer, told El Pais<\/a><\/em> in April<\/a>. “I\u2019m very lucky to be able to get to work sometimes and take time off.”<\/p>\n But if anyone could use more paid vacation time, it’s Meredith, who has suffered every professional and personal slight imaginable on the road to becoming a fairly content chief of surgery, Alzheimer’s disease researcher and widowed mother of three who does<\/em> still believe in love.<\/p>\n Still rolling with the punches on a weekly basis are Drs. Bailey, Webber, Owen, Altman and their fellow trauma survivors, er, surgeons who keep scrubbing in day after day.<\/p>\n More from E! Online<\/strong><\/p>\n Still rolling with the punches on a weekly basis are Drs. Bailey, Webber, Owen, Altman and their fellow trauma survivors, er, surgeons who keep scrubbing in day after day.<\/p>\n