
The hostage situation prompting an evacuation of the OR floor forced most patients not to receive the treatments they needed in Grey’s Anatomy season 21’s ending. This heavily impacted the patient that Ben Warren was supposed to care for on his last day as a Grey Sloan resident. What happened almost exactly repeated one story from Grey’s Anatomy season 12.
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Bailey wanting to tell Warren that Altman wouldn’t be recommending the hospital to take him permanently as a resident in Grey’s Anatomy season 21 was reminiscing of a season 12 punishment for a similar situation Ben found himself in. Before moving to firefighting, Ben received a 6-month suspension in Grey’s Anatomy season 12 for performing a C-section with an intern.
What happened in Grey’s Anatomy season 21’s finale with the patient whose life he saved showed how much Warren had changed for the better.

Like any medical drama, Grey’s Anatomy also has some recurring things or storylines that end up getting repeated season after season, for good or bad.
Teddy realized she couldn’t trust Ben to follow orders during the heat dome when he didn’t turn away patients despite her direct orders to reroute ambulances somewhere else. While Ben never lost this tendency, what happened in Grey’s Anatomy season 21’s finale with the patient whose life he saved showed how much Warren had changed for the better.
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Warren operating on his patient in the ICU could be mistaken for yet another example of sheer disregard for the rules and the protocols, but Ben truly only had his patient’s safety in mind. This was reflected not only in the patient’s outcomes, who survived, unlike the mother in season 12, but also in how Ben approached the case.
Ben admitted to feeling remorseful after the events in Grey’s Anatomy season 12’s second half, not sharing something similar in season 21, where he was proud to have done everything he could have for his patient.
Bailey’s focus not to have her actions mistaken as preferential treatment influenced her reaction in both Grey’s Anatomy seasons 12 and 21. Yet, Miranda eventually realized she could have pushed to protect Ben more, not because he was her husband, but because she would have advocated similarly for any other resident, marking a massive change from season 12.
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Bailey realizing Warren was worthy of her fighting to defend his ability to continue as a resident at Grey Sloan came too late, as Teddy had already made up her mind. Simultaneously, Ben was right when he said he needed to make a name for himself alone, as his teachers would’ve only seen his worth as a surgeon that way.
Grey’s Anatomy season 21 is available to stream on Hulu domestically and Disney+ internationally.