Mr. Patterson

Mr. Patterson is the husband of a patient whose heart was torn when Meredith popped through a glove with her fingernail.

Wife's Surgery
Mr. Patteron's wife had to have bypass surgery. During the surgery, Meredith fell asleep for a few seconds while holding her heart and squeezed the heart, popping through her glove with a fingernail. There was difficulty taking her off bypass, but they were able to stabilize her and close. Meredith later checked on her and she started bleeding from her incision site. Meredith panicked and confessed about popping through the glove in front of Mr. Patterson. While they rushed her back into surgery, Mr. Patterson contacted a lawyer.

In surgery, the discovered a large tear in her heart, much larger than a fingernail. Meredith went to talk to Mr. Patterson despite him saying that his lawyer had advised him not to speak to her. He said that his wife was in the best shape of her life. She'd recently lost 100 pounds. Meredith concluded that the extreme weight loss had caused the walls of her heart to become weakened as she lost muscle as well as fat. That's how the small poke from her fingernail became a large tear.

Romantic
He is married. He stayed by his wife's side as she was hospitalized.