Norman Shales

Dr. Norman Shales is a doctor at Seattle Grace Hospital.

Career
He first appeared as an elderly surgical intern assigned to first year resident Dr. Alex Karev. Dr. Shales is a former pharmacist who because of his age is often mistaken by patients as the senior physician. He has since transferred into Psych after collapsing in a surgery, following a stroke, requiring Dr. Shepherd to operate to remove the clot. He believes that it was his wife watching over him that allowed him to be treatment by some of the best surgeons in the world at the time of his stroke.