Greg Bevell

Greg Bevell was a patient who was admitted to Seattle Grace/Mercy West with a large brain tumor. Hospitalization: After standing down as Chief of Surgery, Greg Bevell was Derek's first patient. Greg's brain tumor was unique in that it had 'mushroomed' from its original site and required a heavy duty surgery to remove it. Derek proposed dividing Greg's jaw, pallet and tongue in order to access the tumor. Greg was warned about the extent of the surgery and that recovery would be painful. The surgery commenced with Mark dividing the tongue, jaw and pallet assisted by Callie. Once this was done, Derek was able to reach the tumor and successfully remove it. As Andrew Perkins had not let cleared Meredith for surgery following the trauma of Gary Clarke's massacre, she was very resentful that April Kepner was able to scrub in with Derek. Both Richard and Hunt declared that they had never seen a surgery do so much damage, Hunt saying that explosives in Iraq had done less damage. After waking up from the surgery, the pain overwhelmed Greg and his mother called Derek in a panic. Derek noted that the pain was a "healing pain" and was good in that it meant they had won the battle against the tumor; Greg appeared to take comfort from this revelation.