Andrew DeLuca

Andrew (Andrea) DeLuca is a surgical intern at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.

Early Life
At a young age, he moved to the United States with his mother while his sister and father remained in Italy.

Work as an EMT
Right after high school, Andrew worked as an EMT. He said he loved it and it's what made him decide to go to medical school. His second call out was an MVC. He arrived to find a woman in the front seat bleeding from her neck. He was trying to stop the bleeding, but she was wailing, holding her dead toddler in her arms. That's when he decided not to go into peds.

First Day
On his way to his first day as an intern, Andrew came across the tunnel collapse. When Joan Paulson was extracted, he rode in with her in the ambulance. When they ran out of splints, he used his tie to stabilize her wrist. After Joan was taken into the hospital, he asked if he needed to fill out paperwork, but Owen, not knowing Andrew is an intern, said that he could do it later if he was okay jumping in and continuing to help.

Andrew was forced to admit that he was only an intern when Joan's neck dislocated and he didn't know how to help Stephanie fix it.

When the doctors realized they'd need to get Keith Gardner to an OR quickly so he wouldn't bleed to death, Andrew, along with the other interns, was posted along the path to clear the way. He then rounded out his first day by rounding on Joan Paulson, who was by then stable and expected to make a full recovery.

Housing
Because the other interns believed he had posed as an attending on purpose, they didn't want to live with him or be friends, so when Arizona Robbins posted about having a room available to rent, he jumped at the chance. She was initially suspicious, but said they could work it out.

Anatomy Class
Andrew attended Meredith's anatomy class.

Jade Bell
When Jade Bell collapsed and came to the hospital, Andrew wanted to page neuro after they stitched up her head. Later, when she collapsed in the hospital, Andrew was quick to take a door off its hinges to use as a backboard.

Communication Training
Seeing that the interns weren't well-trained in delivering bad news to patient families, Owen Hunt insisted that they all be trained. He taught them the four Ls (Location, language, body language, and leave) and informed them that they'd be telling the families of the people who died in the ER that day.

Beating by Alex Karev
When surgical intern Andrew DeLuca was helping Jo get into bed after a night of drinking, Alex walked in and saw Andrew on top of her. Assuming that Andrew was sexually assaulting her, Alex violently physically assaulted Andrew, leading to the former temporarily injuring his hand and the latter sustaining several critical injuries.

When Andrew decided to press charges, Alex and his attorney thought it was for a misdemeanor, but quickly learned that the state had upped the charge to felony assault. Alex pled not guilty.

Later, Alex went to the District Attorney's office to take a plea deal, but Andrew unexpectedly walked in and tried to drop all charges against Alex. When he was told that since the case belonged to the state, he could not do that, he threatened to sabotage the case, which the attorney said was "a slam dunk." Andrew walked out before Alex could understand why he decided to drop the charges. The two eventually had a conversation outside of the hospital in which Andrew says that he did it to protect Jo, and expressed frustration that Alex never apologized when he had the chance.

Personality
Andrew is very confident and easygoing.

Maggie Pierce
After not being able to save one of the twins, he ended up at the bar getting drunk with Maggie Pierce. She kissed him, and they ended up sleeping together.

The next day, she avoided him and then told him that it wouldn't be happening again. Despite this, they began kissing and had sex again.

After they had sex, Maggie had the repeated, urgent need to urinate, so she came back to the hospital. Because OB was understaffed, Andrew came in to examine her. She believed he may have given her an STI. After her exam, she and Andrew talked about how he didn't automatically assume that she gave him something, so she shouldn't automatically assume he gave her something and he said that she could get the test results later, but if she wanted to know anything about his history, she could ask or she could just trust him.

When Andrew touched her affectionately while working on a case, Maggie told him he couldn't do that anymore. They needed to keep it professional at work. She admitted to having feelings for him and asked if he could keep it professional at work. He said he could.

When an ambulance exploded in the ER, Maggie repeatedly paged Andrew. He found her and told her she needed to stop paging him so much, but she admitted she was worried about him, believing he'd been in the blast.

Shortly after they went public, Andrew became uncomfortable with the way things changed when people knew he was seeing an attending and he started to avoid her. When she confronted him, he ended things with her.

Familial
At a young age, he and his mother moved to the United States while his sister Carina stayed behind in Italy with their father. He is close to his parents. However, when he broke up with Maggie, he didn't tell them.

Alex Karev
He got off to a bad start with Alex, who mistakenly believed Andrew hated kids because he didn't want to work in peds. He was later attacked by Alex at Alex and Jo's apartment because Alex saw him on top of Jo when she was drunk. While Alex awaited trial for assault, the two avoided each other. The night before Alex's trial, he decided to take a plea deal to get two years, but before he could do so, Andrew came in and told the DA he wanted to drop the charges. When the DA said it wasn't his case to drop, Andrew said he'd say that it was all a misunderstanding that got out of hand, tanking the DA's case. Alex later apologize to Andrew for what happened, which is what Andrew wanted in the first place. When they had to work together, Alex asked if they were cool and Andrew assured him that they were.

Career
Andrew is a surgical intern at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. He decided to go to medical school after working as an EMT after high school.

Notes and Trivia

 * He says he has a lot of trouble getting to the second date because his first dates usually end in sex and then women seem to assume he's moved on.
 * Andrew doesn't know baseball.
 * Andrew has been said to have very confident hair.
 * Andrew is Italian and speaks Italian, like Giacomo Gianniotti himself.
 * Andrew's given name is Andrea.

Notable Episodes
These episodes are Andrew-centric or are otherwise very informative about his life.

Appearances
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