Dr. Taylor

Doctor Taylor was an anesthetist who worked at Seattle Grace Hospital in Season One.

It known (and apparently tolerated by some) that he often drank at work, bourbon being his apparent drink of choice.

When George O'Malley's patient Jamie, a two year old girl had a Hemispherectmy performed by Derek Shepherd Taylor congratulated George saying that it was a "big day for you kid" meaning this was probably George's first time scrubbing in on a major surgery. However George smelled alcohol on Taylor's breath which was confirmed by another employee who smelt it too. George spoke up and tried to do the right thing however Taylor appealed to Derek to kick George out of the OR which he did. Derek told Taylor that he "better be ready" and Taylor said he was. After Cristina replaced George in the surgery Derek noticed that Jamie's anesthesia was getting light and that she was waking up. Cristina then realised that Taylor was asleep. After waking up he corrected the anasthesia only to be ordered to leave by Shepherd and be replaced with Dr Pennington.

Taylor only appeared in one episode although it is likely that he was fired or disciplined due to his drinking.

Taylor seemed to be on good terms with Derek as he called him "Shep"

Taylor liked to do crossword puzzles during the downtime on his job.