Thread:Tooniee/@comment-10869127-20130725222826/@comment-5278765-20130725225351

Grey's Anatomy is a television show. It's a medical show, but it's TV. Which means it won't always (and frequently doesn't) mesh with reality. In the shows (and this wiki is about the shows, not medicine), there's a lot that gets ommitted and isn't a part of the canon because of the inevitable variations due to it being a television show. In the capacity of the show, Cristina, Alex, and Jackson are just fellows and they won't be shown doing surgeries outside their specialties outside of truly emergent situations.