Olive Warner

Olive Warner is a patient at Seattle Grace Hospital and AA sponsor of Richard Webber.

Getting Richard Sober
When Richard became an alcohol after Ellis Grey left him, Olive's the one who sobered him up. She sponsored him through AA.

When she learned that Richard was seeing Ellis again, she warned him off it, saying that he was having an emotional affair with the person who drove him to drink in the first place.

TIPS Procedure
Olive had a TIPS procedure that failed.

Bleeding
A month after her procedure, she came into the ER with upper GI bleeding. Her TIPS procedure had failed. She was on the transplant list, but her cirrhosis was so severe that she needed help to wait for one.

Richard told her she needed a portacaval shunt, which had a 50% survival rate. He'd done nine before, with four surviving. She said it was perfect because she'd be five out of ten. She had the surgery and survived it.

Richard Webber
She is very close with Richard Webber. She was his sponsor for AA when he got sober the first time.

Gretchen
She referred to Gretchen as her new baby, a woman who had been sober for six months.

Notes and Trivia

 * She held an AA meeting in her hospital room.