The kind, sweet Lexie Grey remains one of the most beloved and missed characters on Grey's Anatomy. Lexie joined Seattle Grace in season 4, her entrance in the final moments of the season 3 finale mirrored her older half-sister Meredith's first episode, it was Lexie who met Derek in the bar this time, oblivious to who he was.
Lexie was gone too soon in one of the most devastating character deaths in the series. She was still a resident when she died, but fans like to think that she would have been a great surgeon one day. The terrible plane crash robbed her of a bright future both as a surgeon and a person, but one wonders what kind of doctor she would really have made. After all, Lexie Grey wasn't without flaws either.
10 Is: She Is Very Compassionate
Lexie is one of the sweetest and most gentle individuals to have graced Seattle Grace and although she had her petty moments, she was in general, a very compassionate person.
Being soft-hearted, she would have made a doctor who cared deeply for her patients. A doctor with compassion is definitely someone patients would put their faith in.
9 Isn’t: She Is Prone To Get Too Attached
Unfortunately, Lexie was perhaps too soft-hearted and she ran the risk of being the next Izzie Stevens.
She was the kind of person who would have found it difficult to detach herself from her patients, especially the ones she took a liking to. For instance, in the short span of time that she worked at Seattle Grace, she got attached to the patient Nick Hanscom with the giant tumor in his carotid artery. He was left in Lexie’s charge and the two flirted subtly, so when Nick died horribly, she was shattered. Of course, any humane person would have felt the loss deeply, but Lexie might have felt it a tad too acutely.
8 Is: She Connects Well
Lexie was not only compassionate, she was also friendly, with a lovely bedside manner, and patients would feel comfortable with her around.
She had a way of getting into the patients’ lives, in a way that she understood would also help their decisions regarding their own health. For instance, she helped Derek’s patient, Justine Campbell, the author who refused to get her aneurysm clipped until she had finished her novel. Realizing that this was important to her, Lexie offered to take down dictations to complete the novel until Justine felt ready.
7 Isn’t: She Gets Overly Stressed
One of Lexie's character traits is that she is anxiety-prone and gets too stressed too soon. She also stress eats to handle emotional pressure.
A doctor's life is marred by stress at every step. From advising patients correctly to prescribing and administering the right drugs to precision in surgery, human life is often solely in a doctor's hands and that could get very scary very fast. Lexie would have needed to get a handle on her stress better if she wanted to make it as a top surgeon.
6 Is: She Has A Photographic Memory
Lexie Grey had a photographic memory, she could remember exactly anything she had read years ago, a trait that would have most certainly come in very handy in her career as a physician.
When the patient Barry was admitted with inexplicable pain, it was Lexie who recalled reading an article that might throw some light on her patient's acute pain. It was she who eventually diagnosed that Barry needed an ENT, which Mark was, and was even praised by Derek who wasn't one to throw out praise until he felt they were well-deserved.
5 Isn’t: She Got Herself Into A Mess
Lexie got herself into a major mess when she tried to operate on the fellow intern Sadie Harris in an unauthorized surgery which the interns got themselves into to get more hands-on practice.
Lexie was trying to take out Sadie's appendix and while she started out fine, she soon realized that she was in over her head and needed a senior, more experienced resident or attending to help her out. It was Cristina who had to save Sadie in the end. Since the whole thing was done without the authority's knowledge or consent, Lexie would have been in a lot of trouble had Sadie really died. And that did not bode well for a surgeon. This incident also proved that she was willing to live dangerously when it came to rules, another trait one isn't eager to have in a doctor.
4 Is: She Is Eager To Learn
Lexie was eager to learn and in spite of her soft-hearted approach, she might have made an excellent surgeon with nerves of steel in time.
She was picked out by Derek and was making strides in neurosurgery. She was a keen student and with more training of which she was robbed due to her untimely death, Lexie Grey could have been on her way to being an exceptional neurosurgeon, mentored by Derek himself.
3 Isn’t: She Needed To Speak Up More
Lexie was not just soft-hearted and kind but also too soft-spoken and excessively polite. She found it hard to speak up and took some time initially to make a mark for herself.
She allowed Sadie to talk her into something she knew could be potentially life-threatening and unethical. She was also pulled up by Cristina for being too low profile and for not knowing for sure. In her own OR, Lexie would have needed to have better control and couldn't have allowed anyone to railroad her.
2 Is: She Would Have Been Devoted
Lexie would have been a committed, devoted surgeon. In her own low-profile way, she didn't give up easy, and that is always desirable in a doctor.
It was Lexie who finally got through to the 'Ceviche' girl, Clara Ferguson, who went through a horrific ordeal after both her hands were amputated and had to be reattached and one of her legs also had to be cut off to save her life after a speed boat accident. Lexie became her support system under Cristina's orders and gradually managed to get her to respond even as the latter went into depression and refused further surgeries that the doctors advised.
1 Isn’t: She Needed Better Sensitivity Training
Unfortunately, in spite of all her gentle ways, she unwittingly ended up hurting patients at times. She reacted instinctively to the man with the 'tree man' disease instead of keeping her natural expressions under control for propriety's sake.
It would never do for a doctor on whom a patient relies completely to behave in any manner that is deemed inappropriate or insensitive, and Lexie needed to realize that. However, it's easy to imagine that she would have had ample time to work on this had she lived.
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