Cristina Yang was one of the most promising residents out of all the original Grey's Anatomy interns, but she wasn't the easiest person to deal with. Often selfish and aggressively competitive, Cristina had terrible bedside manners that didn't go down well with patients. She was also rude and tended to treat people with disdain, which fans often found frustrating.
However, Yang was also a good person and friend underneath her sarcastic exterior. So, although some of the things she did weren't necessarily exuding sweetness since Yang was hardly someone who could be called sweet, or even gentle, there were moments when her gestures were deeply human and selfless.
10 Annoying: Her Conflict With Meredith
Throughout season 10, which was the last season that Cristina appeared in, her conflict with Meredith annoyed fans no end. It seemed as if the writers had run out of plotlines for the character and pitched her in a competition with her 'person' that didn't make much sense at all.
In one of the biggest misunderstandings in Grey's Anatomy, Cristina was judgemental of Meredith for not logging enough surgery hours and taking more personal time after having Bailey (Meredith's newborn baby). She went as far as to throw her out of surgeries and also used Meredith's 3D printer for her own research without permission, which further polarized fans. Although from her perspective, she might have been doing the right thing all along, the fight wore audiences out.
9 Sweetest: Helping Izzie After Her Diagnosis
Cristina was most certainly one of the best surgeons at Grey Sloan Memorial and her god-given talents were on display, even during her internship and residency years. When Izzie Stevens found out that she had cancer, Yang was the one she went to because she knew she would be able to help her the most.
Although they weren't particularly close at the time, Cristina did not hesitate to help her. She did a ton of research, booked Izzie an appointment with one of the best oncologists she knew, and attended every consultation with her. While Cristina didn't often show her emotions or express her feelings, fans could tell from the way she acted throughout the storyline that she really did care about Izzie.
8 Annoying: Her Bizarre Relationship With Shane Ross
In season 10, Yang engaged in a meaningless relationship with the intern, Shane, with many fans considering it one of the most bizarre and frustrating storylines in the series.
Initially, Cristina and Shane managed to keep their personal and professional lives separate. However, fans grew extremely frustrated when Cristina didn't condemn Shane for disrespecting his superiors, particularly Meredith, and allowing him to speak out of turn. It just felt out of character for Cristina, as she certainly didn't allow an intern or resident to overstep their boundaries in the previous seasons.
7 Sweetest: Realizing That Teddy Needed To Vent
Teddy suffered a terrible loss when her husband, Henry, shockingly passed away. It was Cristina who had performed that ill-fated surgery on Henry and for several weeks afterward, Cristina had to relive not being able to save her mentor's husband by verbally repeating the procedure again and again until Teddy was satisfied.
Many fans thought this was a kind thing for Cristina to do. Instead of rebelling against being made to go through the surgery that had killed her patient over and over again, she acknowledged that this was Teddy's way of getting closure as she couldn't understand what went wrong. The compassion she showed Teddy is certainly a moment fans remember well.
6 Annoying: Her Confused Off & On Relationship With Owen
Owen and Cristina were one of the primary lead couples on the show for the longest time but turned out, it became way too long. Fans of Grey's Anatomy eventually started to wonder if Owen and Cristina's relationship made any sense at all.
While they initially had a passionate love story, it soon became clear that Cristina and Owen wanted very different things in life. Owen wanted kids and a family, and has been criticized as a character for pushing Cristina to want the same things. They kept breaking up and getting back together again so much so that Owen slept with Cristina while he was still dating the Seattle Presbyterian surgeon Emma Marling. Yang was fully aware of his relationship with Emma at the time, so the way she held on to him, even after the divorce, was simply frustrating.
5 Sweetest: Her Friendship With Dr. Craig Thomas
One of the sweetest and most poignant storylines involving Cristina was her friendship with the veteran surgeon, Dr. Craig Thomas. After the plane crash, Cristina decided to leave Seattle and join the prestigious Mayo Clinic in freezing Minnesota. There she struck up an odd alliance with Dr. Thomas, who had been on her interview panel during her boards.
Cristina gradually came to respect the senior doctor, whose methods she otherwise considered outdated. Thomas became her mentor of sorts, and the writers might have stumbled on to something quite unique here except that Thomas was killed off almost immediately, just as Cristina was beginning to think of him as a comrade of sorts. His sudden death left her reeling, and fans found her response incredibly human.
4 Annoying: Undermining Anyone She Considered Weaker Than Herself
Yet another annoying thing that Cristina often did was the way she undermined those she considered weaker or more vulnerable than herself. As one of the strongest interns, she demeaned others, like George, calling him 'Bambi,' which hardly boosted his confidence.
Cristina was also mean to April, who was another person who wasn't always able to stand up for herself. Last but not the least, she treated her subordinates with disdain, referring to the new lot of first-year interns by numbers instead of their names, which was humiliating to say the least. As someone who aspired to be taken very seriously as a surgeon, she should have ideally been a bit more civil to others.
3 Sweetest: Trying To Be There For Izzie After Denny's Death
After Denny had one of the most tragic patient deaths in Grey's Anatomy, Izzie spent a long time simply lying on the bathroom floor as her friends took turns in trying to find the right words for her.
It was George who laid down with her first and that was understandable since he was always gentle and kind, but then both Meredith and Cristina did the same. Fans thought it was especially sweet of Cristina, since fans didn't usually associate her with such soft gestures. Yang was always portrayed as emotionally unattached, but when it came to it, she always seemed to know the right things to say that brought a lot of comfort.
2 Annoying: Her Behavior With Lexie
Lexie Grey managed to provoke Meredith's ire when she first joined Seattle Grace. Meredith failed to accept her as her half-sister for the longest time and was quite mean and hurtful to her.
Cristina had initially been as rude to her as Meredith herself. She was being loyal to the latter by not being civil to Lexie, but fans found her behavior annoying as they had already started adoring Little Grey. Lexie seemed sweet and gentle and Cristina's meanness towards her seemed unwarranted. Although she did mentor her later on, Yang should not have made her feel as if she didn't belong there.
1 Sweetest: Helping Meredith Appear For Her Boards
One of the sweetest gestures by Cristina Yang happened during the residents' board exams at LA. Meredith, unfortunately, had caught a stomach bug from her daughter Zola, who was sick and being taken care of by her dad in Seattle.
When Cristina realized that her friend was sick, she distanced herself from her at once, which was very Cristina Yang. However, she soon appeared again, masked, but complete with IV and fluids, as well as paraphernalia that Meredith might be needing to feel better so that she didn't have to sit out her boards. Suffice to say that without Yang's timely help that day, Meredith might have had to skip her exams. Yang played a major role in helping Meredith faced down this obstacle on Grey's Anatomy.
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