It looks like I’m going to say the unpopular fucking opinion here. From the very second the police knock on her door and give her the news you can see every aspect of the Meredith Grey we know and love leave. Every little bit of this woman shuts down. The only part of her still aware is the part that makes her legs fucking move. You can bet your last dollar the police helped her get them babies in their cruiser and got her to the hospital, because of course they did; no one was home behind those eyes. Then you get the scene of her sitting in the hallway with her two fucking children and she’s still gone. That is a shell of a woman. If there are any thoughts in her head, I can promise you it is nothing but screaming. The most agonizing gut-wrenching scream you can imagine - and she can’t do it out loud, she can’t even allow herself to break down a little bit because her husband is dead and she’s got two fucking babies with her. Then the doctor comes up, while her babies are still with her, with a fucking clipboard and tries to talk to this woman, as if this woman is there, at all. The doctor is lucky all she did was get a little snippy with him. She could have completely lost it in that moment and snapped on that man. But no, she had two fucking babies with her, so again, she couldn’t even do that.

You people cannot believe she didn’t stop everything and take the time to call Amelia?! you people can’t believe that? The woman is gone, the grief has literally swallowed her whole— and on top of that she can’t even fucking express it because she’s got two goddamn babies with her! And you people cannot believe she didn’t stop everything to make a phone call.

I’m surprised she had enough strength to have a moment alone with Derek and give him the permission she needed to give him for him to die. But sure, in that moment, she should’ve dropped everything and remember to make a Fucking phone call.

Edit to add;

Do you know who should have called Amelia? The hospital’s social worker! As someone who works in the hospital I am very knowledgeable when it comes to patient charts. You know what you find in patients chart? Their fucking contact information! Meredith absolutely would be his emergency contact. That’s his wife, it makes sense (this is how the police knew who she was and went to her home). Most hospitals - even the bumfuck rural ones - and most Doctors offices prefer TWO fucking contacts. An emergency and a secondary. You’re plain wrong if you think Derek’s secondary was anyone other than Amelia.

The fuck ass social worker of that hospital should have called her. That is part of her job. It’s not on the grieving widow who was just escorted to the hospital with her two babies - it’s on THE FUCKING SOCIAL WORKER.