Mark Sloan

Grey's Anatomy has been making us cry for nine years now, but for some reason, we can’t get enough. Whether it’s something as tragic as a plane crash or something as simple as failure, Grey’s is an expert at pulling at our heartstrings, sometimes harder than others. In honor of the many tears we shed in 2012, we’ve rounded up the year’s seven most heartbreaking...

2012 was a rough year for the docs of Grey's Anatomy. Spouses cheated, spouses died, and then there was that whole plane crash thing. But don’t worry. These docs are resilient. And more than that, they’re romantic.

Here are our top five most romantic moments of 2012:

Lexie’s (Chyler Leigh) I love you: Outside the hospital, the moment when Lexie finally worked up enough...

If we had to describe the doctors of Grey's Anatomy in one word, we’d go with "experienced." In almost every way (professionally, romantically, etc.), they have lived. Like, really lived. Take Derek (Patrick Dempsey) for example: How many people can say they’ve been married, cheated on, a cheater, divorced, remarried via post-it, actually remarried, chief of surgery, shot, an...

Grey's Anatomy has never tip-toed lightly around tragedy. Major characters are often psychologically damaged, physically injured, and even killed. It's par for the course at Seattle Grace-Mercy Death.

However, recently the number of major characters dying off seems to have ramped up. Season 8 ended with Lexie's (Chyler Leigh) demise and Season 9 began with Mark's (Eric Dane) goodbye. Then ...