GREY'S Anatomy's boss has confirmed Richard Webber’s fate in season 17 after a botched hip replacement left him poisoned. The character - played by James Pickens Jnr - suffered from a mystery illness during season 16, only for his colleagues to discover it was cobalt poisoning from a leaky hip replacement.
The situation was fixed by Atticus 'Link' Lincoln, and when asked if that meant Richard is now safely on the mend for season 17, show runner Krista Vernoff told Deadline fans had nothing to worry about.
She said: "Yes, and I thought that was one of the most amazing things about this diagnosis, was that the cobalt poisoning thing is real and it really can cause all of those symptoms. "It can cause dementia-like symptoms.
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