Kate Aurthur editorShonda Rhimes knows what she wishes the legacy of “Grey’s Anatomy” would be.“The number of women who have become doctors because of that show is magical to me,” she says, sounding pleased during a recent interview for Variety’s Show Woman of the Year issue. “The number of people who’ve come to me and told me that they learned how to do CPR, or figured out that they were having a heart attack because of that show, is magical to me.”But she’s realistic about what it likely is.“Sadly, I think the legacy might simply just be that we made it possible for more people of color to have jobs on camera on television,” Rhimes says, “which makes me embarrassed for television.” “Grey’s Anatomy,” which premiered on ABC in 2005, was.
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