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"Ellen Pompeo has claimed that her Grey&amp;#039;s Anatomy character Meredith becomes a &amp;quot;caretaker&amp;quot; this season. Speaking to TV Guide, Pompeo explained that Meredith will start to look after the other doctors following the shootings in the last finale. &amp;quot;The role that they have given Meredith is to take care of everybody and to try to make sure that everybody else is OK,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s the role of the caretaker which, I guess, is her way of not dealing with her own thing.&amp;quot; However, Pompeo revealed that Meredith will clash with the new counsellor Andrew Perkins (James Tupper) when he initially refuses to let her return to surgery. &amp;quot;Meredith does get cleared eventually, but not right away,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;Not without some frustrating episodes. She&amp;#039;s got to pull out all the tricks and stops to try to get cleared.&amp;quot; She added: &amp;quot;[Perkins] comes in and he&amp;#039;s just clearing people and he doesn&amp;#039;t really know them. Meredith feels like she knows them, and she really knows that they&amp;#039;re not OK. She can see because she lives and breathes with them every day. He&amp;#039;s coming in and clearing everybody because he thinks they&amp;#039;re fine, and he doesn&amp;#039;t think Meredith is fine. She&amp;#039;s the one taking care of everybody!&amp;quot; Pompeo also hinted that some characters will struggle to recover, saying: &amp;quot;I think [Meredith&amp;#039;s] handling this a little bit better than the other people who are more on the verge. Lexie and Cristina really, really need more critical attention.&amp;quot; Grey&amp;#039;s Anatomy returns for a new season on September 23 on ABC. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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