Arizona Robbins’ ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Return Skipped Over One Big Detail

The Grey’s Anatomy fandom has no shortage of controversial figures, and Arizona Robbins will always rank pretty high on that list. For some, Jessica Capshaw’s star pediatric/fetal surgeon will always be an unassailable fan favorite; for many, many others, she’s a selfish mess. Still, Arizona’s return to Grey’s on Thursday night was full of fascinating possibilities regardless of which camp you might fall into. Would she give us any updates on where she and her estranged wife, Callie Torres (Sara Ramirez), now stand? Would she recruit another promising young doctor into the pediatric ranks, like she did with Alex Karev (Justin Chambers) many, many years ago? And what kind of surgical magic would she perform?

Predictably, it turns out that Robbins came back to Grey Sloan Memorial to save a “tiny human.” Vida Madera—a 26-year-old patient with a history of vision loss whom Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson) met through the clinic—is 30 weeks pregnant. Her baby has a rare blood vessel abnormality in its brain, and Robbins plans to operate while the fetus is still in utero—a stunning feat which, by the way, has never been done before.

Bailey does not seem thrilled when she finds out that her patient will be the first in a clinical trial, but as Robbins points out, someone always has to go first!

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