Grey's Anatomy has been on ABC for a whopping 20 seasons now, and it earns high praise for showcasing realistic medical scenarios. You can give a Seattle doctor some of the credit for helping make sure the show gets it right inside the fictional Grey Sloane Memorial Hospital.
"Yeah, I’m in there. Maybe people will recognize me," Alimi said, referring to his very brief cameo in season 20, episode 8. "Just a few seconds in the background, nothing important, no speaking role." "For us as residents, people who are actually living the experience they’re trying to portray, we’re able to give direct feedback, like, would this actually happen like this?" Alimi said.
Alimi successfully made it through cancer treatment and made the pivot to medical school. He graduated from Yale. It's quite the achievement after, he admitted, ignoring his own symptoms.