Cristina was peeking out of the window and saw the shooter, recognizing the man who asked for directions to Chief Derek Shepherd's office. Derek found them and ordered them into a supply closet to hide. They assumed lockdown meant not leaving the building and so lackadaisically wandered around. When Burke came to visit her, he got into the bed beside her and held her.ĭuring the hospital shooting, Cristina and Meredith initially didn't take the lockdown alert seriously. Earlier, Cristina didn't seem so attached to the pregnancy and tried to convince everyone that she was fine but at the end of the day she finally broke down and she cried hysterically.

One of her fallopian tubes had burst and she was bleeding out. Bailey and Izzie helped her and Addison finally operated on her. Burke she began sweating and having severe pain and eventually collapsed in the OR, seriously scaring Burke.

She put off telling Burke about the pregnancy, and made the decision not to tell him after he broke things off with her. She scheduled an abortion soon after she found out she was pregnant. from Stanford University School of Medicine, where she graduated first of her class.Ĭristina ended up pregnant after a sexual encounter with Preston Burke. in Biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and she earned her M.D. She claims this is the reason she became a doctor, and could very likely be the motive behind her interest in Cardiothoracic Surgery.Ĭristina is a graduate of Smith College. Cristina felt his last heartbeat in her hands. Cristina's biological father died when she was nine years old in a car accident Cristina watched her father bleed out before help arrived, attempting to close his chest with her hands, to try to stop the bleeding. Saul Rubenstein, an oral surgeon, when Cristina was three. Her mother married Cristina's stepfather, Dr. He then threw up all over her dress because he was nervous to touch her. She was okay with providing the kid a date, but once they got to the party, he tried to get sexual with her and touch her in front of the entire school by the punch bowl. Though Jewish, she has stated that she is not religious.Īt her high school prom, her mom made her go with her best friend's son, whom Cristina said was a dork. Cristina is of Korean descent raised in Judaism (her mother converted upon re-marriage) and a native of Beverly Hills, California.

The Lion Trees by Owen Thomas