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When watching characters perform surgery on your favorite TV medical dramas, you might wonder what shows use to create fake organs

Luke Mitchell as Dr. Mitch Ripley, Steven Weber as Dr. Dean Archer in ‘Chicago Med.’George Burns Jr/NBCWhen watching characters perform surgery on your favorite TV medical dramas, you might wonder what shows use to create fake organs — and the answer is as gross as you feared it would be. When Dr. Arizona Robbins ( Jessica Capshaw) returned to Grey’s Anatomy for season 20 last year, the show’s medical advisor, Michael Metzner, wanted her to come back swinging with a groundbreaking procedure that could showcase just how magical the OR can be. In the episode “Baby, Can I Hold You,” Arizona performs the first-ever in utero vein on Galen surgery on a fetus, with the assistance of Dr. Jo Wilson ( Camilla Luddington) and Dr. Amelia Shepherd ( Caterina Scorsone).

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