It really upsets me the way people have been reacting to Meredith trying to cure Alzheimer's. She isn't just doing it for fame, or even to help the world, she is fighting for her life. She is fighting to save herself from the horrible fate she lost her mother to. She is fighting to protect Bailey and Ellis and Maggie. She is trying to save her family.
Amelia pushed back saying it would erase Derrick's work, but I think he'd care more about his wife and children not being ravenged by a terrible disease than his legacy.
Nick said she was choosing work over him, but she is fighting for their future. Meredith even said it, that she will love him for as long as she can rember him. If she succeeds that might be a lot longer than if she doesn't.
And Catherine, has she thought about what it would be like to watch Richard lose Maggie and/or Meredith to the same disease that took the last two women he loved? How could she look him in the eye knowing there was a chance to save the women he sees as his daughters but she squashed it?
Meredith is so scared, and I know she is because I am too. If I had any chance to find any sort of treatment for the dementia that curses my family history I would fight tooth and nail for it.