Well the latest one-night stand this last episode was a South Asian guy named Steve… In a non-Asian-specific role! Boinking the title character! Unfortunately he shows up at the hospital the next day because he has a problem. You see, what went up hasn’t come down yet. One of the doctors, the mean one, accuses him of taking Viagra… Steve insists he and his performance are 100% natural and that he did not take any drugs. Thus poking and prodding (of the medical kind) ensues… She, meanwhile, spends the entire episode being mortified that she “broke his penis…” In the end, Steve is vindicated. He wasn’t faking anything. He has a tumor that is putting pressure on some nerve, which is causing the Mr. to stand up. The episode ends with his manliness in tact. Yeah Steve! Steve asks Meredith if she would consider being more than a one-night stand. She declines as she is clearly not over ex-boyfriend-who-has-a-wife. Oh well, guess we won’t see Steve anymore. [Link]

And you have to give the writers of this show some credit; admittedly the character of Christina is a little stereotypical (asian over achiever medical resident etc), but overall they slip in character interactions that in other series would be fraught with racial overtones (like the whole Burke-Christina thing). I might be naive, but african-american and caucasian characters are treated quite matter-of-factly in this series, and you get the feeling that the actors could have easily been switched around without too much trouble (well maybe not the main two).

I wonder why they named him “steve.”

haha, his situation is funny on grey’s anatomy, all pc-issues be damned.

As far as the priaprismatic character goes, it could have been far worse.