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To better the happiness of her daughter, she decided to move to New York to be closer to Callie. Arizona was named after the battleship, the U. Arizona, on which her grandfather served and died after saving 19 men. Her brother later joined the army and died because there weren't enough doctors. When she was growing up, she moved every 18 months due to her family's involvement in the military. Whenever they would get somewhere new, her father would take her skating first thing.
Wherever they ended up, the skating always stayed the same, which made her feel safe. She did it in college, in med school, and when she first got her job at Seattle Grace. She noticed the skating made the kids feel at ease, too. The way she described her upbringing is that she was ".. Raised to love my country. Love my family. Protect the things I love.
She learned to act tough when she had to, due to her name, and she never had to "come out" to her parents because it wasn't a shock to them. She had a poster of Cindy Crawford in her room and she wasn't looking at her beauty mark. She never brought any boys home and when she finally brought home a girl, Joanne, her mother wasn't surprised. She had expected her father to react by saying "How fast can you get the hell out of my house? She attended Johns Hopkins Medical School. During her surgical residency , she was a "full-on horror show".
She was later chosen as Chief Resident for her 5th and final year of residency. After completing her residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital , Arizona was hired as a surgical fellow at Seattle Grace Hospital's pediatric surgery department. When head pediatric surgeon Jordan Kenley died, Arizona was promoted to department head and took over Dr. Kenley's cases. They disagreed when Arizona wanted to change Dr. Kenley's course of treatment. Arizona thought it wasn't working, though Bailey fully supported Kenley's plans.
