You know it wasnt a surpise to hear that. Anyone who watched last season, or hell even the season after Mark Greene died, her role was cut so much she was hardly ever on the show anymore. I mean as much as I liked her character, she was reduced to a bit player, coming down to the ER ever so often for a consult. Oh well. I am sorry to see her go, but then again, how can she say she is getting axed for her age, because then Laura Innes should go, because she is old, and Frank the desk clerk should go cause he old, and the black nurse who was heavy and is not thin, she should go. I think they realize that they had nothing left for her character, and this is their way of getting rid of her.