Santos discourse.
Hot Take: I've been rewatching S1 of the Pitt recently and I have a few thoughts about Santos' character. (Disclaimer I don't hate her just a few observations as someone who's been in hospital/ pharmaceutical side).
I think her dislike of Langdon is warranted; he stole meds from the ED and could have killed a patient from that, and then tried to gaslight her during that situation.
However, from the beginning we are told that both med students and interns have to report to either senior residents, Langdon or Collins in season 1, or Robby, who is the attending. The first instance we hear of Santos disregarding that order is in the first half of the season whereby she is reporting to Langdon; she had picked up a patient and had already performed a procedure which Lagdon pointed out that she should not have done that. She was reprimanded and told that "It was definitly not okay" as even if she had experienced in those types of procedures, she was still an intern on day 1, moreover, if something had gone wrong with the patient she would have had to answer to that, for instance with the BIPAP case. That particular case was something she worked on with Langdon and was a situation that could have cost the patient's life had the team not acted as quickly as they did; let's take the situation for what it is, Santos, an intern who just got reprimanded for not consulting with either a senior resident or an attending before performing a procedure, ordered that a patient be placed under BIPAP, which is a breathing machine. That order was fine in itself, don't get me wrong and like Garcia said "Honest mistake from the rookie",but she should have went to a senior to inform of her decision and thought process (side note: I do realise that the nurse should have also cleared this first before adhering to her order.) When she gets reprimanded by Langdon again for that situation (and yes in the thick of action it was a reprimand), that's where we start to see her change of behaviour, but not towards her working ethics, but towards Langdon! When she could not open her vial her first thought weren't to Langdon but towards a defective batch (re: the conversation with Dana), and yet she is already considering reporting him to higher ups.
Anyway, I could keep going on for days but where I'm getting at is that I keep seeing a lot of nuance takes on everyone on this show but when it comes to Santos its either ' she's a girlboss who can do no wrong and has been wronged by the big bad doctor Langdon' or on the flipside 'how can she be such a mean b***h'.
So yeah that was my two cents so please be kind and add to the conversation if you wish and also this is my first time posting on reddit.