I’m not from the US but in my country most businesses that aren’t related to having fun (and hospitals) are closed on national holidays.
How likely is it that there would be legal cases going on during Independence Day?
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.
Now I want to start this by saying I by no means hate santos and she really rose in my ranks of favourite characters in season 2 though Langdon has been one of my favourite characters since season 1.
I’ve seen so many people say if you like Langdon you can’t hate santos and I understand where it comes from as them being similar personalities, confident sometimes overly, brave, witty, sarcastic I understand that side.
For me how they interact with other people in the show especially in season 1 is completely different. It’s Santos first day there she knows no one, she immediately start mocking and demeaning the students that are lower rank than her, as a person that’s always been quiet in school and social settings to not draw the attention of people that would be mean like that for no reason this especially pisses me off, and continues to do so every rewatch. She immediately names Dennis and Victoria, Huckleberry and Crash, Javadi evens asks her multiple times to stop and she never does, even going as far to say things to make Javadi feel better than saying no she didn’t, like Javadi was the idiot for thinking she might of been actually nice to her like when she said she shat herself and when Javadi said really she said no.
Langdon also teases and makes fun of other people near him, Collins, Garcia and Princess to name a few, this feels different to me because they have known each other for a while at least and the other party are comfortable to give it back to him. With the new doctors/students he’s professional, mainly with Mel telling her she performed a good crike and lightly joking with her about the scurvy guy, he does says that he’s always right to Whitaker but that is also after he tells him to take a win after they saved that tonsil guy.
They are both definitely bold in their profession as well but I think people forget that Langdon is a senior and santos is very new, so when Langdon does something bold he’s backed by experience.
When santos does it it’s a direct violation of protocol, she was told multiple times she needs to present first and multiple times she doesn’t. The trigger point injection and putting bipap on the pneumothorax guy. One that does make the patient worse. She does have good ideas namely with the mdma overdose but she runs it by Mohan because she’s in the room, but she still needs to run everything by a senior resident or attending.
She also repeatedly asks to do procedures that aren’t necessary just because she wants to and sometimes in really bad situations, namely when she asked to do something on mr Milton because he’s dead seemingly acting like he’s just a cadaver for her to work on when he’s a patient that has a family that loves him that doesn’t even know he’s dead yet.
Now with the drug situation santos was absolutely right to tell Robby if she thought he might be stealing and my dislike of her and love for Langdon in season 1 has absolutely nothing to do with that. Also the way Langdon went about reprimanding her because he could see her being suspicious of him the whole day was way out of line and wildly inappropriate, he never should have done it.
Now in season 2 I like her a whole lot more because she knows her coworkers more and they can actually have a back and forth with her and she doesn’t make out of pocket requests or does things she’s not supposed to.
I know this has been long and I’m sorry about that but I literally can’t stop thinking about it every time I rewatch it and I want it out of my head and enjoy it without thinking about it when Langdon or Santos do anything.
Yes, I placed "healthy" in brackets because some people fall for those they can take care of.
I ship Robby with Samira. I think they have chemstry and he just doesn't know how to approach her when he is trying to be nice. Samira is also young and indeptes so, let'a be real, he could help her with that since his salary is higher. On the other hand, Samira is young and leaves the impression that she is healthy. Their romantic relationship in terms of conflict of interest could be solved easily by putting her in night shift where she reports to and Abbot, who also appears to have "clicked" with her. Samira wouldbe better off professionally with Annot, I think.
Also, I love "enemies to lovers trope", it is my guilty pleasure.
I also ship Robby and Ns. Kim. I know she is a blank slate and my opinion is solely ibased on her looks and the few looks Robby gave her. I like to think that she is the one who pushes Robby into therapy and maybe they go together.
Also, I ship Robby with Collins. I am a sucker for second chances stories. And Collins needs money for IVF, why not have a baby with Robby "for free" (I kow how it sounds). Also, I think they have chemistry and that the emotions are still there between the two of them.
Hi! I was wondering about different hot takes you have on the different characters. It can be about ships, plot overall, the writing, etc. I wanna see all of your guys' different perspectives and whatnot
I just recently started watching Six Feet Under and noticed a young Dr. Abbott in season 2 episode 1. For all of you who think he is such a hottie, I promise if you watch him singing at the end of this episode your opinion might change 🤣🤣
Here's my Predictions. What do you think?
Character: Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch (Senior Attending Physician)
Prediction: Retires at the end of the series, moving to Costa Rica to save the rainforest
Character: Dr. Heather Collins
Prediction: Family Practice.
Living her best life in private practice in Portland, raising her adopted child, catching up on episodes of Portladia, and sipping artisanal coffee after biking to work.
Character: Dr. Frank Langdon
Prediction: Recovery addiction specialist.
Keeps his wife, keeps his job, spends time with his kid, plays fetch with his dog, reads Nietzsche on weekdays but transfers his addiction from pills to the Harry Potter books and schedules all his vacations around Harry Potter convensions, traveling with his family in an RV.
Character: Nurse Dana Evans
Prediction: Career hospital Leader
The grease that keeps the ER running, Dana works in the Pitt until past her retirement date until her husband convinces her that a cruise ship vacation has her name on it.
Character: Dr. Samira Mohan
Prediction: Specializes in Geriatrics
Slo-Mo no more. After finishing her residency, Samira goes into family medicine with a specality in geriatrics. She also teaches at the Univesity and in her spare time, writes best selling books on aging well and publishes medical research papers on geriatric breakthroughs.
Character: Dr. Cassie McKay
Prediction: Family Practice in under served neighborhoods
Always remembering that her age and life expreinces have set her up to not be easily intimidated or afraid either pesonally or professionally, she specializes in providing the best possible care in urban nieigbourhoods. The reality of living in an expensive city and paying off student debt isn't lost to her so she spends her weekends as a private medical conceirege treating rich people as an addiction specailist.
Character: Dr. Melissa "Mel" King
Prediction: VA and PTSD Specialist
Her OCD and being on the spectrum makes her gravitate towards diagnostic medical research. She finds the genes that make people a great karaoke singer and users Krispr to genetically edit the next American Idol contestants.
Character: Dr. Trinity Santos
Prediction: Pediatric Surgeon
Hard on the outside, soft on the inside. Trinity fights her demons, opens up and goes into Pediatric Surgery.. Dispite claiming not to like kids, she's good with them at all ages and fights for their medical health.
Character: Dr. Dennis Whitaker
Prediction: Senior Attending Physician
When the show raps up with it's 5 year story, Robby will retire and Whitaker will take over for a little while until he marries his farm girl girlfriend and moves to a small town where communities are under serviced. He'll become an senior attending physician at one of the smaller hospitals after he realizes that way too often young teenager have to drive hours to get medical attention.
Character: (soon to be Dr.) Victoria Javadi
Prediction: Emergency Psychiatry
The goldenchild continues her confidence building, finally realizes she's missing out on her youth, takes some time off but ends up being a psychiatrist helping so many troubled people who will benefit from her quick diagnosis, fresh perspective and insight.
Character: Dr. Jack Abbot
Prediction: Attending Physician (Night Shift)
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays Dr. Abbot's need for the adrenaline rush of working night shifts. Under the cover of night, he's free from his demons and continues to his mental health journey and is finally able to sit in his living room, alone on a Saturday afternoon, without feeling a need for a bungie jump high.
S2 broke my suspension of disbelief a bit by implying that the Pitt has only THREE attendings, two of which being night shifters. Did Robby just come to work every single day since Adamson died? It's confirmed that he takes the day of his death off. Who's the attending than? Plus Shen became an attending shortly before S1, were Robby and Abbot the only attendings in that emergency department? In S1 you could kind of assume that another attending was there and took a vacation or something. But S2 coming in with Al-Hashimi and making her the second attending of the day shift confused me so much. No wonder Robby's suicidal, he hasn't had a day off since the founding fathers were around
Probably was a little throw away moment but when Joy went up to him to take that picture and said he was a legend because he lived in The Pitt.
Who else knew that besides her? Why spread that information? Also why are they making fun of him for it when med students being poor is kind of a known thing?
I was actually watching an interview with Boah and he said that they included that he was homeless because mad students being poor is something that they wanted to represent.
So I think that Dr. McKay was in the right when it comes to reporting David. I personally don’t think it was the right course of action because I truly believe that the system is broken and more likely to label the kid or push him deeper into that path than it is to help him or lead him to a better place but I do think that generally speaking she was in the right because she has no way of doing any kind of follow up really or helping in any other way. That being said I find it downright laughable how insane her perspective is when she’s alone with David and says “Do you know what it’s like to be afraid? I mean really, truly frightened for your own safety! Now imagine you felt that every single day because of half of the people you meet because that’s every single woman’s life!” And tells him he has committed violence against women for making veiled threats… First of all threats are not the same as violence and secondly that is an insane statement to make. Not only are you generalizing all men and women (which is insane because not all women are victims just like not all men are victimizers) but she is also just implying that just because you are a man you can’t be victimized or you don’t live in fear of something happening to you. Men are 4x more likely to be killed in the U.S. and 20 percent more likely to be assaulted so it’s insane to me that some people really have this perspective… Imagine if people made these kind of generalizations about race, many would call them racist so how do those same people not call this sexist? It is a fact that violence is normally perpetrated by men but it is also a fact it is normally done to men as well and it’s just plain wrong to generalize an entire group of people when they may be the victim or they may be the perpetrator but they deserve to be judged based on character. I do want to add on that this is why I like this show, the characters all seem way more human than most and in tough situations there isn’t a easy answer or simple solution, you just have to make a judgement call and unfortunately your trauma, bias, and flaws all play into that. That’s what being a human being is truly and even though we try to make up rules and systems to counter act this reality, it always proves true. I also want to add that the fake Pitt sub has a mod approve or deny every post and they denied mine because of 'baiting'. That is so wild to label anyone who has a opinion differing from the norm as a troll when they just want to have a discussion...
does anyone have that picture of al-hashimi staring at garcia from behind her I've been trying to find it for hours😭
Now I'm looking for another new-ish series with a similar level of quality that already has at least two seasons and releases new seasons roughly every year (which feels pretty rare these days).
I've already watched The Bear. I was thinking about starting Industry, but the premise honestly sounds a bit boring to me. That said, I trust this sub's taste, so maybe I'm judging it too quickly. Is Industry a good choice?
The other show I'm considering is ER, but I'm worried it might feel too much like Grey's Anatomy.
Any recommendations? Thanks!
Im only in the first half of the second ssn but the westbridge hospital being under cyber attack snd the pitt going on paper as a protective measure is actually a really good story planting from the first episode, hasnt really clicked until then. Like the patient passports were implemented in the start for exactly this reason. I already consider it the best show medically wise shile keeping an interesting and accurate storytelling. Also the brilliant one hour of the shift per episode scheme and outstanding acting too.
Adding the patient passports on paper feature now makes perfect sense, even though in reality its a real hassle having to keep another set of records in a busy packed hospital environment .
Highkey my favorite piece of media on how hard and everchanging working in a hospital is. Not a single thing i could think of rebuking.
Also its pretty obvious but the hints of the characters caring for patients whose cases are somehow reflecting their traits and the cast fighting their own battles through those cases. Brilliant writing and all this while being extremely medically accurate. Only thing wring is the cpr but like yeah cant really do that to a living person while also having ti be able to carry a conversation and not run out of air.
Im rewatching episode 5 and javadi is so insufferable and never beating the nepo baby allegations i fear