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I really liked King with the ping pong player and the sweet interaction by the woman from Nepal and her good samaratin. 
 

this episode was so not full of horrible things I knew we were in for a last minute twist. And while I’ve been expecting Dr Collins to lose the baby I also hate that for her. 
 

I’ll hate it more if in the next episode she’s upset and Robby thinks it’s because of him. My mom had a disagreement with somebody at work once and the next day she didn’t go in and her superior called her and told her she shouldn’t miss work because she was emotional.  She missed work because I had chicken pox.  I still feel guilty about that. 
 

I guess I’m supposed to like Santos now because she went all hard ass on dad but I don’t. First of all because she told Dr King to watch the chief resident guy… but also because she’s been horrible and she’s still taking matters into her own hands like she’s the god of everybody.  
 

I guess Dad’s blinking means he was mollesting the kid. But I don’t think molesters stop just because you had a talking to and that doesn’t get the kids d the care she needs either.  

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Oh, no, no, no....I knew it when she rubbed her side last episode 😔

I honestly don't care about Santos at this point. They made her way too obnoxious for me to feel sorry for her. I assume the mother was right but don't really know.  

I adore Dr King, but I say that every week.

I know they had Mohan say the thing about Robby having a bad day because they wanted the blow-up. However, I wish she went along what she originally told Collins, that she finally won his approval and didn't want to mess that up.

I still don't think Langdon did anything wrong and that Santos is reaching.

8 minutes ago, bybrandy said:

I guess Dad’s blinking means he was mollesting the kid. But I don’t think molesters stop just because you had a talking to and that doesn’t get the kids d the care she needs either.  

Or he was scared and didn't want to die. 

I don't know what the goal was, so i don't really know if he was guilty. If the goal was just to reveal Santos' backstory and give her some layers it's 50/50 on guilt. If the goal was to redeem Santos and make people like her (jury is still out) he's a molester.  If the goal was just to further the Santos is too cocky/bullheaded aspects of her character then Dad was not guilty and she jumped the gun.

I wonder if we'll ever get an answer.

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I told you not to buy that expensive stroller! 

Expected that to happen but still. :(

If this episode was supposed to make  us suddenly like Santos sorry but it didn’t work. She has been way too unpleasant and cocky and grating the first six hours to become likable so fast. Especially because again she just rushes into something. There really wasn’t any evidence the father was molesting his daughter.

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I am absolutely done with Santos. I don’t care about her backstory or her maverick methods of getting the “justice” she deems necessary, protocols be damned — every time she shows up I get a little more irritated. She’s not trustworthy in this environment, and her skulking around try to manipulate a scenario to imply that Langdon should be removed just because he (rightfully) doesn’t let her get away with the crap she’s pulling…. I wish I could skip her interactions. I don’t need the stress building up waiting for her scheming to come to a head.

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Felt so bad for Dr. Collins, she was grabbing her side in the last episode even before the shove, but this is just so sad.

Still don't like Santos, she is manipulating everyone around her, Dr. King and the guard. I don't think anything good will come from her conversation with the daughter. And we really don't know if the dad is guilty, all he could do was blink and he chose life. It does sound like he's guilty, but we don't really know yet.

Loved Dr. King with the table tennis guy. I thought he was on the spectrum right away. Glad Langdon recognized how good she was. I keep thinking King is on the spectrum too, but what do I know.

I really hope Collins doesn't just try to finish her shift through a miscarriage, that is not good.

Whitaker didn't lose another patient and kept the same scrubs through another hour, small victories.

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The crazy mom let her daughter take the abortion pills.

We finally get some insight into why Dr. Robbie is constantly talking about getting people out of the ER and into beds elsewhere in the hospital.  Looks like during COVID he had to take his mentor off the ventilator after he'd been on it for 17 days because someone else needed it.  And Jake the Snake really looks like the mentor.

Santos is terribly written.  I think the actress is doing her best, but she's getting mustache twirling dialogue.

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The scene with Santos and the dad reminded me of the ER scene with Mark in the elevator alone with the Rampage gunman who he pretended to shock and let die. Intubated, unable to talk, eyes wide with fear. 

Nevertheless, it did nothing to make me like her more. She just seems like a bully and a jerk. Child molestation storylines on any show or movie make me sick to my stomach, so I'm choosing to believe her talk scared him enough to stop, but I don't know why she would think that would actually work. It's not like she can check up on the daughter later.

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I’m done with Santos. Absolutely, completely done.

Why is Doug Driscoll still in the waiting room? He has a headache. Not even a migraine level headache. 

Sad boy? Gen Z? Can someone explain.

It was interesting to see the differential diagnosis for the influencer having a psychotic break. Javadi did a good job taking the history. 

King is a fascinating character. Langdon is bad with patients. I’d like to see more of both.

Collins has a miscarriage while Kristi gets the abortion she needs and the family of Fentanyl Guy discusses organ donation. Okay.

The interaction between the Good Samaritan and Nepali Patient was so lovely. 

 

3 hours ago, Night Cheese said:

The scene with Santos and the dad reminded me of the ER scene with Mark in the elevator alone with the Rampage gunman who he pretended to shock and let die. Intubated, unable to talk, eyes wide with fear. 

Same. Also the patient on ECMO being rolled out reminded me of Pratt’s death.

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23 hours ago, Cotypubby said:

If this episode was supposed to make  us suddenly like Santos sorry but it didn’t work.

I'm not sure it was. I'm thinking it's going to turn out the mother was either wrong about her husband, or is herself the abuser and was trying to throw off suspicion. 

Otherwise? Santos seems to be the weak spot in the writing of this show. She is so deliberately abrasive and unlikable I keep expecting there to be some payoff for it. The rest of the show is so well written I hate to think this was an attempt to give Santos a sympathetic backstory or some kind of hero moment. Even if the father was guilty, having Santos go rogue like that doesn't endear her to me in the least. She's on day one as a student at this place and thinks she can do whatever the hell she wants.

12 hours ago, jah1986 said:

I keep thinking King is on the spectrum too, but what do I know.

She is definitely on the spectrum isn't she? I could have sworn that was established in Episode 1. 

Whitaker stayed clean for a whole hour!

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4 minutes ago, Wicked said:

Maybe I need to rewatch, but my take from the conversation that Santos had with the daughter was that the Dad wasn't doing anything.  I didn't get any kind of uncomfortable vibe from the daughter, she seemed more confused by the questions than anything.  Something's up with the family, but I'm not sure it's the Dad.  I think this will blow up on Santos

Yeah, I think it’s totally unclear at this point. Could be dad is a total creep and santos made a good call, could be the daughter had no idea what she was talking about, could be the mom is somehow the bad guy… looking forward to seeing how this plays out. 

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On 2/13/2025 at 10:34 PM, bybrandy said:

but also because she’s been horrible and she’s still taking matters into her own hands like she’s the god of everybody.  

This.  What she did with both the daughter and the father were just variations on what she has been doing all shift.  She thinks she knows best, rushes ahead to do something based on what essentially is her own arrogance and it suddenly is an open question as to whether she's hurting or helping.   

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10 hours ago, iMonrey said:

Otherwise? Santos seems to be the weak spot in the writing of this show. She is so deliberately abrasive and unlikable I keep expecting there to be some payoff for it. The rest of the show is so well written I hate to think this was an attempt to give Santos a sympathetic backstory or some kind of hero moment. Even if the father was guilty, having Santos go rogue like that doesn't endear her to me in the least. She's on day one as a student at this place and thinks she can do whatever the hell she wants.

I'm not sure she's badly written. Maybe she's supposed to be the bad guy. I don't think we're supposed to like her. (I'm thinking of all the awful characters that were on ER. Romano, Malucci, Morris, etc...) At this point I think she's crazy and we're going to spend the rest of this season seeing just how crazy she is.

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It feels like Robby is really starting to lose it. He was an asshole to Samira. She observed a symptom (the odd hand movements) that led her to check for toxicity and he tells her she’s looking for zebras. I get needing to free up beds but the patient did have some physical symptoms like numbness that would be ignored if she was just turfed to Psych.

I was glad the mother of the pregnant teenager finally came to her senses.

Wondering just how long it will take before Santos gets herself fired. And what the hell is she trying to start with her insinuation about Langdon?

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13 hours ago, Infie said:

For the folks who keep saying "it feels like the episodes are going by faster!" 

They are!  Here's the onscreen time, from the first frame of the camera (excluding the black screen credits) to the start of the end of episode credits: 

Ep 1. 51.20
Ep 2. 48.29
Ep 3. 48.38
Ep 4. 47.52
Ep 5. 45.41
Ep 6. 44.40
Ep 7. 44.10

Thank you!  Every time the show went to commercial, I was like "What??? Already?  No wonder the episode seemed so short.

12 hours ago, iMonrey said:

She is definitely on the spectrum isn't she? I could have sworn that was established in Episode 1. 

She's definitely on the spectrum, but I'm wondering if she hasn't been officially diagnosed.  When Dr. King talked about having a sister who is autistic, my interpretation was that the sister is affected enough to limit her ability to cope in life.  Sometimes, when one sibling has an obvious personality disorder, the "less" affected sibling tends not to be diagnosed or diagnosed much later in their life.  (Personal experience talking here.)  It appears that Dr. King knows what her triggers are and has been able to successfully learn how to work around them.  I wanted to smack Dr. Langdon when he came back into the room with the ping pong player & propped the door open.  It was really nice to see him offer Dr. King his respect and admit that he learned something.

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13 hours ago, SoMuchTV said:

Yeah I’m having trouble remembering where that’s coming from. Was it something to do with the vial she had trouble opening? I think I’m keeping up with most of the story lines but that one’s escaping me. 

Langdon wanted to keep pushing a specific drug on the patient. Santos disagreed and wanted to perform some kind of procedure, naturally. They kept arguing about it but eventually the medication worked, which pissed off Santos. 

4 hours ago, marceline said:

I'm not sure she's badly written. Maybe she's supposed to be the bad guy. I don't think we're supposed to like her. (I'm thinking of all the awful characters that were on ER. Romano, Malucci, Morris, etc...) At this point I think she's crazy and we're going to spend the rest of this season seeing just how crazy she is.

But she's too cartoonish. All the other characters are more nuanced. That's why I don't think she's very well written.

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1 hour ago, CarpeFelis said:

It feels like Robby is really starting to lose it. He was an asshole to Samira. She observed a symptom (the odd hand movements) that led her to check for toxicity and he tells her she’s looking for zebras. I get needing to free up beds but the patient did have some physical symptoms like numbness that would be ignored if she was just turfed to Psych.

That makes perfect sense from a story perspective. This is his first time working on the anniversary of Adamson's death and it's obvious that's screwing with him. Meanwhile he's only halfway through his shift. IMO the ECMO patient seemed to be the thing that set him off.

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23 minutes ago, iMonrey said:

But she's too cartoonish.

So were the ER characters I mentioned.

I just can't help wondering if we're supposed to dislike her. The only other obvious villain is Gloria, the hospital administrator who apparently has enough time in her schedule that she can visit the Pitt every hour or so. 😒 That's pretty cartoonish too.

I also suspect the story the ladder guy's wife told wasn't true. She's spiking his coffee with progesterone in the hopes he'll stop molesting their daughter? Not contacting authorities or leaving him? Hmmm.

Her behavior from the start, not wanting to see him, choosing to wait in the lobby, made me immediately suspect foul play. Like she pushed him off the ladder. 

In any case, Santos completely jumped the gun (as per usual) both by talking to the daughter, spooking her, and threatening his life.

A bit surprised her arrogance & petulant behavior haven't already been an issue. She's a 4th year (compared to Javadi, 3rd year & Mel, 2nd year). 

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5 hours ago, marceline said:

I'm not sure she's badly written. Maybe she's supposed to be the bad guy. I don't think we're supposed to like her. (I'm thinking of all the awful characters that were on ER. Romano, Malucci, Morris, etc...) At this point I think she's crazy and we're going to spend the rest of this season seeing just how crazy she is.

I can't tell if the writers are intentionally making her unlikable or if they just simply don't know that she is unlikable.   The ER characters you mentioned had so many more layers to them.  

1 hour ago, iMonrey said:

Langdon wanted to keep pushing a specific drug on the patient. Santos disagreed and wanted to perform some kind of procedure, naturally. They kept arguing about it but eventually the medication worked, which pissed off Santos. 

But she's too cartoonish. All the other characters are more nuanced. That's why I don't think she's very well written.

I don't even think she is cartoonish. Like you said she is just poorly written.  If the writers meant for her to be a villain they should have went full on and written her as one.  As another poster mentioned the ER scene where Mark essentially killed the guy in the elevator viewers weren't outraged because we knew he was bad guy and we knew Mark was good guy.  But with Santos and the dad we don't the truth but if Santos was a more likable character we might be inclined to cut her some slack but as she is currently written I'm thinking who the fuck do you think you are.

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37 minutes ago, marceline said:

This has been six weeks for us but it’s only been six hours in the show’s universe.

Earlier in her medical career, not earlier in the day.

She was introduced as a 4th year intern, which makes this her final clinical rotation before residency. She would've had three prior years in clinical settings. 

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I think my issue with Santos is that I like her when she's over-the-top and arrogant. There are doctors like that.  They don't care about patients.  They care about the competitiveness and procedures.  And many never grow out of it. 

Since we're following her for one day, I'd prefer if they kept her that way.  Yes, I"d like to see her get comeuppance but I'd rather a consistent depiction of that kind of character.  What I felt they tried to do in this episode is give Santos nuance with the way she seemingly went all badass on the suspected creeper father. 

I'd rather Season 1 be about her eventually going too far and facing consequences.  Season 2 can be about her being right about things. 

 

23 hours ago, marceline said:

That makes perfect sense from a story perspective. This is his first time working on the anniversary of Adamson's death and it's obvious that's screwing with him. Meanwhile he's only halfway through his shift. IMO the ECMO patient seemed to be the thing that set him off.

I get that the anniversary of Adamson's death would be hard for him but I don't see why it would be any more triggering than any other day at work, especially four years later. As far as we know it's not a holiday or anything, so I don't know why seeing specific procedures or equipment would trigger him on that particular day more than any other. In other words, if his psyche is this fragile then he's just as likely to have a nervous breakdown on any other day of the year.

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also suspect the story the ladder guy's wife told wasn't true. She's spiking his coffee with progesterone in the hopes he'll stop molesting their daughter? Not contacting authorities or leaving him? Hmmm.

It might be that she simply doesn't want to have sex with him anymore and was trying to kill his libido. When she had to admit what she was doing she used her daughter as an excuse. 

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20 minutes ago, iMonrey said:

I get that the anniversary of Adamson's death would be hard for him but I don't see why it would be any more triggering than any other day at work, especially four years later. As far as we know it's not a holiday or anything, so I don't know why seeing specific procedures or equipment would trigger him on that particular day more than any other. In other words, if his psyche is this fragile then he's just as likely to have a nervous breakdown on any other day of the year.

 

Because that is how PTSD works. Some triggers fix themselves in the non rational part of your brain, and there you are. It doesn’t make you fragile, you have a fault line. 

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3 hours ago, iMonrey said:

It might be that she simply doesn't want to have sex with him anymore and was trying to kill his libido. When she had to admit what she was doing she used her daughter as an excuse. 

Early on somebody here - apologies for not crediting the specific individual(s) suggested that the husband might be transgender and transitioning. I still hope that might be the case. The daughter's reaction would make more sense that way.

I really hate that Collins is losing the baby. It's unnecessary, there is enough going on on the show already. It would have been better to watch her try to figure out how to juggle profession and single motherhood.

On 2/15/2025 at 11:32 AM, CarpeFelis said:

Wondering just how long it will take before Santos gets herself fired. And what the hell is she trying to start with her insinuation about Langdon?

He corrected her and she resents it. She may be trying a pre-emptive strike to get him discredited so that she looks better in comparison.

It's strange seeing the actress as a villain when she played a good character in ST:Picard.

On 2/14/2025 at 11:54 AM, meep.meep said:

We finally get some insight into why Dr. Robbie is constantly talking about getting people out of the ER and into beds elsewhere in the hospital.

I worked in an ER part time when I was in university and this was true of mine too, beds were available on the wards but they were holding off cleaning them or telling the ER that they were ready until the change of shift to make less work for themselves and meanwhile the ER was overflowing, patients on monitors and beds in the hallways for days.

On 2/15/2025 at 11:37 AM, YorkshireLass said:

She's definitely on the spectrum, but I'm wondering if she hasn't been officially diagnosed.  When Dr. King talked about having a sister who is autistic, my interpretation was that the sister is affected enough to limit her ability to cope in life.  Sometimes, when one sibling has an obvious personality disorder, the "less" affected sibling tends not to be diagnosed or diagnosed much later in their life.  (Personal experience talking here.)  It appears that Dr. King knows what her triggers are and has been able to successfully learn how to work around them.  I wanted to smack Dr. Langdon when he came back into the room with the ping pong player & propped the door open.

Langdon was supervising her, it's his job as a senior resident on the shift. He's only known her for 7 hours so he doesn't know if she can be left to treat the patient by herself.

It's possible that Mel is on the ASD spectrum but she could also be ADHD. There's a lot of correlation and ADHD is another condition where you're explaining and people walk away and you're left wondering why (personal experience).

On 2/15/2025 at 1:31 PM, snarts said:

I also suspect the story the ladder guy's wife told wasn't true. She's spiking his coffee with progesterone in the hopes he'll stop molesting their daughter? Not contacting authorities or leaving him? Hmmm

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A bit surprised her arrogance & petulant behavior haven't already been an issue. She's a 4th year (compared to Javadi, 3rd year & Mel, 2nd year). 

Javadi is a 3rd year medical student, Whittaker is a 4th year. Mel is a 2nd year resident and IIRC Santos is a first year resident.  Collins and Langdon are 4th year residents. It was never stated what level Samra is; I figure that she is either a third year resident (junior to Collins) or a second year who spent last year at The Pitt and thus has more knowledge and trust than they give Mel yet.

I have my suspicions about whether the wife of the ladder guy is telling the truth too. If she were really worried, she would have her daughter to the doctor.

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8 hours ago, statsgirl said:

Santos is a first year resident. 

https://www.tvinsider.com/gallery/the-pitt-noah-wyle-cast-characters-photos-premiere-date/#8

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Whether she's a 4th year intern/1st year resident, my point remains. It's far from her first time in a clinical setting, wondering why her behavior wasn't addressed previously.

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1 hour ago, snarts said:

https://www.tvinsider.com/gallery/the-pitt-noah-wyle-cast-characters-photos-premiere-date/#8

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Whether she's a 4th year intern/1st year resident, my point remains. It's far from her first time in a clinical setting, wondering why her behavior wasn't addressed previously.

This show, so far, has taken place in less than a day. Santos is clearly carrying a lot of trauma and complex ptsd, we can now suspect sexual abuse was involved. She is a real perfectionist, also often a symptom of trauma. She may be having real issues with the ER that she didn’t have in other settings that were less stressful. She would possibly get more defensive and likely to make mistakes as things go badly for her. 
 

traumatized people are not necessarily likable, although the unrelenting dislike does not seem deserved. We will see where they take the character. 

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2 hours ago, snarts said:

https://www.tvinsider.com/gallery/the-pitt-noah-wyle-cast-characters-photos-premiere-date/#8

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Whether she's a 4th year intern/1st year resident, my point remains. It's far from her first time in a clinical setting, wondering why her behavior wasn't addressed previously.

Also known colloquially as an intern.  The days when people did rotating internships before starting a residency are long gone.  Internships are the first year after med school and the same as the first year of residency; there is no 4 year internship.  Some medical schools have sub-internships for med students in their last year, but that is not the same.

As for Santos, she is a mandated reporter as is every other medical professional.  The moment the mother suggested that the girl had been molested, Santos was legally and ethically obligated to contact Childrens' Services.  It is NOT optional and is grounds for immediate dismissal not to do it.  When there is any suggestion of any sort of abuse of a minor, it is mandatory that it be reported to the authorities who would sort it out.

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1 hour ago, Affogato said:

This show, so far, has taken place in less than a day. Santos is clearly carrying a lot of trauma and complex ptsd, we can now suspect sexual abuse was involved. She is a real perfectionist, also often a symptom of trauma. She may be having real issues with the ER that she didn’t have in other settings that were less stressful. She would possibly get more defensive and likely to make mistakes as things go badly for her. 
 

traumatized people are not necessarily likable, although the unrelenting dislike does not seem deserved. We will see where they take the character. 

This also begs the question as to why Santos chose the specialty of emergency medicine when it is apparently so triggering for her.  

10 minutes ago, Notabug said:

This also begs the question as to why Santos chose the specialty of emergency medicine when it is apparently so triggering for her.  

Also begs? She may have a reason, we may learn it. She may not realize it is so triggering.  Or that the triggering is a problem she can’t overcome. It is not as if, after all the point of trauma people get a manual. (‘What to expect when you are traumatized’)  Robby is also soldiering through it. You just like him and he has more experience and his point of trauma is (so far as we have been told) simpler. Santos may have, for all we know, been abused for years as a child. 
 

yeah, i get that she is a mandated reporter and that she was wrong. I’m positive that will bite her in the ass. Yes there are issues that have emerged in the half day we have known her. I just don’t think the contempt and hate have been earned. Well, thank (whoever) she isn’t a real person. 

8 minutes ago, Affogato said:

I just don’t think the contempt and hate have been earned.

My dislike for her is based on her own actions that I have witnessed. I might sound uncaring but if she is a survivor of some sort of abuse that doesn't lessen my dislike of her.  It might help me understand why she is the way she is but it doesn't mean she hasn't done what we watched her do.

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1 minute ago, bluegirl147 said:

My dislike for her is based on her own actions that I have witnessed. I might sound uncaring but if she is a survivor of some sort of abuse that doesn't lessen my dislike of her.  It might help me understand why she is the way she is but it doesn't mean she hasn't done what we watched her do.

Yeah, and when I see some of the things she has done, I see someone who isn’t happy and may need support, and I see that the ER is understaffed and distracted. But that aside, even if she is all you think she is, the discussion has just rubbed me the wrong way. No one is discivering that she is unlikable and struggling, it is part of the ongoing story. 

4 minutes ago, Affogato said:

No one is discivering that she is unlikable and struggling, it is part of the ongoing story.

Her coworkers aren't privy to everything the viewer knows and the reverse is true as well.  Her coworkers could be clued into things viewers don't know.  As someone posted earlier we have only seen six hours of Santos's life and they have given viewers a lot of things to process.  Maybe the writers have a plan or maybe they just aren't writing this particular character well.

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1 hour ago, Notabug said:

This also begs the question as to why Santos chose the specialty of emergency medicine when it is apparently so triggering for her.  

I have seen some speculation that she may have initially tried to match for a surgical residency and didn't get one.  Surgical residencies are competitive and sometimes doctors who don't match will do a transitional year doing a different type of residency and hope to be able to enter one in their second year.  This may be why she was so desperate to get a letter of recommendation from the one med student's mother because letters of recommendation can be influential.

13 hours ago, statsgirl said:

It's strange seeing the actress as a villain when she played a good character in ST:Picard.

On 2/14/2025 at 10:54 AM, meep.meep said:

Oh, wow. I didn't even recognize her.

I'm not inclined to give any slack to Santos at this point. All I'm seeing is an overzealous med student who bullies her fellow med students and is way too pushy during procedures. I don't care what her trauma is, she needs to go.

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