A Non-defense of Dr Robby
I've been seing a lot of things said to defend Robby's behavior and coddle him and honestly, I think it's time people stop doing that.
You cand UNDERSTAND, without DEFEND. You can EMPATHIZE without DENYING RESPONSIBILITY.
1) someone said something about the medical environment Robby himself was brought up into. That it was harsher and harder. YES. that's how it was at the time. It doesn't make it RIGHT.
And more importantly it doesn't excuse Robby not improving and evolving with the world.
It is not on the new generation to bear the brunt of everything.
The duty of the new generation is to innovate. To change. To push forward.
The duty of the old generation is to protect and corral, and to reckons with what hurt them in order to make it better for the future.
It is Robby's duty to not let his bagage drag the new people under his care down.
2) "but maybe Robby tried to have more attending and after being told not one time too often he just stop".
Stop. Stop this right now.
Robby is a Department Head/Chief attending. This isn't a position that was forced onto him. At some point it was offered and he accepted it.
It is HIS duty and HIS responsibility to play the HR game, even if it is in the long run. That HR would tell him no is not a surprise, it is an expectation.
As Baran Al-Hashimi said it "it is not because the system is broken that you stop trying." That's the job of a Chief attending! That's their responsibility ! To understand the game and the hand they've been delt with and still find a way to cheat the system or push it into obeying until it is made into something better.
His duty is not to succeed in every cases, at every turns. His duty is to keep trying. If he can't do it, then he steps down. It is a possibility you know?
On top of that night shift has more attending than day shift! Night shift!! Understand this, night shifts are NEVER the priority. If they have more attendings that means the clinic can afford more attendings. That means that someone on night shift has been doing their job correctly.
And if you want to play the "Adamson card". That maybe Robby didn't hire another attending because it would have felt like replacing his dead mentor... Then that is still on him. That is his failure. A failure that is affecting the entire Department.
3) You can understand that someone is suffering. You can empathize and have compassion. You also need to understand that someone's pain stop being an acceptable defense the moment it starts being used as a justification to inflict pain on others.
4) Care is not shown through anger. Too many people have been giving him a free pass because he verbally admitted to caring when confronted by Dana.
Let me spell it out for you. Right now, his care is NOT about the people he is talking about. It is about himself. He does not care out of love for others, he cares out of self love. And that's why he feels like every mistakes from the people around him are a slight against him. Because he has made everyone's problems and struggles and needs about himself. It is not care. It is self-centeredness.
Just because he calls it caring does not mean it is. You don't get to say you care for someone while acting like an aggressive lunatic.
5) We've seen a lot of parallel between the way he treats Langdon this season and the way Langdon treated Santos in season 1.
But the thing is, Langdon was very much reproducing his toxic pattern in season 1. You can look into the way he has been dealing with Santos and Mel in season 1 and take a look at Langdon and Mohan, who were Robby's two residents at that point. One praised, one at best relagated to the side and at worst downright shitted on by Robby. So even in season 1, Robby's criticism about good leadership is hyprocritical at best.
Whether you want to admit it or not. Robby's faults were already being hinted at in the first season. They just got exponentially worse in season 2.