The Pitt (TV) tag on this website is a fucking nightmare and it is painfully obvious to me that a lot of the people arguing about Santos versus Langdon have,
a) not worked in emergency medicine and
b) never had to deal with a situation like that with their coworkers
There is very much a hierarchy in emergency medicine. If you are new you gotta respect the hierarchy. Now contrast the hierarchy with someone who has been at your agency for longer than you, who everyone else knows and you barely know and they do something that needs to be reported to higher ups.
Now you're thinking, well fuck it's my word against theirs. They've been at this for much longer than me. Who would believe me, I'm brand new here. What if I report this person and I am taken seriously and they get kicked out and everyone finds out and hates me because I got someone they liked kicked off. What if I report this and this person retaliates against me and I get kicked off and potentially blacklisted?
Want to guess how long it took me to report what happened? Close to TWO MONTHS. And before this I had had concerns about this person for three months because of things they said/done. Other things that probably would have been enough to report on their own. Two months. That's how terrified I was because I'm new and this person isn't. And this wasn't a situation where maybe it could have been that person or maybe it wasn't. No this was cut and dry they did something they shouldn't be doing inside our ambulance (albeit we were not on shift at the time, so there wasn't any risk to patients).
I have a lot of sympathy for Santos because I am dealing with a situation which is similar to hers right now, I know what is it is like to have a superior who is rude to you (she did kind of have it coming though). I have a lot of sympathy for Langdon because I know how debilitating chronic pain is, I know what it is like to have to try and deal with people like Santos who think they know everything and are rude. (The person in my situation acts a lot like Santos lmao. It annoys me to no end.)
Can we just look critically at what is happening in this show? Both characters have their issues that both need addressing, but the season is only 2/3 of the way done. Have a look past your blind hatred/adoration of each character and see what the show is actually trying to tell us. Sure these are fictional characters but this stuff happens all the time in real life. So just like... think about that a little.