i read a post somewhere that said something along the lines of “dr santos wants people to believe she doesn’t care but in reality she cares too much” and you can really see that when she invites whitaker over at her apartment. she lives alone in an apartment with a spare room. maybe it was a temporary situation, maybe she simply can afford it. it doesn’t really matter. she lives alone and it could stay that way if she just turned a blind eye. she could leave whitaker, pretend she didn’t see. people could argue that basically everyone in the pitt is kind enough to extend a landing hand and i believe that to be 100% true, but what matters is that dr santos did it. the one who everyone thought was heartless just for being arrogant. trinity santos saw this guy and said “fuck it. you’re coming with me. i’m not gonna stop making fun of you but if you don’t come with me now i’ll use my krav maga skills to bring you home myself.”
trinity santos the woman who had a close friend kill herself because of an abusive older man. trinity santos the woman who could’ve been that friend because mental illness has a hungry grip that spares no one. dr robby could be that person and dr santos doesn’t know. every single character could be that person and we wouldn’t even know because we, much just like dr santos, were allowed no more than a peek in these people’s lives. we only have a vague idea what they look like on the outside, what demons they’re fighting against. any day now, that person could be whitaker. could be any patient dr santos can’t save.
dr santos’ arrogance isn’t a lie, but it’s not a complete truth either; there are so many layers etched under her façade and it think whitaker is a great way to show that. they can be so beneficial to each other in terms of character exploration and development.
squid game + the onion 1 | 2
The strongest theme of The Pitt for me is how nothing is how the public expects it. You think you know how unhoused people look like? No, he can be a fourth year med student doing his best. CSA survivor with a best friend who committed suicide? she's the meanest R1 who is not letting injustice slide and gets so excited about every procedure. The addict and the woman going through a miscarriage are the most competent senior residents you've ever seen. The attending saving the day at the last minute is an amputee.
Noah Wyles and his team really said "Nothing in ER departments is how it's supposed to be from the 12-hour wait times to the lack of blood, but people going through what would be anybody else's worst day are the only thing keeping the american healthcare system together"
Any Sangwoo headcanons?👉🏻👈🏻
SANG-WOO?? ABSOLUTELY. MILLIONS. BILLIONS EVEN. i’m genuinely so glad i get this opportunity to talk abt him bc i feel kinda icky irl rn 😔
sang-woo HATES being late to things. being overly late to a function gives him a nauseous feeling (same)
he plays sudoku and he would ABSOLUTELY play other nytimes games.
he briefly tried contacts but he hated how they felt in his eyes so he gave them up
he would refuse to go to therapy because he sees it as wasted time in which he could be working instead.
his mother’s name is jang hye-ji
he regularly suffers from headaches/migraines. he also probably knocks himself out with ibuprofen.
PANICS when he’s sick. thinks he’s doomed, even when he’s got something small like a cold. partially because being sick makes him feel like he’s taking unnecessary time off and he’ll fall behind, but also because the sickness fucks with his head and makes him super delirious.
extremely good at locking tf in and not getting distracted when it comes to work. will literally eliminate any distractions. (that's why he and gi-hun lost contact. /j)
has to drink insane amounts of water after waking up otherwise his throat will be usually a pain in the ass all day. that's what smoking all FUCKING day and attempting suicide by carbon monoxide will do to you. hoe /aff
likes chocolate (milk and dark) but fucking hates white chocolate. (same. that is just pure projection) he likes his chocolate INSANELY bitter though.
not too much of a sweet tooth. too much sugar makes him sick. prefers umami and bitter foods.
(free this man from the clutches of chainsmoking please. how is he not dead.)
hey, santos nation, what sport(s) do we think she played (since she's canonically a former athlete)?
"i was an undergrad theology major."
yeah, i can see it.
THE PITT | S01E01 "7:00 A.M."
If that took her out, she'll be lucky to make it through this rotation. I got fifty bucks says she doesn't last through this shift. Come on! Put your money where your mouth is. Uh, no. I didn't say anything, okay? And I sure as hell don't have fifty bucks. I'll be this lady's age before I pay off my student loans.