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No PR is bad PR. (Especially at this point…)

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Ep 9 felt like it focused in on Langdon and Dana and how they both handle stress. Dana remained calm and on top of things until right at the end she gets unfairly punched for it. You can be the best and still have something lousy happen to you.

But all episode Langdon was more snappy and sarcastic than he had been in the morning. He was pretty shut down with the other deaths - the old lady in the morning he barely cared, Bennet he was respectful, the honour walk he was respectful but very stiff. But even though he wasn’t involved directly the child drowning affected him a lot - he immediately calls home and wants to talk to his son, he clocks that Mel isn’t ok and tells her to take a break, he’s very cutting with the woman with the fight bite and with the guy in the waiting room even if he still provided good care.

Santos just hit the last nerve. From Langdons perspective she just endangered someone and did what he has told her at least three times before not to do in her not waiting for or listening to senior staff. He’s right if a patient had been having a seizure for three minutes they had time to get him and from what he’s been told Santos is the one who delayed and argued over treatment so he snaps on her pretty cruelly.

I loved that his rant wasn’t just yelling - he was mean and caustic and sarcastic and right that she doesn’t have the experience others do, all things that would get to someone like Santos more than an angry guy screaming at her. It was the wrong thing for him to do and it’s good he got called on it. Like he said to Mel the ED is a tough place for sensitive people - while Langdon seems pretty insensitive when something hits him it might really hit him. But it’s the same for Santos - she’s been tough on everyone all day and says she has rhino thick skin but clearly things hit her hard too, being pushed nearly to tears by Langdon even if she’d hate nothing more than crying in front of people.

It might be out of character for him to snap like that because the episode before Langdon was a great teacher to Javadi with Willie the pacemaker guy and tried to have fun with Santos over Louis the alcoholic, guessing his blood alcohol and engaging her with the case but she wasn’t interested so they didn’t click. Before Ep 9 he only called her out in private and was never cruel but now the bad blood is pretty real.

The question is - is it just stress from a child dying or is it a come down?

I lean towards Langdon not stealing drugs - it might be good drama on a tv show but really as an ED doctor it would be pretty easy I think for him to get a prescription for Ativan or Xanax - I think both are benzos - for anxiety or depression. Even totally legally because he has a hugely stressful job and anxiety could come from that and affect his whole life. Or if his jokes about ADD are true he could have a prescription for Adderall or something else. If he had a prescription he could still abuse it and end up needing to steal drugs but that a years long problem becoming extreme. If he’s been working there for four years shouldn’t someone have noticed before? For the realism The Pitt has built it feels like a stretch.