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i struggle to see how emery “this is not the standard of care i hate cowboy improvisational methods of medicine” walsh would be a military trauma surgeon. someone like abbot would thrive in combat med, but someone like emery (from what we saw in the canon) would absolutely not. people quote her rivalry with abbot as a reason she'd be a vet, but i don't agree. the two minutes of screen time they had together show how they're two completely different types of physicians who view medicine in two completely different ways. she does things by the book! she follows rules and views those who don’t as aggravating! she wouldn’t have a background in medicine that’s scrappy and messy and chaotic! and that's military med! that's not academic trauma surgery!

'nipples to navel is no mans land' is not an exclusive military phrase. my medic partners say it a lot and learned it in medic school or ems. it's a very common trauma surgery and em saying. i've heard it in the fire service as well. also 'flying the plane' is a common way to poke fun at people with control issues, not an USAF reference.

i also think making a character ex military is an easy way for writers to give a character Trauma without having to explore the nuances of Said Trauma or come up with something that more fits the character we see on screen. i've seen good depictions of it (again this isn't shading anyone), but sometimes it feels very trauma for trauma sake, and not a way to explore a character/give her depth.

there's so many ways to take her character since we know so little, but instead emery is reduced to having all of abbots traits. this vet headcanon (and how it's discussed/fleshed out) takes abbots background and characterization and slaps it onto emery and by doing so completely goes against the very few details we know about her and how she practices medicine. in a show like the pitt about doctors and medicine, the way each doctor practices medicine/their approach is at the root of their character! it's who they are! it tells us SO much without saying anything! so i don't agree with a headcanon that directly goes against how we see emery approach medicine. we get so little details about her, so why disregard the little we get in favor of a headcanon?