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Malevolent: “No.”

The fuck do I do after 2x14???

yet…crickets.

One character(Robby) is taking out his trauma on the other two people who have similar trauma, unable to empathize with their experiences. He specifically directs his traumatic experiences towards them, women of colour who have been treated like this all their life, adding to their existing racial trauma. Whenever they react to their own trauma, they get yelled at, disrespected, undermined, and the behavior is used by Robby to prove that they don't belong in this workplace.

You, the viewer. Get to decide who's mental health you prioritise. Is it the women who are continuously mistreated and don't get to react to their trauma, always having to behave well because they -as women of colour- have internalised that they can never react to trauma in a substantial way. Or is it the white man, with a lot of power in this workplace, who reacts to his trauma by disrespecting the marginalised women around him?

Now that you have made your decision. What is you reaction when people, mostly made up of women(of colour)who can see themselves in these two female characters, empathise with Samira and Al Hashimi more than Robby. That they are angry at him for being able to direct his trauma in such a racist and misogynistic way, while their mental health is ignored? Do you support them, and try to understand their experiences? Or do you tell those viewers that they have no empathy for mental illness, simply because they hate the man who actively harms people that look just like them.

Last question. If you specifically relate to Robby for displaying mental health in an unpleasant manner, because you have displayed that behavior before and have received scrutiny for it. Do you agree that overexplaining and justifying this behavior to make it look more acceptable is not at all productive to the recovery of a severely mentally ill person? Do you agree that allowing and justifying it just furthers it? Do you agree that the mental health of the people around him, especially those with comperable trauma, should be held in the same regard as his?

- Moved Dr Garcia halfway to the dungeon (YOU’RE KILLING ME GIRL )

She resorts to belittling Javadi and calling her a “nepo baby” instead of offering constructive feedback. This comes across as her using Javadi’s mistake as an opportunity to let her emotions out, and onto others.

(weather these emotions are her own stresses or an internalized opinion about Javadi, idk, but it did seem to me like she was targeting her a bit there)

Either way, unprofessional and not helping anyone.

The fact that she isn’t down in the ER all the time may explain her ability to not be very emotionally attached to the patients and workers there. It’s easy to prioritize a patient’s life over anything else (including the team’s and patient’s well being) when you don’t get the chance to properly get to know either.

- I moved DR Abbot up to the vacation since:

1. It’s clearer now that he understands that, as a leader, his own mental health affects the performance of the team, and so he is taking steps towards bettering himself in that regard.

2. He Seems to have found a good balance between looking out for patient’s personal and physical well being. This includes encouraging the barking of the rules if it means bettering the lives of the patients, since he’s aware that the system he’s working in is flawed.

!!!HOWEVER!!! he has been seen to not take action himself if it means getting in trouble for it. Which is selfish but understandable. You can’t help people in the medical system if you’re kicked out of it for malpractice (or whatever he was avoiding that one time. I’m nowhere near being in the medical field and it shows)

3. He continually offers Robby opportunities to reach out and get help. He knows that guy ain’t easily budging, and that he is the most likely person Robby is willing to except help from.

- Dr Robby…