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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Langdon didn’t get off with a pass. Santos is sanctimonious with the limited perspective of youth. Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone screws up. The majority of people deserve a second chance. He’s trying to make right, he’s not perfect.

Life is not black or white, it’s a lot of gray[/quote]

I mean. He really should be in jail. [/quote]I work in health care and know people who have skimmed drugs at work or forged prescriptions. None have gone to jail. The board has suspended licenses until intervention programs were completed and had 2 to 5 yrs of supervision after, ie random drug screens etc. 2 people were terminated from their jobs but they were at private offices. [/quote]

Even though he substituted medicine and let it be administered to a patient? That is more than skimming. [/quote]

Yes, people always skip over this. He didn't just divert medication for his own stash, he replaced a vial of Ativan with saline, resealed it, and put it back in the pharmaceutical cabinet for anyone to use. And then told an intern that it was normal for the vial to be very hard to open and that sometimes you need to double a patients dose and it's no big deal.

Someone on Reddit wondered if maybe the show wants us to forget that detail from Season 1, because it really complicates the narrative about Langdon returning, since that is absolutely a fireable offense and would likely lead to losing you medical license, even if you agree to whatever restrictions and rehab and all that. It's bigger than just a doctor have a substance abuse problem (which is sadly not that uncommon) or even diverting medication (which happens more frequently than anyone wants to admit). It exposes the hospital to major liability issues, which is why Langdon likely would not have his job if the hospital had been told that detail.

I am hoping they aren't dropping that part of his story and that it gets integrated into what's happening now. But that's the piece that people who are saying Langdon wouldn't be fired aren't picking up on. That detail makes Langdon's situation much worse than the other examples people have mentioned of doctors/nurses with addiction issues IRL. [/quote]

Very good point.[/quote]

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