just something i've been thinking about on a s2 re-watch. Al-Hashimi isn't introduced in episode 1 as just "replacement daytime attending"—Robby specifically says "she's covering as chief." Then there's all the details about her patient passports, her campaign to stop calling it "the Pitt," the way she's generally lockstep with Gloria on things like patient satisfaction and hospital billing. She makes the R2 repeating comment to Santos which is a bit weird if she's not expecting to be there for more than a few months. I don't think she's naive enough to think it's worth it to make all of those major changes day one of her new job unless she had some idea that she might be in the running to take over long-term
obviously the seizure problem might throw all of that out the window, but I do wonder why else they would introduce her as a huge change-maker if she's meant to leave at the end of Robby's sabbatical and/or downgrade to a regular attending