In r/emergencymedicine, clinicians react to The Pitt as unusually accurate about boarding, wait times, and burnout, while also critiquing Hollywood distortions and occasional implausible scenes that break immersion.
“the boarding, the wait times, patients yelling at you about wait times when you just leave a code, the SDoH, the burnout”
“the ‘trying-as-hard-as-you-can-and-it’s-still-not-enough,’ the passive SI.”
“It’s an incredible show, and the medical accuracy is just *mwah*.”
“To me it just feels like watching work right after I get home from work. Tiring.”
“Most recent episode was pretty painful. Lvl 1 trauma hospital and the nursing staff is giving the very capable homeless dude a shave and a haircut???”
The Pitt makes me feel so seen.
the boarding, the wait times, patients yelling at you about wait times when you just leave a code, the SDoH, the burnout
It’s an incredible show, and the medical accuracy is just *mwah*.
I saw a plastic surgeon ranting about how terrible it was to use sutures through steri strips to bring together fragile skin while listing all these “better” options that would never exist in an actual ER.
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