The Pitt: 3:00
February 28, 2025 10:36 AM - Season 1, Episode 9 - Subscribe
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I gotta say as bad as this sounds I'm really happy that the angry waiting room patient wound up assaulting a nurse rather than being some sort of lesson in being compassionate. I don't know any ED nurses or doctors who haven't been threatened or assaulted or both - I certainly have on many occasions.
It also fits in my experience that when angry patients go to punch someone they always seem to pick the one least likely to fight back. Notice how he didn't punch any of the male doctors or nurses but the female charge nurse. Super realistic, unfortunately.
posted by Silentgoldfish at 11:28 AM on February 28 [7 favorites]
It also fits in my experience that when angry patients go to punch someone they always seem to pick the one least likely to fight back. Notice how he didn't punch any of the male doctors or nurses but the female charge nurse. Super realistic, unfortunately.
posted by Silentgoldfish at 11:28 AM on February 28 [7 favorites]
Sooooo loopy to be watching this and ER at the same time. Yesterday I watched an ER episode where Carter (Wyle) confronts his mentor about their shared emotional debris from a death they both fear they contributed to. And here's Wyle as Dr. Robby trying to give the team some place to put difficult deaths.
I'm struggling with The Pitt because I don't feel very connected to the characters. Maybe it's a downside of this being set on one day. Maybe it's because almost everyone is in conflict with someone else. The sustained antagonism forces a "pick a side" feeling in me, where I feel like I'm rooting for one person vs. another, rather than for the team as a whole.
Is it just me, or is the difference between the waiting room and the ER really stark? I have a hard time believing they're the same building. And the ER often seems really quiet.
posted by cocoagirl at 12:42 PM on February 28 [1 favorite]
I'm struggling with The Pitt because I don't feel very connected to the characters. Maybe it's a downside of this being set on one day. Maybe it's because almost everyone is in conflict with someone else. The sustained antagonism forces a "pick a side" feeling in me, where I feel like I'm rooting for one person vs. another, rather than for the team as a whole.
Is it just me, or is the difference between the waiting room and the ER really stark? I have a hard time believing they're the same building. And the ER often seems really quiet.
posted by cocoagirl at 12:42 PM on February 28 [1 favorite]
I get what you mean cocoagirl, especially in last week's episode where the whole ER shut down for a moment to honor the organ donor kid and his family. A lovely idea, but it felt as implausible as a unicorn in any ER I've ever seen.
posted by peppermind at 3:35 PM on February 28
posted by peppermind at 3:35 PM on February 28
The whiplash I got from Dr. Langdon moving immediately from that completely aggressive and unprofessional verbal dump on Dr. Santos to the tenderness and professional respect for Dr. King, I think (Mel).... Just wow.
But I thought we saw two doctors here get reprimanded and take the critical feedback as a learning opportunity rather than escalate their defensiveness.
I'm very confused about what's going on medically with the car accident driver.
I absolutely loved this episode for Dr Whitaker.
The asshole waiting room guy physically looks like someone I know very well, who doesn't act like that even remotely, but it really keeps throwing me for a loop.
I appreciate it Dr Mohan giving validation to Dr Santos, who deserved it. I really have not liked Dr Santos, but I'm starting to get more interested in her story.
Unlike others I am deeply invested in these characters. And many of the patients, even when we don't know them that long. I have a hard time when episode of the show is over and I come immediately to fanfare to talk about it.
posted by fennario at 4:42 PM on February 28 [5 favorites]
But I thought we saw two doctors here get reprimanded and take the critical feedback as a learning opportunity rather than escalate their defensiveness.
I'm very confused about what's going on medically with the car accident driver.
I absolutely loved this episode for Dr Whitaker.
The asshole waiting room guy physically looks like someone I know very well, who doesn't act like that even remotely, but it really keeps throwing me for a loop.
I appreciate it Dr Mohan giving validation to Dr Santos, who deserved it. I really have not liked Dr Santos, but I'm starting to get more interested in her story.
Unlike others I am deeply invested in these characters. And many of the patients, even when we don't know them that long. I have a hard time when episode of the show is over and I come immediately to fanfare to talk about it.
posted by fennario at 4:42 PM on February 28 [5 favorites]
We started watching both The Pitt and Paradise at roughly the same time. The Pitt has become just riveting, while Paradise is rapidly approaching hate-watch.
posted by Ber at 8:53 PM on February 28 [1 favorite]
posted by Ber at 8:53 PM on February 28 [1 favorite]
I feel like they've been setting up Santos as "the crazy one, when will she go nuclear?" trope, so I'm glad to see them step back from that a bit.
posted by Dashy at 5:06 AM on March 1 [1 favorite]
posted by Dashy at 5:06 AM on March 1 [1 favorite]
I'm very confused about what's going on medically with the car accident driver.
She'd presented earlier in the day, misdiagnosed with a urinary tract infection and sent home on oral antibiotics.
She'd recently had a baby and actually had postpartum endometritis, which requires stronger treatment. Because it was missed she went septic which caused her to go delirious and crash her car.
posted by Silentgoldfish at 5:10 AM on March 1 [1 favorite]
She'd presented earlier in the day, misdiagnosed with a urinary tract infection and sent home on oral antibiotics.
She'd recently had a baby and actually had postpartum endometritis, which requires stronger treatment. Because it was missed she went septic which caused her to go delirious and crash her car.
posted by Silentgoldfish at 5:10 AM on March 1 [1 favorite]
So if this was ER, we'd see both the waiting room dude and the anti-masker get hauled off by the cops for assault. I can only hope.
It was nice that Dr. Langdon asked whether the Fox News anti-masker preferred that her surgeons didn't need to wear masks while they operated on her.
And speaking of ER, while I know that Noah Wyle has had other roles and I've enjoyed the shows that he has been on in the interim, god _damn_ do I like seeing him as a doctor again.
posted by Kyol at 1:28 PM on March 2 [3 favorites]
It was nice that Dr. Langdon asked whether the Fox News anti-masker preferred that her surgeons didn't need to wear masks while they operated on her.
And speaking of ER, while I know that Noah Wyle has had other roles and I've enjoyed the shows that he has been on in the interim, god _damn_ do I like seeing him as a doctor again.
posted by Kyol at 1:28 PM on March 2 [3 favorites]
Weird episode, Langdon now noticeably disinhibited between the road rash patient and yelling at Santos, which points more towards the red benzos -- and Santos is probably going to take him down.
The part with Collins/McKay was weird and felt bad!
posted by sibboleth at 7:39 PM on March 2
The part with Collins/McKay was weird and felt bad!
posted by sibboleth at 7:39 PM on March 2
especially in last week's episode where the whole ER shut down for a moment to honor the organ donor kid and his family. A lovely idea, but it felt as implausible as a unicorn
This is called an honor walk and it's very common. Go to YouTube and search it up; there's hundreds of them.
posted by tzikeh at 7:36 PM on March 5
This is called an honor walk and it's very common. Go to YouTube and search it up; there's hundreds of them.
posted by tzikeh at 7:36 PM on March 5
I’m away this weekend if someone wants to post todays episode before I get to it on Monday (and also sad I can’t watch it until then!)
posted by ellieBOA at 6:22 AM on March 6
posted by ellieBOA at 6:22 AM on March 6
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