The Pitt: 6:00 P.M.
March 21, 2025 2:48 PM - Season 1, Episode 12 - Subscribe
When dozens of critical patients flood the ER, Robby and his team struggle to keep up amid quickly diminished supplies.
Goddamn am I glad I don't work in America. I read that a lot of this episode is based off the las Vegas mass shooting which was unusually deadly but still, the calm way they showed everyone dealing with all the gunshot wounds....
I worked in a trauma centre for many years and rural emergency for many more and I've probably dealt with less than a dozen firearm incidents in that whole time. All our mass casualty training exercises are around bus crashes and the like.
The last massive incident my old trauma hospital had to deal with (aside from COVID) was a thunderstorm asthma event.
Super compelling episode, I was surprised when it ended it was moving so fast.
posted by Silentgoldfish at 4:33 PM on March 21 [4 favorites]
I worked in a trauma centre for many years and rural emergency for many more and I've probably dealt with less than a dozen firearm incidents in that whole time. All our mass casualty training exercises are around bus crashes and the like.
The last massive incident my old trauma hospital had to deal with (aside from COVID) was a thunderstorm asthma event.
Super compelling episode, I was surprised when it ended it was moving so fast.
posted by Silentgoldfish at 4:33 PM on March 21 [4 favorites]
Intense, that hour went by fast and was not yet heartbreaking.
posted by sibboleth at 11:59 PM on March 21
posted by sibboleth at 11:59 PM on March 21
I don't even know what to say. That may have been the most painful hour of television I've ever watched, but I'm also so impressed with it as a show.
Choreographing, essentially, all of that to convey the sense of chaos while getting all the shots and the medicine and the stories right, majorly impressed with all of that. I don't really have the movie/tv vocab to do justice to how impressed I am.
Seeing the 'newbies' thrust into this tragedy was heartbreaking, but also I felt so proud of them for the way they gained confidence. I'm O- myself so seeing their desperate need for blood, doctors donating. On 9/11 in NYC, a bunch of us were trying to make it to hospitals to give blood, but we were told there was really no need for blood. That was heartbreaking in a different way than the idea of running out of blood during one of these mass casualty events.
Loved seeing Javadi stand up to her mother, and her mother taken aback and impressed.
Obviously, tragically, this can and does happen anywhere in the US but as a parent of a school-aged child it was terrifying. It was rage-inducing to think of children stuck in Uvalde by police inaction, bleeding out when maybe at least some of them could have been rushed to medical attention and survived.
I hope for Robbie's sake and the sweet mother's sake, that it was not the kid who fled the ER earlier. But I assume it will be.
posted by fennario at 10:59 AM on March 22 [2 favorites]
Choreographing, essentially, all of that to convey the sense of chaos while getting all the shots and the medicine and the stories right, majorly impressed with all of that. I don't really have the movie/tv vocab to do justice to how impressed I am.
Seeing the 'newbies' thrust into this tragedy was heartbreaking, but also I felt so proud of them for the way they gained confidence. I'm O- myself so seeing their desperate need for blood, doctors donating. On 9/11 in NYC, a bunch of us were trying to make it to hospitals to give blood, but we were told there was really no need for blood. That was heartbreaking in a different way than the idea of running out of blood during one of these mass casualty events.
Loved seeing Javadi stand up to her mother, and her mother taken aback and impressed.
Obviously, tragically, this can and does happen anywhere in the US but as a parent of a school-aged child it was terrifying. It was rage-inducing to think of children stuck in Uvalde by police inaction, bleeding out when maybe at least some of them could have been rushed to medical attention and survived.
I hope for Robbie's sake and the sweet mother's sake, that it was not the kid who fled the ER earlier. But I assume it will be.
posted by fennario at 10:59 AM on March 22 [2 favorites]
I assume it will be too, however, there's unfortunately lots of Davids out there. Also the mom said they didn't have any guns right? Just for logistics sake alone - did he obtain a gun, then tote it about on public transport to the festival? I guess we'll have to wait and see.
posted by Gyre,Gimble,Wabe, Esq. at 11:09 AM on March 22
posted by Gyre,Gimble,Wabe, Esq. at 11:09 AM on March 22
I think the reason that Pittsburgh Trauma Medical is chosen for this mass shooting event is that it is the closest to the festival.
I feel like it's an inevitable, slow-rolling train coming right at us, and I feel like the show's writing has been broadcasting this since the beginning of the season, but I for one will still feel terrible for Dr. Robby if David has killed his stepson Jake.
As with everything on this show, it's not so much the plot being predictable or not, but the slow reveal of people actively grappling with all the many many cascading shocks of terrible situations.
posted by ishmael at 1:02 PM on March 22 [3 favorites]
I feel like it's an inevitable, slow-rolling train coming right at us, and I feel like the show's writing has been broadcasting this since the beginning of the season, but I for one will still feel terrible for Dr. Robby if David has killed his stepson Jake.
As with everything on this show, it's not so much the plot being predictable or not, but the slow reveal of people actively grappling with all the many many cascading shocks of terrible situations.
posted by ishmael at 1:02 PM on March 22 [3 favorites]
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