Episode 13 was maybe even more intense than 12. It hit me hard. For some reason, the last 2 episodes have hit me hard in the feels. Almost like a PTSD response, and maybe that’s what it is.
I’m removed enough professionally from an ER setting that this is fiction to me. But I’ve spent loads of time professionally in an ER. And I’ve seen and smelled death in pretty much all of the ways depicted on the show.
The active shooter storyline has got to me like television rarely does. Probably because I’ve trained for an active shooter response for two decades and I’ve seen violent death in many forms. I’ve never responded to a mass casualty event but good friends have. This stuff is real to me. And not in some detached, existential way.
Just finished the series. This has been an excellent show. I can’t imagine what emotional trauma those of you in medicine, military, or law enforcement go through, but if this show is even a small realistic glimpse, you have my sincere respect.
I have enough trouble getting to sleep at night, if I had to deal with some of this shit, I wouldn’t be able to close my eyes.
Obviously, this show had the extremes, but I’m sure there are many days with extremes. But damn I thought that was a great show.
I watched the first two or three episodes, checked out, then jumped back in at E12 given the reviews here. I haven’t seen the finale yet but I agree, it’s very well done and compelling even for someone who works in the field and avoids medical dramas categorically. Wyle is so convincing as the experienced attending I almost forget he’s an actor at times.
We finished S1 last night. Episodes 12 and 13 were indeed bonkers. I know it’s overly dramatized for entertainment purposes, the season and not necessarily E12/13, but I kept thinking, “Who the fuck wants to do that job?” followed by being thankful there are people willing to do it. That’s stress at a level I don’t ever want to experience.
My wife is trying to finish the last few episodes before S2 drops this week. She’s spent the last year working in an ED but now is in transplants in the same teaching hospital.
She’s very envious of this fictional hospital because their branded scrubs are Figs. Figs are high end, UMass branded ones are one step above paper scrubs.
Being in the medical field, like you, I typically avoid TV medical dramas. Before I switched into my current specialty, I spent several years in general surgery at a Level One trauma center in downtown Atlanta (also in various ERs in KY). The action/pace fascinated me but any dramatization of it on TV was not appealing. But, based on your view of the show/episode, I feel like it is worth it to give this show a chance.
It’s pretty realistic with exception of time frame. What you see in one shift/one season is what you’d see in like years/decades of healthcare. I appreciate the Pitt because it shows our experience/lives (the good, bad and ugly) pretty accurately and cathartic. It’s hard to explain to friends and family what I really do and deal with and I think this provides a good voice for healthcare workers.
It’s pretty realistic with exception of time frame. What you see in one shift/one season is what you’d see in like years/decades of healthcare.
Depends on where you’re working. I spent 2 years at PG County level 2 trauma center just north of DC and almost every shift was a shit show. But I take your point about timeframe generally. Every episode is more like a full shift worth of drama, not one hour.
No, Clooney has not had anything to do with the show. Noah Wiley is one of the producers/writers, plus the star. The two main guys responsible for the show are the same guys who did the show ER. My friend used to work for one of the guys, John Wells. He had a very sweet black convertible Porsche Carrera that she used to come pick me up for dinner in. Fun times.
I watched the first couple of episodes and then got busy watching other things until recently so I just watched episodes 12 and 13 today. Noah Wiley is so incredible in this. I think episode 13 was even more heart wrenching than episode 12.
S2E1: I do not like the new attending at all! I do not like the new med student girl. The new med student boy seems to be a know it all and will likely F something up in a future episode. Something off with the wrist guy.
Would they really get someone with no emergency medicine experience to cover for an extended time? Does the VA have an ER?
Didn’t the elderly man who died come via ambulance from a rest home? And then his wife with dementia came? Same rest home? Wouldn’t the rest home be notified? Or try to notify other family?
Would they have really done that open shoulder reduction without masks and sterilizing and right in the ER?
Isn’t this episode supposed to take place on July 4? NO DEPOSITION WOULD EVER HAPPEN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY!
