The Pitt, Season 2
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Anonymous
The actress playing her is 40. So was likely 39 or so when they shot this. |
Anonymous
I also think it's funny that PP things you can strike out on your own as an emergency medicine doctor. That's just not how it works. I do think there's an argument for Langdon to potentially move to a hospital that isn't a Trauma 1 center, which could be less physically demanding and stressful while still allowing him to do the diagnostic work of an EM physician. I also think getting away from the super high adrenaline rush of a T1 could be good for his recovery. I have a friend who is a EM doctor and she did her residency at a T1 center but is now doing her fellowship in a system without a T1 center and she thinks she prefers the pace. Her residency involved lots of gun shot wounds, car accidents, serious falls, etc. It's incredibly stressful. She says it was an amazing experience a doctor in her 20s and forced her to really learn the medicine and also develop strong patient and bedside skills. But it's very much not for everyone. |
Anonymous
They intentionally use harsh (realistic) lighting on this show and it ages all of them. Noah Wyle and Fiona Dourif look much older and more haggard on the show than the do in real life. They also make the members of the day shift look progressively worse as the shift goes on, on purpose, so their hair gets frizzier, their skin starts to look more sallow. It's actually kind of funny when the night shift people show up and they look so fresh. I think someone posted a meme of side by side photos of some cast members in episode 1 versus episode 14, I'll see if I can find it... |
Anonymous
That was totally my conclusion. First thing was him in the breakroom with Whitaker and he was taking a pill for the back pain and aggressively told Whitaker it was an Advil not something else. So we are already set up to be thinking this. Then they are needing him, and he's coming out of the bathroom looking like a sweaty high mess. Then he fixes that patient with the neck adjustments, and didn't want to do it, totally hesitated, which is out of character for him, but Rabi made him do it because Rabi hadn't seen it done, and then he does it and thank heavens it goes ok. I think there was something after that that was supposed to make us think he's high as well, but I can't remember what. Was there a scene before or after this where he goes to order a pain med for a patient and the other doctor in the room (King maybe?) questions it and they order something else? I feel like something like that happened as well. I hope it is all some kind of a red herring, but people truly don't change very often, especially where addiction is concerned. Can they? Yes. Do they? Not very often. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
It can very much drive what specialty they go into. I work at a DMV med school and we literally have programming designed to encourage our med students to be respectful of all specialties, because strong disrespect toward the lower prestige specialties/jobs (family med and prim care and psych come to mind) is a big problem. Some of this is even written into The Pitt, with Javadi's mother considering EMed to be a specialty that is well beneath her daughter's consideration. There was also a moment the other night where one of the ER docs makes a comment about "must be a sale at the bmw dealership" when they had trouble getting a surg consult to come right down; tension due to the specialty/prestige hierarchy is a real thing. And this influences most med students when they are looking to match. Urgent Care practice is at the bottom of the barrel, it is actually one of the few jobs that you can get as an MD if you haven't gone through a residency at all (this is allowed in only a few states that allow for limited licenses to practice medicine -- but in those states almost everyone practicing in that regard, generally people who failed to match and their faculty didn't manage a scramble for them, is working in an urgent care). |
Anonymous
That’s not very kind. |
Anonymous
I say it. |
Anonymous
We also see her stealing a scalpel |
Anonymous
It was a lot kinder than the awful post they were responding too. DP |
Anonymous
I know 42 year olds who look much older than me and I’m 40. I also know younger people who look older than me. |
Anonymous
+1 Ignore the PP. Unfortunately this thread has one rude poster who attacks people of they don’t like her beloved Santos. |
Anonymous
| I was genuinely scared when Langdon performed that risky maneuver in the ER with the paralysis patient. I did not like how Robby treated him: “Doctor the f$&k up!” That’s not appropriate. |
Anonymous
Please stop typing Rabi, it’s Robby. |
Anonymous
I mean, it's seems to me that response wasn't about santos, but about the PP's weird response about depressed teenaged girls. |