The Pitt, Season 2

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Anonymous wrote:Al Hashimi driving off on the top level of the parking garage with her two seizures that day made me think she was going to have another seizure and drive into the group of staff watching the fireworks on the top level of the garage.

I was freaking out about this.

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Anonymous wrote:I missed the mid-credit scene, I'm glad they did that, I was annoyed that they teased karaoke but didn't show it. I'm not a Santos fan, but I root for Mel and I was glad to see them having fun.

I know that the show is focusing on the busiest, most stressful days, but the across the board burnout of the doctors both old and young doesn't match what I've seen in ERs. We're getting older and sandwich generation, with elderly parents and college kids, and unfortunately have made more than a few trips to the ER over the past couple years. We haven't seen wait times where people are dying in the waiting room. The doctors and nurses we see seem very happy to be doing their jobs. We were in there earlier this week and it seemed like a very busy but cheerful workplace. Fortunately our trip was not super high urgency, but they got us right in and didn't rush us out. There were other patients nearby who we pray the best for, and a number of stroke alerts, so they were certainly busy. My point being, that I hope that the doctors and nurses at Inova Fairfax, Alexandria, and Mt Vernon are all in better shape than the staff at the Pitt, we are 100% so thankful for the care our family has received.

Because like most of us you are living in a HCOL area filled with insured UMC+ people. That’s not the Pitt.

This. I've been to every ER in DC. Washington Hospital Center and Howard can absolutely look like the Pitt on a holiday. Howard has a lot of mean nurses and doctors who look burned out, and the waiting room looks brutal (I bypassed it for not good reasons). Sibley is pleasant (waits can sometimes be long). GW's staff seems very professional but hurried and tired.

Sure, on a holiday with lots of sun and alcohol issues, and during a mass shooting. Those are the most stressful days and it makes sense for the show to cover them. But the doctors are all dealing with long term issues unrelated to those particular days. Even cities have slower days. (And at Alexandria this week the other patients checking in weren't speaking English, no sign of ICE though.)

It's not "across the board" burn out. It's Robby and Dana. They are the only ones who seem truly burnt out. Santos is having a tough day and has a trauma history, but a lot of that is just being a new R2 and overwhelm. Common. Mel had a bad day, otherwise seems fine. Javadi seems fine (her mom SUCKS and Javadi should not be working in the same hospital as both parents, but it's not unrealistic for a family like hers and given her age). Princess seems better than fine. McKay seems good, just had a tough time with the cancer patient who died, but that would be normal. Whitaker seems great. Joy seems fine. Ogilvie had a bad day and probably emergency med is not for him (normal for a med student on rotation, happens in lots of specialties). Mohan doesn't seem burnt out, just dealing with a personal issue and not feeling supported at work (her having the panic attack was melodramatic, IMO, but I suppose it could happen under some circumstances). Langdon is at the start of recovery, I think he had an okay, not great, first day back -- he seems as good as can be expected.

Robby is in crisis. Dana clearly has PTSD from being attacked and may just have hit her limit in her job -- she is retirement age and lots of older nurses get to the point she is at now, I think the ongoing story with her is how she continues to do this job. But they are the only two behaving in ways that would indicate burn out to me, and mostly not in front of patients. You could go to that ER, have Robby as your attending and interact with Dana, and not think "whoa is this place falling apart?" You'd actually probably find them both professional and reassuring, because they are, even on this particular day.

This is consistent with most of my ER experiences. And I've definitely been in ER's where the waiting room is a total nightmare. Washington Hospital Center had a 10 hour wait for non-trauma cases the last time I was there (not a holiday), Howard's waiting room has a lot of unhoused people and people in dire life situations. GW gets a lot of serious trauma cases, especially on holidays, and can be a very stressful place. Sibley is the only ER in DC where I've had what I'd describe as literally a pleasant experience, but I was there in the middle of the day on a Tuesday and they were not busy. And I still had one nurse who was kind of an impatient jerk, though who knows maybe he was having a rough day like anyone can have!

The Pitt is pretty realistic in this respect, IMO.

Javadi was questioning whether she should even be a doctor because of everyone’s mental health issues. I don’t think she is fine.

She was questioning working in the ED because of the mental health stuff, not being a doctor. And she was being melodramatic because as outlined above, "everyone" does not have severe mental health issues. Some of Javadi's examples didn't even make sense. She mentioned McKay's ankle monitor which I do not believe had anything to do with her job. She mentioned Santos being angry but even Whitaker pushed back on this and said Santos has issues (unrelated to her being a doctor) but isn't actually angry. And then she mentions Mel like "then there's Mel" and doesn't say what the issue is but it sure sounds like she's actually just judging Mel for being neurodiverse, not for being burnt out.

Javadi is just a typical 20/21 year old. She's a little judgmental, doesn't really understand how the world works, in her first "real" job and learning what actual people who are not her family members are like. She's not burnt out. She making TikTok's and figuring out what her medical specialty will be and having crushes and making friends, maybe for the first time in her weird life with her overbearing mom and academic superstar status.

She is absolutely fine.

She started by saying maybe she should go to law school. Obviously not serious but definitely troubled by the issues most of the staff have.

Which is a normal thought process for a 20 year old. This is one of the arguments against dramatic accelerating exceptionally gifted kids, emotionally they are still kids. Javadi is very mature outwardly and good at what she is doing, but she is also barely out of her teens. Making tiktoks and acting out a bit are probably some of her healthiest choices right now

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Anonymous wrote:Al Hashimi driving off on the top level of the parking garage with her two seizures that day made me think she was going to have another seizure and drive into the group of staff watching the fireworks on the top level of the garage.

She's definitely going to kill someone driving.

+1 I thought at first she might hit Robby!

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I was surprised the actress who plays Javadi had what appeared to be an Australian accent!

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Anonymous wrote:Due to a personal experience I would really like to skip the pre-eclampsia/emergency c section storyline. Is this going to be possible?

It takes up about 10 minutes of the show and very realistic and heart wrenching.

Okay, so they don't cut into it suddenly/without warning? That was my big concern. If it's mostly in one go, that's workable.

The woman arrives in an ambulance while Robby is out talking to someone. She presents with swollen ankles, headache, etc. Announces she's never had prenatal care, no midwife, because she wants a "wild birth." It's basically a straight shot from there. It does escalate very quickly. And it's graphic.

They do cut quickly in and out with other scenes from the ER, as Robby walks in and out of the room. The dialog is interesting. It's worth listening to the audio as you look away. The scene is one of the most graphically disturbing scenes in the show, but I look away at some point during nearly every episode, that's the show.

Yeah, my dirty lens is that my mom almost died of eclampsia having me (she had regular care, it just came on fast for her) and I'm currently in my third trimester (due to mom they watch me like a hawk) so I'd just rather not watch that right now.

Totally understand. Agree with the ways others have described the way the scene rolls out. Also know that you can take comfort that this won't be your circumstances, because you are on top of this, mindful of your condition, and ready to rely on medical expertise. The show does a great job of showing how this person's refusal of any prenatal care before the ED visit was a problem, and the way her "free birth" stance meant crucial minutes of care were lost when she WAS in the ED. This isn't you, PP.

No offense, but you are wrong. A friend who is a very talented surgeon almost died of the most severe form of PreE. She had to scream at her care team to take her to the OR immediately she was about to code and then did.

Her baby died, she lost her uterus and she barely survived.

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Anonymous wrote:So what was up with Dr. Al-Hashimi’s private phone call? Was she doing that on behalf of the possibly schizophrenic patient to see if he had a brain tumor?

No. She said she was a patient of the neurologist and was making an appointment for herself. It's very clear in the conversation.

We've seen have Dr. Al-Hashimi have two, what appear to be dissociative episodes. One in that cliffhanger early in the season when she's looking down at Baby Jane Doe and Samira keeps saying her name and she can't hear it, and then another in this episode right before she makes the call to the neurologist.

We also learned in this episode that she has worked overseas with Doctors Without Borders (she uses the French name of the org), including at the hospital Dasht-E-Barchi hospital in Kabul. If you are unfamiliar with it, Dasht-E-Barchi was the site of a massacre by a military insurgency in 2020, where a maternity ward was targeted and many mothers and hospital workers were murdered.

It is likely that Dr. Al-Hashimi has PTSD from that experience, that was triggered by Baby Jane Doe's cries. She probably sees a neurologist to deal with neurological effects of her PTSD, including flashbacks and dissociative episodes. She is recognizing the signs of a triggering episode in herself and she's reaching out to her doctor in order to address them as quickly as possible.

This will be interesting to watch unfold because almost everyone in that ED is dealing with some level of PTSD, due to the mass shooting event and/or Covid, as well as other more discrete incidents (Dana's assault, Santos' childhood abuse, Langdon's addiction). We are also seeing the trauma experienced by both patients and their families this season. Ilana, the rape survivor, in the immediate aftermath of SA by a friend. We also see Jackson's (the law student patient who has been hearing voices) family discussing another family member who committed suicide, and also the choice to conceal that from Jackson's sister. And then there is Roxy, the cancer patient, whose entire family is experiencing the trauma of her physical decline and likely imminent death.

I think this season is about trauma, both in the acute sense of someone with a critical injury being rolled into a trauma room at the ER, and also in the broader sense of the events that mark us and follow us throughout our lives. How it manifests, how people deal. Everything from thrill seeking as a way to quiet traumatic episodes (Abbott, also Langdon), self-medicating (Langdon), seeking treatment (Al-Hashimi), denial and escapism (Rabi), humor and putting up defenses (Santos), self-harm (also Santos, also Langdon, also maybe Rabi), digging into your work (ALL OF THEM), and so on. What is healthy, what is not, what works anyway.

So I’m not sure this is correct now based on the info we have now about her epilepsy.

So now we know it was both -- she was diagnosed with epilepsy as a child but had been mostly seizure free as an adult, but she notes she had not worked on pediatric cases "since Afghanistan" and Baby Jane Doe was her first seizure of the day, perhaps brought on by the child crying and a stress response due to her experience in the maternity hospital in Afghanistan during the terror attack.

PTSD and epilepsy are 2 very different things. Someone (I assume you) stated that she has PTSD and that’s what caused her seizures and she likely sees a neurologist for PTSD. That’s not true. She sees a neurologist for seizures caused by epilepsy, not PTSD. Moreover, we don’t even know if she has PTSD.

She’d need a therapist for PTSD.

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Anonymous wrote:I was surprised the actress who plays Javadi had what appeared to be an Australian accent!

Why? She is Australian.

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Anonymous wrote:So what was up with Dr. Al-Hashimi’s private phone call? Was she doing that on behalf of the possibly schizophrenic patient to see if he had a brain tumor?

No. She said she was a patient of the neurologist and was making an appointment for herself. It's very clear in the conversation.

We've seen have Dr. Al-Hashimi have two, what appear to be dissociative episodes. One in that cliffhanger early in the season when she's looking down at Baby Jane Doe and Samira keeps saying her name and she can't hear it, and then another in this episode right before she makes the call to the neurologist.

We also learned in this episode that she has worked overseas with Doctors Without Borders (she uses the French name of the org), including at the hospital Dasht-E-Barchi hospital in Kabul. If you are unfamiliar with it, Dasht-E-Barchi was the site of a massacre by a military insurgency in 2020, where a maternity ward was targeted and many mothers and hospital workers were murdered.

It is likely that Dr. Al-Hashimi has PTSD from that experience, that was triggered by Baby Jane Doe's cries. She probably sees a neurologist to deal with neurological effects of her PTSD, including flashbacks and dissociative episodes. She is recognizing the signs of a triggering episode in herself and she's reaching out to her doctor in order to address them as quickly as possible.

This will be interesting to watch unfold because almost everyone in that ED is dealing with some level of PTSD, due to the mass shooting event and/or Covid, as well as other more discrete incidents (Dana's assault, Santos' childhood abuse, Langdon's addiction). We are also seeing the trauma experienced by both patients and their families this season. Ilana, the rape survivor, in the immediate aftermath of SA by a friend. We also see Jackson's (the law student patient who has been hearing voices) family discussing another family member who committed suicide, and also the choice to conceal that from Jackson's sister. And then there is Roxy, the cancer patient, whose entire family is experiencing the trauma of her physical decline and likely imminent death.

I think this season is about trauma, both in the acute sense of someone with a critical injury being rolled into a trauma room at the ER, and also in the broader sense of the events that mark us and follow us throughout our lives. How it manifests, how people deal. Everything from thrill seeking as a way to quiet traumatic episodes (Abbott, also Langdon), self-medicating (Langdon), seeking treatment (Al-Hashimi), denial and escapism (Rabi), humor and putting up defenses (Santos), self-harm (also Santos, also Langdon, also maybe Rabi), digging into your work (ALL OF THEM), and so on. What is healthy, what is not, what works anyway.

So I’m not sure this is correct now based on the info we have now about her epilepsy.

So now we know it was both -- she was diagnosed with epilepsy as a child but had been mostly seizure free as an adult, but she notes she had not worked on pediatric cases "since Afghanistan" and Baby Jane Doe was her first seizure of the day, perhaps brought on by the child crying and a stress response due to her experience in the maternity hospital in Afghanistan during the terror attack.

PTSD and epilepsy are 2 very different things. Someone (I assume you) stated that she has PTSD and that’s what caused her seizures and she likely sees a neurologist for PTSD. That’s not true. She sees a neurologist for seizures caused by epilepsy, not PTSD. Moreover, we don’t even know if she has PTSD.

She’d need a therapist for PTSD.

Sepideh Moafi (the actress who plays her) has something to say about herself, PTSD, and Robby
https://www.today.com/popculture/tv/sepideh-moafi-dr-al-hashimi-robby-the-pitt-finale-interview-rcna332172

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I didn’t love the ending. I felt the scene with Roby was too “scripted” (he had to speak out loud that he had been abandoned??) and I didn’t think that Dr Al-h’s reaction was on par with how we’d been seeing her all season, competent, compassionate, factual, etc. I understand that if Roby hadnt spoken all of his thoughts out loud then we wouldnt know his background story, and I understand that Dr Al-H is going to react differently with herself than another patient, but I still don’t like how either of these were handled.

What happened after the credits- I missed that! I’m glad to know there was resolution for Whitacre’s badge in the post-credits scene

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It was interesting how many of the women characters ended up with their hair literally down. In Al-Hashimi’s case I assume it is because she had the EEG.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t love the ending. I felt the scene with Roby was too “scripted” (he had to speak out loud that he had been abandoned??) and I didn’t think that Dr Al-h’s reaction was on par with how we’d been seeing her all season, competent, compassionate, factual, etc. I understand that if Roby hadnt spoken all of his thoughts out loud then we wouldnt know his background story, and I understand that Dr Al-H is going to react differently with herself than another patient, but I still don’t like how either of these were handled.

What happened after the credits- I missed that! I’m glad to know there was resolution for Whitacre’s badge in the post-credits scene

+1 I totally agree! She became unhinged, the f word was flying around. Sobbing in the car. It was too much.

After the credits they showed Santos and Mel doing karaoke! They sang “You Oughta Know” by Alanis Morisette. It was really fun!

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Anonymous wrote:So what was up with Dr. Al-Hashimi’s private phone call? Was she doing that on behalf of the possibly schizophrenic patient to see if he had a brain tumor?

No. She said she was a patient of the neurologist and was making an appointment for herself. It's very clear in the conversation.

We've seen have Dr. Al-Hashimi have two, what appear to be dissociative episodes. One in that cliffhanger early in the season when she's looking down at Baby Jane Doe and Samira keeps saying her name and she can't hear it, and then another in this episode right before she makes the call to the neurologist.

We also learned in this episode that she has worked overseas with Doctors Without Borders (she uses the French name of the org), including at the hospital Dasht-E-Barchi hospital in Kabul. If you are unfamiliar with it, Dasht-E-Barchi was the site of a massacre by a military insurgency in 2020, where a maternity ward was targeted and many mothers and hospital workers were murdered.

It is likely that Dr. Al-Hashimi has PTSD from that experience, that was triggered by Baby Jane Doe's cries. She probably sees a neurologist to deal with neurological effects of her PTSD, including flashbacks and dissociative episodes. She is recognizing the signs of a triggering episode in herself and she's reaching out to her doctor in order to address them as quickly as possible.

This will be interesting to watch unfold because almost everyone in that ED is dealing with some level of PTSD, due to the mass shooting event and/or Covid, as well as other more discrete incidents (Dana's assault, Santos' childhood abuse, Langdon's addiction). We are also seeing the trauma experienced by both patients and their families this season. Ilana, the rape survivor, in the immediate aftermath of SA by a friend. We also see Jackson's (the law student patient who has been hearing voices) family discussing another family member who committed suicide, and also the choice to conceal that from Jackson's sister. And then there is Roxy, the cancer patient, whose entire family is experiencing the trauma of her physical decline and likely imminent death.

I think this season is about trauma, both in the acute sense of someone with a critical injury being rolled into a trauma room at the ER, and also in the broader sense of the events that mark us and follow us throughout our lives. How it manifests, how people deal. Everything from thrill seeking as a way to quiet traumatic episodes (Abbott, also Langdon), self-medicating (Langdon), seeking treatment (Al-Hashimi), denial and escapism (Rabi), humor and putting up defenses (Santos), self-harm (also Santos, also Langdon, also maybe Rabi), digging into your work (ALL OF THEM), and so on. What is healthy, what is not, what works anyway.

So I’m not sure this is correct now based on the info we have now about her epilepsy.

So now we know it was both -- she was diagnosed with epilepsy as a child but had been mostly seizure free as an adult, but she notes she had not worked on pediatric cases "since Afghanistan" and Baby Jane Doe was her first seizure of the day, perhaps brought on by the child crying and a stress response due to her experience in the maternity hospital in Afghanistan during the terror attack.

PTSD and epilepsy are 2 very different things. Someone (I assume you) stated that she has PTSD and that’s what caused her seizures and she likely sees a neurologist for PTSD. That’s not true. She sees a neurologist for seizures caused by epilepsy, not PTSD. Moreover, we don’t even know if she has PTSD.

She’d need a therapist for PTSD.

Sepideh Moafi (the actress who plays her) has something to say about herself, PTSD, and Robby
https://www.today.com/popculture/tv/sepideh-moafi-dr-al-hashimi-robby-the-pitt-finale-interview-rcna332172

She says her character has PTSD. Ok. But that’s not what causes her absence seizures. That’s a brain condition and requires meds to control it. She’s had that since the age of 5. Absence seizures are not flashbacks like in PTSD. Her PTSD was not causing her seizures.

Just admit you had no idea about her epilepsy and were wrong to say her “episodes” were caused by PTSD.

She called her neurologist because of her seizures, not her PTSD.

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Anonymous wrote:Due to a personal experience I would really like to skip the pre-eclampsia/emergency c section storyline. Is this going to be possible?

It takes up about 10 minutes of the show and very realistic and heart wrenching.

Okay, so they don't cut into it suddenly/without warning? That was my big concern. If it's mostly in one go, that's workable.

The woman arrives in an ambulance while Robby is out talking to someone. She presents with swollen ankles, headache, etc. Announces she's never had prenatal care, no midwife, because she wants a "wild birth." It's basically a straight shot from there. It does escalate very quickly. And it's graphic.

They do cut quickly in and out with other scenes from the ER, as Robby walks in and out of the room. The dialog is interesting. It's worth listening to the audio as you look away. The scene is one of the most graphically disturbing scenes in the show, but I look away at some point during nearly every episode, that's the show.

Yeah, my dirty lens is that my mom almost died of eclampsia having me (she had regular care, it just came on fast for her) and I'm currently in my third trimester (due to mom they watch me like a hawk) so I'd just rather not watch that right now.

Totally understand. Agree with the ways others have described the way the scene rolls out. Also know that you can take comfort that this won't be your circumstances, because you are on top of this, mindful of your condition, and ready to rely on medical expertise. The show does a great job of showing how this person's refusal of any prenatal care before the ED visit was a problem, and the way her "free birth" stance meant crucial minutes of care were lost when she WAS in the ED. This isn't you, PP.

NP here. I don’t take comfort that this won’t be anyone’s circumstances because when I developed pre-eclampsia at 33 weeks in 2013 in NoVA, I was blown off and totally dismissed by my OP. We nearly died.

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Anonymous wrote:So what was up with Dr. Al-Hashimi’s private phone call? Was she doing that on behalf of the possibly schizophrenic patient to see if he had a brain tumor?

No. She said she was a patient of the neurologist and was making an appointment for herself. It's very clear in the conversation.

We've seen have Dr. Al-Hashimi have two, what appear to be dissociative episodes. One in that cliffhanger early in the season when she's looking down at Baby Jane Doe and Samira keeps saying her name and she can't hear it, and then another in this episode right before she makes the call to the neurologist.

We also learned in this episode that she has worked overseas with Doctors Without Borders (she uses the French name of the org), including at the hospital Dasht-E-Barchi hospital in Kabul. If you are unfamiliar with it, Dasht-E-Barchi was the site of a massacre by a military insurgency in 2020, where a maternity ward was targeted and many mothers and hospital workers were murdered.

It is likely that Dr. Al-Hashimi has PTSD from that experience, that was triggered by Baby Jane Doe's cries. She probably sees a neurologist to deal with neurological effects of her PTSD, including flashbacks and dissociative episodes. She is recognizing the signs of a triggering episode in herself and she's reaching out to her doctor in order to address them as quickly as possible.

This will be interesting to watch unfold because almost everyone in that ED is dealing with some level of PTSD, due to the mass shooting event and/or Covid, as well as other more discrete incidents (Dana's assault, Santos' childhood abuse, Langdon's addiction). We are also seeing the trauma experienced by both patients and their families this season. Ilana, the rape survivor, in the immediate aftermath of SA by a friend. We also see Jackson's (the law student patient who has been hearing voices) family discussing another family member who committed suicide, and also the choice to conceal that from Jackson's sister. And then there is Roxy, the cancer patient, whose entire family is experiencing the trauma of her physical decline and likely imminent death.

I think this season is about trauma, both in the acute sense of someone with a critical injury being rolled into a trauma room at the ER, and also in the broader sense of the events that mark us and follow us throughout our lives. How it manifests, how people deal. Everything from thrill seeking as a way to quiet traumatic episodes (Abbott, also Langdon), self-medicating (Langdon), seeking treatment (Al-Hashimi), denial and escapism (Rabi), humor and putting up defenses (Santos), self-harm (also Santos, also Langdon, also maybe Rabi), digging into your work (ALL OF THEM), and so on. What is healthy, what is not, what works anyway.

So I’m not sure this is correct now based on the info we have now about her epilepsy.

So now we know it was both -- she was diagnosed with epilepsy as a child but had been mostly seizure free as an adult, but she notes she had not worked on pediatric cases "since Afghanistan" and Baby Jane Doe was her first seizure of the day, perhaps brought on by the child crying and a stress response due to her experience in the maternity hospital in Afghanistan during the terror attack.

PTSD and epilepsy are 2 very different things. Someone (I assume you) stated that she has PTSD and that’s what caused her seizures and she likely sees a neurologist for PTSD. That’s not true. She sees a neurologist for seizures caused by epilepsy, not PTSD. Moreover, we don’t even know if she has PTSD.

She’d need a therapist for PTSD.

Sepideh Moafi (the actress who plays her) has something to say about herself, PTSD, and Robby
https://www.today.com/popculture/tv/sepideh-moafi-dr-al-hashimi-robby-the-pitt-finale-interview-rcna332172

She says her character has PTSD. Ok. But that’s not what causes her absence seizures. That’s a brain condition and requires meds to control it. She’s had that since the age of 5. Absence seizures are not flashbacks like in PTSD. Her PTSD was not causing her seizures.

Just admit you had no idea about her epilepsy and were wrong to say her “episodes” were caused by PTSD.

She called her neurologist because of her seizures, not her PTSD.

Stress can bring on a seizure in someone with epilepsy. That's what posters are saying, and they ts what the character herself says when she mentions that the first seizure of the day happened while on her first pediatric case "since Afghanistan."

No one is saying ptsd but itself causes absence seizures. Before we knew she had epilepsy, someone speculated that her strange behavior was ptsd, possibly flashbacks, due to her experience in Afghanistan. Then we learned she had epilepsy and that she was having absence seizures. Then she noted the thing about possibly the stress of a pediatric case causing the seizure. But Baby Jane Doe wasn't a medically stressful case, so if she found it stressful, it was likely due to PTSD from Afghanistan.

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Favorite parts:

Digby with Whittaker’s badge and the mannequin in the shopping cart

Whitaker happily driving off with the farmer’s wife in a truck. Love that she got out so he could drive - that tickled me, so old fashioned!

Karaoke after the credits

The female characters with their hair down and in regular clothes on the roof.

Abbott being the one who could really get thru to Robby because he is an adrenaline junkie and ER doctor too. “I think it’s a song lyric” cracked me up.

I loved the sitting and charting and sleeping and kvetching scenes. Kind of a break from the medical stuff.

Langdon telling Robby he needed therapy.

Least favorites:
Robby and Dana- so boring this season ultimately