The Pitt, Season 2

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Anonymous wrote:Why would the abandoned baby be wrapped in a blanket in the bassinet? Dangerous!

She wasn’t. It was a thin swaddle blanket which is totally ok. They mean thick blankets. Duh.

The cdc, nih, aap, and consumer protection all agree with me. What credible source says an infant can have a loose blanket around them as long as it is thin?

Are you familiar with hospital swaddle blankets? They are standard. All newborns are wrapped in them.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would the abandoned baby be wrapped in a blanket in the bassinet? Dangerous!

She wasn’t. It was a thin swaddle blanket which is totally ok. They mean thick blankets. Duh.

The cdc, nih, aap, and consumer protection all agree with me. What credible source says an infant can have a loose blanket around them as long as it is thin?

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), hospital blankets are safe for swaddling to keep newborns warm, but they are not safe for loose use in a crib.

The baby was not in a crib and was also being supervised.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would the abandoned baby be wrapped in a blanket in the bassinet? Dangerous!

She wasn’t. It was a thin swaddle blanket which is totally ok. They mean thick blankets. Duh.

The cdc, nih, aap, and consumer protection all agree with me. What credible source says an infant can have a loose blanket around them as long as it is thin?

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), hospital blankets are safe for swaddling to keep newborns warm, but they are not safe for loose use in a crib.

The baby was not in a crib and was also being supervised.

The baby was crying alone when Santos went in. Crib or bassinet, the baby should be saddled or no blanket.

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Anonymous wrote:Cancer Mom: Grandpa seems to be in on her plan, which to me seems to be exaggerating her leg pain to get more and more morphine. And Dr. Robby appears to be okay with it.

How heartbreaking to be so exhausted and so done.

I admit I’m waiting for some kind of test in this story. No idea what but a straightforward, tragic death does not seem to be the best narrative outcome.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone said Abbott was going to be “balls deep” in Al Hashimi….I don’t see it. All she said is we should trade war stories sometimes over a beer. Seemed more like friendly colleagues.

She’s so robotic I actually looked her up on IMDb to see if she had been on a Star Trek show.

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Anonymous wrote:Cancer Mom: Grandpa seems to be in on her plan, which to me seems to be exaggerating her leg pain to get more and more morphine. And Dr. Robby appears to be okay with it.

How heartbreaking to be so exhausted and so done.

I admit I’m waiting for some kind of test in this story. No idea what but a straightforward, tragic death does not seem to be the best narrative outcome.

Twist, not test.

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Anonymous wrote:I could not look at the tongue laceration with all the blood. Including the repair. I had to cover the screen.

It was two in the afternoon, she was blackout drunk early in the afternoon on the Fourth?

Did you muse the mention of the bar crawl?

A bar crawl on the Fouth? Bars do those on otherwise slow weekends, not on days like the Fourth. In any case, they'd just be getting started at two.

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Swaddle blanket is only allowed if it is tight. This blanket was draped lightly around the baby

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Anonymous wrote:I could not look at the tongue laceration with all the blood. Including the repair. I had to cover the screen.

It was two in the afternoon, she was blackout drunk early in the afternoon on the Fourth?

Did you muse the mention of the bar crawl?

NP-I absolutely caught the bar crawl reference and laughed. No one is doing a morning bar crawl on July 4. March 17? Sure. Very accurate. Independence Day? Not so much. But whatever. Gotta keep the plot moving and set up a scene where Garcia can scowl judgmentally at Dr. Langdon as he monitors the tongue stitches.

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Anonymous wrote:So, I'm still stuck on a few things here after last night...

1) Mel's anxiety about the deposition is understandable. But, again, who is having a deposition on the Fourth of July? In what world?

2) It's pretty clear that Abbot is going to be balls deep in al-Hashimi soon. Holy cow. Assuming Mohan doesn't throw herself at him first. The way she treated that bullet graze ... oh boy.

3) I was really worried with the rape SANE scene there that they were going to depict this as some kind of regretted sex incident. On the one hand, it was fascinating to see how they process victims of SA, OTOH some of the compassion came across as a little condescending. And then when she refused the genital swab... Also, we're seven hours in to the episode, which makes it about 2 p.m. I'm trying to understand how she got sexually assaulted at a 4th of a July BBQ by a drunk friend in the middle of the day?

4) Cyberattack? Really? Come on, now.

5) To that end, what was with the goofy CEO summoning al-Hashimi but not Robby? Robby looked Big Mad.

6) Where the hell was Whitacker/Huckleberry last night? And what's with this "he spends all his time at this widow's farm" storyline? Are we to believe he's balls deep in the widow and raising a dead man's child?

At least not motorcycles sans helmet talk in this episode. They were starting to lay the foreshadowing on thick earlier.

I still love this show but I agree that the reality of the timing of the incidents is weird, case in point the depo on July Fourth or the kid studying in the college library in July?

I also feel like the scenes jump around much more this season so we are getting less of each player - like Whittacker last night and McKay has hardly been in this season at all.

studying for the bar exam on July 4th totally tracks

Maybe at home, but not in the library at 7am.

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My kid doesn’t study at home. He’s always in library, lab, some other building on campus to study. And yes at 7am in summer.

I don't think the library would be open at 7am on July 4.

Some campuses have 24/7 libraries (my school had one).

And studying at 7am may be on purpose to show something is off with his mental state.

Even the Harvard Law library doesn't open until 8 a.m. and is closed all day on the Fourth of July.

But we're talking about Pitt. It's open 24/7.

Incorrect. Pitt’s law library, the Barco, also opens at 8 a.m. and is closed on July 4th. https://www.library.law.pitt.edu/about/library-service-desk-hours

Who cares? It is an insignificant detail to a fictional show to introduce a story line.

Because one of the things that made season 1 good was its attention to details and being accurate. The second season didn't need to take place specifically on July 4, but once the writers made that decision, they should have followed through on the details.

+1. Did you notice the rape survivor says she was preparing the bbq - then the rape - but it’s only 12 p.m. in the ER. She should have been out later in the “day”.

Maybe she went to a bbq on July 3rd evening? WHO CARES! Just watch the show!

Well, obviously a lot of people do, based upon the remarks here. Why can’t people talk about flaws in the story line? Tonight’s was using the term “photographic memory”. That term has been out of use for at least two decades. It’s now called “eidetic memory” and there are many types.

Who made you forum police?

I doubt most viewers are familiar with the term “ eidetic memory.”

No, but doctors would know it. I guess this is the challenge for the show's writers, although they use medical terminology viewers wouldn't understand all the time.

Nurses wouldn't necessarily know it, nor would admins or other hospital personnel. It was said in a crisis situation where the person speaking wanted to convey that she could help with a critical problem. She wasn't bragging about her special skill, and was actually sharing the info reluctantly.

I know it's hard for DCUM know-it-alls to understand this, but there are actually people in the world who choose to speak in a way to be understood, not to impress people with their vocabulary.

Bunch of Ogilvies in this thread.

The Oglilvie character is such an over the top doofus that it makes me think that the writers only created him to defect from Santos and McKay.

Ha! Have you ever met any of the people who are going to medical school these days? Oh boy, are people going to hate their doctors in 10 years!

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My fam is in Pittsburgh and there is lots of day drinking on the 4th. There is usually a Pirates game starting midday, and bars near there will open early (like 10am) for the baseball crowd. There's also the casino, tiki bar cruises, and the Strip starts getting very busy early because people want to do brunch/lunch early enough that they can get to their planned destination for the evening by 4 or 5. North Shore (best fireworks views) stuff starts around 4 I think.

The two women who came in with the tongue thing also obviously had alcohol problems. Easy to imagine seeing them stumbling around at noon, already wasted, and bars asking them to leave because they were such a mess. I don't think those characters were meant to be representative of the city's drinking habits on the 4th. But it is definitely easy for people who want to drink in the am on the 4th to do so.

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If I had never seen this show before and just read this thread, I would assume it was trash. I get that there are some plot devices on the show but why is every other post just trashing it? This is one of the best shows on TV right now.

Also I happen to also be watching Better Call Saul right now. It's also really good. But it also has weird plot devices and plenty of unrealistic details. But if I was discussing the show with people, I'd obviously focus on the compelling plot and great performances, not whether it's really realistic that someone would be able to purchase houses on either side of the same street and then put a tunnel connecting them under the public street between, because that's fairly ludicrous.

Sometime good TV asks you to suspend your disbelief and I'm okay with that.

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Anonymous wrote:I could not look at the tongue laceration with all the blood. Including the repair. I had to cover the screen.

It was two in the afternoon, she was blackout drunk early in the afternoon on the Fourth?

Did you muse the mention of the bar crawl?

NP-I absolutely caught the bar crawl reference and laughed. No one is doing a morning bar crawl on July 4. March 17? Sure. Very accurate. Independence Day? Not so much. But whatever. Gotta keep the plot moving and set up a scene where Garcia can scowl judgmentally at Dr. Langdon as he monitors the tongue stitches.

You mean Santos.

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Anonymous wrote:Swaddle blanket is only allowed if it is tight. This blanket was draped lightly around the baby

Again baby was not in a crib and was being supervised: Santos rewrapped her. Baby was on her back on the blanket and she pulled each side up around her like a swaddle. Also, baby is older so may not need a tighter swaddle at this age.

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I really like Garcia. I want more of her. Javadi’s storyline seems to be going nowhere.