{"id":22498,"date":"2025-02-19T13:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T14:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22498"},"modified":"2025-02-19T17:25:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T17:25:38","slug":"the-pitt-has-impressed-real-doctors-with-its-accuracy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22498","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Pitt\u2019 Has Impressed Real Doctors With Its Accuracy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Max\u2019s unusually accurate medical drama, starring Noah Wyle as a beleaguered E.R. physician, has become the talk of real-life hospital breakrooms.<\/p>\n

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Doctors and nurses who love Max\u2019s \u201cThe Pitt\u201d remember the moment they realized it wasn\u2019t like other medical shows.<\/p>\n

Caitlin Dwyer, a charge nurse in Milwaukee, took note of a character\u2019s decision \u2014 counterintuitive but medically correct \u2014 not<\/em> to defibrillate a patient with a particular type of heart failure.<\/p>\n

Dr. Elizabeth Rempfer, an attending physician in Maryland, felt a pang of recognition at the depiction of a chaotic and desperate waiting room.<\/p>\n

For Dr. Tricia Pendergrast, a resident physician in Ann Arbor, Mich., it was a character who faced such an unrelenting caseload that even a trip to the bathroom was cut short.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s the first time that I\u2019ve watched doctors on television that I felt like I could see myself in them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Most medical professionals learned long ago not to expect reality in dramatizations of their work. From the early days of \u201cGeneral Hospital,\u201d to \u201cGrey\u2019s Anatomy\u201d and its various spinoffs, to more recent hits like \u201cThe Good Doctor\u201d and \u201cBrilliant Minds,\u201d TV medical dramas have tended to go heavy on the drama, light on the medicine.<\/p>\n

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Max\u2019s unusually accurate medical drama, starring Noah Wyle as a beleaguered E.R. physician, has become the talk of real-life hospital breakrooms.Doctors and nurses who love Max\u2019s \u201cThe Pitt\u201d remember the moment they realized it wasn\u2019t like other medical shows.Caitlin Dwyer, a charge nurse in Milwaukee, took note of a character\u2019s decision \u2014 counterintuitive but medically correct \u2014 not to defibrillate a patient with a particular type of heart failure.Dr. Elizabeth Rempfer, an attending physician in Maryland, felt a pang of recognition at the depiction of a chaotic and desperate waiting room.For Dr. Tricia Pendergrast, a resident physician in Ann Arbor, Mich., it was a character who faced such an unrelenting caseload that even a trip to the bathroom was cut short.\u201cIt\u2019s the first time that I\u2019ve watched doctors on television that I felt like I could see myself in them,\u201d she said.Most medical professionals learned long ago not to expect reality in dramatizations of their work. From the early days of \u201cGeneral Hospital,\u201d to \u201cGrey\u2019s Anatomy\u201d and its various spinoffs, to more recent hits like \u201cThe Good Doctor\u201d and \u201cBrilliant Minds,\u201d TV medical dramas have tended to go heavy on the drama, light on the medicine.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22468,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22500,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22498\/revisions\/22500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}