The Pitt
People of a certain age may have noticed Dr. Robby making a brash wink - and - you’ll - miss - it nod in the most recent episode ofThe Pittto an sequence ofE.R.The Pittseason 1 , sequence 14finds things at the E.R. start to calm down down a morsel from the chaos of treating the sempiternal waves of mass shooting victims from PittFest . The previous episode ofThe Pitt , installment 13 , found Dr. Robby lastly suffering from a mental breakdown as the weight of the Clarence Day and his PTSD trust to crack the fragile mental framework he ’s built around his harm to get through the geological fault .
The end of that instalment and the beginning of this one make a casing for Noah Wyle to earn an Emmy nominating speech this year ; his performance throughout this time of year has been nothing little of starring . As the veteran presence inThe Pitt ’s stamp of characters , both on screen and off , Wyle ’s Dr. Robby has been , along with charge nurse Dana Evans ( Katherine LaNasa ) , the rock upon which all the other characters rely . WhileThe Pitthas made a heedful point of severalise itself from Wyle ’s precursor medical drama , however , episode 14 could n’t serve but thump a little spot of play at his veteran role .
Dr. Robby Made A Clever Reference To A Noah Wyle Storyline From E.R.
This Isn’t His First Measles Rodeo
Resident Dr. Mel King and marque - new take care Dr. John Shen are stump by a strange face before them . Flynn is an unconscious 13 - year - old kid with sepsis and pneumonia , but also with a weird , evanesce roseola on his chest and legs that they ca n’t cipher out . That ’s where Dr. Robby step in and deliver a contrast that works within the context ofThe Pittbut is also a brash nod to Wyle ’s first medical drama , E.R. : " You ever see anything like this before ? " he demand the doctors , who stimulate their nous . " Well , that just pass away to show you how old I am , " he deadpans . " This looks like measles . "
InE.R.season 7 , episode 14 , Wyle ’s Dr. John Carter do by Zack , an unvaccinated nipper who has contracted rubeola . ThatE.R.episode first send 24 long time ago on February 15 , 2001 , which feels like an total life ago – and is , for some masses who were n’t even bear then , who may be watchingThe Pitttoday . It was a pre-9/11 world , when both medicine and the world in ecumenical were vastly unlike .
He ’s older now - a lot older - and both he and the consultation screw it .
While Dr. Robby delivers the line in seriousness , anyone who knows that storyline fromE.R.(or even that he was onE.R. ) will find some amusement in seeing Noah Wyle transition from play the infant - face , third - yr occupier inE.R.to the grizzled , grayish - whiskery veteran senior attending inThe Pitt . He ’s older now - a lot older - and both he and the audience know it .
The Pitt’s Measles Storyline Is Eerily Timely
Measles Is Making A Terrifying Comeback In The United States
Sadly , Dr. Robby ’s argument about recognize morbilli is n’t just a playfulness little nod to Wyle ’s career . It ’s also an cite that , thanks to certain antecedently contain disease making comebacks thanks to grave antivax view , there are diseases that younger doctors may not recognize on sight because they never had to – and frankly should n’t have to . That bind genuine of the show and the real world : with the recent news that a second child in Texas has reportedly died from measles ( viaThe Guardian),The Pitt ’s plot line is both prescient and terrifying .
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Dr. Robby , who has been in the medical field of operations for decade , may have started his career after measles was eradicated thanks to vaccines , but he ’s still been around long enough to have draw into it before , and for the same reasonableness . Like Zack ’s parents inE.R. , the parents of Flynn inThe Pittrefused to vaccinate their Thomas Kid .
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Zack ’s case inE.R.shows the import of that nonstarter to immunize . With acute pneumonia and in critical condition , Zack ’s case is a horrific one , and he is only decently diagnosed because Dr. Carter spots the rash and correctly approximate it might be rubeola . His fellow Dr. , Dr. Chen ( Ming - Na Wen ) , is shocked , as no one get down measles anymore , but it does n’t change the fact that it is , indeed , rubeola . lamentably , the patient inE.R. , Zack , does n’t make it ; it stay to be seen if Flynn , the patient role inThe Pitt , will overstretch through .
The Pitt Has Tackled Important Topics Without Being Preachy
It’s Balanced Common Sense Fact-Dropping With Empathy For The Characters
The storyline of the unvaccinated nestling with morbilli offered up another example of whatThe Pitt , which has been renewed for season 2 , has done so attractively this season . The show has unflinchingly dealt with the harsh realness of being a health care worker , especially in exigency medicament , in a post - Covid , post - unregulated social medium world , from mass shootings to vehemence against infirmary workers . Yet , it ’s done it in a means that has n’t felt preachy .
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alternatively , The Pittapproaches these now - thorny storylines from a common - gumption slant that humanise health care workers and their foiling . What used to be accepted , basic scientific facts , such as vaccinations helping stop disease and wear masquerade protect you and others from germs , have become wildly politicized in a way that ’s actively working against doctors being able-bodied to do their jobs .
As Dr. Robby enounce inThe Pitt , as many as 1 in 20 nipper who contract rubeola develop pneumonia , which is the most common crusade of death for young children with measles ( viaCDC ) . That can lead to encephalitis , or a swelling of the brain , the death charge per unit of which is considerably higher .
It ’s no admiration that Dr. Robby at last blows up on Flynn ’s female parent , who prevent disgorge the antivax disinformation she Googled while her critically inauspicious child is dying . When she refuses to reserve them to do a spinal hydrant in edict to properly treat Flynn , even after see all the mode that he could go blind , indifferent , explicate intellectual disabilities , or even go bad , Dr. Robby snatch . " Can you put your damn phone away ? " he yells . " Your son is critically ill . The longer that we expect , the in high spirits the hazard of lasting brain damage . What is not clear here ? "
Dr. no longer have to just fight against diseases , but also against people who slow down discourse of those diseases down because they ’ve bought into conspiracy hypothesis .
Because we ’ve pick up what he ’s been through , we ’re fully fain to sympathize with Dr. Robby rather than the irrational female parent being fob by fictitious information . Noah Wyle has often said that he wantedThe Pittnot to just be anotherE.R. , but to reflect the actual realism of parking brake room healthcare workers in a post - Covid creation . In so many way , the measles storyline is the most dead on target - to - life . Doctors no longer have to just fight against diseases , but also against people who slow intervention of those diseases down because they ’ve bought into confederacy theory . It ’s no wonder that so many of them , like Dr. Robby , are burning out .
source : The Guardian , CDC
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