The Pitt Is About More Than Medicine. It’s About America in Crisis

In Thursday’s Season 1 finale of the Max medical drama The Pitt, as the emergency room returns to its normal state of semi-controlled chaos after receiving over 100 victims of a mass shooting, staffers keep telling each other to go home already. But most linger. Everyone is, of course, exhausted. The day shift has been working for 15 hours. A resident tells an intern she’s running on adrenaline and bound to crash. “This job can’t be your life,” one doctor says to another. Yet the waiting room...