The prescriptive comforts of “The Pitt”

From the moment “The Pitt” introduces Noah Wyle’s Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch to his presumably temporary replacement, Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi (Sepideh Moafi), we can see that a shift already guaranteed to be tough is going to be even harder to gut out than he thought.

Al-Hashimi’s competence is not in question, to be clear. She immediately comes off as a magisterial diagnostician and adept leader with bold plans to modernize the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Hospital’s emergency care experience.