How realistic is ‘The Pitt’?
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How realistic is ‘The Pitt’?
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Anna Lamb
Harvard Staff Writer
February 25, 2026 8 min readDoctors weigh in on what hit TV show gets right and wrong about life in the ER — from pacing and caseloads to workplace culture (and that waiting room from hell)
Every Thursday, viewers of the Emmy Award-winning HBO Max show “The Pitt” clock...