The Pitt continues to shine a light on the horrors of the US healthcare system

Key Highlights

• Paperwork and entry forms, for one.
• Signs warning that “aggressive behavior will not be tolerated”, a response to the real uptick in violence against healthcare workers.
• A memorial plaque to the victims of the mass shooting at PittFest, which drenched the back half of the acclaimed HBO Max show’s first season in unbelievably harrowing, bloody, very American trauma.
• Labels on the many homeopathic remedies carried, in Ziploc bags, by a prospective patient deeply skeptical of western medicine and big pharma.
• Promotional literature on the larger hospital system, for which The Pitt is its cash-strapped, paint-stripped, constantly beleaguered front door. What the doctor ordered: how The Pitt became the TV show of the momentRead moreAnd, in its second season, which premiered earlier this month, so-called “patient passports” that supposedly help you understand the procedures and expected wait times at an urban emergency room.