This is pretty much pop-a-culture podcast in need of four units, O'Neig, a round of epi, and a chest tube stat.

Today we're discussing medical dramas.

In light of the success of The Pit.

This is Mark Clinton Meyer, a cocky surgeon with no bedside manner who takes no guff.

This is Al Baker, the ordinary hospital administrator who's got no time for your cowboy medical antics.

I'm Sarah Lynn Bruck, and I am also the plucky, long-suffering nurse who's seen it all.

This is Lawrence Ware, the brilliant doctor who's haunted by his demons. Wow. So this was

my request that we do this and Lawrence was very hesitant about the pit specifically. These

things have gotten increasingly graphic. I remember when watching ER because it was on for 15 years

and I saw at least 10 years of it. I watched every single

episode of ER. I love that show. Okay. So at some point they started like showing the chest cavity

with people's hands in it. They didn't do that the first seasons I remember. But standards changed.

But you know, we knew that the pit would have. So how scarring was it, Lawrence?

Okay, so here's the thing. I am not a big fan of gore. I love horror movies, but I'm not a big

fan of gore. I don't like the terror fire. I don't like things that are just over-the-top gory.

This movie rivals many horror movies and the levels of gore that it has.

And now I understand that in the actual real world of doing medical stuff, this is shown, or this, I don't know if it's shown, it just happens.

But I was not ready.

And boobs, because that's a new thing that they wouldn't do.

Oh, yes, you were operating on your chest, but you have a bra.

And that's okay.

That's the way.

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