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🗓️ 10 April 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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People who work in real-life emergency rooms have raved about how accurately the new drama The Pitt (Max) captures the dynamics and the medical details of their workplaces.
Here at An Arm and a Leg, we’ve been nerding out about how the show depicts the financial forces that shape the ER’s day-to-day problems like crowding, eternal wait times, and scary bills.
For this episode, we got Dr. Alex Janke, an emergency medicine doctor and health policy researcher to nerd out with us.
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0:00.0 | This is Tanya Mosley, co-host of Fresh Air. You'll see your favorite actors, directors, and comedians on late-night TV shows or YouTube, but what you get with Fresh Air is a deep dive. Spend some quality time with people like Billy Elish, Questlove, Ariana Grande, Stephen Colbert, and so many more. We ask questions you won't hear asked anywhere else. |
0:24.3 | Listen to the Fresh Air podcast from NPR and WHYY. |
0:31.2 | I'm Scott Greenstone. |
0:33.1 | Canada wasn't included in the latest round of international tariffs. |
0:37.4 | Even so, the relationship between the U.S. and its neighbor to the north has gone very cold. |
0:43.7 | Fewer Canadians are crossing into Washington and staying in hotels or buying gas. |
0:48.5 | Canadians are even cutting back on visiting Trader Joe's. |
0:51.5 | We'll hear what that means for Washington State on the latest episode |
0:55.1 | of Sound Politics. Listen on the KUW app or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey there, I've got a new |
1:02.6 | favorite TV show, The Pit. I signed up for HBO. Max, whatever. That's what my editor says I'm |
1:09.1 | supposed to call it. Anyway, I signed up just to watch it. |
1:11.9 | The show takes place in a Pittsburgh emergency room. The first season follows the staff through a single jam-packed day, hour by hour. It is riveting. |
1:21.8 | And Noah Wiley, he got famous playing a young doctor on the show ER in the 1990s. He stars here as the senior doc on duty. |
1:29.9 | And people who work in emergency rooms, they say it gets a lot of things right, |
1:34.7 | including medical details that fly past most of us in scenes like this. |
1:39.4 | Bring me up to speed. |
1:40.6 | Intimitated for agnal respirations, GCS5, probably anticoagulated. |
1:45.2 | With what? |
1:46.2 | First time here, there's no medical records. |
1:48.8 | Call for FFP? |
1:49.8 | No, we got four factors. |
1:50.7 | And yeah, I basically did not catch any of that. |
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