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The cast and producers of The Pitt pull back the curtain on the intense preparation required to portray medical professionals authentically. From technical training to emotional realism, Season 2 raises the bar on what viewers expect from a medical drama. Stream The Pitt on HBO Max.

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00:01We're going to rotate the lung 180 degrees,
00:03like putting a kick in a guard nose.
00:05When the lung comes up, it's still inflating.
00:08What am I actually seeing?
00:09You can see one breath from both,
00:11and then just the other one.
00:12I remember Dr. Joe on day one said,
00:14who here is nervous?
00:15And I was the only person that didn't brace my hand.
00:17And then within 10 minutes, I was like,
00:20oh, my God, what is this?
00:21Digital massage, 10 seconds on, 5 seconds off.
00:24Order non-contrast head CT.
00:25How am I going to cram almost two decades of experience?
00:28He's quadriplegic?
00:29If so, it's a low cervical injury
00:31into a week of boot camp.
00:38Season two boot camp was like,
00:40I remember this, kids, and us being like, no.
00:42The medical boot camp was designed
00:44to give four years of medical school
00:47and four years of residency in emergency medicine
00:49in four days.
00:50Today is starting to heat up.
00:51Getting back into the energetic space
00:54that PTMC represents.
00:57It's kind of a lot to take in
00:58and you just hope that it sticks in your brain.
01:01You want them to try it?
01:02It's best if they watch the first one.
01:04It was really important for me to come in
01:06and kick some rest off.
01:07I definitely was like,
01:08thank God I didn't go to medical school
01:09because I don't remember anything at all from last season.
01:12When we started filming,
01:14we could immediately drop into the right sort of energy.
01:17That's definitely ketones.
01:18We need to do an IQ check.
01:19I'm on it.
01:20By the time they've gone through boot camp,
01:21they know how to suture, intubate, put in a chest tube,
01:25you know, all the nitty gritty stuff for an ER doctor.
01:28So they're really getting a crash course in the basics
01:31and just being comfortable with simple things.
01:34Bag him, starting compressions, charge a 200.
01:36I think people don't appreciate how hard it is
01:38to actually do that.
01:39Resuming compressions.
01:40In real life, if you do CPR, you could break people's ribs.
01:43What I did was I figured out a way to, like,
01:45balance my body weight so it looks like I'm putting
01:47a lot of body weight onto the patient, but I'm not.
01:50Whenever we're going to do something new,
01:52we have to make it as realistic as possible.
01:55So that usually involves watching the technique,
01:57you know, in real life.
01:59Oh, God, I figured my...
02:00That's called dirty dishwater exudate without purulence.
02:02We were just introduced to, like, more harrowing traumas, really.
02:07I often close my eyes with gore,
02:08and I had to, for my job, watch open heart surgery.
02:13There were definitely a lot of people that were watching through,
02:15watching through their hands.
02:16He's been erect for the last eight hours.
02:19Should've gone down by now, right?
02:20There's a certain process of draining
02:22that has to happen at the ER.
02:24You guys do this, like, every day?
02:26If we're lucky.
02:27Really fun just watching all of the guys in our cast squirm.
02:30There's some stories you'll see that are
02:32things I never need to see again.
02:34I never saw that in nursing school, am I right?
02:36It was really interesting seeing how casually...
02:39This is what you get for eating broccoli for breakfast.
02:41Medical professionals can do those particular traumas.
02:46Oh!
02:47I love playing a doctor.
02:49That level of responsibility is something
02:51I'm very glad I do not have.
02:53This is what I have to look forward to?
02:55This is so much more.
02:56My family definitely texts me a lot now,
02:58with, like, does this growth look weird?
03:00And I'm like, yeah, it's a growth,
03:01and I'm also not a doctor.
03:02So I'll probably go to a doctor for that.
03:03Oh, my God, am I gonna go blind?
03:05No, no, I'm pretty sure this is something we can fix.
03:07It's very much just trying to be as honest and truthful
03:10with the characters and the medicine.
03:12The secret of our success is we always start
03:15with the dramatic needs of our character,
03:17and then we go to the well.
03:19Here, I'll pull it out.
03:20That looks arterial.
03:21And the well is hundreds of thousands of medical stories
03:24from a combined 100 years of experience
03:27in the emergency department.
03:29All good in there?
03:29Code sepsis. Staple for the moment.
03:31We always try to keep it real.
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