“ The Pitt ” captures the real overcrowding crisis in emergency rooms

The emergency service waiting room was blocked, as it is still, with patients seated for hours, closely wrapped on hard metal chairs. Only those who have so disastrous conditions that they needed immediate care – like a heart attack – were seen immediately.

A man had enough. He was beating on the glass window in front of the receptionist before Assault. Starting, he attacked a nurse making a smoking break. “Work hard?” He called, when he walked away.

No, the event was not real, but it was art resembling life on “The Pitt”, the Max series which will broadcast its final of the season on Thursday. The show takes place in an emergency room at the fictitious hospital in Pittsburgh. But the underlying theme – appalling overcrowding – is universal in this country. And it’s not easy to repair.

“The EDs are blocked and outdated,” reported the American College of Emergency Medicine in 2023, referring to emergency services.

“The system is at the point of rupture,” said Dr. Benjamin S. Abella, president of the Emergency Medicine Department of the Icahn Medicine School of Mont Sinai in New York.

“The Pitt” follows emergency doctors, nurses, medical students, concierges and hour -hour staff for a single day when they deal with all kinds of medical problems, ranging from a child who drowned to help her little sister get out of a patient with a patient with an ear spider. There were heart attacks and cerebral vascular accidents, overdoses, a patient with serious burns, an influencer poisoned by heavy metals in a skin cream.