The PITT
Started by Groove
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Your 3rd world grandparents with ESRD or in need of liver transplant who are curb-rolled to the ED right after coming across the border (although, not-surpriaingly, haven't seen that in a year or so).
About half of emrap is now woke stupidity. "How to care for your fasting ramadan patient" was a real segment. Seriously. It's no wonder so much of it bleeds through to Hollywood sensationalism. It will be the end of the series in 1 more season.
But, remember nurse Wubbles who WAS arrested in the ED by a power-crazy law enforcement system.
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"THE PITT" Season 2 is woke garbage.
Are you also the kind of person who says star trek is too woke these days?
looks like someone needs to retake their cultural competency modules
I don't watch Trek. Just watched the original movies (1-4). They were good. I'll get to 5 and 6 here soon.
ST 5 was def meh. 6 was great.
Yeah, I've heard that all the new stuff other than lower decks has been terrible. I gave Picard a shot during season 1 and I tried really hard to like it. Hard to do when something is a hot pile of garbage.
I'd rather just go rewatch some TNG/DS9/VOY thank you very much.
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Picard 3 was good. Strange New Worlds is decent.
Lower Decks needs to go on your watch list immediately.
Rest is pretty much hot garbage.
I've watched them all, and liked them (didn't watch lower decks). But that's me.
Isn’t Mel Herbert a big consultant for this? It doesn’t surprise me because EMRAP seemed to be having less and less actual medical content so I quit subscribing but that’s been 5+ years.
We said this about season 1 as well; went thru the "EMRAP is woke garbage now" bit.
What I remember of the early Star Trek movies was that they alternated being good and bad…1 was great, 2 wasn’t, etc etc…this continued on to 5/6 (as previously mentioned, 5 sucked but 6 was good). Even the ones in the 90s/2000s followed this pattern (Generations was pretty “mid” as the kids say, First Contact was awesome, Insurrection wasn’t that great, etc).
I haven’t seen the newer ones like Into Darkness etc.
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You're not missing much, IMO.
I never got into the original Star Trek movies as a little before my time, but I liked the Chris Pine trilogy.
I’m planning to watch season 2 of The Pitt at some point, but not overly excited to start. The first season felt a little too close to work to enjoy. I felt it gave my family a little perspective on my job though.
It’s been fun joking with our hospital admin who has watched. We’ve had a few real life events that they felt were more entertaining and were deserving scenarios to be on the show.
Some with criticism of The Pitt need to move a little more to the middle in my opinion. The divisiveness in our country grows tiresome. Our jobs are hard enough.
I’m planning to watch season 2 of The Pitt at some point, but not overly excited to start. The first season felt a little too close to work to enjoy. I felt it gave my family a little perspective on my job though.
It’s been fun joking with our hospital admin who has watched. We’ve had a few real life events that they felt were more entertaining and were deserving scenarios to be on the show.
Some with criticism of The Pitt need to move a little more to the middle in my opinion. The divisiveness in our country grows tiresome. Our jobs are hard enough.
2, 4, 6 were good. 1,3, 5 were the duds. This continued into the movies, as First Contact turned or to be an even numbered one.
I don't think TMP was bad, just a bit dull. It does have some of the most spectular special effects shots ever filmed. Watch the Enterprise flyby on a big screen with the music blaring, and nothing else is as good. 2 is amazing, especially consider the slashed budget. ILM did some truly amazing stuff before CGI.
I hated 4, very dated, and preachy "save the whales". Although the comedy is good, it overall has not aged well. 5 is total garbage due to a bad script, low budget, and special effects that were not done by ILM (they had other obligations). 6 is a great movie, but the themes haven't aged well. ST:FC is the only good one post old Trek.
Of the new stuff on SNW is worth watching, along with Lower Decks, and Picard Season 3 only for nostalgia purposes. I do give a shout-out to Prodigy which wasn't bad at all.
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Coming from a guy who JUST watched these movies this year for the first time, and has ZERO Star Trek knowledge outside of "I have watched a few episodes of TNG when it was on FOX before the X-Files" - Movies one and two were AWESOME. You can look "past" the limitations of the special effects of the day and still see how it was rad. Three was cool because there was the redemption arc. Four? I turned it off and called my boy @CajunMedic and said: "Bro, can I skip this one and not miss out on critical plot items and lore?" He said: "Yes."
I've yet to get to Five and Six because baseball season is in full swing, and there are at least 3 games that I want to watch every night.
5 for me is generally the worse of the series. The special effects were apallingly bad (worse than TNG which was as on TV at the time). It's fun to watch though for how cringey it is. Uhura doing a fan dance was probably a low for Star Trek. 6 was excellent, but the same director as Star Trek II, and using ILM again.
Goddam y'all are a bunch of nerds
is that why a lotof EM docs these days dont like this podcast?
Jesus. I don't want to watch 5 and 6 now.
I'll keep 1 and 3 in my head as peak.
I'll keep 1 and 3 in my head as peak.
6 is, in my opinion, the best of the TOS movies.
Because it’s getting harder and harder to find the real medicine in it.
I’m a left-leaning millennial community attending and I find 1/4 of EMRAP to be social justice nonsense (I’m here for the medicine, not your social justice opinions!) and another 1/2 to be ivory tower nonsense that would never fly at a busy community shop (one glaring example was the lecture on peds appys. I’m not transferring a kid to a peds hospital to be seen by a peds surgeon in person for rule out appy to avoid a CT scan when I have a scanner at my shop. I’m either ordering it or not and sending home. A plan only an academic would think is what parents/patients/the system want. I have to talk parents OUT of CT scans for their 6 year olds at about a 10:1 ratio to talking them IN to one. Parents WANT the scan if you think their kid has an appy. Wouldn’t you??)
It’s getting harder and harder to find the real medicine. Their journal summaries are the highest yield.
You have to watch 5 just to see Trek at a low point. Then 6 is my second favorite overall.
My daughter is pre-med. She’s been watching The Pitt. She loves it.
She read my book and liked it. Still wants to be a doc. That scares me.
She read my book and liked it. Still wants to be a doc. That scares me.
I’d be scared too. I’d also be proud.
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