# The Pitt, season 2 (TV show, open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [January 11, 2026, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pitt-season-2-tv-show-open-spoilers/1026604 "2026-01-11T17:22:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2026, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pitt-season-2-tv-show-open-spoilers/1026604/41 "2026-01-16T21:13:16Z")
Didn’t make sense to me, either, but this week’s show made it clear that there is a reason for it. He was asked about it but was interrupted before he could explain. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2026, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pitt-season-2-tv-show-open-spoilers/1026604/42 "2026-01-16T21:29:17Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > No, ambient AI is not just taking dictation. It is acting as a scribe. Creating a coherent note from the conversation and stated findings. Didja notice it fucked up transcribing a medication order, Whitaker pointed it out but Al-Hashimi didn’t fix the error and locked the screen? Chekhov’s med fuckup for the proud doctor who’s never been sued? ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2026, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pitt-season-2-tv-show-open-spoilers/1026604/43 "2026-01-16T22:10:53Z")
Heh. Missed that. Of course reality is that such would not auto populate an order set but again, not a documentary… ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pitt-season-2-tv-show-open-spoilers/1026604/44 "2026-01-17T04:04:17Z")
I still hate Santos, though I grudgingly admit she’s got good jokes in this one. She’s gonna mess up this thing with the little girl who may or may not be abused, and I’m not going to feel sorry for her. I think it’s easier to forgive Langdon because he’s cute. But what’s up with, “I never let it affect my work”? Fool, you just apologized to the guy whose meds you stole. @DSeid I think you called it on the absence seizures. Al-Hashimi seemed unconcerned with the baby on later visits. I’m not sure she’s even aware she’s having them. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pitt-season-2-tv-show-open-spoilers/1026604/45 "2026-01-17T04:13:40Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > the absence seizures. Al-Hashimi seemed unconcerned with the baby on later visits. I’m not sure she’s even aware she’s having them. That would be accurate to the real life thing. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pitt-season-2-tv-show-open-spoilers/1026604/46 "2026-01-17T04:14:53Z")
That could really end a career, couldn’t it? I can’t imagine that’s safe in the OR. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pitt-season-2-tv-show-open-spoilers/1026604/47 "2026-01-17T04:28:04Z")
Well she’s not a surgeon. And while she is acting as a clinician in the ED her expertise is stated as a “clinical informatics” expert. In real life if she had a seizure disorder that is not due to something like a brain tumor then it could likely be well controlled. And she seems like someone who will be moving into C suite medicine soon enough. A VP of outpatient systems or some such. But if identified this shift there would some near term disruption to a work schedule anyway. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pitt-season-2-tv-show-open-spoilers/1026604/48 "2026-01-17T13:08:48Z")
It has to be asked: is this the first time they showed an erect penis on a mainstream TV show? ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pitt-season-2-tv-show-open-spoilers/1026604/49 "2026-01-17T15:49:33Z")
Wow, that didn’t even register with me. I saw one in _White Lotus_ (also not sexual.) I don’t know if that counts as mainstream. > [@DSeid](#): > > In real life if she had a seizure disorder that is not due to something like a brain tumor then it could likely be well controlled. I’ve had some seizures in my life (grand mal.) They thought it was due to Wellbutrin lowering my seizure threshold. I’ve been taking an anticonvulsant ever since. I haven’t had a seizure since 2016 but I’m not sure if it was from going off the Wellbutrin or going on the anticonvulsant. The first one, in 2008, was during a hike (scared the shit out of my husband. He thought I was dead.) They didn’t identify it as such at the time, until eight years later I had three in one day. Anyway, I couldn’t drive for six months. When it happened I had zero warning whatsoever. I know some people see an aura or have some warning. Not me. I woke up totally disoriented for fully half an hour. It’s been nine years and I still worry sometimes about it happening while I’m driving. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pitt-season-2-tv-show-open-spoilers/1026604/50 "2026-01-23T19:23:55Z")
“I always wear my helmet.” Sure Robby. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pitt-season-2-tv-show-open-spoilers/1026604/51 "2026-01-23T23:16:40Z")
We may be advised to wear helmets with how hard they’re hitting us over the head with the reminder that he wasn’t, that he off all people knows how important it is (see the destroyed brain this ep), and that he is lying. But that said this is his knee jerk patter. Altogether I’m not as thrilled this season as last one … yet. Peds eye view FWIW - the girl with the cut chin? Not a great example of ITP nor does the diagnosis completely get the parents off as suspicious. One - a kid with ITP with that chin laceration would have been bleeding from it fairly persistently and profusely. Would have started bleeding right back up when the would was irrigated before gluing it. Clinically that would have been the big heads up. Two - the visibly bloody urine (gross hematuria). Were we ever told the result of the finally gotten around to it look at her external genitalia? Yes it could have been a small trauma but genitalia trauma with no history of something like a fall a bicycle cross bar is still suspicious, and that father’s reaction was a huge red flag. She can both have ITP and be an abuse victim. Two a - gross hematuria from ITP? Been at this, if we count residency, 40 years. ITP is uncommon but not rare; I have seen a good amount of it. NEVER gross hematuria. Looking it up it is because it is a very rare thing in ITP. Did they see kidney bruising on the imaging they did? I don’t recall it mentioned. Three - the bruises were of apparent various ages, not subtle, and most parents would have noted them as unusual and brought the kid in to the doctor earlier on than this. Again warning flag still of something still is suspicious to some degree. Four - very borderline as to whether or not this kid would be treated for it. ITP resolves on its own. Increasingly in recent years the pediatric hematologists refrain from treating unless there is mucosal bleeding, including kids with numbers even lower than this. If there is active bleeding in the kidney that might do it too, maybe? Maybe? Again don’t remember being told. Would expect some earlier bigger concern if there had been. But this kid smashed her chin into the stairs and no mouth bleeding from the gums. I would expect holding off on treatment. The knee jerk response is off the mark in any case. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pitt-season-2-tv-show-open-spoilers/1026604/52 "2026-01-23T23:26:35Z")
I don’t think that story is over. My guess is that it is the (as yet unseen) mom who is the abuser. She was mad, not for any negligence, but that the girlfriend brought her daughter to the hospital. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pitt-season-2-tv-show-open-spoilers/1026604/53 "2026-01-24T02:07:56Z")
A reasonable thought. Oh another medical criticism. Hearing only the low platelet count and saying ITP? The not abuse badness they were initially hinting at was some form of leukemia or such - which cause bruising and bleeding because it can cause low platelets as the cancer cells crowd out the marrow. Would want to know the rest of the indices. And that they just got the CBC back now after the CT is a little slow - albeit we are actually only in hour three. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pitt-season-2-tv-show-open-spoilers/1026604/54 "2026-01-24T05:55:17Z")
So far, the show this season is an ordinary hospital show. Good, butnot like the first season. The problem is that we already know the stories of many of the characters, so there’s no rediscovery of their background. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pitt-season-2-tv-show-open-spoilers/1026604/55 "2026-02-05T07:36:42Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > Sorry to fixate here - but the helmet still bugs me, passive death wish or not. Lots of death wish risks he could do that make sense, being on the edge of the roof for example, but dying because you didn’t wear a helmet would be considered by most ED docs (and neurosurgeons) as a very _embarrassing_ way to die. No one wants to have an embarrassing death. Not just with no helmet (and he’s going to be visiting head-smashed-in Buffalo Jump in Alberta—no irony there), but he was also passing the ambulance on a double-line on a bridge with no visibility. Talk about taking chances. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pitt-season-2-tv-show-open-spoilers/1026604/56 "2026-02-05T07:41:39Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > It has to be asked: is this the first time they showed an erect penis on a mainstream TV show? First time I’ve seen one, even if it was a dildo. The drained blood seemed very dark. First time I’ve seen a pen15 that graphic on screen since Jack Nicholson’s member in good standing in the movie theatre in The Departed. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pitt-season-2-tv-show-open-spoilers/1026604/57 "2026-02-05T07:47:09Z")
I don’t know if it’s been mentioned yet, but did ya’ll notice who plays the homeless guy? ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pitt-season-2-tv-show-open-spoilers/1026604/58 "2026-02-05T14:17:33Z")
Skinny Pete! Although I didn’t recognize him until after he cleaned up. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pitt-season-2-tv-show-open-spoilers/1026604/59 "2026-02-06T02:13:58Z")
Right? You don’t see Charles Baker in too many things, so that was pretty cool. He’s also a virtuoso pianist on the side. Those maggots were pretty disgusting, bruh. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pitt-season-2-tv-show-open-spoilers/1026604/60 "2026-02-06T03:28:25Z")
**Hour 5** They are taking their time moving any stories along. Honestly I’m started to get bored. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pitt-season-2-tv-show-open-spoilers/1026604.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pitt-season-2-tv-show-open-spoilers/1026604.md?page=4)