S01.E08: 2:00 P.M.

[Irlandesa]

47 minutes ago, Notabug said:

Also, the organs are usually harvested in the OR of the donor's hospital, transferring a donor to another hospital to retrieve organs isn't something I've seen happen. 

There are honor walks on YouTube and sometimes the patient is being walked to an OR and other times it's clear they're being transferred to another hospital.  I did see someone on another site say how pleased they were about them showing the transfer to an organ donation center. 

The one thing I couldn't find is what determines whether the hospital where the patient dies harvests the organs or the patient gets transferred for harvesting.  I can only speculate that it might be a distance thing.  If there's a hospital that does transplants nearby, then the patient gets transferred.  But if not, then the local hospital does it? 

38 minutes ago, Raachel2008 said:

There were nurses in the room and nobody did bat an eye, so it doesn't look like what Langdon did was so out of the ordinary.

I think Robby even came in at the end when he was pushing the last one that Santos thought was too much and he didn't see an issue with it either.

[AnnMarie17]

On 2/21/2025 at 2:09 AM, Boofish said:

Is it wrong to hope Santos is dead by the end of the shift. 

If hoping for that is wrong, then I don't wanna be right.  

[heatherchandler]

It feels like they are trying to squeeze too much in, too many tragedies and “lessons” and honor walks and having to take this one off life support and that one..  It’s been 5 hours calm down and let us get to know the people.  

[AnnMarie17]

11 hours ago, Notabug said:

Honor walks for patients who are organ donors are indeed a thing although it is rare that they would take place in the ER.  Also, the organs are usually harvested in the OR of the donor's hospital, transferring a donor to another hospital to retrieve organs isn't something I've seen happen.  

Usually the donor is in the ICU and the ICU staff as well as anyone available at the moment will line the hallways to silently pay their respects to the patient and their family as they are taken down the hall to the elevator to the OR.

Just reading that made me well up. What a beautiful thing to do; I had no idea. Thank you for sharing that with us.

[Notabug]

34 minutes ago, AnnMarie17 said:

Just reading that made me well up. What a beautiful thing to do; I had no idea. Thank you for sharing that with us.

Good description of  an Honor Walk from Lifebanc, the organization that coordinates organ donation in my area.

The second link is to a bunch of honor walk videos on YouTube.  Have kleenex handy.

 

https://www.lifebanc.org/resources/healthcare-partners/the-honor-walk/

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=honor+walks+Cleveland+clinoc&qpvt=honor+walks+cleveland+clinoc&FORM=VDRE

Edited Tuesday at 04:12 PM by Notabug

[Kath94]

15 hours ago, heatherchandler said:

On 2/20/2025 at 8:51 PM, Raachel2008 said:

The walk of honor was extremely moving to me. I think it is like when someone you love dies and a lot of people attends the funeral - it is a small comfort to know people cared about your loved one. It doesn’t stop the pain or bring the person back, but it gives some sort of meaning in all that.

Do they really do that?  For every patient to donate organs?

This got to me.  I lost my brother very unexpectedly a year ago & his wife and daughter made the decision to donate his organs.  The hospital offered the "walk of honor" but we all decided it was too much.  Still, there was some meaning in knowing he could help others.  I watched this show right before bed last night & didn't sleep well.

[heatherchandler]

51 minutes ago, Kath94 said:

This got to me.  I lost my brother very unexpectedly a year ago & his wife and daughter made the decision to donate his organs.  The hospital offered the "walk of honor" but we all decided it was too much.  Still, there was some meaning in knowing he could help others.  I watched this show right before bed last night & didn't sleep well.

It’s very meaningful, I’m so sorry.

[Boofish]

On 2/22/2025 at 4:42 PM, bilgistic said:

This is exactly why Black history stories need to be told. The scene with the "staff...gathered 'round in awe" was less than two minutes long. And Dr. Robby talked through some of the scene.

Seven episodes with a white kid being brain-dead and his parents refusing to accept it (and for some reason, what seemed like half his high school class showing up at his bedside IN THE ER) isn't too much, but a single episode with a brief Black history lesson interwoven in is? OK.

For those who are interested, here's a very palatable article about Freedom House. It links to a documentary about Freedom House.

[debraran]

7 hours ago, Notabug said:

Good description of  an Honor Walk from Lifebanc, the organization that coordinates organ donation in my area.

The second link is to a bunch of honor walk videos on YouTube.  Have kleenex handy.

 

https://www.lifebanc.org/resources/healthcare-partners/the-honor-walk/

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=honor+walks+Cleveland+clinoc&qpvt=honor+walks+cleveland+clinoc&FORM=VDRE

I watched 2 and that was enough...yes tissues were needed.

[maddie965]

The one troupe The Pitt did not scape was the miscarriage one. A pregnant woman finds out she's miscarried, spends some time alone and then proceed to work as if nothing happened. She's a doctor, for heaven's sake! She knows someone ought to take a look at her and make sure she's alright. And I'm not even mentioning the psychological factors. Go to your private doctor or go home. Don't keep working as if nothing happened.

Also, Roby sees her doing an ultrasound and his reaction is... do nothing? Big disappointment.

Other than that, a lovely episode.

Edited Thursday at 04:40 PM by maddie965

[debraran]

17 hours ago, maddie965 said:

The one troupe The Pitt did not scape was the miscarriage one. A pregnant woman finds out she's miscarried, spends some time alone and then proceed to work as if nothing happened. She's a doctor, for heaven's sake! She knows someone ought to take a look at her and make sure she's alright. And I'm not even mentioning the psychological factors. Go to your private doctor or go home. Don't keep working as if nothing happened.

Also, Roby sees her doing an ultrasound and his reaction is... do nothing? Big disappointment.

Other than that, a lovely episode.

Noah said someone on set and healthcare workers told stories of doing this after miscarriage and he wanted to show it. Maybe feeling like you needed too, maybe a little denial, but I’m sure she’ll check it out soon enough and he didn’t know if she was just seeing how the baby was. I’m sure he had no idea what happened. We have women in our office who would’ve done the same thing and not miscarried, just curious. (they said no)

Edited Friday at 09:42 AM by debraran

[RunningMarket]

It hasn't been 100% confirmed that Collins is miscarrying. Obviously bleeding (and that much) is not a good thing, but it doesn't always mean miscarriage - which is why she was trying to use the ultrasound.

[debraran]

1 hour ago, RunningMarket said:

It hasn't been 100% confirmed that Collins is miscarrying. Obviously bleeding (and that much) is not a good thing, but it doesn't always mean miscarriage - which is why she was trying to use the ultrasound.

I don’t think she saw anything and there seems to be something other than blood,but time will tell. I thought it was confirmed, but we’ll see.

Edited Thursday at 11:13 PM by debraran

[rwlevin]

10 hours ago, maddie965 said:

A pregnant woman finds out she's miscarried, spends some time alone and then proceed to work as if nothing happened. She's a doctor, for heaven's sake! She knows someone ought to take a look at her and make sure she's alright.

Nope. This is what doctors do. It’s what my friend did when she miscarried. It’s what I did while waiting to miscarry. What else can we do? We have a job. People are depending on us. Not to mention, it helps get our minds off of what is going on, at least for a little bit.

[circumvent]

17 hours ago, rwlevin said:

Nope. This is what doctors do. It’s what my friend did when she miscarried. It’s what I did while waiting to miscarry. What else can we do? We have a job. People are depending on us. Not to mention, it helps get our minds off of what is going on, at least for a little bit.

Sorry for experience but it is all upside down. This idea that people have to keep working is just a symptom of our messed up systems. Nothing in the country works as it should anymore. The burden is always on the person because how society is organized, plus a little bit of the individualism of the American people lead people to think they are alone - because they are, sometimes - and that there is no empathy when it comes to help a colleague. The empathy might even exist but people have to weight and decide between stop and help up, at the expense of their own jobs/position/whatever or just let things run its course, ignoring the issue, not wanting to know the issue, or simply being relieved they didn't have to know the issue.

People need support but everyone is conditioned to go alone, "man up", pull themselves up by the bootstraps (silliest thing I have ever heard) or whatever individualistic platitude is in vogue. No wonder we are the least happy people on the planet (comparable countries)

Edited Friday at 09:20 PM by circumvent

[Paws]

No, miscarrying just isn’t that big of a deal, physically. I’ve miscarried twice and both times I visited the doc who did an ultrasound and confirmed that there was no heartbeat and then I went to teach a class. Unless there’s a real big problem it’s not something you need to stop work for. 

[b4pjoe]

On 2/21/2025 at 11:23 PM, Notabug said:

No, in real life, 99% of the patients in the ER are there for fairly minor things and get sent on their way without much fuss.  It would be extremely rare to have so many critical life or death cases except in the event of a mass casualty like a train derailment or a mass shooting.

Old time ER did the same thing; way more critical cases than you'd see in the typical day.

But really now...who would watch that show?

[jah1986]

On 2/28/2025 at 11:34 PM, Paws said:

No, miscarrying just isn’t that big of a deal, physically. I’ve miscarried twice and both times I visited the doc who did an ultrasound and confirmed that there was no heartbeat and then I went to teach a class. Unless there’s a real big problem it’s not something you need to stop work for. 

I'm sorry you have suffered two miscarriages, but glad it wasn't a big deal for you physically. My mother also suffered two miscarriages and both times she almost died. It really does depend on the individual.