Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Dr. Reed Caldwell rates scenes from the HBO Max medical drama "The Pitt," starring Noah Wyle.

He breaks down the show's portrayal of performing CPR and end-of-life care, handling surgical tools, treating disorders like sickle cell disease and measles, managing overwhelmed waiting rooms, and caring for victims of mass casualty events. Finally, he talks about the show's depiction of what working in a hospital has been like following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Caldwell is the chief of the emergency department at NYU Langone's Tisch Hospital in Manhattan, the Perelman Center for Emergency Services. He has been working in emergency medicine since 1999.

You can check out Caldwell's research and writing here:
nyulangone.org/doctors/1023305778/reed-caldwell#research
https://med.nyu.edu/departments-institutes/emergency-medicine/

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