“This is right here, right now. Doctor the fuck up.” After a Pitt Season 2 marked by the ongoing fraying of Dr. Robby’s sense of self, it’s like pure energy, watching him push a senior resident past doubt to a place of solutions. The encouragement of his people, and the platforming of improvisational but professional know-how where only uncertainty existed seconds before. This is the nucleus of Robby’s professional life. Teaching and guidance have always given him support – we’ve seen this, even as he has lost his internal compass. That this sequence in Episode 14 of The Pitt (“8:00PM”), involving what Dr. Crus Henderson calls “cowboy shit” – physically realigning neck bones for a patient’s on-the-fly uni-facet cervical dislocation – is just more of the technical shit we love about this series. That it involves Robby emboldening Dr. Frank Langdon, at the moment his former protégé needed it most,
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