The Pitt Boss Breaks Down Season 2, Episode 8: How The Analog Crisis Would Have Been A Normal Day On ER — And What’s Next For Mel

When “The Pitt” plunges Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center into analog chaos, it feels like a five-alarm emergency. Twenty-five years ago, it would have been routine.

Before electronic charts and digital monitors tracked patient flow, paper files and dry-erase boards were simply how emergency rooms operated. And for series creator R. Scott Gemmill — who spent years writing and producing NBC‘s “ER,” set at Chicago’s County General — the irony of treating analog medicine as a crisis isn’t lost on him.

“When I started this show, I was still back in paper charts in my mind,” Gemmill tells TVLine. “I had to…