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…
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