The Pitt is up for 25 Emmys – but the show’s biggest fans are real-life doctors

Doctors we spoke to do point out that each episode of The Pitt brings together several urgent trauma cases which typically might be spread across 24 hours or more.

But Prof Damian Roland, a practising emergency medicine consultant, notes that the drama does illustrate wider health challenges.

He thinks it puts the problems of the NHS in perspective.

“Virtually every emergency department in the world at the moment has not enough space to see patients,” he says.

“It’s a very common theme in The Pitt about the central character arguing with hospital management saying ‘I need more flow, you can’t just leave these patients here’ – that’s a very common problem.”

“In my work in the NHS, its very much we all work for one another and I like that we represent that on the show,” says Sarah Tosh, a senior NHS nurse who is the series medical adviser.

“In The Pitt they’ve got a bit about the characters’ day-to-day life, but it’s more about their medicine, which patient they are doing and what they are going on to next.”