“The Pitt” captures the true crisis of overcrowding in the emergency room
The waiting room of the emergency department has been jammed, as is always, with patients sitting for hours, strictly packed on hard metal chairs. Only those with such terrible conditions that needed immediate care - like a heart attack - were immediately seen.A man had had enough. Mars was on the glass window in front of the reception -edge before falling. As he left, he attacked a nurse making a steaming break. "At work?" He called, as he moved away.No, the event was not real, but it was the art that resembled the life of "The Pitt", the Max series that will broadcast its season finale Thursday. The show takes place in an emergency room of the imaginary hospital in Pittsburgh. But the theme below - frightening overcrowding - is universal in this country. And it's not easy to solve."The a...