Spoiler alert! The following contains (graphic) details from the Season 2 finale of "The Pitt."
There have been many hugely memorable medical emergencies on HBO Max's "The Pitt," the Emmy-winning phenomenon set during a single shift at a Pittsburgh emergency department. From the blood-soaked floors of the hospital during the response to a mass shooting, to disgusting moments of urination and defecation to the realities of hospice death, "The Pitt" doesn't shy away from the good, the heartbreaking and the gross parts of modern medicine. And the Season 2 finale (now streaming) has given us a new medical case for the TV hospital history books: An emergency C-section performed by Dr. Robby (Noah Wyle) and Dr. Abbott (Shawn Hatosy) right there in the ER.
It's a big scene, and not just because the episode graphically shows Robby and Abbott cutting into a pregant abdomen, pulling aside muscle and fascia and organs. It's tense, viscerally and emotionally, for all the characters involved. And it was a heck of a thing to pull off, according to Dr. Joe Sachs, a producer and medical advisor on "The Pitt."
"We needed to come up with something for the season finale that was rather dramatic," he said in a recent interview with USA TODAY.
