It’s Not Just on ‘The Pitt’: Real-Life Emergency Doctors Are Stressed Out—and Patient Irritation Plays a Significant Role

It’s not just on ‘The Pitt’: Real-life emergency doctors are stressed out—and patient irritation plays a significant role

HBO’s emergency-department drama “The Pitt” has become a smash hit in large part because it shows the deeply human toll that emergency medicine exacts from those who practice it. While researchers have long known that real-life ER doctors are affected by many of the stresses that “The Pitt” has so effectively captured, a recent study led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst and published in the BMJ: Quality & Safety is the first to design …

Emergency doctors are stressed out—and patient irritation plays a significant role

HBO's emergency-department drama "The Pitt" has become a smash hit in large part because it shows the deeply human toll that emergency medicine exacts on those who practice it. While researchers have long known that real-life ER doctors are affected by many of the stresses that "The Pitt" has so effectively captured.