caden

adding to the watchlist ty ^-^

have fun and be yourself !

I KNOW LOL this is every doctor character obvi, but i do think it's pronounced with the ones on the pitt because the entire narrative engine of the show is this framing that medical staff are uniquely do-gooder, philanthropist, self-sacrificing public service types (cf post i rbed below about 'vocational awe', librarians, and cops lol) like -- medical dramas are usually at least somewhat ambivalent about the immense power a doctor has, in the medical sense if not the ethical one. on greys they love being surgeons because they're all sociopathic overachievers who love to cut people open, on house each episode is structured around the instrumentalist use of the actual patient as a means to gain ur genius mentor's respect, even fucking scrubs is like doctors are as petty, frivolous, sloppy, etc as anyone else they just have higher job stakes and fat paychecks dangling over their heads. again virtually no medical fiction is advancing a thoughtful critique of the profession & that's not what im there for, but the openly recuperative nature of the pitt's entire premise is so repugnant to me. same reason i can't stand all the handwringing about working conditions for doctors lol, it's just a lib biopolitics cop-out that lets you blame all mistreatment on The System and obviates the need to think about what the profession materially exists for, why it is attractive to capitalist states as much as any others, what sort of ideology a person must hold (or worse, tacitly agree with yet never consciously avow) in order to succeed professionally in that environment, etc. in fact the pitt is quite explicitly a million times per second advancing the argument that what would fix medicine is MORE investment and involvement from the noble forces of liberal democracy, more funding and closer relationships with the state because the medical profession in itself is constitutionally benevolent and absorbs zero harmful medicopolitical goals from its position embedded into the capitalist state. there is no such thing as non accidental iatrogenic harm at either the professional or personal level and if only we hospitalmaxxed then the good doctors could be set free to treat us more. side note but ive shown my partner a few episodes of nurse jackie recently and i straight up forgot how pro nurse that show is... it's crazy the selfish glamorous callous doctors vs the hardworking nurses who just love their patients so much they suffer for it oh ya thx jackie