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Repost and 🎥 from @acepnation IG: The ACEP25 exhibit hall got a little extra magic today Thank you @therealnoahwyle for being here with us and connecting with our EM community! Moments like this are irreplaceable

That being said, I’m pleasantly surprised to see how diverse the writer’s room is. While it would be nice if there was more diversity at the top—Valerie Chu is executive story editor as of season 2, yay!—I’m glad that these women in the room.

Dr Sachs: I came on to help ER halfway through the first season. [...] from the moment I met him [Noah], I knew we had something really special. His grasp of the medicine, the procedures, and the emotion that goes along with patient care is just spot on.

Dr Herbert: Noah's knowledge of medicine is kind of stunning at this point after all these shows, we'll be sitting around and he'll come up with a diagnosis. I'm like, "how the f do you know that?" and he says, "Mel, I play a doctor on TV."

Noah Wyle on a panel with Dr. Mel Herbert and Dr. Joe Sachs at the ACEP25 (American College of Emergency Physicians) Scientific Assembly. Moderator is ACEP president, Dr. L. Anthony Cirillo.

Salt Palace Convention Center | Salt Lake City, UT | September 7, 2025

“Now we have this great training, and you watch The Pitt and it’s the real deal. But they’re still burnt out. That’s because it’s a stressful job. Patients are dying.”

“And then you have to see the next patient, see the next. You’re fighting a system that doesn’t really give a sh*t about you, because you don’t bring in as much money as elective surgery.”

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“One of the other important issues to acknowledge for emergency departments is that EDs are now managing complexity at scale. And then when the system becomes overcrowded.”

“And that leads to the moral injury of the healthcare workers who are constantly worried about the person in the waiting room that they don’t know about yet, who has a really serious condition and is quietly sitting there, waiting to be seen.”

“That is one of the major factors contributing to burnout and C-PTSD.”

Dr Herbert said he is proud of the effect of The Pitt.

“Doctors are getting help. Nurses are getting help. So it has had an incredible effect,” said Dr Herbert.