Talk about realism on TV

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Last night I was watching the Pitt, which is the intense medical drama set in a Pittsburgh ER. The Pitt is kind of a fascinating show because the medicine is so realistic, and it is really more about the medicine than the relationships with the characters or the staff, but of course there is some of that mixed in as well. It is about people so there has to be. Last night the show I watched featured a real live birth. I don't know how they did it, and transposed all the TV doctors with what had to have been real medical staff in there. I think they probably just showed parts of the delivery and cut the TV docs in the scene. There were disclaimers about the nudity and the childbirth warning people..about it. However, I thought it was amazing. I have never seen a drama like the Pitt before. I feel like I am smack dab in the middle of the ER.