Joe Sachs

Wow.

Yeah, I was at the American College of Emergency Physicians meeting where Joe Sachs and Mel Herbert, and Noah Wyle did a talk, and it was fantastic.

Mel Herbert runs EM:RAP, which is where most of us get our continuing medical education, and worked very closely with Joe Sachs, who's the medical advisor.

And they have constructed a set that is extremely realistic, and they've constructed storylines and patient information that is exactly like patients I see.

I should get continuing medical education for watching that show.

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but I'll say ER was really quite good.

They, they, they would h- Joe Sachs, who is the medical director for The Pit, he was also the medical advisor for ER- And tried very hard to keep them on track.

All medical dramas now have a doctor writer on the set.

And in fact, one of the doctor writers on The Pit, Joe Sachs, began on ER.

And there are several doctors on ER.

And they brought us those real-life stories, like a woman who has preeclampsia, to the show.

R. Scott Gemmel and John Wells and Noah Wiley, the show's creators, have been talking to healthcare professionals since early in the pandemic and really bringing their stories to life.

The medical consultants, like Joe Sachs, have used real medical stories and portray all of them in the show.

The lighting is natural lighting within an ER, so it feels realistic.

Joanna Coelho, the cinematographer, uses handheld cameras to create almost like chaotic theater in the ER.

Pretty real.

And I think that I had the opportunity to hear Joe Sachs sort of speak to me and a bunch of other physicians last week.

He's one of the creators of the series and was of ER as well.

And he's an emergency physician, and he's out there practicing still.