One of the things I’ve been thinking about this season of The Pitt is how the ER feels like a reflection of Robby’s mental health. From the beginning, his relationships with everyone mirror what’s going on internally.
For example, Mohan, Dana, and McKay are all deeply empathetic with their patients and allow themselves to form real connections. McKay connects with the dying mother and the homeless girl, Dana with Emma, and Mohan with pretty much everyone. Robby’s problem is that he doesn’t let himself make those connections anymore. Last season we saw him heavily involved in multiple cases, the fentanyl kid, the elderly man (where he shared his way of saying goodbye), and, most painfully, Leah, Jacke’s girlfriend, on top of Dr. Adamson’s anniversary. Getting emotionally involved with patients (and even coworkers) took a toll, and right now he simply can’t handle that mentally.
So when he sees Mohan, McKay, and Dana going the extra mile, Robby shifts into fight-or-flight. All he can think about is the pain that comes from caring. That’s why he becomes so protective, he used to be that kind of doctor, but it cost him, and now he doesn’t want anyone else to end up the same way.
From the other side, we have Mel, Langdon, McKay, and maybe even Dana representing isolation and loneliness. Yes, they are coworkers and these interactions happen during work hours, but we’re still talking about humans giving their all to save people’s lives , something that isn’t easy. For Mel, in ten months, her most meaningful connection ends up being someone she met for just one day. For McKay, it’s her inability to let herself feel the death of a patient, even saying she hasn’t cried in a long time. Dana chooses not to share with Robby what happened with the man who assaulted Emma, even though we know that in the first season Robby would have supported that action. Robby’s inability to talk about his feelings also comes from everyone else treating emotional openness as something negative. We even see him reprimand Mohan for having a panic attack when he himself had one last season, again, he’s projecting.
At the same time, he’s losing control of himself, which makes him try to control everything happening in the ER. McKay going out to help a homeless patient, Dana defending Emma, Mohan being “slow,” Langdon coming back, and even the cyberattack, all of these are things outside his control. Before, they wouldn’t have bothered him as much, because he understood that the system itself is flawed. But with Al-Hashimi present, he feels the need to prove he’s in control. As he said, sometimes things fall through the cracks and Al-Hashimi’s presence threatens to expose all of his cracks as a leader
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