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the pitt appreciation blog as a certified hospital frequenter™

[doctorweebmd]

on that note its always really weird talking to patients who i'm pretty sure have one of the rarer/severe diseases in the pulmonary world because they dont have the same collective consciousness/understanding about lung disease compared to, say, cancer or heart attacks or strokes and its always very awkward when i start giving someone a diagnosis and they sigh in relief and say something 'oh i thought you were going to tell me i have cancer.'

like. what is a nice way to say 'you WISH this was cancer.' like i've had to sit there with people and tell them - listen. listen. please follow up outpatient. please take this seriously. please take your medication. please please please it is so fucking critical i'm not fucking around. this has a higher mortality rate than a lot of cancers you will die from this this will kill you and not in ten years like SOON. please. PLEASE.

and then there's this instant pivot of 'well maybe i can get a lung transplant' yeah!!! maybe!!! except it not a kidney or liver or even heart. lungs are the only organ exposed to the outside world survival at 5 years with lung transplant on average is 50%. and thats WITH immunosuppression compliance. like. PLEASE. i am going crazy we need to put pulmonary fibrosis and pulmonary arterial hypertension on The Pitt maybe people will finally start taking it seriously oh my gooododdddd

[fallingindapitt]

I cannot highlight this more!!!

I have PAH and I'm waiting on a lung transplant, the fact that this disease is talked about so little (in my experience even within the medicl field, so many doctors don't know what I'm presenting them when I say I have PAH) it's crazy.

It is so fucking serious. We need more research, more awareness, both to improve the diagnosis (that it's often missed because of how common the symptoms are and how overlooked it is), and the life expectancy/quality of life

[obsidian-echoes]

Robby in his old, worn out black sweater from college.

Old, almost falling apart sweatpants that never once hugged his ass but are now certainly doing nothing to flatter his rear.

Robby's back all shrimped up there is a reason he has such back pain all the time as he stands at the kitchen counter, hunched over the cup of coffee in his hand.

His hair is a mess, the tufts of brown he had left standing up left and right, mirroring the sleepy look on his face.

He yawns, rubbing his eyes as he turns to find Jack Abbot leaning against the doorframe of their bedroom, staring at him with so much love and affection, that he can't help but avert his eyes, knowing what would follow.

"Don't you dare say it, Abbot."

"Marry me?"

"For fuck's sake."

[theres-a-tvjoe]

rabbot ‘together since the start’ social media au:

Part 3/?

Masterpost

[whitakers-intern]

i’m about to say something rlly brave...

i like the main character of the show i have a an entire blog dedicated to.

[hucklerabbot-and-rock]

[redwinevinegar47]

hucklerabbot hucklerabbot hucklerabbot

[morganaspendragonss]

will you guys cancel me if i say that queer tragedy has a place in the creative arts and shouldn’t immediately be dismissed as bury your gays

[rubynye]

adding @glorious-spoon 's astute tags:

#bury your gays and women in refrigerators and the black guy dies first are all about treating marginalized people like props#to further the story of the (white straight male) protagonist#that's not the same thing as a tragedy! some stories are tragedies! whose story has weight and meaning - that's the question

[fallingindapitt]

A Doctor Who AU but it's The Pittspurgh Emergency Hospital to be transported on the moon by the Judoon (ep Smith and Jones 3x1).

This would be my version of a "musical episode". Just imagine The Pitt doctors interacting with The Doctor.

Apart from all the craziness and the fact that soooo many of them would just pass out by the absurdity of the whole thing, spread hysteria, and all that comes with being transported ON THE FUCKING MOON, just picture this:

Robby (paniking and in a total crisis): and who the fuck would you be?

The Doctor: Oh, I'm The Doctor! Pleasure to meet you all- Now I have a little- wellnotsolittle- problem to attend to

Robby: We could use a couple of hands here

The Doctor: oh-right! Not that kind of doctor. I deal with the aliens, you keep on patching up people. Gotta go- Now, Allons-y!!

[fallingindapitt]

I want you to know that my disappearance these days was due solely on the release of go3. I won't elaborate on that.

[xxjuliandorxx]

They’re my mum and dad and I'll fight anyone who tells me otherwise 🥊🥊

[fallingindapitt]

Jack doesn't necessarily over-pack- not by his standards. He just thinks that "One must be ready for all". Which means packs for a two day trip as if he were to survive alone in a forest for one week with no emergency contact or external help.

Robby, on the other hand, tosses a change of clothes in a bag, couple of underwear, and hits the road.

(Jack argues with him about it all the time. Eventually he manages to make Robby take a bag he carefully equipped with what Jack's deems necessary for survival)

[honkifurlonely]

i do think there is something to be said about what an interesting choice rabbot would be to make as a canonical relationship on the pitt. i think with an ensemble cast like this (and how long this show could run for), a slow burn relationship wouldn’t be alien, and i just don’t think this is done with two dudes (or any non straight people/dynamics for that matter) all that often. friends to lovers shouldn’t be reserved for only straight folk!!

i also think that jack and robby also have a very special and tender friendship and i’m really not expecting the show to take a swing this big, but i think there’s something really nice about the fantasy of the one you were looking for being there all along.

[starlingbite]

I keep thinking about the way each of the younger members of the team each reflect different parts of Robby, they way he sees different parts of himself in them, both positive and negative:

McKay His gut with sensing when something is wrong, his empathy and compassion, his protectiveness of his patients. Can sometimes jump to conclusions about people when bias gets in the way (but both are willing to learn when it is pointed out to them).

Santos The brash, riskier, tenacious side of him, the sarcastic, dark-humoured part. The part that does finds fun in what he does. Does what he think is right, ignoring the consequences. Can get tunnel visioned.

Whitaker The way he keeps being knocked down but gets up again, the part of Robby that sees the good in people, that goes above and beyond, the part that just wants to help, even to his own detriment. Javadi His smarts, his medical knowledge, his awkwardness in some situations, being a people pleaser. Mohan His ability to connect with patients, put them at ease, his stubbornness, getting too involved in his patients, letting his emotions cloud his judgement. Langdon His technical skills, his quick thinking, and also his defensiveness and ruthlessness. Mel The more whimsical and sensitive side of Robby and also his self-sacrificial side. Everyone else comes first.

****

What am I missing??

[opalitemeup]

noah wyle you have bewitched me, mind, body, and soul. please accept this offering and release me from my curse.

i.e. i can’t stop thinking abt noah wyle’s kind eyes, and drawing this didn’t help; there is no cure

🤍

[fallingindapitt]

Jack and Robby who call each other "brother" no matter the not-so-brotherly-like nature of their relationship until that one time when Jack slips up with "babe" and makes Robby combust on the spot

[fireleaptfromhousetohouse]

[queer-reader-07]

queerplatonic rabbot where they're always at one another's houses because the weight of being alone is enough to push them to the edge.

queerplatonic rabbot where they always pack overnight essentials when they go over because the chances they'll spend the night are higher than not. eventually they just move in together.

queerplatonic rabbot where they've always been touchy with each other. hugs and heads laid on shoulders. even when jack was married. hell, his wife loved it. loved that her husband and his best friend were so comfortable with one another in the comfort of their own homes.

queerplatonic rabbot where robby would never even fathom taking the place of jack's wife. she was his friend too, like a sister to him, he also grieved when she died. he shuts down anyone who insinuates he's taken her place.

queerplatonic rabbot where they don't have sex but they do kiss. forehead kisses in the morning-- jack coming home from work on robby's day off and kissing his still sleeping form. robby leaving for work after a night jack had off to do the same. fluttering kisses on one another's temples when they're sitting together in bed or on the couch. jack dropping kisses on the back of robby's neck after rubbing out the ache from his shoulders. robby laying kisses on jack's legs when he's massaging them. tender kisses good morning, lips soft and sweet. quick pecks after handoff before the other heads home. kisses to the insides of one another's wrists when they're holding hands.

queerplatonic rabbot who don't feel the need to define what they are to one another with specific labels. i doubt they'd ever call themselves a qpr. but they'd call each other partners. they'd tell everyone that yes they love each and no it's not dating and no we don't want it to be. maybe one of the med students or residents jokingly calls it a situationship. jack shuts it down quick, "well that would require us to not have tacked down who we are to each other, and trust that we have."

queerplatonic rabbot where everyone in the pitt knows those two old men are in love. they see the way robby's eyes crinkle in adoration when jack walks in and how jack's eyes soften for robby in a way they don't for anyone else. the new med students are so convinced they must be fucking and dana's always the one to say "nah. shockingly they're not even that repressed about it, they just love each other in a different kind of way."

[jelestes]

and i believe this is the moment that we will all go back to in future seasons and say yep… that’s the exact moment he fell for her