It's interesting when people actually talk about medical inaccuracies in the pitt because they fall into 3 categories:
Actual inaccuracy, either because it's outdated, or because they simply got it wrong.
Inaccuracy for the sake of TV/Drama
Other medical professionals who don't work in the ER claiming it's wrong while professionals who do work in the ER say yeah, they got that right.
For the first bullet point, I'd tentatively put how they handled the abuse case from season 1. Mandatory reporting (at least, as a mandatory reporter myself) does not require proof from the victim but suspicion of abuse, and additionally the mom's report would also count as reason enough to report the father. Now, while I'd put this in category 1, I also place it just slightly in the second category for drama.
For the second bullet point, I am happily putting on my SLP hat to talk about AAC-and Howard-in the second season. They got the basis of an AAC device right. However, an inexperienced user like Howard would not have been able to create long messages that quick-nor witty ones with other peoples names (unless all the doctors are programed in). But, for the sake of TV, I get it. It would have been a lot of waiting around quietly as Howard input his message.
For this, I'd also add in things like CPR (they are performing it, 99% of the time, on a real actor, not a doll, so they have to be careful) and how they wear their stethoscopes (backwards so they can still hear the crew/directors).
For the last one, it is almost always another specialty in the hospital saying EDs don't do those procedures-and then ER staff from doctors to nurses to medical assistants chiming in listing all the times they've done the procedure because the other specialty wasn't there or didn't come down in time. This also includes the paramedics/EMTs who were made about the portrayal of one team not placing leads properly and claiming doctors don't do it right more often, and then a whole bunch of people-from doctors to nurses to patients-listing all the times someone came in and didn't have their leads placed properly.
Now, for the second one: was I annoyed? No, not really! I recognized the fact that the reality for an inexperienced AAC user and the actual messages they'd be able to produce would be very boring and tedious for a tv show, which I think would honestly send the wrong message about AAC. I don't think anyone who will need a device the way Howard needed one and also watched the show is going to go "but Howard on the Pitt was able to make jokes!".
Anyways, there's probably more examples-but I do think they always need to work on one (the way they did for respiratory therapists) but sometimes things are just the way they are for TV, and sometimes it's doctors who don't work in EDs realizing (or not realizing) what EDs do.
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