Dr. Eric Bender

They finally did it right.

Mm-hmm.

The psychiatry elements, I think they did it right in a way that made people mad, but that's what they should feel about the way mental health is sometimes done in the hospital.

Like the Kraken was this guy who was given this name of a monster.

He was going to wake up and pee on somebody.

And I think that is the way.

A lot of times in medical ERs, patients that are psychiatric patients are looked at.

So it is terrible, but it's also true that that's how that's looked at.

And there was a comment made to one of the characters in the show, I think it was Mo, like, you can go into psychiatry.

But it was almost cutting, like, you should get out of this.

And I think that is accurate, the way people in medicine might look at psychiatry and the way it's looked down upon.

And I think they really captured that.

So I don't think that's necessarily a flaw of the show.

That's a problem with how we see mental health.

People don't get that.

No, absolutely.

They don't get the dark humor and that happens.

And I had a colleague who ran an ER during COVID and the way people came together, the way it felt like the city was coming together.

It's very true.

So the pit did a great job with that.