Joe Sachs

And that's a big compliment. And then there are the emergency workers who see it and see the flashbacks to COVID and say, oh my God, I have been dealing with such post-traumatic stress disorder and I've been denying it and I need to get help. And that's a wonderful thing.

And that's a big compliment. And then there are the emergency workers who see it and see the flashbacks to COVID and say, oh my God, I have been dealing with such post-traumatic stress disorder and I've been denying it and I need to get help. And that's a wonderful thing.

Not so far. No, no, no. The first episode, the degloved, fractured, dislocated foot.

Not so far. No, no, no. The first episode, the degloved, fractured, dislocated foot.

Not so far. No, no, no. The first episode, the degloved, fractured, dislocated foot.

Came about by the writer's room looking to me and saying, what would make a young medical student faint?

Came about by the writer's room looking to me and saying, what would make a young medical student faint?

Came about by the writer's room looking to me and saying, what would make a young medical student faint?

Med student down. That's the dramatic need of the story. It's not like I've been saying, oh, man, I want to do this degloved, fractured, dislocated foot, and I got to have that on the show. That came out of nowhere. That came out of what can we show that will just... make the audience feel the same way that this young medical student feels.

Med student down. That's the dramatic need of the story. It's not like I've been saying, oh, man, I want to do this degloved, fractured, dislocated foot, and I got to have that on the show. That came out of nowhere. That came out of what can we show that will just... make the audience feel the same way that this young medical student feels.

Med student down. That's the dramatic need of the story. It's not like I've been saying, oh, man, I want to do this degloved, fractured, dislocated foot, and I got to have that on the show. That came out of nowhere. That came out of what can we show that will just... make the audience feel the same way that this young medical student feels.

And on other medical shows and on ER, you know, we open chests and we put in chest tubes and we put tubes in every orifice and this and that. But the degloved, fractured, dislocated ankle was a case that I had actually had as an emergency physician. And when I pitched it to the room, all the eyes lit up and they all said, that's it.

And on other medical shows and on ER, you know, we open chests and we put in chest tubes and we put tubes in every orifice and this and that. But the degloved, fractured, dislocated ankle was a case that I had actually had as an emergency physician. And when I pitched it to the room, all the eyes lit up and they all said, that's it.

And on other medical shows and on ER, you know, we open chests and we put in chest tubes and we put tubes in every orifice and this and that. But the degloved, fractured, dislocated ankle was a case that I had actually had as an emergency physician. And when I pitched it to the room, all the eyes lit up and they all said, that's it.