Noah Wyle

And then finally I had an opportunity to come back and was excited about it and slipped a stethoscope around my neck and just felt right at home.

Yes, yes.

Ironically, I'm 20 years older than Anthony Edwards was playing The Attending 30 years ago.

So that makes me sound ancient.

Very much so.

Different city, different character.

We had started down a reboot road, and then it became an impossibility.

And so we pivoted as far away from it as we could to come up with a new medical show.

I stand by we have.

In a way, you know, it's interesting.

We started with two weeks of medical boot camp for everybody, myself included, to kick some rust off and to re-familiarize myself with how much has changed in healthcare, but also to bring everybody up to speed with where they needed to be by the time we rolled the cameras.

And John Wells, who directed the pilot episode and executive produced, said to me, don't be too nice to him.

And then he sort of segregated us where I was off by myself and I ate lunch by myself.

And then the R4s ate together, the R2s and 3s ate together.

Second-year residents, fourth-year residents.

And the med students all ate together by themselves.

And they all sat behind me.

And then when we did our training rotations, the med students learned what med students know.

And the R2s learned R2 stuff and so forth.

And I kind of walked around and did a little bit of everything.