They Nailed It.

Having worked 20 or so MASCAL events between the Baghdad Combat Support Hospital in 2004 and Balad in 2007-09, the cast and crew of The Pitt nailed it. They absolutely nailed it.

From the nonchalant attitude of the triage doc, to the buried concern for people you personally know, to the calm before the storm, to desperation to donate blood, to the improvised supplies, to the subtle FU mentality towards other specialties' rigid adherence to protocols, to the baby docs stepping out of their comfort zone, to the eagerness of the surgical teams ...I stopped the episode a few times because of the excruciating reality of it.

This episode could have been four hours long and still not captured everything, but it is by far to most realistic "dramatization" of a MASCAL that I've ever seen. It's been 15+ years since I've been in a MASCAL, but after watching this last night, intrusive memories have been popping up all day. They nailed it.