The Pitt star Patrick Ball weighs in on traumatized Langdons finale fight with Robby: He put lives at risk
An unforgettable shift.During Thursday’s Season 1 finale of Max’s breakout hit “The Pitt,” Dr.
Langdon (Patrick Ball) and Dr.Robby (Noah Wyle) clashed over Langdon stealing drugs from patients and then returning to the hospital to help deal with a mass shooting casualty.Ball exclusively told The Post he thinks Robby had a right to be so tough on Langdon during their heated confrontation.“I think Langdon has made a huge mistake,” Ball said.
“I think he’s put lives at risk and I think Robby does what he has to do from a legal perspective, from an insurance perspective, from an ethical perspective of not having a doctor sort of running amok, stealing drugs.You can’t have that.”“As far as what grace is given, in this scene you have two men that are equally as traumatized and equally as incapable of tending their own wounds and they’re trying to help each other to an extent,” the actor continued.
“For certain people it’s a lot easier to give help than take it, so I think that’s what we see.“Ball told The Post “it’s an honor” to be able to highlight the epidemic of substance abuse in the healthcare community with Langdon’s storyline.“You have a bunch of people that work incredibly long hours and are witness to traumas on a daily basis that would sit most of us down for a week and would take a lifetime to process.And this is just an everyday occurrence for them,” he explained.
“And they also work in a place with a plentiful supply of drugs sort of available to them.And so it’s not uncommon for healthcare workers to fall into a trap of self-medicating, which can lead to a real rough road of addiction.”“Healthcare workers have a higher rate of drug dependency of suicide and divorce than almost any other profession in the US,” Ball stated.
“And so it’s something that needs to be talked about and needs to be talked with integrity, which I hope that we’re doing.”Ball noted that the series tackling a mass shoot...