Robby & Dana’s Fight Escalates

Warning! This article contains SPOILERS for The Pitt season 2, episode 13.Robby and Dana continued their fight in this week’s episode of The Pitt, and we got an even clearer look at Robby’s deteriorating mental state. The entire cast of The Pitt has been struggling, and many of the doctors and nurses have to stay late to transition Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center from paper records back to digital ones. As the end of the shift draws nearer, the nerves and emotions of its doctors are also reaching a breaking point.

The Pitt season 2, episode 13 included several causes for concern. Ogilvie nearly quit emergency medicine after losing a patient, Mohan was floundering after one of her patients returned to the hospital, Langdon had a crisis of confidence, and Robby revealed how poorly he’s handling his stress and trauma during a shouting match with Dana. Here’s what to remember heading into the last two episodes of The Pitt season 2.

Robby Revealed More About His Mental State While Fighting With Dana

Dana and Robby fought in The Pitt season 2, episode 12, and their argument only got worse this week. Robby continued spiraling, and after several outbursts at the end of the episode, Dana took him aside to give him a talking to. Dana tried to convince Robby to take a break and go on his sabbatical early, but Robby refused. According to him, he’s not confident that PTMC can survive without him.

During their conversation, Robby revealed that his mother left him at some point when he was young. That tracks with Robby’s comment in The Pitt season 1, where he revealed that he was raised by his grandmother. At the end of their fight, Robby also told Dana that he might not return to PTMC after leaving on his sabbatical. It’s yet another sign of Robby’s passive suicidal ideation, and another indication that his mental health is floundering.

Robby also leveled some accusations about Dr. Al-Hashimi this week. While treating the child with asthma, Al-Hashimi froze up the same way she did while treating Baby Jane Doe earlier this season. Robby spotted it, and he used it as evidence that Al-Hashimi isn’t fit to run the emergency room in his absence. Where Robby will go from here and why Al-Hashimi freezes up around children remain a mystery for the time being.

Duke’s Lung Condition Is Bad & He Can’t Get Surgery Until After The Weekend

The inciting event for Dana and Robby’s fight was some bad news about Robby’s friend and motorcycle mechanic, Duke. Robby previously kept Duke in the hospital until he could get a CT scan of his lungs. That scan came back in The Pitt season 2, episode 13, and the prognosis wasn’t good. The Pitt didn’t reveal exactly what Duke has, but based on Robby’s conversation with a surgeon, it’s very bad.

While talking about the CT scan, Robby called Duke a “ticking time bomb” and spoke about something in Duke’s chest rupturing and killing him. Despite the clear danger to Duke’s health and life, the surgeon Robby spoke to couldn’t get Duke into the operating room until a week later. The Fourth of July weekend, plus all the consultations Duke needs, meant that he’d have to wait several days before he could be treated.

Duke’s CT scan is bad news for him, but it may save Robby’s life. Robby now has to stay at the hospital long enough to deliver the prognosis to Duke, as he told Dana that he felt obligated to deliver it as a friend. Now that Dana is aware of how suicidal Robby is, that may buy her enough time to intervene in his apparent plan to die by suicide during his sabbatical. At the very least, Duke’s CT scan could prevent Robby from leaving until The Pitt season 2 is over.

Mohan Struggled With Orlando’s Condition & Finding A Fellowship

At the end of The Pitt season 2, episode 12, one of Dr. Mohan’s former patients, Orlando, reappeared at the hospital. Orlando had ketosis from his diabetes, and he left the hospital before Mohan could get him back to a safe level. He returned on a stretcher after falling at his second job, and his condition was much worse. Thanks to the fall, Orlando only had slim odds of surviving, and even worse odds of a full recovery.

Orlando’s return to PTMC hit Mohan very hard. While treating him, PTMC’s chief of neurology came to the emergency room. She then offered a chance for Mohan to assist with a high-level procedure, but Mohan refused and Javadi took the opportunity instead. Later on, Whitaker also broke the news that Mohan’s patient with Ogilvie had died. The Pitt season 2, episode 13 was yet another difficult hour for Mohan.

To make matters worse, Mohan’s search for a fellowship isn’t going any better. One of the night shift doctors, Crus, revealed that the ultrasound fellowship was incredibly competitive for him, and he had much more experience than Mohan. That caused her to shred her application. The stress of her patients coupled with the stress of trying to find a way to continue her medical career seem to be causing Mohan to spiral.

Ogilvie Lost A Patient, But Whitaker Acted As A Mentor

As previously mentioned, the kidney stone patient that Ogilvie helped operate on, Mr. Green, passed away on the operating table. Ogilvie did not take it well. After discovering that Mr. Green had died, Whitaker found Ogilvie nearly catatonic in the ambulance bay of PTMC. After giving him a pep talk, Whitaker convinced Ogilvie not to give up on emergency medicine immediately and instead told him to go home and sleep on his decision.

There was one additional notable moment from Whitaker and Ogilvie’s talk. Whitaker paraphrased a quote that has a lot of meaning to both him and Robby from The Pitt season 1. Whitaker told Ogilvie that when a patient dies, he’s supposed to “try to accept it, try to find balance.” Robby gave Whitaker that same advice when his first patient died in season 1, and Whitaker gave it back to Robby after his breakdown in the makeshift morgue.

Mel Helped Langdon Realize He Still Belongs In The Emergency Room

Langdon also had a bit of a crisis of confidence in The Pitt season 2, episode 13. While treating a child who was suffering from a severe asthma attack, Langdon suggested they perform an intubation. The child’s lung collapsed, however, and the other doctors on the case told Langdon that an intubation could have killed an asthma patient. After a day filled with disappointments, that mistake was enough to shake Langdon’s confidence.

Luckily for Langdon, he and Mel switched places from a similar conversation in The Pitt season 1. This time, Mel assured Langdon that he did belong as a doctor in the emergency room, and that he would have realized sooner or later that an intubation wouldn’t work. In The Pitt season 1, episode 9, Langdon assured Mel that she was equipped to handle the stress of emergency medicine, so it was a nice touch that Mel was able to return the favor in The Pitt season 2.