The Pitt’s Most Hated Character Is A Hilarious Medical Easter Egg

You recognize, and certain hate, James Ogilvie, the scholar physician performed by Lucas Iverson on season 2 of “The Pitt.” However do you know his identify is a medical Easter egg?

Because it seems, somebody within the writers’ room was having a actually enjoyable day after they selected names for “The Pitt” season 2 characters. Why? There is a syndrome referred to as Ogilvie syndrome, and it is … gross. Described to me by an precise physician as “an obstruction with out a mechanical trigger,” Ogilvie syndrome is outlined by Cleveland Clinic as an “intestinal pseudo-obstruction.” I am going to let the remainder of the essential definition converse for itself right here:

“Ogilvie syndrome, also called acute colonic pseudo-obstruction (ACPO), is a sudden and unexplained paralysis of your colon. Your colon acts prefer it’s blocked or obstructed by one thing (pseudo-obstruction) however nothing is bodily obstructing it. The issue is in your colon’s motor system. It stops transferring meals alongside, permitting it to construct up inside and inflicting the partitions to dilate (widen).”

That is proper! The character on season 2 of “The Pitt” that no one likes and who screws up just about every part he touches is known as after a faux bowel obstruction that causes signs like nausea and vomiting, belly ache and distension, and constipation or diarrhea. That’s objectively humorous, and contemplating the truth that “The Pitt” works with actual medical professionals to be as correct as attainable, there’s completely no approach that this identify alternative was unintentional. Not solely that, however in case you’ve been watching “The Pitt” season 2 right through, you may keep in mind a reasonably important second centered round Ogilvie that is perhaps a … cheeky little reference to his colon-related namesake.

First issues first, although: Why do viewers hate Lucas Iverson’s James Ogilvie? As a fourth-year medical pupil who’s working beneath newly-minted physician Dennis Whitaker (Gerran Howell) and alongside fellow med college students Victoria Javadi (Shabana Azeez) and Pleasure Kwon (Irene Choi), Ogilvie is exceedingly boastful and approach too certain of his personal talents, which makes him appear to be formidable competitors for Javadi and Pleasure earlier than the present’s fourth episode “10:00 AM,” the place he helps physicians like Whitaker and Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch (Noah Wyle) deal with a person who fell from a skylight. With out asking anyone, Ogilvie grabs a shard of glass from the affected person’s again and removes it, inflicting sudden problems; add this to his less-than-stellar bedside method with a number of of the day’s sufferers, and you have got a really annoying medical pupil in your fingers.

Within the following episode, “11:00 A.M.,” Ogilvie will get his comeuppance in a very possible way. Throughout a fecal disimpaction on an aged affected person, Whitaker warns Ogilvie to maneuver out of the best way only a little too late, and her bowel obstruction finally ends up splattered throughout Ogilvie’s protecting medical gear. At that time within the season, it is satisfying and humorous to see Ogilvie get actually crapped on after he is been an enormous jerk to most of his colleagues and even a few of his sufferers. As season 2 continues, although, he finds himself in an precise existential disaster after one thing drastic and extreme occurs to a different of his sufferers.

After James Ogilvie takes a complete bunch of poop to the chest, issues do not actually enhance for him throughout his emergency division shift. Not solely do Pleasure and Javadi present him up by accurately diagnosing and treating sufferers, however his world-changing occasion occurs within the collection’ eleventh episode “5:00 P.M.” Alongside Supriya Ganesh’s Dr. Samira Mohan (who’s leaving “The Pitt” after the top of season 2), Ogilvie treats a person who appears to be having kidney points, just for the 2 of them to find that Ogilvie did not do his due diligence and test the affected person’s aorta. How do they uncover this, precisely? The affected person has an belly aortic aneurysm that ruptures and in the end kills him regardless of emergency surgical intervention, leaving Ogilvie feeling accountable and Mohan chastised by superiors like Robby for failing to correctly supervise her medical pupil.

As enjoyable as it’s to hate on Ogilvie, that character’s demise is his fault, and it is fairly simple to grasp why he absolutely breaks down after that case concludes. In episode 13, “7:00 P.M.,” we see Whitaker discover Ogilvie within the ambulance bay; Ogilvie truly scrubbed in for the surgical procedure and witnessed the affected person die. Whitaker, who was the appropriate individual to assist Dr. Robby by a troublesome second in season 1, makes use of his appreciable empathy and kindness to speak Ogilvie by this second, and when the medical pupil means that perhaps he would not wish to work within the emergency division, Whitaker tells him to move house and assume it over.

As of this writing, that is the final we see of Ogilvie on “The Pitt,” and we do not know if he’ll return. Nonetheless, now that , you could have full permission to giggle a little bit on the hidden that means behind his identify.