The Pitt Season 2 Episode 2: Robby Tested by New Attending and Troubling Cases

Collider recaps The Pitt Season 2, Episode 2, which finds Dr. Robby under pressure at the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center as a new attending follows his every move.

The episode brings back Dr. Frank Langdon and introduces Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi as Robby’s replacement while he prepares for a sabbatical. Al-Hashimi shadows Robby, pushes an AI app that speeds charting but gets several details wrong, and repeatedly clashes with him over patient care — from an abandoned baby and a dislocated shoulder to an airway obstruction later found to be a piece of broccoli. Subplots include Mel’s anxiety over an upcoming deposition, a nun diagnosed with gonorrhea, maggots found under a long-standing cast, and tensions among the med students led by a cocky James Ogilvie.

The hour ends with Robby leaving for his break and Al-Hashimi approaching him in the parking lot to press her ideas about AI and patient passports before another ambulance arrives. The episode was released January 9, 2025 on Max; its developments leave Robby’s willingness to accept Al-Hashimi’s changes unresolved.

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Culture, The Pitt, Dr. Robby, Dr. Baran Al-hashimi, Dr. Frank Langdon, Pittsburgh