As the episode continued and other patients appeared—a mother with metastatic cancer, a badly beaten prisoner, a Gen Z-er burned by dry ice from a botched branding—Varshavski periodically hit Pause and explained the medical lingo and the treatments, drawn from his own experience as a family-medicine physician. At one point, he tsk-tsked at the way the onscreen doctors were revealing their own “interpersonal conflict” in front of a patient. And when a “Pitt” doctor touted an A.I. app that charts patients’ medical info, Varshavski grimaced. “I’m always very sus about these,” he said. “But I’m opening up to them.”journey-inline-newsletterinline-newsletter