As quickly as The Pitt returned to the world earlier this year, another full day at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center has passed. The Season 2 finale of The Pitt just aired last Thursday, and while it’s been confirmed that it will serve as a send-off for Dr. Samira Mohan (Supriya Ganesh), it’s unclear what the future holds for other characters, like Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi (Sepideh Moafi). Dr. Robby (Noah Wyle) makes it clear at the end of Season 2 that he isn’t comfortable with Dr. Al-Hashimi continuing to see patients while she’s still having seizures, but she pushes back against him. Still, there’s no clear answer when the dust settles whether she’ll be back in Season 3 and potentially beyond.
Perri Nemiroff recently had a chat with Moafi for the latest episode of Collider Ladies Night, and she asked about the contrast in leadership between Dr. Robby, who has proven to be more callous, and Dr. Al-Hashimi, who has a much more personal, empathetic touch. This is something Moafi envisioned for Dr. Al-Hashimi, and part of why she feels the ultimate showdown between Dr. Al-Hashimi and Dr. Robby is more disrespectful, considering they’re on the same level:
“She, in general, has shown herself throughout the shift as she leads with questions and is empathy-driven, hasn’t allowed her background of horrific experiences, both personally and in her work, to calcify her or to make her more callous towards her life or her practice or her colleagues. And I say this without judgment, or lacking as much judgment as possible, because I think Dr. Robby does overstep. It’s this very sort of traditional, domineering, competitive, there’s-only-room-for-one.”
She continued, citing how differently the interaction might have gone if it had been Dana (Katherine LaNasa) to discover her condition, “I think that you cast a show, you cast the right people so they can thrive in what they do and make the whole thing better, and I think the hospital’s the same thing. If Dana did that and she came to me, I would trust in Dana’s judgment. I’m not her superior. You know what I mean? So, it’s not up to me to scold her or tell her what she did was right or wrong.” That’s what makes Dr. Al-Hashimi different than Robby, because she “trusts that if she’s working under my watch or if we’re working under the same watch, then she has the experience, the wisdom, and the knowledge to do what’s best for that patient.”
Collider Exclusive · TV Medicine Quiz Which Fictional Hospital Would You Work Best In? The Pitt · ER · Grey’s Anatomy · House · Scrubs
Five hospitals. Five completely different ways medicine goes sideways on television — brutal, chaotic, romantic, brilliant, and ridiculous. Only one of them is the ward your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out exactly where you belong.
🚨The Pitt
🏥ER
💉Grey’s
🔬House
🩺Scrubs
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A critical patient comes through the door. What’s your first instinct? Medicine under pressure reveals who you actually are.
02
Why did you go into medicine in the first place? The honest answer says more about you than the one you’d give in an interview.
03
What do you actually want from the people you work with? Who you want beside you under pressure is who you are.
04
You lose a patient you fought hard to save. How do you carry it? Every doctor who’s worked a long shift has had to answer this question.
05
How would your colleagues describe the way you work? Your reputation on the floor is usually more accurate than your self-image.
06
How do you feel about hospital protocol and procedure? Every institution has rules. What you do with them is a choice.
07
What does this job cost you personally? Nobody works in medicine without paying a price. What’s yours?
08
At the end of a long shift, what keeps you coming back? The answer to this question is the most honest thing about you.
Your Assignment Has Been Made You Belong In…
Your answers have pointed to one fictional hospital above all others. This is the ward your instincts, your temperament, and your particular brand of dysfunction were built for.
Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center
The Pitt
You are built for the most unsparing version of emergency medicine television has ever shown — one that puts you inside a single fifteen-hour shift and doesn’t let you look away.
You need your work to be real, not romanticised — meaning over drama, honesty over aesthetics.
You find purpose inside the work itself, not in the chaos surrounding it.
You’ve made peace with the fact that this job takes from you constantly, and gives back in ways that are harder to name.
Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center demands exactly that kind of person — and you would not want to be anywhere else.
County General Hospital, Chicago
ER
You are the person who keeps the whole floor running — not the most brilliant in the room, but possibly the most essential.
You show up, do the work, absorb the losses, and come back the next day without needing the job to be anything other than what it is.
You care about patients as individual human beings, not as cases to solve or dramas to live through.
You believe in the system even when it fails you — and you understand that emergency medicine is about holding the line just long enough.
ER is television about endurance. You have it.
Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, Seattle
Grey’s Anatomy
You came to medicine with your whole self — your ambition, your emotions, your relationships, your history — and you have never quite managed to leave any of it at the door.
You feel things fully and form deep attachments to the people you work with.
Your personal and professional lives are permanently, chaotically entangled — and that entanglement drives both your greatest disasters and your most remarkable saves.
You understand that extraordinary medicine often happens at the intersection of clinical skill and profound human connection.
It’s messy at Grey Sloan. You would not have it any other way.
Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, NJ
House
You are drawn to the problem above everything else — the symptom that doesn’t fit, the diagnosis hiding underneath the obvious one.
You’re not primarily motivated by the patient as a person — though you are capable of caring, even if you’d deny it.
You work best when the stakes are highest and the standard answer is wrong.
Princeton-Plainsboro exists to house one extraordinary, impossible mind — and everyone around that mind is there because they’re smart enough to keep up.
The only way forward here is to think harder than everyone else in the room. That is exactly what you do.
Sacred Heart Hospital, California
Scrubs
You understand that medicine is tragic and absurd in almost equal measure — and that the only sane response is to hold both of those things at the same time.
You are warm, self-aware, and funnier than most people in your field.
You use humour to get through terrible moments — and at Sacred Heart, that’s not a flaw, it’s a survival strategy.
You lean on the people around you and let them lean back. The laughter and the grief are genuinely inseparable here.
Scrubs is a show about learning to become someone worthy of the job. You are still very much in the middle of that process — which is exactly right.
Dr. Al-Hashimi and Dr. Robby Have Been Butting Heads All Season
Moafi also spoke about the rift between Dr. Robby and Dr. Al-Hashimi, which seemed to be somewhat on the mend heading into the final few episodes after getting off to a rocky start. Dr. Robby was never going to take well to having to work with his replacement all day, though. Moafi explained:
“It leaves room for people to judge and then reflect, and be like, ‘Why did I judge?’ I haven’t seen all 15 episodes, but from what I have seen, and being on the receiving end of some of this conversation around Dr. Al-Hashimi has been really interesting. I don’t take any of it personally. In the beginning, of course, it was set up for her to disrupt the rhythm of this established hospital, and Dr. Robby is America’s golden boy, or the world’s, really, golden boy, so anyone who comes in his path is going to be scrutinized to a certain degree.”
Moafi admits that she’s still “disturbed that we’re still in this place of just being so ruthless with women,” But for Moafi, the actor, not Dr. Al-Hashimi, the character, she “loves it.” Continuing, “I love instigating some kind of conversation and dialectic. People, have at it! You know what I mean? Talk to each other, converse, whether it’s online or in person, and disagree and agree.” It did force Moafi to reflect, though, and in her reflection, she realized, “if this were a dude, they probably wouldn’t be as hard on her in the beginning. But now there’s been a turning point.”
Check out the first two seasons of The Pitt on HBO Max and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Season 3. You can watch Moafi’s full episode of Collider Ladies Night above.
