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I also live in Spain. I've been to public and private hospitals and I think sometimes it's like you describe (doctor comes to the box) and sometimes the doctor is in the box and just sees one patient after another. Depends on a hospital. In general my experience is that you get in, wait for maybe 30 minutes, get treated and leave (I know it depends on the day and hospital). The Pit looked like hospitals during Covid yet they were relaxed, like it's not their problem, just business as usual. For me it felt like the doctors were immediately emotionally attaching to every patient they see but people suffering in the waiting room didn't matter to them.
In the end it just depends on what you like. If you like personal dramas then you will probably enjoy The Pit. I don't like shows about personal dramas and watching an episode were doctor spends most of his time working as a psychologist for the family of a dying person instead of treating people waiting in pain in the waiting room was unbearable. I had the same issue with The Walking Dead (too much focus in personal dramas) but I enjoyed The Strain which had way more pragmatic characters.
Bare in mind that I'm not saying it's a bad show. Acting, writing, production and all is top level. I do realize the show is very popular because a lot of people like stuff like that. I'm just not one of them.
Not the person you’ve been talking to, but this part:
just seems crazy to me. I think my shortest ever hospital trip was around 4 hours, the average is more like 7-8 hours. I’ve seen as high as 22 hours before though. I’ve never seen the show but I’ve heard it’s one of the most accurate depictions of typical hospital work on tv.
As I said, depends on the place and date. I most likely was fairly lucky. Most of the times I was using private hospitals. Private insurance is like 50 euros a month. I don't remember spending more than couple hours in ER including X-ray. There's a public hospital 15 minutes drive from me and I went there once in the middle of the night and it was pretty much empty. Got attended in ~30 minutes. I would definitely remember 7h wait.
I've seen comments from nurses saying that The Pit completely ignores the job they are doing. My problem was that they were focusing on doctors' personal issues too much. I'm sure technically it was very realistic but the amount of personal drama vs actual medical work felt very unrealistic to me. But it's just a show, I know.