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After years of avoiding the ER, Noah Wyle feels 'right at home' in 'The Pitt'

After 11 seasons on ER, Wyle thought he was finished with medical dramas: "I spent 15 years avoiding — actively avoiding — walking down what I thought was either hallowed ground or traveled road."

toggle caption Max After 11 seasons playing Dr. John Carter on the hit medical show ER, actor Noah Wyle thought he was done with hospital scrubs. Among its fans are Wyle's mother, a former orthopedic and operating room nurse who told him recently that the show brought back painful memories of patients she'd lost decades earlier. We started with two weeks of medical boot camp for everybody, myself included, to kick some rust off and to re-familiarize myself with how much has changed in healthcare, but also to bring everybody up to speed with where they needed to be by the time we rolled the cameras.

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