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The Pitt Has You Obsessed With Freedom House Ambulance

If the show’s celebration of the Pittsburgh medics who “created the 911 system” has you curious, there’s a documentary for that.

But in “2:00 P.M.,” we get a different type of medical history via memory-impaired patient Willie Alexander (Harold Sylvester), whose specific knowledge about how his pacemaker works and what could have gone wrong with it surprises the ER staff treating him. It’s pretty cut and dry visually, a mixture of archival still photos and video, newspaper clippings, and interviews with former Freedom House Ambulance employees, Pittsburgh residents, and medical experts. She died five days later from a cerebral hemorrhage, and Brown would eventually join Freedom House, which was created specifically to provide aid to Black Yinzers who weren’t getting it from the city’s official arms.

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