{"id":295170,"date":"2026-02-13T01:13:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295170\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T01:13:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:13:19","slug":"time100-health-joe-sachs-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295170\/","title":{"rendered":"TIME100 Health: Joe Sachs | TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rich-text self-baseline font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mb-0 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\" data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">As an executive producer and writer of the <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7344512\/the-pitt-season-2-review\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HBO Max series The Pitt<\/a>, real-life emergency physician Dr. Joe Sachs is integral to the Emmy-winning hospital drama\u2019s authentic portrayal of the gritty realities of emergency room care. Sachs earned a master\u2019s in filmmaking while simultaneously studying at Stanford University\u2019s School of Medicine, and previously advised for ER. Now, he\u2019s changing audiences\u2019 perception of issues prevalent in America\u2019s health care system. A <a href=\"https:\/\/learcenter.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com\/ThePittStudy_LearCenterOctober2025.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025 study<\/a> from USC\u2019s Norman Lear Center found that The Pitt\u2019s depiction of working in an ER not only validated the lived experiences of medical professionals, but also, based on surveys, compared to nonviewers, people who watched the show had more positive attitudes toward <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/collections\/time-for-change\/7322397\/pig-organ-transplant-dr-montgomery\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">organ donation<\/a> and end of life planning, and had greater intentions to discuss care plans with loved ones. \u201cIt&#8217;s not our intention to train health care workers or educate the public,\u201d he says. \u201cBut it happens because we&#8217;re holding a mirror up to what\u2019s happening in the real world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As an executive producer and writer of the HBO Max series The Pitt, real-life emergency physician Dr. Joe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[47092,9810,103,397,396,61,60,28976,709,47094,12277,139977],"class_list":{"0":"post-295170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-accolades","9":"tag-franchise","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-health-care","12":"tag-healthcare","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-list","16":"tag-magazine","17":"tag-special-project","18":"tag-sponsorshipblock","19":"tag-time100-health-2026"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}