Dr. Faust discusses “The Pitt” in New York Times
On ‘The Pitt,’ She Clocked Out on Time. In Real Life, It Started a Debate.
When Joy Kwon, a third-year medical student on TV, set a boundary, she stirred a work-life balance debate among medical professionals and fans.
By Alisha Haridasani Gupta
May 11, 2026
On Substack, Dr. Jeremy Faust, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, declared himself “Team Joy” — a viewpoint that drew a lot of positive feedback, he said.
“This particular topic has been a really important debate for as long as I can remember,” Faust said. “We inherited this system that essentially, in my view, perpetuates a cycle of abuse that is justified by this idea that if we don’t do this, then there won’t be good doctors. I just reject that.”
