The Pitt Stars Give Because of Well being Care Employees on Thanksgiving 2025

This Thanksgiving season, The Pitt forged is expressing gratitude for well being care staff.

Whereas actors like Noah Wyle, Supriya Ganesh and Shabana Azeez play docs on TV, they know firsthand simply how onerous — and necessary — the job of hospital staff is.

“In the course of the pandemic, we noticed this unbelievable rise of appreciation for frontline staff and the dangers that they take,” Wyle, 54, solely informed Us Weekly at The Rape Therapy Middle and Stuart Home at UCLA Well being’s annual brunch in October. “Everyone went out and banged on pots and pans and cheered [for] them arising their subway stops. After which that turned nearly a carnival and a present of appreciation. Then it died down.”

What didn’t cease, in accordance with Wyle, was docs, nurses and help employees going to work day-after-day and doing “the very same job that they’ve been doing earlier than folks banged on pots and after they’d stopped banging on pots.”

In celebration of Thanksgiving week, we requested some members of The Pitt forged to share what impresses them about well being care staff. With each reply, the actors couldn’t disguise their gratitude for the work they do every day.

Katherine LaNasa

“I’ve to say that I had most cancers just lately, and the nurses that took the time to simply give them themselves — they usually actually didn’t need to — to simply say these little phrases of encouragement, to deliver a heat blanket, issues like that, I simply actually honor them and really feel so grateful,” LaNasa, who performs cost nurse Dana Evans, informed Us. “In my expertise, I didn’t really feel victimized by my most cancers expertise. I felt fortunate to have medical care, to have caring folks attending to me, to stay in a rustic the place I’ve most cancers detection screening, issues like that, and simply to actually be held by the well being care system that now we have, which is hanging on by a thread, which is why we have to help locations just like the Stuart Home and The Rape Therapy Middle.”

Supriya Ganesha

“I like well being care staff for his or her compassion, empathy and selflessness, particularly in a system that’s more and more deprioritizing their wants,” Ganesha, who performs Dr. Samira Mohan, informed Us. “There are only a few professions which are really in such service to others, and I commend them for all the things they select to face simply to make a optimistic distinction in somebody’s life. Thanks for all the things you do!”

Shabana Azeez

“Dedicating your life to saving lives is such a courageous factor to do. Each single well being care employee is a hero,” Azeez, who performs Dr. Victoria Javadi, defined to Us. “I’m grateful for the power they need to expertise a lot dying and struggling each day and reply with empathy and kindness. They make so many sacrifices and provides us a lot. I hope that we as a society may give them the love and gratitude they deserve.”

Noah Wyle

Simply because the coronavirus pandemic handed doesn’t imply the job of a well being care employee has gotten simpler, in accordance with Wyle.

“If something, their jobs have gotten more durable. Persons are coming in sicker, greater acuity. They’re coming in angrier. They’re having to attend longer due to boarding crises, nursing shortages, provide chain points,” Wyle, who performs Dr. Michael “Robby” Robinavitch, shared with Us. “The toll that it takes on the employees is immense. That’s why you see the best incidence of alcoholism, drug habit, divorce, suicide — not simply among the many medical specialty, however amongst any occupation in frontline staff. So doing a present that shines a lightweight slightly bit and hopefully raises empathy and compassion for those that are in these jobs who’re solely there to select up our damaged items, looks as if the appropriate factor to do.”

The Pitt is streaming now on HBO Max with season 2 set to premiere in early 2026.