The Sins of the Past
I wonder how much the ER episode with Carter's discomfort and coldness towards a trans patient named Rena Carlton inspired the Pitt episode's treatment of Tasha Cordero, the sommelier whose pronouns Javadi corrects in the system. The original is really tough to watch, and while the message was I believe one of empathy, it was also delivered in a way that catered to the biases of the time. >!However, a woman had to die to Carter learned to be less of a dick. !<
I just saw a scene from ER where Carter is coerced by his coworkers into telling about the loss of his virginity. He was 11 and he was with a 25-year-old maid. I think it was played by Noah Wyle as what it was, but the reaction was jovial and unsettling, and very much not in a way it would have played if one of the women has a similar story.
https://youtu.be/M1gXCGtZtQg?si=mLVmhwC-dscDPrhb
ER also had a fair amount of fatphobia in contrast to the exploration on The Pitt each season of the the topic.
I don't know that they're consciously correcting the scenes of the past, but in the first instance it seemed so to me.