Another funny character name
A while back I posted about how I thought some of the patient names were a little too on the nose for me, basically that it was such thinly veiled symbolism you’d expect it from a high school writing class. Folks here were not appreciate of that take (the SWAT officer named hero and the deaf person they weren’t treating like a regular person named Harlow Graham…hologram)
I noticed a third one that isn’t really thinly veiled symbolism but couldn’t be a random name.
Later in the season a kid is wheeled in by EMS after shooting himself in the head, he’s singing loudly like an ass, maybe intoxicated?
That patients name…Elbridge Gerry. That is not a common name. It is, in fact, the name of a former vice president who is also where the term and practice of “gerrymander” comes one.
Perhaps the commentary is that gerrymandering is as dumb as this patient?
TL;DR: Pitt patient names are carefully chosen (even if not always cleverly). Patient who shot himself in the head is commentary on our current political turmoil.