04/13/2026
The job is not worth your life ♥️
The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) provides a national Wellness Support Line for physicians, residents, medical students, and their families, offering 24/7, bilingual mental health support and counselling. Call 1-877-SOS-4MDS (767-4637) to access this service. It serves as a complementary resource to provincial/territorial physician health programs
Robby has been trying to leave all season.
He planned a cross-country motorcycle trip. He told people he needed a vacation. He's been giving away his house keys. He stayed late to fix one more patient, then another after that.
In episode 14, sitting in the ambulance bay while a friend worked on his bike, he finally said what the show has been pointing toward since Episode 1.
"I don't know if I wanna be here anymore."
His friend Duke assumed he meant leaving this shift, or maybe the job. Robby looked at him and said: "I don't know that I want to be anywhere, anymore."
Duke didn't look away. He didn't change the subject. He made Robby promise to come back.
Noah Wyle, who plays Robby, wrote that scene himself.
He wrote it for a reason.
The American College of Emergency Physicians reports that more than 400 physicians die by su***de in the United States each year. More than half of all practicing physicians personally know a colleague who has considered, attempted, or died by su***de, according to a 2023 Physicians Foundation survey of more than 2,100 doctors.
Emergency medicine physicians carry the highest burnout rate of any specialty. They absorb every worst moment a human being can experience. They work in the only department that cannot turn anyone away. And they are trained to appear fine.
Robby spent the last 14 hours saving a man's spine, catching a misdiagnosis that would have killed a woman, counseling a patient through aortic aneurysm surgery, and managing the emotional fallout of an ICE raid.
Then he sat outside and told the truth.
If you or someone you know is struggling, call or text 988 to reach the Su***de and Crisis Lifeline.
