March 12, 2026 - Dhruv Khullar on "The Pitt," conductor Cristian Măcelaru, and Maureen Abood's "Lebanese Baking"

The Culture Show Podcast · Mar 12, 2026 · 55m

In his New Yorker essay “What The Pitt Taught Me About Being a Doctor,” Dhruv Khullar reflects on how the HBO drama captures the human strain of practicing medicine inside a broken health-care system. He joins The Culture Show to discuss why the show resonates — and what it reveals to him about his own work as a doctor. Dhruv Khullar, a contributing writer at “The New Yorker,” is a practicing physician and an associate professor at Weill Cornell Medical College. He writes about medicine, health care, and politics.

Conductor Cristian Măcelaru returns to a pivotal part of his own story on March…