Warning: This post contains spoilers for Season 3, Episode 8 of The Bear.

There is a moment during Season 3 of The Bear in which it becomes clear that one of the episodes was written by someone who has either been through childbirth or at least been present at the labor and delivery of someone else. As a desperate Natalie labors, a stranger in scrubs named Dr. Levin gives her the most frustrating non-answer to the most urgent question she’s maybe ever asked in her life. In trying to decide whether to take pitocin to speed up her slowly progressing labor, which would force her to get the epidural she doesn’t want, she asks: “If you were to guess how much longer you think the whole thing will take…?” To which the doctor responds, “Well, however long it takes.” Then he’s paged with a distress call and says something cryptic and terrifying into a walkie talkie about “Opening the OR for a possible crash,…