On the hit television show “The Pitt,” viewers received a dose of history through a storyline featuring a member of Freedom House ambulance service that served the Hill District in the 1960s and ’70s.

The show also delved into current topics in medicine, from transplants to vaccine hesitancy to abortion.

A program at the Heinz History Center Sept. 18 aims to take those topics off the screen and into real life, using historical artifacts and context to discuss Pittsburgh’s medical history.

It will feature a conversation between Alexandra Lord, chair of the division of medicine and science at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., and Anne Madarasz, chief historian at the Heinz History Center.

“We’ll use a little bit of the show to have a jumping off p

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