Michael Crichton

Explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room. These medical professionals remain determined to save lives in a place where nothing is taken for granted and nothing is certain, nothing except that another desperate person will be rushed through the emergency room doors in the next moment in need of their help.

Provocatively explores the chaos of an urban, public hospital emergency room and the lives of its devoted doctors and staff. When the difference between life and death rests on split-second decisions.

While trying to protect one of his patients from a murderer, a plastic surgeon discovers that the patient is connected with a research facility that plans to use her image on TV as part of a mind control experiment.

In season six, Carol gives birth to two baby girls, Lucy and Carter meet tragedy head on when a patient stabs them both, Elizabeth and Mark continue their romance, and nurse Abbey Lockhart joins the staff.

Computer scientist Harry Benson undergoes experimental brain surgery to end his potentially dangerous seizures. Shortly after his operation, however, he flees the hospital and escapes to the apartment of his girlfriend. The experiment has backfired and the seizures are returning with a terminal vengeance.

Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton play scientists pursuing the most destructive weather front to sweep through mid-America's Tornado Alley in 50 years.

Season 12 brings spiraling drama and suspense to the lives of ER veterans. Abby and Kovac share unexpected news. Gallant comes home from Iraq to be with Neela. Pratt goes to Darfur to work with Carter.

New hopefuls, Army Reservist Michael Gallant and brash Gregory Pratt, arrive to face the challenges of Trauma One life. A familiar face, Dr. Susan Lewis, returns. Benton weighs career and family. Malucci crosses the line once too often. Chen defies demotion. And Greene fights what could be his last battle, leaving a void at the group2s heart. But someone must step into the breach. That someone is the doctor who2s now been in the ER the longest: Dr....

The lives, loves and losses of the doctors and nurses of Chicago's County General Hospital continue. A behind-the-scenes look at what happens when your life is put into the hands of emergency room doctors and nurses.

Continues to chronicle life and death in Chicago's Country General hospital emergency room. Portrays the plight of medical students in their quest to become physicians. Healing is teamwork and science with instant decisions and best guesses to be made. Joy one moment, tragedy the next, but always a 24/7 readiness.