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Elizabeth Corday, MB, BCh, FRCS is a fictional trauma surgeon on the television series ER. She is played by Alex Kingston and appeared from 1997 to 2004. Her entrance on the show helped to gain more viewers in the United Kingdom.
First appearance September 25, 1997
(Season 4, "Ambush")
Last appearance As regular:
October 21, 2004
(Season 11, "Fear")
As special guest:
April 2, 2009
(Season 15, "And In the End...")
Nickname(s) Lizzie
Gender Female
Occupation General Surgeon; Chief of Trauma Surgery at Duke University
Title Trauma Fellow (1997-1998),
Surgical Intern (1998-1999),
Associate Chief of Surgery (1999-2003),
Chief of Surgery (2003-2004)
Family Charles Corday (father)
Isabelle Corday (mother)
Spouse(s) Mark Greene (deceased)
Children Ella Greene (daughter, with Mark)
Rachel Greene (step-daughter)
Background
Elizabeth Corday was a British surgeon who moved to Chicago to gain more experience in trauma surgery, arriving in season four. We learn in her first episode that she comes from a whole family of surgeons, and later on we learn that her father is in fact a top surgeon at St. Thomas' Hospital, London. Corday related in Ambush that her grandfather was a surgeon as was her father and since there were no boys in her family, she took over that role. Corday's mother (played by Judy Parfitt) is an astrophysicist with whom she has a rather rocky relationship. Corday felt that her mother didn't spend enough time with her as a girl, she felt that she was "raised by nannies and boarding schools", although she found a more nuanced perspective on things once she became a mother herself. Though the two do seem to come to some kind of mutual agreement, the relationship is still strained.
Corday faced many problems in adjusting to the American way of life. In her first trauma, she completely baffled the rest of the staff by using lots of British terms usually not used in America - for example, she asked them to "beep Benton" (page Dr. Peter Benton), order an "FBC" (CBC), and perform a "tube thoracostomy" (chest tube). She also introduced herself as "Miss Corday" and not "Dr Corday" as is customary for British surgeons. She became popular amongst the other staff though, both for her surgical competency (Dr. Donald Anspaugh remarked on several occasions that she was a truly exceptional surgeon, much to the dismay of her rival Benton, who had been pushed out of his long held top spot by the newly arriving Corday) and for her personality - she quickly gained a reputation for being unfazed by status, for instance she greeted an eminent surgeon with "I knew you were old but I didn't know you were so short!"
She became friends with many of the female ER staff, including Carol Hathaway and Anna del Amico; and later on Abby Lockhart and Susan Lewis. Despite her arrogant and opinionated exterior, she had a deeply caring side to her - she was there to provide support at critical moments for both staff and patients alike. Despite their long and adversarial history, she supported Robert Romano through the ordeal with his arm; and similarly she overcame her deep dislike of Kerry Weaver to be supportive of her following the death of her lover Sandy Lopez, although they never really mended fences and this played a large part in her exit from County.
Because of the strong ties she had made with Chicago, Corday decided to stay on after her fellowship was terminated, even though this meant that she had to repeat her internship in order to get a license to practice in the United States during Season 5. This was a particularly trying time for her - she had to adjust to being at the bottom of the heap after enjoying so long at the top, and on top of that she was supervised initially by Dale Edson - described even by Romano as a weasel. During this time, she made repeated attempts to become romantically involved with Benton, eventually succeeding. He even agreed to take over as her supervisor after a while. She faced further trouble, however, when (at the end of a 36 hour shift) she made a non-lethal mistake in calculating how much drug to inject into a patient. Fortunately, this didn't faze her, and she used it to campaign for better conditions for junior medical staff. She also amicably ended her romantic relationship with Peter after that. However, the affair ended up haunting her later on when Dr. Maggie Doyle (correctly) accused Dr. Romano of sexual harassment after he found out she was gay and gave her a bad performance review; Elizabeth wanted to go on the record to support Maggie's claims, but was forced to back down when Romano revealed he'd known she was dating Peter secretly while he was her supervisor.
After completing her internship at the end of Season 5, at the start of Season 6 Corday was offered the position of Associate Chief of Surgery by her colleague and newly appointed Chief of Staff Romano, who announced the appointment without even asking her. She took the job, however, and soon found herself getting caught up in hospital politics.
Corday and Greene's marriage
Corday became romantically involved with Dr. Mark Greene during season 5, and in season 7 found out that she was pregnant with his child. They married, and named their daughter Ella.
However, Corday's marriage to Greene was difficult for both parties. Corday was facing struggles at work, after she was sued for allegedly rushing an operation (leading to paralysis of the patient), and her pregnancy was nearly compromised when she went into labor whilst on scene at a train wreck. Greene had to cope with the death of his father, as well as facing his own mortality when he was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor.
There was hope of a reprieve though, when Greene found a surgeon in New York who said he could successfully remove the tumor. Corday accompanied him to New York City and was even present in the operating room for the procedure, by his side all the time. The couple later got married (after a series of glitches with the transport for both parties) and appeared to be very happy. Corday was already very pregnant at the time of the wedding, and gave birth to baby Ella a short time later.
This happiness was not maintained for very long, however - Greene's daughter Rachel (from his marriage to Jen) had by now grown from a nice child into a troublesome teenager. After falling out with Jen, Rachel moved in with Greene, Corday and baby Ella. Things were not much better for her there, though - she and Corday were constantly arguing, culminating eventually in Ella taking ecstasy that belonged to Rachel. Corday was so furious that she told Rachel to leave the house, and after Mark refused to send Rachel back to Jen, or press charges, Corday moved out instead, taking Ella with her. When Susan Lewis made a return to County General after five years, she seemed to be at odds with her. She was cautious because of the relationship that Susan and Mark once had. Later on after Mark's death, she and Susan struck up a friendship.
At about the same time, Greene learned that the tumor had returned, and that this time it was inoperable. On hearing the news through a third party and getting a dose-of-reality talk from Romano, Corday decided to move back in with him and Rachel. Greene eventually left Chicago to spend his final days with his daughter in Hawaii. On the walk home after a day of surfing, Mark suffers a seizure and in a panic, Rachel calls Elizabeth, who arrives in Hawaii soon after with Ella. The four spend Mark's last few days bonding and overcoming obstacles. Corday told Rachel after the funeral that it would be ok for her to visit her sister, and later on she did so and Elizabeth bemusedly helped Rachel acquire birth control pills when her stepdaughter showed up with her teenaged boyfriend.
Aftermath
After Greene's death, Corday returned to England for several months, but she found that she no longer fit in because of her being in the States for so long, suffering bullying and sexist treatment at the hands of her British colleagues for her American ways.
Elizabeth returned to her job at County General soon after the start of season 9, where she became harsh with patients, curt with colleagues, and particularly clashed with Med Student Paul Nathan (Don Cheadle) who was trying to become a physician despite advancing Parkinson's Disease. Elizabeth later confronted her agony over Mark's death and also made peace with Nathan during a horrifying case where the wife and son of a decent man were killed by a drunk driver, and they were able to save his other son by doing a transplant from the dying son. Corday was saddened to see Romano giving up his career due to his arm amputation/reattachment that ruined his high level of ability as a surgeon. An even bigger blow hit Corday later during Season 10 when Robert Romano was killed in a helicopter accident. Later in the season, Dr. Corday was quickly appointed to Chief of Surgery by Kerry Weaver, seeing that Elizabeth was becoming a prominent and more senior figure in the OR.
In her love life, she was still having some trouble moving on and making the right choices. After some reconciliation and solace, Elizabeth quickly overcame her worries -- she began a relationship with a charismatic surgeon, Dr. Dorset (Bruno Campos), which quickly ended when she discovered that he was married. Later, she began seeing two men at the same time, another doctor at County (Paul Blackthorne) and a teacher (Steven Culp).
In Season 11, in the episode Try Carter Corday was convinced by Dr. John Carter to perform an illegal donation procedure between two HIV positive patients. This resulted in her facing the possibility of her losing her license and being dismissed from the staff. Weaver offered her the position of a clinical instructor with no possibility of tenure or future promotion. With her career all but over at County, Corday quit her job and moved back to England. Corday's final departure from the series was in Season 11, episode 4 Fear. She was replaced as Chief of Surgery by Dr. Lucien Dubenko whom she had been adamantly opposed to hiring at County in the first place. In the 15th season episode "Heal Thyself" Dr. Elizabeth Corday was mentioned when Dr. Mark Greene called her to meet her.
Preceded by
Robert Romano Chief of Surgery
2003-2004 Succeeded by
Lucien Dubenko
After County General
During the 15th and final season of ER, at the end of the episode The Book of Abby, long-serving nurse Haleh Adams shows the departing Abby Lockhart a closet wall where all the past doctors and employees have put their locker name tags. Amongst them, the tag "Corday" can be seen.
Elizabeth Corday returned to ER on January 15th, 2009. Four years since her exit, she appeared in a one-episode return billed as a special appearance. Dr. Corday revealed she took a position as Chief of Trauma Surgery at Duke University following a return to her native England. In the season 15 episode "Dream Runner," she returned to interview potential employees including the surprised Neela Rasgotra for positions at the University. She revealed to Neela that she lived back in England for a few years but came back, saying that Chicago was her "true home." During the interview, she mentioned having considered returning to County General briefly, but decided against it. She briefly met Dr. Simon Brenner after finishing her interview with Neela. Elizabeth told Neela it would be great to stay at County but to also leave her options open about an opportunity elsewhere.
In the series finale, she and Rachel meet up with Carter, Weaver, Susan, and Peter after Carter's opening. After, Peter walks her to her car, where they finally reconcile (as friends).
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Dr. Mark Greene was a fictional medical doctor from the television series ER, portrayed by the actor Anthony Edwards. For most of his time on the series, Greene's role was that of a mediator and occasional authority figure, and was considered the main character of the series for the first eight seasons.
First appearance September 19, 1994
(Pilot, "24 Hours")
Last appearance May 9, 2002
(Season 8, "On the Beach")
Gender Male
Date of birth 1963
Date of death 2002 (38 years-old)
Occupation ER Physician
Title ER Intern (1991-1992)
ER Resident (1992-1994)
ER Chief Resident (1994-1995)
ER Attending (1995-2002)
Family David Greene (father, deceased)
Ruth Greene (mother, deceased)
Spouse(s) Jennifer "Jen" Greene-Simon (divorced)
Elizabeth Corday (widowed)
Children Rachel Greene (daughter, with Jennifer)
Ella Greene (daughter, with Elizabeth)
Early life
Mark Greene, an only child, was raised by his mother, Ruth, and father, David. David Greene served in the United States Navy, and thus the family moved frequently. Mark had a very strained relationship with his father, and was decidedly closer to his mother. He'd often act out in an attempt to upset his father, and aimed his goals in the opposite of what his father wanted. Mark thought his father's Navy career was a pathetic joke because he received few promotions, but Mark was later stunned to learn that David was on track to be an Admiral and turned down the chance in order to keep his family from leaving San Diego. The most memorable time of his childhood was when his family was in Hawaii, a time he would later recreate with daughter Rachel during the last few weeks of his life.
Mark entered medical school, married Jennifer (Jenn), with whom he had a daughter, Rachel. He completed his internship and residency in the Emergency Department of County General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.
1994-2002
In the pilot episode, which takes place on St. Patrick's Day 1994, Dr. Greene is chief resident in the ER of County General. Dr. Greene is awakened in the first scene to help sober up his long-time friend, Doug Ross, a pediatrician also on duty in the ER. Within the same episode, Jenn gets Mark to visit a private practice near the hospital to explore the possibility of leaving his job at the ER, to give him more family-friendly hours. Mark decides the "clean" medicine isn't his cup of tea. Mark removes a hangnail from an older woman, who wanted him to remove it despite the fact she'd be charged $180. Later that same day, Mark urges the ER staff to continue working when Nurse Hathaway is brought in after a suicide attempt.
During the first season, Dr. Greene's marriage becomes increasingly shaky. When offered an attending physician's position by David Morgenstern, Mark readily accepts, much to Jenn's chagrin. As a newly-admitted member of the bar, Jenn has been clerking in Milwaukee for a judge and becomes increasingly tired of commuting and living separately to accommodate Mark's job. She begins an affair with a coworker, and the marriage soon ends, with Rachel and Jenn leaving Chicago first for Milwaukee, and later for St. Louis, Missouri.
In "Love's Labor Lost", Mark made miscalculations in treating a pregnant woman that led to her death in childbirth, and the after-effects of this case lingered long into Season 2.
Mark and Susan have their picture taken in a photo booth (1996).Mark's career becomes more difficult as he begins needing to make decisions that periodically alienate his friends, such as selecting Dr. Kerry Weaver over another applicant, which angered Susan Lewis first because the other applicant was a good friend of hers, and later because she bristled under Kerry's demanding, sometimes harsh leadership style. His friendship with Dr. Ross becomes strained as his administrative tasks often put him at odds with Doug's wild ways and he was disgusted by Doug's personal problems to the point where he briefly overruled and belittled Doug's abilities as a physician, then reconciled with his friend. His love life took a more drastic downward spin when his feelings for Dr. Lewis became so noticed that he's driven to ask her out, only to have her leave for Phoenix, Arizona. He suffers emotionally again after he is attacked in the ER men's room in the episode "Random Acts", initially believed to be a retaliatory act to avenge the death of a patient who may have been "mistreated" by Dr. Greene because of the patient's race. Later on, though, it was strongly implied that his assailant was a psychotic individual who was randomly attacking doctors. Mark bought a gun and later used it to scare away a crowd of punks on a train, but decided to toss the gun in the river soon afterwards. He would struggle through a large part of Season 4, but came to terms with it in Season 5 when he helped Nigerian-born janitor Mobalage reveal his memories of torture by talking about the attack with him, allowing him to obtain political asylum and avoid deportation.
With the passing of Doug's father comes the re-entrance of Mark's parents. He and Doug travel to California to settle Doug's father's affairs (Doug's father and new wife were both killed in a car wreck) and take a side trip to visit Mark's parents, who live in another part of California. His relationship with his father David is still strained, and his mother soon suffers from a string of medical conditions associated with aging. Mark also finds out that his mother viewed his birth as a mistake, since she didn't know his father well and had to get married quickly when she got pregnant. Mark's distrust of the Navy puts him at odds with David when he and Mark fight over whether Ruth should be treated in a base hospital or a civilian hospital. Ruth eventually dies and Mark goes to her funeral, leaving him on edge when he clashes with Kerry Weaver over Robert Romano's successful drive for Chief of Staff.
Mark's personal life after his marriage is tumultuous. He takes after Doug, having several flings and an affair with Nurse Chuny Marquez, and even setting up three dates in one day. He has a brief relationship with a needy desk clerk, Cynthia Hooper (played by Mariska Hargitay in season 4). Hooper leaves him after she finds out Mark doesn't really love her. Mark eventually meets a British surgeon, Elizabeth Corday. Corday is in Chicago on an exchange program, under the guidance of Dr. Romano. Romano's advances on Corday fail, as does her relationship with Peter Benton. Eventually, Mark and Elizabeth begin dating. Mark discovers that his father is suffering from advanced lung cancer and by this time it has advanced to a stage where he can no longer care for himself, and he reluctantly moves to Chicago and stays with Mark. After an emotional bonding that healed their difficult relationship from Mark's youth, David dies.
Mark and Elizabeth begin a more serious relationship and move in together. Mark later buys a house, and Elizabeth and he are married. Together they have one daughter, Ella. Their happiness is threatened, though, when the abusive father of a patient goes on a killing rampage after losing his son to social workers. In a bid to get his son back, he kills and injures a number of people and even threatens to kill Elizabeth and Ella. After being shot by police, he is brought to the ER. During his treatment, he is being transferred by Mark to the operating room when he goes into arrest. Alone in the elevator, Mark decides to withhold treatment and allows him to die. He later falsifies records to show that he did attempt to save him. Elizabeth suspects what Mark did but lets the matter drop without any further discussion. Later, Rachel appears in Chicago unannounced, citing arguments with her mother, and moves in with Mark and a very reluctant Elizabeth. She is found to be sneaking out of the house at night and using drugs, which clouds her relationship with her stepmother Elizabeth.
Preceded by
Unknown Chief Resident
1994-1995 Succeeded by
Kerry Weaver
Death
Mark begins having medical problems and is eventually diagnosed with a brain tumor that is thought to be inoperable. Given little time, Mark seeks a second opinion from New York City neurosurgeon, Dr. Burke, which proves more positive. Mark's surgery is performed by Burke and things appear to be positive, although it takes him a while to return to his old self. A year or so later, the tumor returns, and Mark finds out that the tumor is truly inoperable.
At this point, Rachel has run away from St. Louis and is staying with Mark and Elizabeth. Though she vehemently denies it, her recreational drug use becomes apparent when baby Ella gets hold of some ecstasy in her backpack and nearly dies after ingesting it in the episode "Damage is Done". When Mark refuses to throw Rachel out of the house, Elizabeth says she won't return home with Ella as long as Rachel is there and, with Ella, Elizabeth leaves Mark and moves into a hotel. Unwilling to tell Elizabeth about his condition, Mark stays with Susan Lewis during the course of his chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Elizabeth later finds out the truth and wants to come home, but Mark tells her she shouldn't pretend to be his wife just because he's sick; she eventually returns anyway and begins helping Mark as his terminal illness advances.
Eventually, however, he resigns himself to his fate and decides to halt the debilitating treatments. On his last day in the ER, he meets with the same older woman that viewers saw on the first episode of ER. She again has a hangnail, and complains about how painful it is. Mark tells her that he has an inoperable tumor, asks another doctor to treat her, and tells the patient not to return to the ER again. He leaves the ER, stops his chemotherapy treatments, tells John Carter that he will now "set the tone" and takes Rachel on a last-minute trip to Hawaii to relive happier times.
After several moves around the island and some conflict with a surly Rachel, he suffers from increased symptoms, prompting Rachel to call Elizabeth, who comes to Hawaii with Ella. One night, Rachel comes to Mark's room while he sleeps. Mark awakens and smiles at Rachel, telling her with slurred speech that he was just dreaming of her and how she used to love balloons. He tells her that he was trying to think of a piece of advice that every father should tell his daughter, and tells her to be generous with her time, her love, and her life. Rachel tells Mark that she remembers a lullaby that Mark used to sing her when she was a baby and slips a pair of headphones on his head and plays Israel Kamakawiwo`ole's rendition of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" for him as he smiles and falls back asleep. While the song plays, he is seen walking through an empty ER. The next morning, Elizabeth discovers that he has passed away. The May 9, 2002 'ER' episode was one of its highest rated.
Mark's body is returned to Chicago, where he is buried. Many of his friends and colleagues come to the funeral: John Carter, Peter Benton, Kerry Weaver, Abby Lockhart, Luka Kovač, Susan Lewis, Jing-Mei Chen, Robert Romano, Jerry Markovic, Frank Martin, Donald Anspaugh, William "Wild Willy" Swift (played by Michael Ironside in 1994), Haleh Adams, Michael Gallant, Cleo Finch, Jenn, Rachel, Ella, and Elizabeth. After the funeral, Rachel asks Elizabeth if she can visit to see Ella; Elizabeth responds "Of course, she's your sister." Rachel goes back to living with her mother in St. Louis, but later returns to Chicago when the time comes to select a college, as well as asking a bemused Elizabeth to help her acquire effective birth control pills. In the April 2009 ER series finale she returns to County General to interview for a spot as a med student.
Epilogue
Dr. Mark Greene was written out of the series because actor Anthony Edwards had decided that he wanted to move on to other opportunities. Dr. Greene did appear in photos included in the slideshow shown at Dr. Carter's farewell party in the Season 11 episode "The Show Must Go On". Greene was also heard in a voice-over telling Carter that he needed to "set the tone" in the ER (which, incidentally, was what Dr. Morgenstern told Dr. Greene in the pilot episode). In the Season 12 episode "Body and Soul," he is mentioned during a flashback to 2002, when Dr. Pratt tells his patient, Nate Lennox (James Woods), that the reason the ER has few staff working is because they are at Greene's funeral. In Season 14's "Blackout," Nurse Chuny Marquez says that she can't believe the ER is going to be led by Pratt and Morris and says how she remembers when Mark Greene and Doug Ross used to run the place. Nurse Sam Taggart then says, "Who?", since she started working in the ER long after they had left.
Return to the Series
In 2008, ER producers announced that Edwards would reprise his role for the series' final season, with Dr. Greene appearing in flashbacks in the episode "Heal Thyself" shedding light on Dr Catherine Banfield's (played by Angela Bassett) past.
On November 13th, 2008, over 6 years after his exit from the show, Anthony Edwards returned as Dr. Mark Greene. The flashback episode took place in 2002, just months before Greene's death and revealed an encounter he had with Catherine Banfield, 6 years before she began working in that same emergency room. He was treating Banfield's son Darryl who had a debilitating disease which turned out to be leukemia. The story appeared to take place at the point in Season 8 when Mark and Elizabeth were reconciling after she learned his tumor had recurred. Mark takes on the mysterious case to save the 5 year old. He has a run in with Kerry Weaver and Robert Romano about putting this case ahead of his chemo treatment which took a toll on him throughout that day. Darryl dies in the ER but it was Mark's heroic actions that triggered Catherine in the present day to help save a young girl from drowning, and may have also inspired her to work full time at County.
During the 15th and final season of ER, at the end of the episode The Book of Abby, long-serving nurse Haleh Adams shows the departing Abby Lockhart a closet wall where all the past doctors and employees have put their locker name tags. Amongst them, the tag "Greene" can be seen.
His daughter, Rachel, returned in the series finale as a prospective medical student.
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Dr. John Truman Carter III, portrayed by Noah Wyle, is a fictional medical doctor from the television series ER. The character, called simply "Carter" by most other characters, was introduced in the pilot episode, and, without interruption, was the only main character to have stayed with the show from the beginning of the series in 1994 up to the 2004–2005 season, for a total of eleven consecutive seasons. Carter was considered the main character of the series after the departure of Dr. Mark Greene after season 8, up until season 11 when Wyle left the show.
Wyle decided to leave the show as a regular character at the conclusion of season 11, despite offers to stay.[1] He cited a budding family and an already lengthy tenure on the show as reasons. Carter was then written out of the show by moving to Africa and marrying his love interest, Makemba Likasu, in the episode aptly titled "The Show Must Go On".
Noah Wyle was contractually invited back for a four episode arc in Seasons 12 and 13. While he did so in Season 12, his Season 13 episodes were pushed back a year to season 14, to make way for other Season 13 storylines. Because of the WGA Strike, ER was renewed for a 15th and final season (it was originally planned to end after Season 14). This allowed Wyle to return for five episodes as part of the show's plan to bring back former regulars who were interested in returning before the end of the series.
First appearance: September 19, 1994
(Pilot, "24 Hours")
Last appearance As regular:
May 19, 2005
(Season 11, "The Show Must Go On")
As special guest:
April 2, 2009
(Season 15, "And In the End...")
Nickname(s) Carter
Gender Male
Date of birth 1970-06-04
Occupation ER Physician
Title Medical Student (1994-1996)
Surgical Intern (1996-1997)
ER Intern (1997-1998)
ER Resident (1998-2001)
ER Attending (2001-2005)
Family John "Jack" Carter Jr. (father)
Eleanor Carter (mother)
Robert "Bobby" Carter (brother, deceased)
a sister
Spouse(s) Makemba Likasu (wife; separated)
Children Joshua Makaio Carter (son, with Makemba; stillborn)
Early characterization and background
John Carter was born on June 4, 1970. He comes from a very wealthy family. His father was once estimated to be worth US$178 million, although in later seasons there are hints that this is only a fraction of the family's total net worth. Carter's family did not support his decision to practice medicine in an inner-city hospital, preferring instead that he devote more time to the family's philanthropic endeavors. Despite his family's antipathy towards Carter's career choice, for the first few seasons he had few, if any, financial worries.
Key events
Carter comes to County General as a third year medical student. Carter is characterized as not always being the most gifted physician, but he is very dedicated and compassionate to his patients. He is initially interested in surgery — even completing the first year of his surgical residency — and is mentored by surgical resident Dr. Peter Benton. However, after extended exposure to the emergency room, he decides to change his specialty to emergency medicine, to Benton's dismay. In order for Carter to change from his surgical residency to an emergency medicine residency, he agrees to work for free for his first year, since County General had no more funding for an additional spot. As a resident his confidence grows, and he often does whatever is in his power (or, sometimes, things outside of his power, much to the annoyance of his superiors) to help patients.
Carter at gunpoint in the Congo.During Season 6 (in his first major season-long story arc) Carter and his friend and medical student Lucy Knight (Kellie Martin) were stabbed by a schizophrenic patient - Paul Sobricki (David Krumholtz). Knight is stabbed in the throat and dies from her injuries; Carter is stabbed in the back and his kidney is damaged (a situation which comes to a head 9 years later). As a result of Carter's chronic battle with pain, survivor guilt, and resistance to getting help, he eventually develops a narcotic addiction. He begins to make a series of errors on the job. After Abby Lockhart catches him shooting up fentanyl, Dr. Weaver demands he go to an inpatient rehab center for medical doctors in Atlanta or be fired. Although initially opposed to going, he is taken by Dr. Benton. Upon returning from rehab, Carter makes peace with his recovering heroin-addict cousin, Chase, and apologizes for his long absence, saying, "I didn't want to admit to the fact that I was just like you."
During Season 9, Carter dates Abby after they were quarantined in the ER for two weeks because of the outbreak of monkey pox. They have long been attracted to each other, and their romantic relationship is the natural next step. However, Abby's brother Eric is diagnosed with bipolar disorder (like their mother) and his behavior becomes erratic. He then disappears. Meanwhile, the health of Carter's grandmother, Millicent, continues to decline, and Carter's mother has difficulty accepting her divorce from Carter's father. Worse, Abby and Carter continue to disagree over whether or not Abby (a recovering alcoholic) should be drinking at all, even moderately. These personal issues come to a head when Abby's brother reappears the same day Carter's grandmother dies. Carter is broken by his grief, yet Abby feels it is her duty to go and get her destitute brother, essentially leaving Carter alone to grieve. When the uninvited Eric behaves inappropriately at Millicent's funeral, even falling into her open grave, it marks the beginning of the end of Carter and Abby's relationship. About a month later, Carter cannot shake his grief or his troubles with Abby, and agrees to go to the Congo (without Abby's agreement) to join Luka and the Doctors Without Borders program. While there, he is nearly killed by guerrilla soldiers. He returns after two weeks. When Dr. Kovač is reported killed in Africa, Carter goes to retrieve his body at the beginning of Season 10. To his surprise, he finds Kovač - still alive. He arranges for Kovač to be sent home, during which he gives Kovač a letter for Abby, which is a "Dear John letter" that ends their relationship. Around this time, Wyle had his first child, and requested to have three months off from the show in order to enjoy his infant son. Producers complied with this request. To deal with this absence, Carter remains in Africa for several months. He primarily works in Kem's AIDS clinic. They initially differ on approaches to treatment, but come to respect and love each other (see more about Kem below under "Related Characters: Romantic")
During Season 11, Carter starts building an HIV/AIDS clinic adjacent to County General, with full funding by his family's charity foundation. It will be named after his stillborn son - "The Joshua Makaio Carter Center." Afterwards, he goes to Paris, where Kem is visiting her mother, who has fallen ill. After a very awkward reunion, their relationship begins to grow again, and Carter offers to go to Africa with Kem and start all over. She doesn't answer right away, but later accepts the offer. Dr. Carter goes back to Chicago to finish out his work with County General, and, after saying goodbye to his friends, goes to Africa to be with Kem.
In Season 12, Carter appears in a four episode arc, working with a fellow doctor in Darfur, Sudan, where he is joined by Dr. Pratt and Debbie (Mary McCormack). Pratt informs him of Abby's pregnancy.
Carter reappears in the Season 15 episode, "The Beginning Of the End," in which he returns to the ER at County General after being in Africa. He explains to Cate Banfield that he will be in Chicago indefinitely, and is looking to pick up some shifts and keep his skills up. She agrees, after finding out that one of his teachers at the hospital was Mark Greene. While there, Carter is reunited with several familiar faces, including Morris, Jerry, Neela, Zadro and Sam Taggart. Sam passes on that she's heard from Abby and Kovač, and that they are doing well, while he explains to her that Kem is also fine and visiting her parents in Paris. He visits the Joshua Makaio Carter Center, taking time to clear snow accumulating on Joshua's name at the sign. At the end of the episode, it is shown that Carter is on dialysis.[2] In the following episode "T-minus-6", it's revealed that this is because of amyloidosis developing from schistosomiasis which irreparably damaged Carter's remaining kidney (the other's function being lost when he was stabbed by Sobricki in the Season 6 episode "Be Still My Heart"). He is back in Chicago to be placed on the US transplant list. Working in the ER, he's shown to still be a good doctor with good judgment, but is not up on the latest medicines and techniques used in the U.S. In the episode "Old Times" he is visited by his mentor and good friend Peter Benton, to whom he reveals that his relationship with Kem is not doing well. In the same episode, he gets a new kidney.
In "And In The End...", the series finale, Carter uses his family fortune to open the Joshua Carter Center, a medical clinic for the underprivileged. His final line, spoken to Rachel Greene, is "Dr. Greene, you coming?", a nod to the pilot episode.
Related characters
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Early in the series, Carter's plots typically stayed in the realm of the ER. Since his character was the most visible resident, and residents in the U.S. often are on call in excess of 80 hours a week, this was an extension of that practice. However, with the departure of several lead male actors, beginning with George Clooney in 1999, Wyle was groomed to assume a greater role on the series - both as male lead and central love character. When Anthony Edwards decided to leave after eight seasons in 2002, Noah Wyle was essentially promoted to the top lead, and received top billing on the show. Carter's character consequentially took a central role, and he appeared in almost every episode, and took on leadership position (as an attending) in the ER. In a symbolic gesture of this transference, he was told by Mark Greene "you set the tone" on Greene's last day in the ER. Greene had been told this exact same thing, by Dr. Morgenstern, in the pilot episode in Season One of the show, after Carol's suicide attempt. Carter, in turn, said the same thing to Dr. Archie Morris as Carter left the ER for the last time.
John Carter is the only lead character in the series who has interacted with all the show's series regular characters.
Family
Eleanor and John CarterThroughout the course of the series (particularly at the beginning of Season  we meet various members of Carter's wealthy family. His father, John (Jack) Truman Carter, Jr. (played by Michael Gross), is caring but stiff, and very acquiescent with his wife. He and Carter have an awkward relationship. Carter's mother, Eleanor (played by Mary McDonnell), is emotionally distant and cold. Her personality apparently became even colder after the death of Carter's older brother, Bobby (Robert), from leukemia. Carter's grandfather, John Truman Carter, Sr. (portrayed by George Plimpton), is the most disappointed by Carter's career choice, and though Carter respects him, he also resents him for that. Carter's grandmother, Millicent Carter (played by Frances Sternhagen), is a benefactor of the hospital, even funding Nurse Hathaway's clinic. Carter is very close to his grandmother (whom he calls "Gamma") and intermittently lives at her home. They do occasionally argue, however, usually in regard to Carter's reluctance to participate in matters related to the family foundation. Chase Carter (Jonathan Scarfe) is John's first cousin and a "functioning" heroin addict. Carter, with the assistance of his colleague Anna, attempts to detox and rehabilitate him, but fails. Chase eventually overdoses, resulting in severe brain damage. Carter pleads for the family to keep Chase in physical therapy, and Chase improves significantly. Elaine Nichols Carter (played by Rebecca DeMornay), the ex-wife of another of Carter's cousin, comes to hospital for treatment for breast cancer and she and Carter conduct an affair.
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Nurse Carol Hathaway (married name Ross) is a fictional character on the popular television show ER who appeared from 1994 to 2000. She is portrayed by Julianna Margulies.
First appearance: September 19, 1994
(Pilot, "24 Hours")
Last appearance As regular:
May 11, 2000
(Season 6, "Such Sweet Sorrow")
As special guest:
March 12, 2009
(Season 15, "Old Times")
Cause/reason Moves to Seattle to be with Doug Ross
Occupation ED Nurse
Title Nurse manager (1994-2000)
Spouse(s) Doug Ross
Children Kate and Tess (twin daughters)
and a step-son (through Doug)
Relatives Helen Hathaway (mother)
Career
Carol Hathaway is a registered nurse and was the emergency room nurse manager in Chicago's County General Hospital. She holds a master's degree in science. In Season Three she considers medical school but decides against it.
Carol is sensitive towards the lack of recognition the ER nurses experience. She is sometimes hostile to the physician assistants, and once told surgeon Peter Benton in Season One, "Haleh [a staff nurse] may not be able to cross clamp an aorta, but she has over 20 years experience in emergency medicine and if you would step off your pedestal maybe you would realize it's the nurses that make this place run and not you."
In Season Four, Carol funds the ER clinic, getting money from Dr. John Carter's grandmother, Millicent Carter. Carol provides care for thousands for free.
In Season Five, after a fiasco with Doug Ross, a dying child, and an overdose of medication, Carol was forced to step down from her position with the clinic, and step down from being Nurse Manager.
Personal life
Shortly after her character is introduced on the show, she is rushed into hospital after an overdose of barbiturates in a failed suicide attempt. Although she later denies it, the staff suspect that her suicide attempt was brought about by her failed romance with Doug Ross, a womanizing pediatrician also working in the ER. After her recovery, Carol returns to work, where it becomes obvious that while she is still attracted to Doug, she harbours some animosity towards him. Meanwhile, Doug continues to try to win Carol back, and although their friendship is slightly rekindled, Carol keeps Doug at a distance in both professional and private matters.
Later in the first season, Carol becomes engaged to orthopedic surgeon John "Tag" Tagilieri (Rick Rossovich). Doug tries to dissuade her, but Carol decides to go through with the wedding. However, right before they are about to walk down the aisle, Tag tells Carol that he knows she could never love him the way he loves her and decides he can't go through with the wedding, then leaves to explain the situation to their many guests. Prior to this, Carol attempted to adopt an abandoned Russian girl suffering from AIDS, but a background check showing her attempted suicide only months earlier causes her application to be denied.
Carol begins Season Two by purchasing a run-down, rickety house. She later becomes involved with paramedic Ray "Shep" Shepard (Ron Eldard), who moves in with her and helps her renovate her house. Despite a promising start, their relationship is severely strained after Shep goes through a drastic personality change after the death of his work partner. Shep and his partner had decided to enter a burning building to save children who were trapped by the fire. Shep's partner was badly burned and later died in the ICU. Shep becomes abrasive, and despite Carol's attempts to get him professional help to deal with his anger, he refuses. Although Carol loves Shep, she decides that she can't watch him self-destruct and ends their relationship.
In Season Three, Carol suffers severe financial problems. Without Shep's extra income she is unable to afford her house. Things get even worse when a labor dispute arises concerning the re-assignment of her nurses. As nurse manager for the ER, Carol is privy to management decisions, and she finds herself torn between her friends and the hospital administration. During a nurse sickout, Carol accidentally transfuses the wrong blood into a patient. Although it is unclear whether it was the blood or his other injuries that cause his death, Carol blames herself. The administration initially does not punish Carol for this incident and uses it to cast the sickout in a bad light, but she resents the administration's actions and believes she is not being punished sufficiently for her error, so she talks to the press and gets suspended.
During her suspension, Carol is held hostage at gun point during an armed robbery at her local grocery store. She treats several injured people and manages to escape the incident, shaken but unharmed. Carol later takes the MCAT with Doug's assistance and assumes she failed when in fact she did very well, but she opts not to pursue medical school, having only taken the test to prove she was capable. During the last few episodes of Season Three, Carol and Doug become closer and eventually rekindle their relationship.
Their relationship is held up by Carol's insecurities, but soon they make it work. They are trying to have a baby when Doug leaves Chicago in the middle of Season 5, when he is strongly advised to relocate after allegedly teaching a mother how to bypass an automatic pain-medication release device to deliver a lethal dose to her terminally-ill child. Unbeknownst to Doug, Carol is pregnant.
Carol delivers twins Tess and Kate on Thanksgiving in Season 6. When Doug learns of the twins' birth, he invites them to come to live with him in Seattle, but Carol cannot decide if it is the right thing to do and attempts to raise their twins alone. She briefly dates Dr. Luka Kovač. Treating a woman dying of end-stage ovarian cancer and helping her family say goodbye moves Carol to reunite her own family, and she abruptly leaves work and flies to Seattle that day to reunite with Doug in the second-to-last episode of Season 6. It is later revealed that Carol sends for her daughters the next day and stays with Doug.
In the Season 14 episode, "Status Quo", Jeanie Boulet mentions Doug and Carol when she returns to the ER. Nurse Haleh Adams states that they are living happily in Seattle and that their daughters are now in third grade.
During the 15th and final season of ER, at the end of the episode The Book of Abby, long-serving nurse Haleh Adams shows the departing Abby Lockhart a closet wall where all the past doctors and employees have put their locker name tags. Amongst them, the tag "Hathaway" can be seen.
Carol Hathaway appears again in Season 15. She and Doug are now married and practice at the University of Washington Medical Center where Carol is a transplant coordinator. During the episode, Carol and Doug help a grieving grandmother (Susan Sarandon) donate her grandson's organs. One of the organs, a kidney, is given to Carter, unbeknownst to both Doug and Carol.
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Elizabeth Corday jest fikcyjnym chirurgiem urazowym w telewizyjnym serialu ER. Jej rola jest grana przez Alex Kingston pojawiła się w 1997 i grała do 2004. Jej pojawienie się w ER pomogło zyskać więcej fanów serialu w UK.
Pierwsze pojawienie się ; wrzesień 19, 1994 Pilot, "24 Hours"
Ostatni występ: Maj 11, 200
Przezwisko(s) Lizzie
Płeć Kobieta
Zawód Ogólny Chirurg
Towarzyszący Szef Chirurgii (1999-2003),
Główny Chirurg (2003-2004)
Corday Karola (ojciec)
Corday Isabelle (matka)
Współmałżonek(s) Mark Greene (umarł)
Ella dzieci Greene (córki, z Markiem)
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Dr. Abby Lockhart (married name Kovač, formerly Abby Lockhart, R.N.) is a fictional medical doctor on the television series ER. She is portrayed by Maura Tierney.
First appearance November 25, 1999
(Season 6, "Great Expectations")
Last appearance March 19, 2009
(Season 15, "Shifting Equilibrium")
Cause/reason Left with husband, Dr. Luka Kovac, for Boston
Gender female
Date of birth 1969-01-10 (age 40)
Occupation Nurse (1999-2004)
Physician (2004-2008)
Title Medical Student (2003-2004)
ER Intern (2004-2005)
ER Resident (2005-2008)
Spouse(s) Luka Kovač (husband)
Richard Lockhart (ex-husband)
Children Josip (known as Joe, son, with Luka Kovač)
Relatives Maggie Wyczenski (mother)
Eddie Wyczenski (father)
Eric Wyczenski (brother)
Beginnings
The character of Abby Lockhart first appears in season 6 of ER in the episode "Great Expectations," guest starring as Carol Hathaway's labor and delivery nurse. Three months later, Abby became a regular character in February 2000 as a third-year medical student beginning her ER rotation. On her first day, she meets Dr. Luka Kovač, her first teacher, with whom she will experience a number of professional, and personal, firsts and who will become the most important character in her long-running story. Lockhart's first months in the ER proved challenging for her transitioning from OB nursing to the ER. In her first few months, she saw Carter stabbed and another med student killed by a schizophrenic patient and also had to speak to Weaver and Greene about Carter's growing drug addiction. Although Carter is hostile at first, they become friends over the course of the next season.
Abby's medical training had gone into hiatus and she had become a full time obstetrics nurse to provide for her then-husband Richard Lockhart's medical school education, but once they divorced, she resumed her medical training. Later on, at the start of Abby's final year of medical school, Kerry Weaver breaks the news to her that her registration for that quarter has been denied for lack of payment at the start of Season 7. Abby confronts her ex-husband to discover that he has stopped paying her tuition because he is bankrupt. She resumes her part-time OB nursing job, and soon Weaver offers her a full-time ER nursing position. Abby accepts the offer. After several generally rewarding years as a nurse, Abby got her ex-husband to sign off on a loan so she could finish medical school. While she failed her first exam to fully become a doctor, she passed on her second try, and she earned her MD in the Season 10 finale.
In the 2000–2001 season, Abby is visited by her mother, Maggie (played by Sally Field), who suffers from bipolar disorder. Abby's childhood is revealed to have been very difficult. During her childhood, she was forced to cope with her mother's erratic behavior when she was not taking her medicine. She also had to deal with her mother's long absences, and had to take care of her younger brother Eric (played by Tom Everett Scott). Eric, who has been in the US Air Force but went AWOL, was introduced later. He, too, is showing signs of bipolar disorder, but refuses to accept this.
Abby's father, Eddie, left the family when Abby was a child, due at least in part to Maggie's uncontrollable behavior. Abby reunited with her father (Fred Ward) in season 13, when he initially approached her under the disguise of being a patient named Eddie Jackson before finally revealing his true identity to her.
Throughout her stay at County General, Abby has been generally friendly and well-liked by most of the staff. She is considered open to talking and listening, yet she remains humble and cautious about her personal life. She dated Dr. Kovač and then Dr. Carter but eventually returned to Kovač, with whom she had a son. They later married. She has befriended many colleagues in the ER who have come and gone, particularly the female co-workers including Carol Hathaway and Susan Lewis, and later Elizabeth Corday and Kerry Weaver. Her closest friend became Dr. Neela Rasgotra, who graduated medical school with her and lived with her during some of Neela's hard times. She and Luka Kovač were the senior figures on the show until their departure in 2008.
The character was born January 10, 1969.
Personal life
Soon after taking the position in the ER, Abby begins a relationship with Dr. Luka Kovač. The beginning of their relationship is overshadowed when they are attacked by a mugger on their first date, whom Luka kills in defense. She and Luka stay together for about a year, but their relationship becomes more strained after the arrival of Abby's mother and the increasing closeness between Abby and Dr. John Carter, and a heated argument leads to their breaking up at the beginning of the eighth season. Despite an initial period of awkwardness and jealousy after their romance ends, Luka and Abby become good friends again in fairly short order.
Abby's next relationship is with Dr. John Carter. Abby discovers Carter shooting up on painkillers. She tells the attending doctors about it, and at their urging and with their help, Carter enters a rehabilitation program. Once he returns, he sees Abby at an AA meeting. She tells him that she is a recovering alcoholic and had been sober for five years. She agrees to become his AA sponsor. Abby and Carter develop a very strong friendship. This strains her relationship with Luka.
Several months later, Abby has a particularly horrible birthday and starts drinking again. When Carter catches her having a beer, he confronts her, and she tells him not to worry about her. When Dr. Mark Greene passes away, Carter seeks solace in Abby. She returns to her AA meetings, telling Carter she did it for him, and they become a couple. Abby continues drinking, and Carter compulsively tries to "fix" her. At one point, Carter is ready to propose to Abby at a special dinner he's arranged for her, but at the last minute, he ends up putting the ring back in his pocket and though they discuss it briefly in a later episode, he never tries again.
Their relationship is badly strained when Carter's grandmother (portrayed by Frances Sternhagen) dies, and Abby's brother, Eric, conclusively diagnosed with bipolar disorder, acts out at the funeral and falls into the grave. Soon after that, Carter flies to the Congo and joins Luka, who is volunteering with Doctors Without Borders. When Carter goes to Africa for the second time (presumably to recover the body of Luka, who, in a plot twist, has not actually died), he sends Abby a break-up letter, and their relationship finally ends. Just as with the end of Luka and Abby's relationship, Abby and Carter remain close friends after a period of distance between them.
Abby briefly dates a medical student named Jake for a while in season 11, but their relationship eventually fizzles when Abby does not respond positively to Jake's desires to stay in Chicago to be with her. She also begins to grow close to Susan Lewis and Kerry Weaver.
In Season 12, Abby rekindles her relationship with Luka in the episode "The Human Shield." Initially, they decide to remain friends, but soon become lovers. Three weeks into their relationship it is revealed that Abby is pregnant. She and Luka decide to keep the baby. Luka proposes to Abby while she is pregnant, but Abby is not comfortable with the idea and was discouraged because of her past problems, and later claims she 'doesn't need a white dress' to prove she loves him. Their baby, a son called Joseph (after Luka's father, Joe), or Joe, for short (after Joe Frazier, the boxer whom Abby's long-disappeared father was a fan of) is born by emergency C-section at the beginning of season 13. Abby also has to have an emergency hysterectomy. He is premature and spends several weeks in the hospital's NICU, requiring surgery during his stay. Abby and Luka's relationship becomes strained during this period, but appear much happier in later episodes, caring for their now healthy baby boy.
Throughout Season 13, Abby is shown growing into her role as Joe's mother, first by taking time off to be with her seriously ill baby, then by participating in classic maternal activities like Mommy and Baby classes and walks in the park, and then later by gradually reintroducing herself into the ER world. Mid-season tension develops between Abby and Luka, partly as the result of Luka's apparently paranoid behavior regarding Curtis Ames, a disgruntled former patient who has sued Luka due to a stroke he suffered that cost him the use of his arm. Ames eventually breaks into Abby and Luka's apartment, and demands to see Luka. Abby tries to bargain with him, telling him that she used to be an alcoholic, and recounting an occasion where she felt as if she had hit 'rock bottom'. Luka is taken hostage, threatened and has his hand crushed by Ames, but survives his ordeal when Ames commits suicide. In the next episode, an emotional Abby asks Luka to propose to her again. She says if they got through the shooting incident and the Curtis Ames nightmare, they can get through anything - he proposes and the couple get engaged. Later Luka realises that Abby is hesitant and being 'freaked out' by planning the wedding, so he decides to prepare a surprise wedding for her. At first, she has her doubts and fears but eventually she agrees and asks one of her best friends, Neela Rasgotra to be her maid of honor.
At the end of the thirteenth season, Abby and Luka plan to honeymoon in Hawaii. However, the night before they are due to depart, Luka receives a phone call from Croatia informing him that his father is ill, so the honeymoon is put on hold until Luka can return from his urgent trip abroad. After Luka's departure, Abby along with the ER staff has a tough time with the stern and poised new ER Chief Kevin Moretti, who plans to mold the department into a more efficient and professional work environment, but Moretti quickly tells Abby he is very impressed with her work. In Season 14, Abby is struggling to deal with Luka's absence, raise Joe and work at the ER; in "Gravity", Joe is injured after falling off a jungle gym at the playground and Abby ends up falling back into drinking at the episode's end. Her drinking problem continues to escalate, and Abby realizes how bad it is in "Blackout" when she shows up drunk to a "party" in honor of Pratt and Morris passing their boards. Abby finds herself waking up at 3am in Moretti's apartment, realizing later (after sobering up at the airport when trying to find a flight to Croatia to see Luka) she slept with him.
When Luka arrives back to Chicago, he soon gets news that his father has died. Abby tells Luka to take Joe to Croatia for the funeral while she seeks help for her alcoholism. Upon her return to the ER, Abby faces the true reality of her situation; she must tell her co-workers the truth about her disease. The only negative reaction at work is from Sam, played by Linda Cardellini, who displays disgust at Abby's weakness, but the two women mend fences when Sam tells Abby she was being harsh because of her own long history of being around alcoholics who refused to clean up their lives. Luka is angry that she cheated on him and put their son's life in danger, and decides to move out of the apartment. He decides to work at long-term care facility and soon has a change of heart about Abby's mistake. Abby and Luka embrace at the end of the 14th season. Abby tells Luka how much she loves him and they kiss. At the conclusion of the 14th season, it would appear that Abby and Luka are willing to continue to work on their marriage.
At the beginning of the 15th season, we learn that Abby has sought a position at a hospital in Boston where she and Luka plan to move with their son for a new start. In the third episode, Abby's secret that she has accepted the job and resigned from County is slowly revealed to the others in the ER, although Abby asks them to keep it secret because she doesn't want it to be a big deal. Long-serving nurse Haleh Adams shows the departing Abby a closet wall where all the past doctors and employees have put their locker name tags. Abby then adds both her's and Luka's tags to the wall.
Abby finally leaves, saying goodbye to most of the staff who are gathered in the ambulance bay. She is picked up by Luka who has arrived in his car with their son.
Career as a doctor
In 2003, Abby starts her final year of medical school as newcomer Samantha Taggart replaces her as the central nurse character on the show. Towards the end of the quarter, she is told that someone has anonymously paid off the balance on her tuition. She later discovers it was Carter. On graduation day, Abby finds out that Carter's girlfriend, Kem, has suffered a stillbirth. Abby offers to stay with Carter. He is grateful, but tells her that it's not necessary. Abby goes on to graduate from medical school and finally becomes Dr. Abby Lockhart. Currently in season 14, Abby is a third year resident. She applies for an Attending position at County, but becomes frustrated by the endless delays and interviews for a position at an upscale medical facility. She gets this position, but Dr. Pratt uses his pull to get County to offer her that Attending spot--which she accepts.
In "21 Guns," the 12th season finale, a shootout occurs in the ER between the police and several prisoners who are trying to escape custody. Abby immediately drops to the floor next to the admit desk, which is the center of the shootout, and apparently suffers a couple of minor cuts due to the glass shards. While rolling on the floor to get away from the glass, her stomach slams into a metal cart that has overturned in the small space. She leaps up and begins to tend to the more seriously injured Jerry, the admission worker. In the last scenes, it is revealed that her injuries are serious, and her pregnancy is affected. She notices blood on the bottom of her jeans and faints. She leaves a hand print of blood on the window as Luka watches helplessly in the next room. He had been incapacitated and tied to the gurney by the prisoners, who had injected him with vecuronium, a drug that was intended for a patient. He had to be intubated as the drug had seriously relaxed most of his body muscles, and he stopped breathing and would have died if Sam had not defied her captors and treated Luka so he didn't choke to death. Kerry Weaver finds both Abby and Luka and gets their treatments started right away.
Towards the end of season 14, Abby applies for an attending position at County General. But under the advice of Pratt, she applies at other medical facilities and, in the penultimate episode of the season, "Tandem Repeats", accepts a job at a new, state-of-the-art hospital - only to decline the offer several hours later when she is offered the attending spot at County after all. In the end, both Abby and Luka decide it is time for a clean start and quietly leave to take a position in Boston.
Abby Lockhart's final appearance as a series regular was in the Season 15 episode 3 "The Book of Abby" when she left with Luka and her son Joe to Boston.
Abby appears once more in Season 15 in episode 20, "Shifting Equilibrium", during a phone call with Neela, who needs Abby's encouragement to leave County. Abby is seen in her new home, looking after a group of children.
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Dr. Luka Kovač is a fictional character on the television series ER. He is portrayed by Goran Visnjic [1]. Visnjic's character was added to the cast at the beginning of Season 6 (1999) following the mid-season 5 departure of leading character Dr. Doug Ross (played by George Clooney) [2].
First appearance: September 30, 1999
(Season 6, "Leave It to Weaver")
Last appearance: October 16, 2008
(Season 15, "The Book of Abby")
Cause/reason Moved to Boston with his wife and son
Portrayed by Goran Visnjic (professional spelling of Višnjić)
Gender Male
Occupation Locum Tenens (1999)
ER Attending Physician (1999-2007)
Chief of Emergency Medicine (2005-2007)
Hospice Physician (2007-2008)
Family Josip Kovač (father, deceased)
Niko Kovač (brother)
Spouse(s) Abby Lockhart (wife)
Danijela Kovač (wife, deceased)
Children Jasna Kovač (daughter, with Danijela, deceased)
Marko Kovač (son, with Danijela, deceased)
Josip "Joe" Kovač (son, with Abby)
Religion Roman Catholic
Luka Kovač is an emergency room attending physician from Croatia. He speaks of having a joyful, though financially modest, childhood, with at least one brother, and he keeps in contact with his father, who is an amateur painter and engineer on a Zagreb train line. Luka served in the Croatian army, and saw combat. He was a family man, with a wife (Danijela), son (Marko), and daughter (Jasna). Jasna was his older child, and from a birthday photo we know she was at least four. When the Croatian War of Independence (1991-1995) broke out, Luka was at first hesitant to move away, as he wanted to finish his internship. He ended up waiting too long, and it became unsafe to leave. While he was out one morning his apartment building was hit by a mortar shell. His infant son died instantly. His wife and daughter died a few hours later. He carries guilt from the incident because in choosing to stay and perform CPR on his daughter, his wife bled out. He moved to the United States of America some time after that for a fresh start.
Luka has been in a number of relationships since his arrival, from one-night-stands with a prostitute to several long-term monogamous relationships. Though his heart is in the right place, he has been largely unsuccessful in dating. Soon after arriving at County General he became smitten with then-pregnant Head Nurse Carol Hathaway. After her twins were born, a kiss between Luka and Carol served as an epiphany for Carol and she left Chicago (and the series) for Seattle to be with her true love, and the father of her children, Dr. Doug Ross. Early into Season 7, Luka became involved with Nurse Abby Lockhart, a relationship seemingly doomed to fail as on their very first date they were mugged and Luka unintentionally killed their assailant by being over vigorous with his self defense. After Abby and Luka broke up they remained close friends. Luka then went through a long period where he seemed lost and troubled. He has many demons and tends to be emotionally reclusive and, in one spell, used sex to drown his problems. He had a series of fling relationships, including an odd affair with a prostitute who seemed to serve more as a sort of psychotherapist, and later medical student Erin Harkins (Leslie Bibb), who he seriously injured in a car accident while he was depressed and breaking the speed limit in his Dodge Viper. As a result of this, Luka suffered a partial nervous breakdown, and asked to take sabbatical leave from the hospital; when Kerry brusquely refused, he went AWOL from County and returned just before Kerry was going to officially fire him, saving a boy's life and then being allowed to stay on conditions he attend a seminar on harassment and undergo counseling (the latter step went blatantly unmet). An affair between Luka and nurse Chuny Marquez ended badly in Season 9 and resulting in Luka being briefly suspended for unprofessional conduct, but Luka mended fences with her and everyone else in the ER once he managed to overcome his personal despair.
Luka seemed plagued by the death of his wife, though he has repeatedly expressed that he is ready to love again. Eventually he began a relationship with Nurse Samantha Taggart, and for about two years all seemed fairly well until he expressed his desire to have more children. Sam already has a son, Alex, whom she clearly loves very much, but declared, with absolute conviction, that she was completely done with having children. Their break-up, though somewhat rough, ultimately resolves amicably. One consequence, though, is that Luka's involvement with Alex is now very limited. Luka then began seeing Abby Lockhart (Maura Tierney) again after an argument that turned into a kiss, and an overnight affair. Abby became pregnant by Luka from this encounter and debated whether to have the baby because of her family's history of bipolar disorder. With their baby Joe now born, Luka and Abby seem more serious than ever in their commitment towards each other. With Abby finally overcoming her trepidations about remarrying, she asked Luka to ask her to marry him again.
Luka is a committed physician, and is considered one of the more approachable attendings. He also is a supporter of world health, and more than once has donated his services to the Doctors Without Borders program, coming close to death on one occasion. Though once a man of faith, Luka has struggled with his religious beliefs. Such doubts arose after the death of his family. While treating Bishop Lionel Stewart (portrayed by James Cromwell), he seemed to come to terms with his bitterness, although he still wrestles with what God is and isn't responsible for. In the episode The Lost, Luka prays (in Croatian) for God to save him from the Congolese militias who are about to murder him. Listening to him pray, and seeing the cross he is wearing (given to him by the mother of a Congolese patient he is treating), the soldiers mistake Luka for a priest. They join him in prayer, spare his life, and subsequently release him.
He and Dr. John Carter once had a strong rivalry arising from their feelings of attraction to Abby, but their shared experiences in the Congo, as well as the death of Carter's son, made them true friends.
Following the departure of Dr Susan Lewis, Luka was made Chief of Emergency Medicine, by an initially reluctant Kerry Weaver.
In "Twenty-One Guns," the season 12 finale, Kovac is injected with a paralytic medication during an escape attempt by Sam's jailed ex-husband. In the following shootout, he watches helplessly from another room as the heavily pregnant Abby falls to the ground from injuries she sustained during the shootout.
In the season 13 premiere, "Bloodline," Kovac was rescued by Weaver, only to learn that Abby sustained possibly serious injuries as a result of the shootout. Luka accompanies Abby as she is taken up to OB where it is discovered that she will need to have a caesarean section, complications during which led to Abby also having a hysterectomy. The baby (whom Abby and Luka decide to name Joseph, after Luka's father, but call "Joe" because Abby's father was a fan of boxer Joe Frazier) was born prematurely; consequently, he had underdeveloped lungs and several other serious problems. After several weeks and emergency surgery, a healthy Joe was released from the hospital. Soon after returning to work, Luka had to defend himself in a malpractice suit brought by Curtis Ames (played by Forrest Whitaker), a carpenter who suffered a debilitating stroke while under Kovač's care. Luka won the case, but he and Abby were stalked for months by a vengeful Ames. The situation came to a climax when Ames took Luka hostage, subjected him to a night of mental and physical torture (by crushing Kovač's hand in a vise), and shot himself to death in front of the horrified doctor. Later, Abby asks him to propose to her, and he does. Luka suggests they keep their engagement a secret, to which Abby agrees, but the staff soon finds out.
Once their secret is out, Abby's slowness planning their wedding begins to frustrate Luka, so he takes action. In the episode "I Don't," Luka prepares a surprise wedding for Abby, and then convinces her to marry him then and there. The night before they are due to depart for their honeymoon, however, he receives a call from Croatia informing him that his father is ill, so the honeymoon is postponed while Luka makes an urgent trip to his native country. When Kovac returns home he is happy to see Joe and Abby. News soon arrived that his father died in Croatia. While preparing to return to Croatia, Abby tells him that she has started drinking again but does not tell him that she slept with another doctor while he was away. While Abby seeks help for her alcoholism, Luka and Joe return to Croatia for his father's funeral. While Abby is in rehab, Luka briefly returns to Chicago to visit her, at which time he quit his job at County. Upon her release from rehab, Abby joins him, and tells him about her infidelity. They return to the US soon after, and Luka begins to show signs he wants to leave the marriage. He takes a position as a doctor in a small hospice voicing a desire to do some good while he tries to decide what to do about the marriage. There, he meets an elderly man who teaches him some lessons about life and forgiveness, and in the Season 14 finale, Luka decides to forgive Abby after first confronting Kevin Moretti. He suggests to Abby that they leave Chicago, and they decide to go.
During the 15th and final season of ER, at the end of the episode The Book of Abby, long-serving nurse Haleh Adams shows the departing Abby Lockhart a closet wall where all the past doctors and employees have put their locker name tags. Abby then adds both her man and Luka's locker name tags to the wall. Kovac's final appearance in the series came late in the episode, when he comes to pick up Abby before they leave for Boston. They embraced each other with a kiss and gave a final goodbye to their friends at County, a scene echoing the Season 6 episode where Carol leaves him to join Doug in a kiss after telling Luka he would find the right woman some day.
Preceded by
Susan Lewis Chief of Emergency Medicine
2005-2007 Succeeded by
Kevin Moretti
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| nie wstawiaj mi tu tego.... tu tylko dostarczam materiału |
Najlepiej będzie, jeśli założymy nowy temat z polskimi tłumaczeniami .
Kovac, przenoś swoje tłumaczenia do nowego tematu , bo już się tutaj robi mały `burdel`: ) .
Ja też się postaram coś przetłumaczyć .
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Dr. Peter Benton was a surgeon on the television series ER from season one through season eight. The name of the character was inspired by The Peter Bent Brigham Hospital[citation needed] (now part of the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA) which was a teaching hospital for Harvard Medical School, where Michael Crichton studied medicine. He was played by Eriq La Salle. Benton was often portrayed as arrogant, irritable, or even hostile, but was also an exceptionally talented surgeon who was passionate about medicine. It was also revealed that he and ER attending Dr. Mark Greene had gone to medical school together.
First appearance: 19 September, 1994
(Pilot, "24 Hours")
Last appearance: As regular:
December 13, 2001
(Season 8, "I'll Be Home For Christmas")
As special guest:
April 2, 2009
(Season 15, "...And In The End")
Cause/reason End of series
Gender Male
Occupation General Surgeon
Title Surgical Resident (1994-1999)
Surgical Fellow (1999-2000)
Surgical Attending (2000-)
Family Cleo Finch (wife)
Mae Benton (mother; deceased)
Jackie Robbins (sister)
Walter Robbins (brother-in-law)
Jessie Robbins (nephew; deceased);
Joanie Robbins (niece)
Children Reese Benton
Casting
Although Dr. Benton was an original character, according to an interview La Salle gave in 1997, he was cast late in the role, after the first season had already started filming. He recalled "I was surprisingly calm. When casting waits that long, they're basically waiting for someone to come in and take the role. I was ready and completely focused. I came into the office with a stethoscope and surgical greens I had left over from The Human Factor [a series on which he'd previously performed]. When I left, I wanted them to say 'That's Dr. Benton'". Within three days of his audition, La Salle was offered the role of Dr. Benton.[1]
Development
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Several relationships were scripted into the character's narrative. In season 4 he began dating Dr. Elizabeth Corday, played by Alex Kingston. Both surgeons, the characters competed with each other professionally and failed to be adequately supportive of each other in their personal crises, so Corday ends the relationship in season 5. According to an article published in Jet in 1999, Eriq La Salle was the reason why the romance dissolved.[2] He was unhappy that Benton's interracial romance with Corday was being shown as less problematic than his prior romances with black characters, such as Jeanie Boulet and Carla Reese (Gloria Reuben and Lisa Nicole Carson). Mindful of the image that he was portraying on television, La Salle asked producers to end Benton's interracial romance. While being interviewed by Johnnie Cochran on Johnnie Cochran Tonight, La Salle commented, "We have to take care of the message that we're sending as African-Americans or any other group of minorities, that we have the exact same type of exchanges with our mates that we get to see our White counterparts have." In a subsequent episode, Benton was shown being compassionate to his former girlfriend, Jeanie.[2]
Early days
Benton was first introduced in the pilot as a second year surgical resident. When all the attending surgeons are occupied in other surgeries, Benton decides to operate without supervision to control a bleeding aneurysm and keep a man alive until a qualified surgeon is available. Although he does this technically against regulations, he is supported after the fact by Dr. David Morgenstern.
Benton and Carter
Also in the pilot, John Carter is introduced as a third-year medical student on his ER rotation. He is assigned to Benton, who proceeds to give Carter a hard time. They seldom get along and their personalities clash on many occasions. Benton is more ambitious and focused on surgery whereas Carter is more compassionate and willing to spend time with patients. Eventually, the two form a close friendship, despite Benton's disapproval of Carter's decision to leave surgery for emergency medicine. In season three, Benton develops appendicitis and is operated on by Carter. Years later, Benton is the one who operates on Carter when he is stabbed by a schizophrenic patient, and soon after, he refuses to watch Carter self-destruct and convinces him to enter rehab.
Family and relationships
Jackie and Peter's Mother
Also in season one, we learn that Dr. Benton's mother has had a stroke and is mostly being cared for by his sister Jackie, who wants to move her into an assisted living. One night when Benton is watching his mother in Jackie's home she falls down the stairs and breaks her hip.
Jeanie Boulet
Benton meets Jeanie Boulet, a married Physician Assistant, at the hospital, and hires her to work with his mother as a physical therapist. Benton's mother dies, devastating him, and when Jeanie comforts him they end up having an affair. In season two, Benton's affair with Jeanie ends. Jeanie separates from her husband Al and learns that he contracted HIV from an affair, and furthermore that he passed the disease on to her, however Jeanie did not pass the virus to Peter.
Carla and Reese
In season three, Peter becomes involved with a former girlfriend, Carla Reese, who soon becomes pregnant. She gives birth to a son, Reese Benton, who is born prematurely. It is later discovered that, possibly from complications from Reese's prematurity or his NICU treatment, the boy is deaf. Peter at first has difficulty accepting that his son is deaf and looks into surgeries to restore his ability to hear, but he later makes his peace with who Reese is and he and Carla teach him to communicate through sign language. Later, Carla begins a new relationship with a man named Roger McGrath and eventually marries him.
In the beginning of season 6, Carla and Roger plan to move to Germany for his job. When Peter threatens to take legal action to prevent them from taking his son out of the country, Carla shocks Peter by telling him that he may not be Reese's father. Peter takes a DNA test to determine whether or not Carla's suspicions are true, but he chooses not to receive the results and decides he will be Reese's father regardless of biology. Carla and Roger's plans fall through when Roger's boss passes him over for the promotion when Roger asks for time off for the custody fights with Peter, and the McGraths remain in Chicago.
In early season 8, Carla is killed in a car accident. Peter takes Reese into his full custody, but when Roger continues to appeal for time with his stepson, Peter insists that Roger move on with his life and stay away. Roger sues Peter for custody of Reese, and his lawyers force Peter to address the fact that he may not be Reese's biological father. Peter takes another paternity test and this time learns the truth--he is not Reese's biological father. Roger's lawyer makes issue of the long hours Peter's job demands, whereas Roger works from home and commands his own schedule.
During court, Peter perjures himself on the witness stand and proclaims that he has been given a new schedule with reduced working hours at County. Peter later goes to Romano and asks for such a schedule, but Romano simply cannot offer daytime hours only. Peter hands in his resignation, and goes to the out-of-town clinic where girlfriend Cleo Finch now works to try to get a job there. He is successful and gets the hours he'd promised the judge, and he is awarded sole custody of Reese with Roger receiving visitation rights. When a saddened Roger brings Reese's Christmas presents to the hospital later that day, Peter, knowing that Roger is important to Reese, tells Roger to come to his and Cleo's home on Christmas Day and give the presents to Reese then.
Elizabeth Corday
When British surgeon Dr. Elizabeth Corday , she is quickly attracted to Benton, though he initially disregards her attentions. At length, Elizabeth tells him she believes that he doesn't want to pursue a relationship with her because of their racial difference, and Benton finally grudgingly admits to her that "I do have a problem dating white women." On the professional front, Benton and Corday attempt to outdo each other several times, and both are eventually given the opportunity to work with Dr. Robert Romano. Later in the year, Benton assists on a surgery performed by his mentor Dr. David Morgenstern. Morgenstern (who has been somewhat hesitant about surgery following his heart attack) makes a serious mistake that endangers the patient's life. Benton shoves him out of the way to take over the operation, with Elizabeth walking in too late to see Morgenstern's mistake but witnessing Benton's actions toward Morgenstern. Benton is suspended and comes close to losing his job before Morgenstern finally comes forward with the videotape of the operation, which exonerates his former student. Morgenstern then resigns from the hospital, and a distraught Peter begins an affair with Elizabeth. They remain together through much of the following two years, although their relationship eventually begins to suffer due to Peter's needing to spend more time attending to Reese. Elizabeth helps him realize that their romance isn't going anywhere, and they end their affair, though they remain close friends and colleagues. Their friendship is troubled, however, when Elizabeth approaches the hospital staff with the idea of a trauma surgical fellowship; Benton withdraws his tentative commitment to Romano's cardiothoracic fellowship (which would be extremely time-consuming) and campaigns for and is granted the trauma fellowship. Elizabeth feels betrayed by Peter and, wishing to stay at County, takes Romano's cardiothoracic fellowship offer.
Cleo Finch
In Season 6 Benton began dating Dr. Cleo Finch, an ER pediatrician. Their relationship was stormy because of Peter's ex-girlfriend Carla, but in Season 8 they left Chicago along with Benton's son Reese to start a new life. Peter Benton and Cleo Finch transfer to a different Hospital.
Career
Romano eventually offers Benton an attending trauma surgeon position, but when a Medicare patient needs a surgery that Romano refuses to allow to be performed, Benton calls social services and informs them of the refusal of care. Romano intercepts the patient as social services arrives and performs the surgery, but is enraged at Peter for calling them. Romano then retracts the idea of an attending trauma surgeon, explaining to Peter that the fines social services and Medicare inflicted on the hospital roughly equal what Peter's yearly salary would have been. Romano then offers Benton a per diem surgical position with reduced benefits and more difficult scheduling, but Benton refuses. Romano also uses his considerable influence to blacklist Benton throughout the medical community, making it impossible for Benton to find a job in Chicago. Corday finds a new job for him in Philadelphia, but Carla will not continue joint custody of Reese if Peter leaves town (citing Peter's resistance to her and her husband Roger's plans to move the year before). Peter is then forced to go to Romano and accept the per diem position. Additionally, Peter begins dating pediatrician Dr. Cleo Finch.
After the court battle between Roger and himself, Benton is forced to move away from County to work better hours in another hospital, in order to gain custody of Reese. In his last surgery at County, Benton miraculously saved a six-year-old victim of a shooting accident. Before he departed, Dr. Carter was the last person with whom Benton exchanged farewells.
After County General
After leaving the series, Benton was seen a few more times. The first time was when he was passing the torch to Dr. Corday and she told him that her marriage to Mark was in trouble. His next appearance was at the funeral of his friend, Mark Greene. He then appeared in a photo as part of a slideshow at Dr. Carter's farewell party, and was heard in a voice-over memory as Carter left the ER for the last time in the 11th season finale. Eriq La Salle made an uncredited appearance in the opening of "Heal Thyself" to tell the audience of the death of the show's creator Michael Crichton.
During the 15th and final season of ER, at the end of the episode The Book of Abby, long-serving nurse Haleh Adams shows the departing Abby Lockhart a closet wall where all the past doctors and employees have put their locker name tags. Amongst them, the tag "Benton" can be seen.
Benton returns in the 19th episode of the 15th and final season of ER in the episode "Old Times" which aired on the 12th March 2009. In the episode he visits old friend and former student John Carter who is awaiting a kidney transplant, and we learn that he has left private practice for a surgical attending position as Northwestern University hospital. He is seen wearing a wedding ring, so it is assumed he has married Cleo Finch.
In the series finale, Benton goes to Carter's opening of his new hospital with Reese. He also goes to the after party with Carter, Susan, and Weaver and meets up with Elizabeth and Rachel. In a conversation, he reveals that he and Cleo are still together. After, he walks Elizabeth to her car, where they eventually reunite (as friends).
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Dr. Douglas Ross is a fictional character from the television series ER. He was portrayed by George Clooney.
First appearance September 19, 1994
(Pilot, "24 Hours")
Last appearance As regular:
February 18, 1999
(Season 5, "The Storm - Part 2")
As special guest:
March 12, 2009
(Season 15, "Old Times")
Cause/reason Left for a job in Seattle.
Gender male
Date of birth 1960/1961
Occupation Pediatrician
Title ER Pediatric Fellow (1994-1998)
ER Pediatric Attending Physician (1998-1999)
Family Ray Ross (father; deceased)
Sarah Ross (mother)
Spouse(s) Carol Hathaway (wife)
Children Unnamed child (son, with Unnamed woman)
Kate Ross (daughter, with Carol)
Tess Ross (daughter, with Carol)
Plot details
Doug Ross was raised by his mother, Sarah, after his father, Ray, abandoned their family. He revealed that his father came back to his family a few times but was never committed to them. In Season 1, he revealed to a patient that he had a son, not much else is known about Doug's past. Despite his jumbled personal life, Ross is a dedicated ER pediatrician. He has always been committed to medicine and children and to helping no matter the rules or consequences. During Season 2, Doug rescued a boy trapped in a flooding storm drain during a rainstorm. His heroic efforts were filmed on local television thus making him a media star. This even helped him earn back his job at County, because his supervisor in pediatrics wasn't going to renew his fellowship on account of his disrespect to authority, but the hospital administration forced the supervisor to offer Doug a deal to return which he accepted.
During Season 2, Ray, Doug's father, tries to reconcile with his estranged son. Doug has difficulty reconnecting with the man who abandoned him and his mother. Ray has made something of himself by owning a very ritzy hotel in Chicago, and Doug lets his guard down a little, but is disappointed yet again when his father offers to take him to a Bulls game and then stands him up. Doug later reveals the reason why he is so finicky about child abuse because he and his mother were abused by his father. Doug later has an affair with Ray's girlfriend, a woman who Ray stole money from, but ends the relationship when it becomes clear she has a lot of problems herself. Doug gets a phone call one day informing him of his father's passing, and that someone would need to pick up the cremated remains. He goes to California on a road trip with friend and colleague Dr. Mark Greene to collect his remains. Ross finds out that his father was killed in an automobile accident; he had been drunk at the wheel and killed the other driver, himself and his new wife. Doug visits the funeral ceremony to express his sorrow to the victim's family, but ultimately does not and tells the priest overseeing the ceremony that his father was responsible, who then reassures Doug that he truly loved his father. When Doug and Mark find the hotel his father stayed in, he finds his father's car and belongings. They discover home videos that Ray had taken of Doug and his mother. Later on, Doug finds his girlfriend, nurse Carol Hathaway, waiting for him and they kiss passionately.
Doug is a womanizer, who has dated and left many women throughout the course of the show; in the first season, it is mentioned that Doug has an eight-year-old son whom he has never met, but nothing further is ever revealed. Doug's womanizing days come to an abrupt end after a one night stand with an epileptic woman who hides her condition dies in the ER. Doug never even knew her name until after she dies, after which Doug stops dating for awhile until he gets back together with Carol. Doug has an on-again, off-again relationship with Carol Hathaway, the head nurse of the ER at County. He pursued her constantly when she was trying to move on with her life after their horrible break-up. After a while, they become a couple and are even engaged. They seem happy, and were also supporting each other in the ER. Doug was always an advocate for his patients, and often broke the rules to help them. Eventually, his attempts to help his patients went too far - leading to reprisals and the closure of Hathaway's clinic - and he decided to leave Chicago for Seattle halfway into Season 5. Carol decided not to go with him to Seattle, but he shared a drink with his best friend, Dr. Mark Greene, before he leaves. Carol discovers she is pregnant with his twin girls, named Tess and Kate, and these daughters are born after Doug leaves. He's last seen in the Season 6 episode "Such Sweet Sorrow", in which Hathaway leaves Chicago to reunite with him. She finds him working on his boat behind his house in Washington and the two embrace and kiss. It is later revealed in Season 8 that Hathaway sent for the twins the next day and has been living with Ross in Seattle since.
Warner Brothers, the studio which produces ER for NBC, kept Dr. Ross' cameo in "Such Sweet Sorrow" a secret from NBC, which promoted the episode as Carol Hathaway's goodbye, with no mention of Dr. Ross' appearance. In fact, the original version of "Such Sweet Sorrow" that Warner Brothers sent to NBC ended right after the scene where we see Hathaway on the plane to Seattle. At the 11th hour Warner Brothers messengered an "edited" version of the episode to NBC headquarters in New York for broadcast — NBC had no time to preview the episode prior to airing what turned out to be an extended episode in which Clooney appears. NBC was miffed that it was kept in the dark as it lost valuable ad revenue it could have generated if it had aired promos that the episode would mark the return of George Clooney. Clooney cited the fans of the show for his reason as to why he agreed to make the cameo (he wanted Hathaway and Ross' characters to get back together, as most fans always had hoped for). Clooney reportedly only asked to be paid scale for the cameo.
In the 11th season finale "The Show Must Go On" Dr. Ross was briefly shown in a photograph that was part of a slide show at Dr. John Carter's farewell party.
In the season 14 episode, "Status Quo", Jeanie Boulet mentions Doug and Carol when she returns to the ER. Nurse Haleh Adams states that they are living happily in Seattle and that their daughters are now in 3rd grade.
During the 15th and final season of ER, at the end of the episode The Book of Abby, long-serving nurse Haleh Adams shows the departing Abby Lockhart a closet wall where all the past doctors and employees have put their locker name tags. Amongst them, the tag "Ross" can be seen.
In the season 15 episode "Old Times," Dr. Doug Ross is working as an attending physician at the University of Washington Medical Center. He is helping a grieving grandmother (Susan Sarandon), whose grandson was gravely injured in a bicycle accident. He talks both to Sam and Neela (after finding out they were from County), asking them if any of his old colleagues still worked there. Doug and Carol are directly responsible for getting the kidney for Carter and a heart for another County patient, but they never discovered who received the organs.
Career
In the pilot episode, which takes place on St. Patrick's Day 1994, Dr. Ross is brought into the ER not long before his shift to be "treated" for drunkenness by his longtime friend, Dr. Mark Greene. Throughout the next few seasons, Doug is shown to be compassionate, though not always using the best judgment. As a pediatrician, he deals primarily with children. His love for kids is best seen during darker situations, such as when a child is in danger. When Peter Benton talks about how surgeons deal with emotionally charged cases and ER doctors have it easy, Doug leaves him stunned into silence when describing cases that include a young girl who beat her mother to death, a kid who is going to lose his leg to cancer and another kid who is dying from a life of homelessness. His lack of judgment leads to him going as far as to assault abusive parents in the ER, but his counseling in that case just consisted of the shrink telling him not to do that again.
He is a passionate doctor who puts the welfare of his patients, especially children, above his medical career. In one episode, Dr. Ross saves a young boy who is drowning and is flown in to County General using a news helicopter. This garners him much attention, earns him an award and saves his job. Doug doesn't handle authority well, even when his best friend, Dr. Mark Greene is his boss. Doug is a pediatrician, but in several episodes has performed medical procedures on adults.
In one episode, Doug learns that of his young patients, an athlete, is stressed out about being a closeted homosexual. Doug initially seems uncomfortable with talking to the boy, who leaves the hospital without revealing what's troubling him.
In another episode, he tries to do an ultra-rapid detox on a drug-addicted baby without the mother's consent. This procedure was assisted by Carol, but when Greene and Weaver discover the procedure, being done in violation of hospital policy and the law, he is punished. He was left on probation for 30 days, and was supervised by Dr. Kerry Weaver and Dr. Greene, who had to co-sign his charts. Doug's attitude towards patient treatment often has consequences for his coworkers and supervisors, who have received reprimands from their superiors for Doug's actions.
He vies to be an attending physician for pediatrics. He eventually gets the job, even though Drs. Greene and Weaver opposed his promotion because the position wasn't necessary and the funds were needed elsewhere. Mark was ultimately happy for Doug but Kerry was aghast and rallied against his new position.
He eventually resigns in the aftermath of a scandal in which he shows a mother how to bypass the lockouts on a Dilaudid PCA, enabling her to give a lethal dose of medication to her terminally ill son. Doug had earlier stolen medication from a pain medication study and given it to the mother, only to be discovered by Weaver and Mark, who reprimanded him but kept the incident private. The incident also prompts the closure of Carol's free clinic in the hospital, since it supplied the PCA to this mother, and Doug faces suspension from work at County and possible criminal charges. A friend of Doug's stands up for him and the charges against him are dropped, but Doug resigns from the hospital and plans to move to Seattle, WA. As a result, when Doug left, he and Carol are on poor terms until she discovers she's pregnant with his twin girls. Her clinic is later re-opened, but Carol has to report to her former assistant there.
Dr. Doug Ross was written out of the series because Clooney wished to focus more on his now expanding film career. He also said that there wasn't any strong story in place for his character after Season 5.[cite this quote]. Recently in an interview with TV Guide, Original ER cast member Noah Wyle, who worked alongside Clooney for five seasons, revealed that George Clooney was returning to ER for its 15th and final season in 2009. His new arc began in Episode 328, "Old Times" with Julianna Margulies also returning as Carol Hathaway.
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Dr. Susan Lewis, played by Sherry Stringfield, was a fictional doctor on the television show ER between 1994-1996, and again from 2001-2005.
Susan was one of ER's original characters, first seen in Season 1 as an eager resident. She left County General and the series in Season 3, but returned four seasons later as an attending physician in Season 8. Susan Lewis eventually checked out of the ER for good in 2005 at the beginning of Season 12, having been passed over for tenure in favor of John Carter by Kerry Weaver. She was offered a tenured position at a hospital in Iowa. She returns in the finale episode.
First appearance September 19, 1994
(Pilot, "24 Hours")
Last appearance Novmber 21, 1996
(Season 3, "Union Stadion")
First appearance October 18, 2001
(Pilot, "Never Say Never")
Last appearance September 22, 2005
(Season 12, "Canon City")
Cause/reason Tenure position in Iowa
As special guest:
April 2nd, 2009
(Season 15 "And In the End...")[b]
[b]Nickname(s) Susie
Occupation Physician in Emergency Medicine
Title ER Resident (1994-1996)
ER Attending (2001-2004)
Chief of Emergency Medicine (2004-2005)
Family Henry Lewis (father)
Cookie Lewis (mother)
Chloe Lewis (sister)
Spouse(s) Chuck Martin
Children Cosmo Martin (son, with Chuck)
Relatives Little Susie (niece)
Seasons 1 - 3 (1994-1996)
In Season 1, Susan is a second year resident. She is shown to be an eager and competent young doctor working in the emergency department of County General Hospital. She is good friends with Nurse Carol Hathaway, Dr Doug Ross and especially Dr Mark Greene, who is her best friend.
Though an extremely capable doctor, Susan is initially seen to have problems asserting herself. This is frequently taken advantage of by the senior and more forthright doctors in the hospital, such as Dr. Peter Benton and particularly Dr. Jack Kayson. This leads to several confrontations, and animosity worsens when Kayson discharges one of Susan's patients, failing to notice the severity of his symptoms, which ultimately leads to the patient's death. Kayson tries to deflect the blame onto Susan and her competence is questioned. Her superior, Mark, is forced to monitor her every move and their friendship is put under strain as a result. During the case review, however, the board rules in Susan's favor and reprimands Kayson—much to his chagrin. Shortly after, Kayson is rushed into hospital suffering from a heart attack. Despite their past disagreement on the issue, Kayson opts for Susan's non-invasive form of treatment against the advice of a senior doctor, who (like Kayson) is an advocate of surgical angioplasty. Finally asserting herself, Susan stands her ground and refuses to allow Kayson to be treated surgically. Following his recovery, Kayson shows his gratitude by asking Susan to be his valentine date, which she awkwardly declines.
Susan's personal life is far less settled than her professional one. In Season 1, she is seen to have a brief relationship with psychiatrist Div Cvetic, who ultimately has a nervous breakdown and disappears. Susan later learns that he married someone he met through a dating service, run by a taxi driver from his cab. Most of her problems, however, are family-related. Susan's parents, Cookie and Henry, are shown to be flighty (her father is jokingly referred to as a test pilot for Barcalounger) and difficult to talk to. Her older sister, Chloe, is the source of most of her distress, with a seemingly never ending series of problems with alcohol, drugs, men, and money.
Susan as she appeared in 1996.Chloe eventually has a baby girl, who she names Susan ("Little Susie") after her sister. During Season 2 however, Chloe begins to use alcohol and drugs once again. After deciding that she cannot look after her baby, she leaves Chicago, abandoning Susie on a flustered and overworked Susan, who struggles to be a good mother to the child while completing her demanding residency. Already overstressed, the new Chief Resident, Kerry Weaver, clashes with Susan numerous times, forcing Mark Greene to step in between them. Animosity between Kerry and Susan lessens over time, but never goes away completely.
Realizing that Chloe may never return, Susan considers giving Susie up for adoption. She gets as far as introducing the baby to potential adoptive parents, but cannot bring herself to part with her niece, so she decides to keep her. Susan grows extremely attached to the baby, but she gets a surprise when a reformed Chloe reappears later in the season and tries to reclaim "little Susie". Susan can't see past Chloe's mistakes, regardless of her recent turnaround and new responsible boyfriend. Desperate to keep the baby, Susan attempts to fight Chloe for custody, but is forced to reconsider when the judge warns her that she would lose. Susan begrudgingly reaches an agreement with her sister, and after regaining custody of "little Susie", Chloe moves her family to Phoenix, Arizona to start a new life. Susan struggles to cope with the loss of her niece and goes through a period of grief and counseling. She throws herself into her work to escape her feelings of loneliness, which manages to impress Weaver and, with Mark's encouragement, Kerry agrees to offer Susan the position of chief resident (she promises to support Susan's promotion if Mark recommends her as County's new attending physician). Much of the ER hoped Susan could achieve that title, but Susan turns the position down, later telling Mark that there is more to life than work.
Setting up Sherry Stringfield's departure from the series in Season 3, the beginnings of a romance appears to develop between Susan and Mark, or more so, they are shown to have problems identifying their current relationship as friends. Both seem timid and cautious around each other. Initially more upfront about the situation, Susan invites Mark to join her on holiday in Maui, Hawaii, but is embarrassed when he appears hesitant, and later retracts the offer, feeling she overstepped a boundary. Fearful that he may have missed his chance with Susan, Mark attempts to convey his attraction towards her upon her return, though he cannot find the courage to follow through and is left perplexed by Susan's reticence. It transpires that Susan never actually made it to Maui, she instead visited her sister and "little Susie" in Phoenix as she could not overcome her fear of flying. Mark helps her overcome this fear in the following episode ("Fear of Flying"), supporting her during a helicopter flight rotation where they are called upon to treat victims of a serious motor accident. As they grow closer, Mark finally plucks up the courage to casually ask Susan out, however she declines, telling him that they "need to talk". Shortly after, Mark witnesses Susan in numerous secret talks with the ER's chief of emergency medicine, David Morgenstern, and concludes that they are seeing each other. He confronts Susan, but she reveals that Morgenstern was merely helping her to transfer her residency. Desperately missing her niece, Susan had made the decision to move to Phoenix to be near her sister's family. During a hectic last day for Susan at County's ER, Mark struggles with her imminent departure, but still finds himself afraid to admit his true feelings for her. The hospital staff arrange a leaving party for Susan, but it is canceled due to an influx of critical patients from a motoring accident. Susan leaves the hospital unable to say goodbye to Mark, who was busy working on a trauma. She departs the season on a train in the episode 'Union Station', discovering Mark's true feelings for her as he catches her before she gets aboard, pleading with her to stay because he loves her. Despite Mark laying his heart on the line, Susan doesn't see a future in Chicago or with him. She kisses him and says "I love you, too" as the train departs.
Seasons 8 - 12 (2001-2005)
Susan returns during Season 8 as she left, shown to arrive on a train into Chicago to interview for a job. Susan visits County General for the first time in 5 years and sees the hospital has changed as well as the faces. She meets Mark for coffee and reveals that Chloe has moved on to another city, and she has decided that she can't follow her sister's family around forever. Mark offers her a job as an attending physician at County General, despite Kerry Weaver's reservations - the two never got along when they worked together before.
Susan returns to County (2001).During Season 8 Susan has a brief relationship with Dr. John Carter after they both admit that they had a crush on each other when he was a medical student and she was a resident - it doesn't last, as Susan realizes in the episode 'Secrets and Lies', that Carter is really in love with Abby Lockhart. She then tells Carter to "tell her" about his feeling. The two both break up on good terms and remain good friends throughout the rest of her career at County. Her problems with Chloe resurface when her niece Susie goes missing in New York after leaving a distressing voicemail message on her aunt's phone. Susan flies to New York (in a crossover with Third Watch) and discovers Chloe doped up, sleeping rough. Towards the end of the season, Susan faces one of her most difficult story lines, as her best friend Mark Greene reveals to her that his brain tumor has returned. The two rekindled their close friendship as she helps him come to terms with his diagnosis. Susan is alluded to in Mark's goodbye letter in 'The Letter' when Mark comments that he had to leave the way he did, even though there were things of a more personal nature to say. After her best friend's death, Susan warmed up to other friendships in the ER with Abby Lockhart and Elizabeth Corday, and was able to work better with her old colleague Kerry Weaver. Dr. Romano also promoted her to Deputy Chief of Emergency Medicine much to Kerry Weaver's dismay.
Into Season 9, Susan meets a flight nurse named Chuck Martin (played by Donal Logue) on a plane to Las Vegas. They both get drunk upon arrival and end up getting married in Vegas. They quickly have the marriage annulled once they return to Chicago, but eventually start dating again, and Susan becomes pregnant. Chuck cares for their baby boy Cosmo as a stay-at-home father while Susan works, and she is finally promoted to the position of Chief of Emergency Medicine after Robert Romano dies in Season 10.
Into Season 11, Susan begins to build some anxiety about the upcoming tenure offer. It ultimately goes to her friend John Carter, due to her lack of grant funding, finally leading to her final exit from the series at the beginning of Season 12 in the episode 'Canon City'. Susan is offered a tenure track position at a hospital in Iowa City, Iowa (presumably University of Iowa). Technically, Stringfield was the first and last original cast member to leave the show. (Being the first to leave in 1996, then in 2005 after the rest of the original cast left.)
During the 15th and final season of ER, at the end of the episode The Book of Abby, long-serving nurse Haleh Adams shows the departing Abby Lockhart a closet wall where all the past doctors and employees have put their locker name tags. Amongst them, the tag "Lewis" can be seen.
Dr. Susan Lewis returned for the series finale titled "And In The End", returning to Chicago for the opening of The Carter Center. During evening drinks with Peter Benton, John Carter, Kerry Weaver, Elizabeth Corday, and Rachel Greene; Susan is heard correcting Dr. Corday that she now resides in Iowa. She eventually returns to the ER for the last time in the series with Rachel Greene and Carter, where she visits and jokes with the staff, much to the annoyance of Dr. Banfield.
Preceded by
Robert Romano Chief of Emergency Medicine
2004-2005 Succeeded by
Luka Kovač
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Dr. Kerry Weaver, portrayed by Laura Innes, was a fictional character on the NBC television series ER; she first appeared as a recurring character actor in season 2, and became a regular cast member in season 3. In January 2007, Innes left the show after 12 years and Kerry Weaver moved to Florida.
Very little of Weaver's background was revealed to the audience early on. Audiences only saw an accomplished doctor, fueled by ambition and dedicated to administrative policies. As for her personal background, the only things initially revealed were that she was physically disabled (as evidenced by a limp in her gait which was aided by the use of a forearm crutch), and that she had lived for a period in Africa, which was revealed when a former African boyfriend visited her at the hospital.
Weaver arrived at County General as Chief Resident and later became an attending physician, then rose to Chief of Emergency Medicine and finally Hospital Chief of Staff. Through it all, Weaver remained unfazed by her physical disability, which required her to move about the crowded and chaotic ER with a crutch, and by her controversial standing among colleagues, several of whom regard her as abrasive, cold and officious. Having had some heterosexual relationships, Weaver is eventually revealed as lesbian, her sexual orientation being a key point in some of the episodes, particularly when she fights in court to keep her son, Henry.
First appearance September 21, 1995
(Season 2, "Welcome Back Carter!")
Last appearance As regular:
January 11, 2007
(Season 13, "A House Divided")
As special guest:
April 2nd, 2009
(Season 15 "And In the End...")
Cause/reason Job in Miami as a news
Nickname(s) Festus (by Malucci)
Occupation ER Attending physician
Title ER Chief Resident (1995-1996)
ER Attending (1996-2007)
Acting Chief of Emergency Medicine (1998)
Chief of Emergency Medicine (1999-2003)
Chief of Staff (2003-2006)
Medicine reporter for WTVJ, Miami (2007-)
Family Helen Kingsley (mother)
Spouse(s) Sandy Lopez (partner, deceased)
Children Henry
Seasons Two through Six
During Innes' first six seasons on the show, little was revealed about the details of Weaver's background which would later become some of her defining traits: her sexual orientation, political beliefs, and even the precise nature of her disability. These were closely guarded secrets for a woman who wanted to succeed professionally, but feared discrimination. She was also unable to fully deal with her internalized homophobia and regretted that she never knew her birth parents.
When she was first hired by Mark Greene as chief resident in 1995, this let down much of the ER staff who didn't care for her detail-oriented approach in the trauma rooms. Early in her position, she would often clash with Doug Ross and resident Susan Lewis over most of the procedures in patient care. In addition, her strong belief in administrative policies would be dragged out into every unnecessary aspect in the workplace. In Season 3, Kerry became an ER attending physician alongside Mark Greene, whom she would always manage to compete with or maneuver to catch the eye of her superiors.
As a result, it was difficult for anyone — the audience or any of the other characters — to really know Weaver beyond her tough and bureaucratic professionalism. In an early glimpse into her soul, Weaver defended Jeanie Boulet (played by Gloria Reuben), a physician's assistant who contracted HIV from her adulterous husband. Boulet fought to keep her job and dignity, while some doctors worried about the liability involved in having an HIV-positive employee in the ER. Weaver was the first person in a position of power to side with Jeanie, and the two remained friends until Jeanie's budget-related firing and her successful pressure campaign to get her job back. They reconciled and were close friends again when Jeanie left the ER to be with her new husband and raise her adopted HIV+ son Carlos.
Weaver demonstrated a great deal of compassion and a moral commitment to civil rights, and that helped her and Dr. Greene draft an ER policy for HIV-positive employees. This storyline developed Weaver's character beyond that of a stoic, abrasive professional. In future episodes, she agreed to look the other way when Dr. John Carter helped a teenage runaway escape her homophobic parents who sent her away to an ex-gay camp.
In 1997, Weaver went through a brief relationship with Ellis West (played by Clancy Brown), an MD working for the Synergix Group, which was under consideration by County for a general management contract of the ER. Despite his claims to the contrary, she eventually came to the conclusion that West had begun a relationship with her in order to gain her approval of the contract. West said she was wrong, withdrew the proposal and left the show.
After Carter was fired from his RA position and had nowhere to live, he followed an ad which led him to Dr. Weaver's house; she had been renting out her basement to college students. For the first time, the audience saw the inside of her city home, and noted that she was single and independent, lived in a nice home, and had a particular taste in music. Weaver also hired a private investigator to locate her birth mother, an effort that initially failed and revealed Weaver's fear that she was raised by adoptive parents because her mother could not accept a disabled daughter.
In 1998, during Season 4, Kerry was briefly debilitated when an explosion at chemical plant sent victims flooding in, creating a benzine toxic spill in the ER. Weaver dropped to the floor having a convulsive seizure from the effects of the toxins. She was treated by Dr. Carter and Dr. Anna Del Amico, who took charge for the first time.
Ever since her arrival at County General, Kerry has been very ambitious in pursuing higher administrative titles, such as Chief of the ER. This was after Dr. Morgenstern's long, extensive absence, that a new position needed to be filled. For a short period she is made interim acting chief of emergency medicine until a suitable replacement was found. Yet, after an incident involving the hiring of a doctor who turned out to be a very accomplished if bizarre non-physician, Kerry's chances were luckily left open. But, the hospital wasn't really considering her for the position. When she found out, she immediately quit as interim chief of the ER. Unfortunately, Dr. Romano jumped at the opportunity to become interim chief of the ER. At the start of Season 6, word spreads that Romano might be up to the position as Chief of Staff; news that both Kerry and Mark Greene resented and tried to prevent. However, in the end Kerry backed Dr. Romano up for Chief of Staff and in return she is given the position of Chief of Emergency medicine.
In 1999, Weaver welcomed the chance to hire Dr. Gabriel Lawrence (played by Alan Alda), who had been her mentor. She initially refused to accept Dr. Mark Greene's assertion that Lawrence was suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's Disease, but she ultimately faced facts and said goodbye to her role model.
Throughout the 1990s, the series occasionally dropped hints that Weaver was a lesbian, from her taste in music, to her house, and to her awkward rejections of advances from some male coworkers. Yet, until season seven, Weaver was simply a single, ambitious professional woman with a - somewhat hidden - kind heart.
Season Seven
ER was no stranger to realistic gay and lesbian characters as staff, patients or other characters. Dr. Maggie Doyle (Jorja Fox) was identified as a lesbian through cryptic dialogue and a humorous scene where she takes Carter to a shooting range and eventually hides from her jealous ex-girlfriend.
Yosh Takata (Gedde Watanabe), a male nurse, was identified as gay in a similar fashion as Doyle, and was a recurring character until Watanabe left the show in 2003. Doyle and Takata never got the chance to demonstrate that they had romantic lives, however, and thus remained asexual characters that always played second fiddle to the series' heterosexual characters. This changed when Weaver took very slow steps to come out as a lesbian.
In mid-season, Weaver fell in love with staff psychiatrist Kim Legaspi (played by Elizabeth Mitchell), but was afraid to admit it to Legaspi or herself. While Legaspi was openly lesbian and willing to pursue a romantic relationship with Weaver, she became frustrated that Weaver was not only in the closet, but also suffered from internalized homophobia and thus the relationship got off to a slow start. Once Weaver was able to admit to herself that she was gay, she was still paranoid about her coworkers finding out and the discriminatory consequences it might have on her career. This was despite their relationship becoming an "open secret" among most of the people in the ER.
During that story, we also learned that Kerry had been married to a surgical resident before her career at County General started.
The first coworker Weaver came out to was the bigoted Dr. Robert Romano, who planned to fire Legaspi over trumped up allegations that she sexually harassed a female patient. Weaver's act of courage kept Romano from firing Legaspi, but it also emotionally drained Weaver, whose fears of discrimination ruining her career resurfaced. She was therefore unable to provide emotional support to Legaspi, who kept her job, but at the cost of seeing the entrenched homophobia of the hospital administration and her own girlfriend, who remained in the closet. Legaspi broke up with Weaver and decided to take a job offer in San Francisco rather than face the homophobia from Romano or the lack of emotional support she received from Weaver.
Kerry also runs afoul of Elizabeth Corday in Season 7 when she has Mark Greene evaluated for professional competency after he shows noticeable personality changes after returning from brain tumor surgery. As a result, Kerry is not invited to Elizabeth and Mark's wedding, and while she and Mark seem to mend fences in Season 8, she and Elizabeth remained mostly unfriendly until Kerry's partner Sandy Lopez died. Elizabeth sympathized and the two doctors were on better terms until Dr. Corday departed the show in Season 11. They were never close friends though. In fact, Elizabeth's departure comes when she deliberately performs an illegal, life-saving transplant from an HIV+ donor into an HIV+ individual and does so in large part because she knows it'll anger Kerry, leading to Kerry to offer a demotion that Elizabeth declines before quitting.
Season Eight
Weaver still had not come out to any of her coworkers, except Dr. Romano and Dr. Luka Kovač. Kerry was still quite paranoid about anyone discovering her true status even though her sexual orientation was already known to some of her coworkers. Weaver did, however, begin a new relationship with firefighter Lt. Sandy Lopez (played by Lisa Vidal) who she met in a rain storm while trying to rescue a pregnant woman out of a crashed ambulance. As the two get close, Lopez told Kerry she refused to date a woman that was in the closet. Lopez forcibly outed Weaver with a passionate kiss in front of her coworkers. What followed was a groundbreaking story for network television as the development of the romance between the two women was treated with the courtship, passion and arguments often reserved for heterosexual couples.
Lopez said, "I did you a favor," after the kiss in the ER; a few episodes later, Weaver admitted to her that she was right. At the season's end, Weaver accepted herself as a lesbian, and became eager to combat homophobia wherever it appeared.
In Season Eight's second episode "The Longer You Stay", Weaver failed to answer repeated pages from Drs. Malucci & Chen when a patient being tended to by them has complications. Weaver is finally hauled in by Dr. Carter when he ran from the ER to get her personally from Doc Magoo's, sustaining a painful fall in the process. But after the patient dies and she flatly barks at the three "You killed him.", she is seen back at Doc Magoo's where she finds the pager she left in the bathroom stall.
Desperate to cover up her irresponsibility when the hospital is sued by the patient's family, Weaver callously fires Malucci in third episode "Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic" on a trumped-up charge of misconduct, and by the fourth episode "Never Say Never", she's managed to pin the malpractice on Malucci and Chen, stripping the latter of her authority and she quits, but brings a wrongful termination suit against Weaver and the hospital in the twelfth episode, "A River In Egypt". Chief of Staff Romano, having learned about the pager incident and trying to avoid a scandal, forces Weaver to reinstate Chen.
In "Bygones", Kerry is stunned when she realizes a lonely young woman murdered her roommate because of unrequited love. Kerry then mends fences with Sandy Lopez and the two of them make their first ER-social appearance at an impromptu drinking party after Mark Greene has passed away. Kerry is visibly saddened by Mark's death and for the first time loses her patience and breaks down in the workplace after hearing the news of his passing. She later tells Sandy she knew his demise was coming but never thought it would affect her as deeply as it did. She realizes she had lost a friend, and regrets the years they spent in bitter competition for various ER posts and promotions. At Dr. Greene's funeral, Kerry is again seen crying, shakened by the loss of a dear friend of 7 years.
Season Nine
Weaver and Lopez were still together and had on-going arguments about the future of their relationship. Weaver wanted to have a child, but after suffering a miscarriage felt Lopez should carry the child. Lopez, however, did not want to get pregnant, because it would impact her firefighting career. The couple did not get much screen time that season, and Weaver was given another story thread about the consequences she faced when she failed to report a local politician who tested positive for syphilis; Alderman provided funding for County and a plum position for Kerry, but forced her to do an off-the-record treatment of the Alderman's closeted gay lover that ended with the lover's accidental death from an allergic reaction to penicillin. Later, Dr. Anspaugh became fed up with Dr. Romano's attitude and neglect on the job. Anspaugh offered to lighten Romano's work load by sharing his administrative duties with Kerry Weaver. When Romano refused this, he was replaced with a somewhat surprised Weaver, who offers Romano the ER Chief position.
Season Ten
Kerry is getting settled in her chief administrative position but runs into various challenges that arise day by day from hospital staffing to the ER's hectic renovation. These obstacles includes her constant run-ins with Dr. Romano, which at one point she threatens to fire. When Romano is killed in a helicopter accident, like many others, Kerry isn't saddened at all by his death. Later in early 2004, Weaver dedicates a Center of G.L.T. healthcare in the memory of Romano, which secretly serves as post mortem payback, since Romano was no supporter of gay rights. In her personal life, Lopez changed her mind about having a baby, and she gave birth to baby Henry in the hospital, happy that she and Weaver started a family. Later on in the season, Lopez died due to injuries she suffered while fighting a fire. Sandy's parents (who had never approved of her sexual orientation "lifestyle") took custody of Henry and for the remainder of the season, Weaver's storyline focused on a child custody battle between herself and Lopez's parents. The custody situation was eventually settled when the Lopezes and Weaver agreed to her having primary custody, with the Lopezes taking care of Henry while Kerry was at work.
Season Eleven
In the 2005 episode titled "Just As I Am," Weaver finally found her biological mother, Helen Kingsley, who turned out to be a conservative Christian, originally from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and currently living in Indiana. Kingsley (Frances Fisher) explained to Weaver that, as an unmarried, teenage mother with limited options for raising a child, she gave Weaver up for adoption in hopes of her having a better life when she was fourteen days old. She was in town for a Christ Crusade and decided to meet her daughter. When Kingsley learned her daughter was a lesbian, she and Weaver clashed over faith and sexuality, with Weaver insisting that her mother love and accept her. Kingsley said she could love her daughter, but because she could not accept homosexuality as moral, could not accept Weaver's lifestyle. This episode not only ended the mystery behind Weaver's mother, it also revealed for the first time the reason for Weaver's crutch--Helen inquires about Weaver's limp, and Weaver explains that she suffers from congenital hip dysplasia, a birth defect. Weaver is surprised to learn that Helen knew nothing about it, and her long-held fear that the birth defect was the reason she was given up for adoption is resolved.[1]
Aside from this episode, Kerry Weaver almost exclusively plays supporting roles and is frequently absent from entire episodes.
Season Twelve
Kerry continues to play the background in most of the episodes this season. Even though she's staying very busy with her administrative meetings and tasks, Kerry occasionally takes shifts in the ER to keep her emergency skills sharp. In the episode "Out on a Limb" Kerry finally goes through with surgery to fix her hip dysplasia, that's been giving her pain over the last few months. In the episode "No Place To Hide," Kerry walks for the first time on the series without the aid of her forearm crutch. (Reportedly, this storyline was done, at least in part, because Laura Innes really was starting to develop hip and back problems after ten years of walking with a fake limp for the sake of her role.) Laura Innes described this arc as the character, "Shedding some of her hardness and moving on in her life." [2] At the end of the season, Kerry faces criticism for hiring Dr. Victor Clemente (John Leguizamo) as an attending, who compromised patient care leading to possible liability and lawsuits to the hospital. Kerry tries to divert the fire towards Dr. Luka Kovač (Goran Visnjic), the Chief of Emergency Medicine, risking his job as a result.
Season Thirteen
After saving Luka and Abby in the rattling season premiere, Kerry owns up to her responsibility for the Clemente incident in order to save Luka from being fired. She is demoted from Chief of Staff as a result and is now back to being an attending. Though she clearly struggled to adjust to her new position, especially with the current ER chief Luka Kovač now being her boss, Kerry seems pleased to practice medicine full time again. Working back in the ER, Weaver catches the eye of a TV producer filming a news segment with Dr. Morris and literally steals the show. She's offered a job by the executives for news reporting. At first unsure and hesitant, Kerry soon accepts the side job reporting and makes a heroic rescue on live TV. Shortly afterwards, Kerry and her producer Courtney (Michelle Hurd) begin to develop a close relationship, one Kerry hasn't felt since her deceased partner Sandy Lopez. Courtney tells her how her great news broadcasting could open a successful career for her. However, Kerry wasn't too convinced about leaving County General for her news track. This was until ER chief Luka Kovač had to enact budget cuts and had to consider firing her. Kerry fought her position explaining how it was her sacrifice that saved Luka's job (leaving out the facts that her bad decisions and treachery had put his job in jeopardy before she did the right thing in the end). Yet after some thought during the care of an amputee patient and Katrina survivor, she felt it was time to move on. She later reconsidered accepting a television show offer at WTVJ in Miami, despite Kovač's last minute efforts to convince her to stay.
Kerry Weaver's last regular appearance on ER was in the Season 13 episode called "A House Divided" Episode number 280 in which Abby Lockhart expressed to Dr. Weaver that if it had not been for her, she'd never have become a doctor or a mother. As Kerry packed up and walked out of County General's doors for the last time, she only asked Luka to take care of the place for her.
Laura Innes' last appearance as a series regular on the show was on January 11, 2007. Following her departure from the program, NBC received some pressure from GLAAD to introduce more LGBT characters[3].
Return to the Series in 2008 and 2009
Weaver appeared in a flashback sequence in the Season 15 episode entitled "Heal Thyself", which was set back in 2002, just months before Greene's death. In her scene, she walked into Trauma 1 and expressed how worried she was about Dr. Mark Greene, because of his fight with brain cancer. She told him to step down and take a break from treating Banfield's son. After he refused, Dr. Weaver, reluctant, left the room.
During the 15th and final season of ER, at the end of the episode The Book of Abby, long-serving nurse Haleh Adams shows the departing Abby Lockhart a closet wall where all the past doctors and employees have put their locker name tags. Amongst them, the tag "Weaver" can be seen.
During Season 15 episode 19, former co-worker Dr. Doug Ross asked both Sam and Neela about Weaver (as he found out that they were from County), curious if she was still working there.
In the series finale, she flew from Florida to attend the dedication and opening of the Carter Center. She meets up with Lizzie, Susan, Carter, Peter after Carter's opening. She then tells the group that she couldn't stay too long, as she needed to catch a flight.
Positions held at County General
Other offices
Preceded by
Mark Greene Chief Resident
1995-1996 Succeeded by
(unknown) eventually Jing-Mei "Deb" Chen
Preceded by
David Morgenstern Chief of Emergency Medicine (Acting/Interim)
1997-1998 Succeeded by
Amanda Lee
Preceded by
Robert Romano (Acting Chief) Chief of Emergency Medicine
1999-2003 Succeeded by
Robert Romano
Preceded by
Robert Romano Chief of Staff
2003-2006 Succeeded by
Donald Anspaugh
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Dr. Robert Patrick Romano is a fictional general surgeon on the TV series ER. He was portrayed by Paul McCrane.
Romano was a brash, insensitive man who often made racist or bigoted comments. Although he was a deliberately unpleasant and cruel character, he also frequently provided comic relief, and thus became popular with viewers as ER's "man you love to hate".
First appearance October 30, 1997
(Season 4, "Good Touch, Bad Touch")
Last appearance As regular:
November 20, 2003
(Season 10, "Freefall")
As special guest:
November 13, 2008
(Season 15, "Heal Thyself")
Cause/reason Death; Crushed by Chopper
Nickname(s) Rocket
Gender Male
Date of birth January 19, 1961
Date of death November 20, 2003
Occupation General surgery (Seasons 4-9)
ER Attending (Seasons 9, 10)
Title Surgical Attending (199?-2003)
Acting Chief of Emergency Medicine (1999)
Chief of Staff (1999-2003)
Chief of Emergency Medicine (2003)
Family Dog named Gretel
Character history
Dr. Romano first appeared in the show's fourth season as a surgical attending sponsoring Elizabeth Corday's internship in the Chicago ER. Romano was a brilliant surgeon, but did not get along with the majority of the staff, except Corday whose early quarreling and professional setbacks at Romano's hands (discontinuing her fellowship at the end of Season 4, forcing her into a demeaning Intern position for Season 5) blossomed into a respected friendship over the years. Romano was obnoxious and ambitious, and was eager to jump at the job of interim ER Chief to help weasel his way toward the top of the administrative ladder.
Dr. Romano finally got his reward when he was hired as the new Chief of Staff, much to the dismay of the entire staff, but was good news for Dr. Corday because he promoted her to Assistant Chief of Surgery. Kerry Weaver had originally backed him up for the job, backstabbing Mark Greene in the process and earning the permanent ER Chief position, but soon became disgusted with him after seeing his diabolical ways which included him suspending her in Season 6 after she treated a comatose, brain-damaged young woman without HMO approval. Over the next four years, Romano didn't do much for staff morale or take interest in many of the priorities of health care and hospital issues. When Peter Benton arranged for the surgery of a Medicare patient over Romano's objections, Romano fired Benton. Romano then blacklisted Benton throughout the community, making it almost impossible for him to find a job in Chicago. This forced Benton to come back and accept a daily call, no-benefits job from Romano. After Benton impressed Romano by keeping his mouth shut and doing the job, Romano "rewarded" him with a raise and benefits but also manipulated him into taking on a new post related to affirmative action at County (but was then outmaneuvered when Benton got a talented African-American student a previously-denied interview, and the student was then accepted into medical school).
In addition, Romano stopped at nothing to fire Dr. Legaspi, a psychiatric attending and love interest of Kerry Weaver. The two both realized that she was being discriminated against for her homosexuality by Romano and Kerry came out of the closet to Romano when announcing she would defend Kim. However, Kim left for a job in San Francisco and Romano surprisingly decided to keep Kerry's secret (she came out to her staff for separate reasons later in Season . Romano did, however, have a few soft spots. These include the fact that he was genuinely fond of medical student Lucy Knight, and showed grief and anger when he was unable to save her after a homicidal attack. He was also shown several times using sign language to communicate expressions of praise and affection to Reese Benton, behind his father's back. The stern surgeon also showed a few sentimental moments after learning of the death of Dr. Mark Greene and was then driven to successfully save a young girl who had cancer.
At the beginning of the ninth season, Dr. Romano lost his left arm when he backed into the tail rotor blades of a helicopter that was evacuating a patient after a smallpox/monkeypox outbreak. Dr. Kovač was able to save Romano's life, and surgeons were able to reattach Romano's arm. Despite limitations in his recovery, Romano performed unauthorized procedures in surgical care that he was not physically qualified to handle. This along with his grueling reckless behavior led to him being demoted to the ER - he lost his Chief of Staff position after Dr. Anspaugh got sick of his attitude and named Kerry Weaver the new Chief of Staff - and became the permanent Chief there. Dr. Romano became completely hostile and bitter throughout his time as ER chief. He routinely insulted and took out frustration on the entire staff and newcomers to the ER making him almost impossible to work with. As his arrogance continued, he managed to get himself beaten up in a bar after complaining about a strong man show and calling it "homo-erotic".
However, Romano found that the reattached arm was lacking in both its motor and its sensory capacities: not only was he unable to properly perform surgery, he failed to notice when the arm sustained further injuries after a kitchen accident in which the arm caught fire. Since the hospital's policies impeded his efforts to obtain a more suitable replacement, his career as a surgeon ended and he decided to get the arm amputated.
At the start of the tenth season, Dr. Romano made an unwelcoming return back to the renovating ER after his leave from his amputation. He grew out a beard and was given a prosthetic hook to replace his arm because his insurance didn't cover an electric prosthetic device. Romano felt insulted and was further agitated but was later able to get a realistic robotic controlled arm that often malfunctioned. For the most part, the former glorified surgeon turned burnout was always a ticking time bomb waiting to go off. He was getting in countless fights with Weaver, Pratt often joked calling him "RoboDoc" (a reference to the classic Sci-Fi film RoboCop, in which actor Paul McCrane plays a drug-dealing gang member) - even Neela Rasgotra and another resident named Coop said he was quite the "character." Dr. Romano later told Dr. Pratt he was working up a file of bogus complaints until he had enough of them to get Pratt fired from County.
Romano died midway through Season 10 in the episode "Freefall" on Thanksgiving Day. When a wealthy patient left his rolex watch in a trauma room before being transported to another hospital, Romano told Neela Rasgotra to go up to the helipad and return it before they flew out. Since Neela, being relatively new, didn't know how to get up there, Romano took it upon himself to escort her to the rooftop to return it. After arriving on the top floor, and seeing a helicopter for the first time since his accident, a panic attack (over his initial fear of it) sent Dr. Romano fleeing into the ambulance bay for air. High above the ER, the transport helicopter was suddenly buffeted by strong winds and began sidewining on the roof of the hospital. After injuring a nurse and nearly killing Neela, the chopper spun off the rooftop. The chopper exploded as it fell down the side of the building, filling the higher floors with flames. Dr. Romano noticed fire and debris raining down and screamed as he looked up and saw the flaming chopper plummeting down towards him. The twisted metal crashed onto Romano, killing him instantly and causing a huge explosion in the ambulance bay. Just moments before, Romano had "fired" Pratt and caught Morris smoking pot, but his death took Morris off the hook and Dr. Anspaugh told Pratt (not knowing Romano was dead) that Romano's allegations were without merit and that Anspaugh found him to be a great physician. In the following weeks, a small memorial of flowers was placed at the scene of the crash; still, no one mourned for Romano.
The only staff member to attend his memorial service was Elizabeth Corday, for whom Romano had had feelings since she had first arrived in the fourth season, during which she rejected his amorous advances. Weaver later told Corday that despite her frustrated differences she had with Robert over the years, she stated "We'll all miss him, whether we realize it or not." He bequeathed a substantial amount of money to the hospital; Dr. Weaver, a lesbian who had been personally offended by Romano's homophobia, decided ironically to use the money to fund a Gay and Lesbian medical program at the hospital. A memorial plaque displaying the doctor's portrait was placed on the wall between the two main elevators, where the staff never paid it much attention. After a violent shootout in the ER in Season 12, the plaque was stored away when the department underwent restoration for the damages.
During the 15th and final season of ER, at the end of the episode The Book of Abby, long-serving nurse Haleh Adams shows the departing Abby Lockhart a closet wall where all the past doctors and employees have put their locker name tags. Amongst them, the tag "Romano" can be seen.
Return to the Series
Romano appeared in a flashback sequence in the season 15 episode entitled "Heal Thyself". In his scene, he berated Mark Greene for delaying his chemotherapy to instead work on a patient, thus keeping the oncology unit of the hospital open an extra hour. He then walks away, but is seen looking back worriedly at the end of the hall.
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Donald Anspaugh Chief of Staff
1999-2003 Succeeded by
Kerry Weaver
Preceded by
Kerry Weaver Chief of Emergency Medicine
2003 Succeeded by
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Dr. Jing-Mei Chen is a fictional medical doctor on the long-running television show ER. The character is played by Ming-Na. Originally, Deb Chen entered the series midway through Season 1 as a medical student. Toward the end of that season, Chen decided she was ill suited to a career in medical practice and would prefer to pursue a career in research. The character was then absent for more than four years, returning in mid-Season 6 as Dr. Jing-Mei Chen. After five years, Dr. Chen departed once again in the 11th season.
First appearance 1st run:
January 12, 1995
(Season 1, "Luck of the Draw")
2nd run:
January 6, 2000
(Season 6, "Family Matters")
Last appearance 1st run:
April 6, 1995
(Season 1, "House of Cards")
2nd run:
December 9, 2004
(Season 11, "Twas the Night")
Cause/reason Went to China to bury her father after euthanizing him
Nickname(s) Deb
Gender female
Occupation Emergency Medicine Physician
Title Medical Student (1995)
ER Resident (1999-2001)
ER Chief Resident (2001)
ER Attending (2002-2004)
Children a son (gave up)
Life events
Jing-Mei Chen experiences several difficult transitions in her years at County General Hospital. As mentioned, she suffers a crisis of career early in her medical studies. She arrives in Season 1 as a medical student, only to quit near the end of the season after almost killing a man by trying to insert a central line into his chest. At that time, she decides that she was better suited to medical research than to working directly with patients. She returns to County General in the Season 6 episode "Family Matters" as a second year resident after her wealthy parents bought her way back into County with a large donation to the hospital. In this episode, it is revealed that six months after she quit, she was inspired to return to medicine after saving a man's life, and her once student rival John Carter was happy to see her back. They continue their rivalry for a while before finally learning how to work with each other. Chen also supported Carter as he recovered from his near-fatal stabbing and was part of the group who confronted him about his drug abuse and successfully got him to attend a rehab facility in Atlanta.
In Season 7, Jing-Mei reveals to Dr. Kerry Weaver that she is pregnant with Nurse Frank Bacon's child, when Kerry informs her that she is a candidate for Chief Resident next year. She gives birth to a baby boy on Christmas Eve, accompanied by her longtime friend John Carter, and she subsequently gives the child up for adoption. At the end of the season, both she and Carter apply for Chief Resident, but her application is declined due to her time off for maternity leave. She appeals the decision and is promoted to Chief Resident in Season 8.
During the early part of Season 8, Jing-Mei is having a hard time as an authority figure in the ER. Weaver is pressuring her about being indecisive. In the episode "The Longer You Stay", Jing-Mei and Dr. Dave Malucci make a hasty decision to perform a procedure before checking all necessary tests, ultimately killing the patient. Because of this mistake, and her history as a medical student, the Risk Management staff, Dr. Robert Romano and Dr. Weaver agree to have her resign as Chief Resident. The board determines that because of her maternity leave, she was not at Attending status at the time of the incident and was not authorized to make the decision for the procedure. Weaver, the Attending on shift, was off campus at the time, and did not answer her pages, which means the procedure was unauthorized. As a result, Jing-Mei quits and tells Weaver to "go to hell".
After the holidays, Jing-Mei returns to County to speak to Romano about getting her job back, stating that she has sufficient evidence that Weaver was not wearing her pager the night that the patient died, which could constitute professional negligence. To avoid lawsuits, the hospital re-hires her as a full Attending, much to Weaver's dismay. Their relationship afterward is awkward at best but reaches an accord after both parties impress the other with their professionalism.
At the end of Season 8, Jing-Mei begins working with Dr. Gregory Pratt, who constantly flirts with her, to a mix of condescension and amusement. They are forced to work with each other when the ER is locked down due to a supposed smallpox outbreak.
In Season 9, Jing-Mei and Pratt start a relationship; however, it fizzles out when Pratt shows he is not serious about it while Chen is constantly critical of him, and they call it quits in Season 10. Also in this season, Jing-Mei flies to China, where her mother died in a car accident, leaving her to care for her ailing father. In succeeding episodes, she is seen struggling with her father's increasing emotional instability and violent outbursts. In Season 11, she quits after Dr. Lewis would not let her take time off when she has to go home and take care of her father on Christmas Eve. When Dr. Pratt goes to her house to see what has happened, he discovers Dr. Chen is considering listening to her father's wishes and giving him a lethal dose of medicine; she does and he almost immediately dies. Pratt covers for her, telling paramedics that Chen's father passed away in his sleep. After that, Chen decides to go to China to bury him and she never returns to the hospital again.
During the 15th and final season of ER, at the end of the episode The Book of Abby, long-serving nurse Haleh Adams shows the departing Abby Lockhart a closet wall where all the past doctors and employees have put their locker name tags. Amongst them, the tag "Chen" can be seen.
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(unknown) previously Kerry Weaver (1995-1996) Chief Resident
2001 Succeeded by
John Carter
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Dr. Michael Gallant was a fictional medical doctor in the TV series ER, portrayed by Sharif Atkins. He was a regular character from 2001 to 2004 (seasons 8-10).
First appearance November 8, 2001
(Season 8, "If I Should Fall from Grace")
Last appearance As regular:
April 8, 2004
(Season 10, "When There's Smoke")
As special guest:
May 11, 2006
(Season 12, "The Gallant Hero & the Tragic Victor")
Cause/reason Killed in the Iraq War
Date of birth c. 1977
Date of death 29 April 2006
Occupation Medical Student (2001-2002)
Intern (2002-2003)
US Army soldier (2001-2007)
Spouse(s) Neela Rasgotra (wife)
Relatives Colonel James Gallant (father)
Gloria Gallant (mother)
At County
Michael Emory Gallant first appeared at County General Hospital in late 2001 as a medical student in his third year. Coming from a family with a military background, he had previously been on active duty as a member of the US Army Reserves and his scholarship was being paid for by them. During his time as a student there, he was assigned to Dr. John Carter. He initially clashed with Dr. Gregory Pratt, a brash new intern who disparaged Gallant's abilities. It came to breaking point early on when Pratt cracked a patient's chest without supervision and roped in Gallant to help. However, over time, the two eventually became firm friends.
Gallant's time as a student there wasn't uneventful. Shortly after arriving (season , Gallant accompanied Dr. Weaver to the scene of an ambulance that had been transporting a pregnant woman to hospital and been trapped under fallen power lines. While there, the power lines exploded and Gallant saved a fireman from electrocution. He then successfully helped Weaver deliver the pregnant woman's baby. The event gave Weaver a lot of respect for Gallant and his ability to keep his head under pressure; so much so in fact that Weaver was happy to call Gallant by his first name (causing Carter to quip "Oh, so it's Michael now?”).
In the following year (season 9), Gallant became close to fellow medical student Erin Harkins, though they remained nothing more than friends. Later on in the year, Pratt and Gallant were arrested on suspicion of being the two gunmen at the 'Doc Magoos' shooting. Although they were innocent, and subsequently released, the incident shook Gallant and his faith in the fairness & equality of the police.
By the end of his time at County as a medical student, Gallant decided to apply as an Emergency Medicine intern and matched to County. Despite being a fully-fledged doctor, the now Dr. Gallant didn't have any easier time. Only a few months in to his internship, a helicopter crashed in the ambulance bay and Gallant was in the thick of the action. Later that year, Gallant's sister, Valerie (played by Joy Bryant), came to visit. Valerie's character was the subject of a continuity error, Gallant had previously stated that she was not a member of the Armed Forces because she had cerebral palsy, but when she visits him it is said she has multiple sclerosis. During her stay, she spent the night with Pratt, which strained Gallant and Pratt's friendship, although they managed to remain friends.
At the beginning of Season 10, new medical student Neela Rasgotra had started her rotation at County. During this time, Gallant was keen in helping her settle in. Around April, Neela accidentally gave a patient the wrong medication. However, Gallant, who was supervising at the time, took the blame. He then soon revealed that he had feelings for her (Gallant: "You know, earlier, in the ambulance bay, I was thinking of asking you out." Neela: "And I was thinking of saying yes."). However, before they could start a relationship, Gallant reveals to Neela that he has been called up to go to Iraq. Despite arguing, Gallant left on good terms. They kissed, before Gallant stepped into a taxi and drove away.
In Iraq
Although Gallant had now left County as a regular character, he appeared in a few episodes during the following two seasons. In season 11, one episode kept jumping between County and Iraq. Gallant was now working in a military hospital (holding the rank of Captain). At one point, while out working in the field he was wounded by an Iraqi gunman. Gallant managed to shoot and kill him before he could fire again. The incident continued to haunt him, however. As well as treating injured US soldiers, Gallant's unit also treated injured Iraqi victims. One day, a girl, who had been severely burned, arrived and Gallant insisted that the girl had to be saved. With his commanding officer's blessing, Gallant organized for the girl to be treated at County (with Neela's help). He returned to the US with the girl and whilst on 72hrs leave, he began a relationship (properly this time) with Neela. He returned to Iraq soon after.
The following season, Gallant returned home to finish his training as a doctor and overjoyed in seeing each other again, Gallant & Neela made an impulsive decision to get married. They bought a house together and looked ready to start a whole new life together. However, Gallant was a changed man. He revealed to Neela that he was going to counseling sessions for veterans, before revealing that he wanted to finish his training in Iraq, by volunteering for a second tour of duty. Neela was shocked and angry with Gallant. However she realized that there was nothing she could do or say to stop him from going and, for the third time, the two lovers parted.
Death
Gallant's final appearance came in the penultimate episode of Season 12 "The Gallant Hero and the Tragic Victor." He was on a convoy of trucks, when the unit was ambushed by Iraqi insurgents. Gallant went to the aid of a fallen officer and the convoy managed to escape. Gallant was unable to save the officer. Just as he had settled back down, a roadside bomb hit the truck and Gallant and the men on the truck were killed instantly. Gallant's last words were, "My wife Neela's a doc--" before the bomb exploded. Two officers visited the ER later on and informed Neela of the death. The whole ER was shocked, especially Pratt, who took his death hard. Michael's belongings were given to Neela and it was revealed that he recorded himself on tape as a message to her just in case he died. On the tape, Michael apologized to Neela for leaving her for Iraq.
Gallant's parents, Pratt and a shell-shocked Neela, attended his funeral in the season 12 finale, "Twenty One Guns". At his funeral, which had full Military Honors, Neela was presented with an American flag that was draped over his coffin, as well as his posthumously awarded Bronze Star and Purple Heart. Neela blamed Michael's father for his death, saying that he could have stopped Michael from going to Iraq, but Pratt said that after his own travels to the warzone of the Sudan he understood why Gallant felt that he'd needed to return to Iraq.
During the 15th and final season of ER, at the end of the episode The Book of Abby, long-serving nurse Haleh Adams shows the departing Abby Lockhart a closet wall where all the past doctors and employees have put their locker name tags. Amongst them, the tag "Gallant" can be seen
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