Loading...
Doctors recount the most memorable cases they’ve ever encountered. Unusual, touching, humorous or life-changing – no story is too big or too small when it comes to the ER.
2005
The doctors face one of their toughest cases ever when a patient that has been attacked by a mountain lion comes to the E.R. with the most severe injuries that the doctors have ever encountered. Meanwhile, one woman complains of being dizzy but ends up actually being high. Also, a young girl is stuck by thousands of needles after rolling down the side of a cliff.
A man is shot through the heart while his store is being robbed.
A man's religion prohibits him from getting treatment for a rattlesnake bite, so ER doctors struggle to find a way to help him.
When an 11-year-old comes down with a severe ailment that has a track record of killing almost all of its victims, the doctors are forced to try an untested treatment.
After a tornado strikes Oklahoma, a woman comes to the E.R. with a fence picket impaled through her head.
The E.R. doctors have to reattach a 7-year-old boy's arm after he is involved in a truck accident. Meanwhile, a teenage boy comes to the hospital unable to move his ankles and feet. Also, a man has a serious skin rash that is stumping the doctors and collapsing his lungs.
A young boy is rushed to the emergency room immediately after a football game.
A skier runs into bad luck after hitting a tree at 50 miles per hour when his blood will not clot and the power goes out at the emergency room.
Doctors have to not only worry about a patient's severed arm, but also the amount of damage that his liver and splein have suffered.
A boy that has been crushed under a heavy stack of drywall is brought in with a possibilty of multiple organ failure.
A woman on the way to her own wedding has a car accident and is sent to the ER with severe facial injuries. Meanwhile, a prisoner comes to the ER, but the doctors are wary of him.
A drunken cowboy ends up in the ER while a patient with a gunshot wound in the thigh complains of chest pains.
A young boy is brought in that has been ejected from a car during an accident and he doesn't look good at all.
Doctors must fight to save an injured police officer's legs. While this happens, a royal prinncess has a hangover and a boy gets a blood clot and could die.
A snakebite specialist finds it difficult to treat his own son. Also, a young boy who broke his leg was drugged up with weed and a golfer got a golf club through his head.
A 15-year-old boy suffers a severe head injury that he got while playing baseball. Meanwhile, a doctor tries to help a patient claiming to have bugs crawling inside of her scalp.
A very unexpected gunman takes hostages and guns down the ER.
A trauma surgeon attempts removing a four pound hook from a construction worker's skull without putting his life in any more danger.
2004
In order to get a snakebite victim the correct anti-venom, a doctor has to find the type of snake that he has been bitten by.
The doctors treat patients with various problems. Two patients have internal bleeding, one passes out after drinking cold water, and a man who cut off his own hand with a meat cleaver because he was tired of the problems it was giving him.
An artist has to have his hand reattached after accidentally cutting it off while working on a new project.
A 6-year-old boy who punctured his skull with a pitchfork is rushed into surgery; a woman refuses treatment by a black doctor.
Victims of a plane crash bring reporters when they come to the small E.R. Meanwhile, a doctor faces a difficult decision about a teen patient.
A 33-year-old is declared brain-dead from a gunshot wound, and the victim's wife agrees to keep her husband on life support until his organs can be harvested and donated.
Cops arrive at the E.R. with a suspected criminal. Meanwhile, the doctors try their best to save a boy with severe head injuries.
An X-ray reveals a five-inch piece of glass lodged in a man's brain.
2005
Whe a man's religion keeps him from getting the proper treatment for a snake bite, the doctors try to find some way to help him.
Comprised of three stories: "Mother and Fetus Shot" "Frozen from Fiji" "Traveling Bullet"
While working on an art project, an amateur artist accidentally cuts off his hand.
A chronically ill 6-year-old boy is brought to the ER. The doctor thinks the boy's being poisoned by his mother.
Members of rival gangs are admitted and their fellow gang members come to the ER; Sister Della Rosa is admitted with trouble breathing, and she doesn't want treatment; A surgeon loses his fingers in a saw accident; A patient has cut his fingers and tells conflicting stories about how it happened.
A patient who was completely unconscious suddenly awakens; a family of three has a mysterious condition; a man walks into the ER with a knife wound and refuses help.
One patient arrives with a tree branch stuck through his neck while doctors are treating ten teens that have been critically injured.
Paramedics treat a teen who is unresponsive after a car accident and discover she's pregnant; a patient arrives with an axe in his head.
Neurosurgeon Dr. Smith is under extreme pressure after a young boy punctures his skull with a pitchfork.
A 21-year-old man has suffered internal injuries in a motorcycle accident.
A woman comes into the ER with severe abdominal pain and claims there is an alien in her stomach.
Another day, another surprise pregnancy. A woman in the ER discusses whether she's ready to be a mother.
It's a busy day in the ER as Dr. Heilbron battles to treat a man whose intestine has come out, among others.
A boy is rushed in after breathing in an unspecified poisonous chemical. Has it permanently damaged his lungs?
Crisis breaks out in ER when a depressed man walks in, pulls out a gun and takes a doctor hostage.
2010
A doctor takes a nurse's heart in his hands in an effort to save her life; the ER goes nuts during a Greek festival.
A pregnant woman's leg pain turns out to be a flesh-eating virus, threatening life and limb.
A grown man screams incessantly, a young mother is ice cold and a boy denies overdosing on drugs.
A college student collapses in the ER, and doctors do hours of CPR, hoping she'll revive.
A young nurse collapses in the ER and her co-workers must restart her heart.
An unconscious woman is bleeding internally. Aman with a 4-day erection needs extraordinary help.
A woman is dragged out of a house fire and has a heart attack in the ER. A man with two faces finds out he has cancer.
An ER nurse brings her delirious husband to the ER, then notices that his breath smells like mothballs.
2012
A bridesmaid drinks herself into coma; a man's eyeballs pop out; a premature infant is abandoned.
A man impaled through the skull with a crowbar; a woman's cough; a bride is in pain.
An entire fraternity is plagued with blue urine, a pregnant woman is bitten by a spider and more.
A patient can't remember the past 20 years and her doctor desperately needs to know what she's forgotten.
A bride can't go through with her wedding because she feels possessed by creatures crawling in her head.
A grown man suddenly begins acting bizarrely like a child, a child wheezing woman has a breathing problem and more.
A patient with a severe headache is seizing; a naked woman behaving badly; a wrestler vomits for days.
A patient with a severe headache is seizing; a naked woman behaving badly; a wrestler vomits for days.
A teen suffers from an ectopic pregnancy; a young mother goes in and out of flat-line; a healthy patient refuses to leave the ER.
2006
A jewelry shop owner undergoes open-heart surgery after being shot during a robbery.
A Woman is attacked by mountain lion. A difficult lady has abdominal problems.
Dr. Keller thinks a boy struck by a baseball bat has a concussion, but a CT scan reveals massive brain bleeding, and he suffers kidney failure.
An 11-year-old girl has streptococcal pneumonia, which has a high fatality rate.
A 7-year-old boy undergoes surgery to reattach his left arm after it was severed in a truck accident.
The force of a tornado drove a fence picket through Julie's neck.
A teenager rushes to the ER after a football game.
A skier hits a tree at 50 mph.
A stack of drywall collapses on a young boy.
A six-year-old girl is Rushed to the ER with intermittent Seizures.
A crazed gunman storms a large metropolitan hospital and opens fire in the ER.
A car accident ejects a young boy from a vehicle.
A team of doctors tries to save a patrol officer's life.
A rattlesnake bites the 2-year-old son of a snakebite expert.
A 4lb steel hook impales the skull of construction worker.
A ruptured brain aneurysm threatens to kill the ER's medical director.
A mugging victim arrives with two bullet wounds to the brain.
Follow the case of a boy with an oxygen deficiency and bizarre brown blood.
2015
A man's face and body suddenly double in size; an ER physician races to determine why a young woman is burning up from the inside out after a day at the beach; a grumpy old man nearly dies before revealing an emotional secret
A pianist's finger is accidentally sawed off, a man's pacemaker is killing him yet keeping him alive and more.
A pregnant woman is shot in the abdomen. a doctor is the victim of a burglary and more.
A woman risks losing her finger after trying on an engagement ring, a body builder can't breathe and more.
A Holloween zombie with a problem below the belt mystifies doctors.
A woman's face-lift goes wrong, a hospital chaplain's sudden personality change baffles the ER staff and more.
A man's head is impaled by a trophy deer's antlers, a nurse's ex brings his new girlfriend to the ER and more.
A man has a sword impaled in his head in a roleplaying battle. a patient is terrified of germs and more.
A doctor treats three gunshot victims who claim be innocent bystanders but the police want to know who shot who; on his first day on the job, a doctor must perform emergency brain surgery in the ER; a young bride-to-be suddenly slips into a diabetic coma.
A woman stops eating because she believes she is dead; a runner goes blind in one eye during a marathon and takes a detour to the ER; doctors are baffled by an ER tech's stroke-like symptoms, until someone he loves also becomes ill
A woman believes her neighbors want to kill her; a man is near death after an arrow pierces his chest; two women with swollen abdomens refuse to explain the cause of their pain.
2016
Three patients sneak their pets into the hospital, causing pandemonium in the ER.
2014
A snapping turtle bites a man's neck; a tree trimmer is impaled by a chainsaw.
Two skydivers are impaled by the same fence post; a bride-to-be gets her finger stuck in a makeup jar.
2014
A woman who inhaled toxic fumes now believes her neighbors want to kill her.
A circus sword swallower suffers from a case of hiccups. A mother and daughter mysteriously collapse.
A patient appears to be hallucinating and sends ER staff on a wild goose chase; a new nurse makes a shocking mistake; doctors try to help a former EMT who was found lethargic and slurring his words.
A surfer is impaled between the legs; a football player's severe leg pain leads to an unexpected diagnosis; a woman is given a clot-busting drug to cure her stroke, but she has another condition that could cause that same drug to kill her.
A boa constrictor has wrapped around a man's arm and won't let go; a young woman has a severe laceration, but doctors begin to suspect there may be more to her case than the injury; a young man goes into anaphylactic shock after a dinner out.
An urgent care physician must think outside the box to care for two emergencies at once; a woman with abdominal pain receives an unexpected diagnosis; a yoga instructor has a dangerously high temperature for no obvious reason.
A patient is brought to the ER with a live shark clamped onto his thigh, and he wants to save the shark! Complications arise for a woman with a life-threatening condition, and the mysterious condition that caused a man to pass out.
Police officers bring in a criminal that is comatose; a man found passed out in the snow with no jacket or shoes arrives in the ER and a doctor is faced with a family emergency on her day-off.
A fishing lure embedded in a man's face turns out to be the least of his problems; a pair of unconscious teenagers get brought to the ER, where dramatic family secrets come out; an ER technician collapses and refuses traditional medical treatment.
A man's itchy rash turns out to be more than just poison oak; a young woman bleeds profusely from the inside of her lip, but there is no obvious cause; a family of three is admitted as car accident victims, but the doctor makes a shocking discovery.
Two separate car crash victims are brought to the ER in their underwear; a woman is acting delusional and refuses to allows the ER staff to touch her; and a doctor struggles to diagnose a dehydrated and nauseous 10-year-old.
A boy is crushed by an ATV; a partygoer become paralyzed.
A physician's son becomes her patient; a woman visits the ER after picking wild mushrooms.
A patient claims he was shot in the head; a doctor tries to save a brain-dead woman.
A man with blue skin is treated by doctors; a teenage girl experiences mysterious abdominal pains.
A college student stops breathing; a teen experiences stomach pains.
A man thinks he's constipated, but realizes he has a life-threatening condition.
Bizarre fishing injuries; deadly abdominal pains; teenage victims of a car crash.
A man falls off a roof and is impaled by a shovel, a police officer has a heart attack and more.
A golfer's life-saving surgery; three nearly naked adults in the ER; a patient accidentally shot by his brother.
A minor injury turns deadly; a health fanatic in a comatose state; multiple critical patients.
A resort doctor must treat a man critically injured by a boat propeller. Later, the ER computers go down.
Three emergency deliveries in the ER cause a turf war. gunshot victims have a surprising connection and more.
A newlywed's hand gets stuck in a kitchen appliance; a student with an injury down under; a heavy drinker has complications.
Doctors are baffled when a stroke patient's heart keeps stopping and restarting without intervention.
On Christmas Eve, a burn victim receives a rare treatment the doctors have never performed before.
An ER doctor gets his patient drunk to save his life; doctors are concerned when a patient is stiff after a fall; another is tasered by police; a boy is impaled in the neck by a bottle rocket.
This Special episodes features ten of the craziest stories from the first 100 episodes.
Two patients arrive at the ER with bizarre fishing injuries; a martial arts instructor suffers abdominal pains; teenage victims of a car crash fill a small ER.
An ER doctor gets his patient drunk to save his life; doctors are concerned when a patient is stiff after a fall; another is tasered by police; a boy is impaled in the neck by a bottle rocket.
Celebrations morph into medical mania after their special occasions land them in the ER.
Doctors join their impaled patients for a few rounds of How Did That Get There.
A night on the town quickly turns into a fiasco in the ER.
A first hand look at individuals who didn't expect to become human shish kabobs.
An ER doctor's friend arrives at the hospital combative and out of control, attacking the doctor in the ER.
A young girl, recently hit by a hockey puck, is now mysteriously paralyzed from waist down.
Doctors use robot operated by specialist t another hospital to treat a seizing 7-year-old boy.
A surgeon requires urgent treatment after falling off a bed while trying to help his patient.
A young boy at a sleepover party mysteriously loses control of his arms and legs.
A knifing victim suddenly starts seizing and his doctors can't treat him until they figure out the cause.
A young woman in labor begs the ER doctor to keep her pregnancy and delivery a secret from her father.
A man is impaled in the abdomen by a stiletto heel. A seemingly healthy outdoorsman has a series of seizures.
A pregnant woman is shot in the abdomen but refuses some testing and treatment jeopardizing her life and the baby's; a doctor is the victim of a car burglary and thinks her patient may be the culprit; a storm is preventing a patient's life-saving surgery.
A pregnant woman's leg pain turns out to be flesh-eating virus, threatening life and limb; a Desert Storm war veteran swallows razor blades on a dare; a bride-to-be spends her wedding day in the ER after collapsing at the altar.
Panicked moms-to-be and their anxious partners delivering far outside of their birth plans.
Doctors faced with extraordinary challenges and young lives hanging in the balance.
From the life-threatening to the light-hearted, nurses tell true medical stories from their unique perspectives.
From extraordinary challenges to outrageous predicaments, nurses tell true medical stories from their unique perspectives.
Strange-but-true spooky cases that leave doctors proclaiming it must be a full moon.
Armando Valdes-Kennedy
Self - Narrator (voice)
2012
Two inch pipe in a man's head; a bride's prolonged bleeding; two prisoners from rival gangs.
A woman with undiagnosed rectal bleeding; body part stuck in a camp stove; a rare massive stroke.
A shooting victim is brought to the hospital. A Rottweiler gets loose in the ER.
A Dialysis patient is bleeding and doctors can't get it to stop. A naked man falls onto a cactus.
A stabbing victim's heart has a hole in it, and it must be pumped by hand to keep him alive.
A stroke patient's wife and two girlfriends fight over him; soldiers who lost limbs in an IED explosion; a child's play bite.
Treatment pf a young boy's broken leg turns into an investigation that may reveal child abuse.
A doctor struggles with the decision to revive an older patient after prolonged CPR.
2013
A man crashes his car into a cow ending up covered in manure; a stiletto heel jammed into a woman's cheek; a patient dying of a broken heart.
A disoriented woman in a bunny costume; a severed thumb; a man paralyzed from the waist down.
A deranged cowboy; a metal rod impaled into a woman's head; two teenage girls short of breath.
A belly dancer collapses while working; mending an elderly patient; a six year old girl has seizures.
A storms halts a life-saving surgery; two ladies end up breathless; a bewildered man brought to the ER.
An extreme love of chocolate pudding; a patient may be allergic to his girlfriend.
A snake bite victim; a C-section surgery; a masturbating patient.
A woman gets stuck in a toilet bowl; a man's leg is mangled by a stump grinder; a nurse collapses.
A violent patient that can't be sedated; an unexplained headache; a fencepost through a man's torso.
A convicted murder with paralysis; a father stabbed in the heart; a college cheerleader in cardiac arrest.
A man smashed by a dumpster; an elderly nun and a drunken prostitute in the ER: a deadly rare virus.
A physician diagnoses his own illness; an ER doctor is threatened.
A woman bitten in the face by a dog; an ER doctors overcomes his fears; cardiac arrest.
A mountain biker has multiple injuries; a man's legs are severed; a drunken bachelor.
A young man is frozen; a man gets deathly ill; a heart attack patient.
2018
A patient is brought to the ER with a live shark clamped onto his thigh, and he wants to save the shark! Complications arise for a woman with a life-threatening condition, and the mysterious condition that caused a man to pass out.
Two separate car crash victims are brought to the ER in their underwear; a woman is acting delusional and refuses to allows the ER staff to touch her; and a doctor struggles to diagnose a dehydrated and nauseous 10-year-old.
A surfer is impaled between the legs; a football player's severe leg pain leads to an unexpected diagnosis; a woman is given a clot-busting drug to cure her stroke, but she has another condition that could cause that same drug to kill her.
A man's itchy rash turns out to be more than just poison oak; a young woman bleeds profusely from the inside of her lip, but there is no obvious cause; a family of three is admitted as car accident victims, but the doctor makes a shocking discovery.
A fishing lure embedded in a man's face turns out to be the least of his problems; a pair of unconscious teenagers get brought to the ER, where dramatic family secrets come out; an ER technician collapses and refuses traditional medical treatment.
Police officers bring in a criminal that is comatose; a man found passed out in the snow with no jacket or shoes arrives in the ER and a doctor is faced with a family emergency on her day-off.
An urgent care physician must think outside the box to care for two emergencies at once; a woman with abdominal pain receives an unexpected diagnosis; a yoga instructor has a dangerously high temperature for no obvious reason.
A boa constrictor has wrapped around a man's arm and won't let go; a young woman has a severe laceration, but doctors begin to suspect there may be more to her case than the injury; a young man goes into anaphylactic shock after a dinner out.
A patient appears to be hallucinating and sends ER staff on a wild goose chase; a new nurse makes a shocking mistake; doctors try to help a former EMT who was found lethargic and slurring his words.
A patient's pet causes pandemonium in the ER; a man experiences paralysis that climbs up his legs to his chest until he can no longer breathe, a war veteran suffers from phantom pain in his amputated hand.
2019
A teenage girl is impaled through the neck on an iron fence; a patient is convinced he's turning into a vampire; a first-year attending physician stands up to a room full of senior specialists to save the life of a critically ill pregnant woman.
The ER is a crime scene when a woman's belly pain is caused by smuggled narcotics; a doctor is mystified by heart attacks occurring the same day in the same family; strange markings on the body of a car crash victim lead to the cause of the accident.
Two patients arrive with seemingly unrelated gunshot wounds, but police uncover the bizarre truth. Plus, a nurse unravels when a critical patient comes into ER. Also, a patient's grave symptoms mysteriously disappear whenever the doctor touches him.
A woman comes in with a piece of rebar impaling her thigh; a man brings his girlfriend into the ER for an STD workup; an ER doctor confronts a woman's prejudiced colleagues.
A man passes out from abdominal pain; a woman helps solve the mystery of her estranged father's deadly symptoms; a group of delirious Civil War re-enactment soldiers arrives in the ER.
A wrist fracture turns into a medical mystery; two fishermen get stuck on the same lure; a cheerleader with a sprained finger nearly dies of an unexpected cause; a power outage foils the ER team's effort to get a dying patient to the O.R.
2020
A teenager football player suffers a stroke in the ER. Plus, a doctor tries to solve the mysterious abdominal pains of a patient and a man is run over by his wife twice.
A doctor with a severe bee allergy is stung while treating a critical patient who's been stabbed in the eye; a man comes into the ER after slitting his own throat; a paramedic becomes a patient when she's struck by a mysterious illness.
The hospital is locked down when a nurse is shot in the ER; medics rush a bride from her wedding who is in an unexplained altered mental state; a doctor must perform a risky intervention to save the life of a teenage girl.
An apparent drive-by shooting victim is missing his nose; a girl deteriorates before her family's eyes from a severe case of meningitis.
