Untold Stories of the E.R.

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Untold Stories of the E.R.
Genre	Drama, Action/Adventure
Starring	changing cast
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	50 aired
Production
Executive producer(s)	Gary R. Benz Michael Branton Elizabeth Browde John Drimmer Daniel Helfgott
Running time	60 Minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	TLC
Original run	April 4, 2005 – present
Links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Untold Stories of the E.R. is a reality television show that airs on The Learning Channel.

In this program, real-life emergency-room doctors tell about their most bizarre cases. Usually, the cases either involve medical sabotage, violently or strangely acting patients, life-threatening injuries, or other cases where the E.R. physician is too overwhelmed to handle the caseload and can't transfer responsibility for the patient to someone else.

Often the doctors play themselves, and whenever possible, the patients take part in the reenactment. If they don't appear in the show, they are often interviewed to show the public how they turned out. Occasionally patient's names are changed and actors play their roles. All cases are said to be true however.

[edit] Episode List

1 No Time to Think 4/4/2005
2 Red Blanket 4/11/2005
3 A Scary Feeling 4/18/2005
4 A Day From Hell 4/25/2005
5 Prepare For the Worst 5/2/2005
6 No Down Time 5/9/2005
7 We Need A Miracle 5/16/2005
8 I Need Some Help Here 5/23/2005
9 How Can This Happen 5/30/2005
10 Call the Code 6/6/2005
11 What A Day 6/13/2005
12 Nothing's Working 6/20/2005
13 We Need Further Tests 6/27/2005
14 Pressure Is Building 7/4/2005
15 Surgery Won't Help 7/11/2005
16 Say Your Prayers 10/24/2005
17 A Life In Their Hands 10/31/2005
18 Title Unavailable 11/7/2005
19 Title Unavailable 11/14/2005
20 Title Unavailable 11/21/2005
21 Exorcism In the E.R. 11/28/2005
22 The Golden Hour 12/5/2005
23 Toilet Paper Eating Patient 12/12/2005
24 Long Live the King 12/19/2005
25 Coma Woman Surprise 1/9/2006
26 Schizo And Ninja Sword 1/28/2005
27 Mystery of the Traveling Bullet 1/23/2006
28 An ER Miracle 1/30/2005
29 A Real Pain In the Neck 2/6/2006
30 From ER to Rushing River 2/27/2006
31 Jaws of Life 6/14/2006
32 Code Green In the E.R. 6/21/2006
33 Mountain Lion Attack 6/28/2006
34 Shot Through the Heart 7/5/2006
35 Hidden Danger 7/13/2006
36 Deadly Diagnosis 7/20/2006
37 Code Black 7/27/2006
38 Life and Limb 8/2/2006
39 Liver Die 9/27/2006
40 Elements of Danger 10/4/2006
41 Deadly Impact 10/11/2006
42 Crushed 10/18/2006
43 Under Siege 11/1/2006
44 Hooked Alive 11/8/2006
45 Family Tragedy 11/8/2006
46 Officer Down 11/15/2006
47 Too Close to Home 11/29/2006
48 Director Down 12/13/2006
49 A Shot In the Dark 12/20/2006
50 Baby Blues 12/27/06

[edit] Trivia

The early episodes had a different opening than the later episodes. When the show went to a commercial in the early episodes would show the title with an ambulence siren wailiong in the background. In the later episodes when they went to commercial it would go into kind of like a freeze-frame moment and the title would be shown.
An episode of the show "Impact: Stories of Survival" had the case of Stephen LoPresti as did this show in the episode "Crushed" but Impact: Stories of Survival showed a dramatization of how Stephen was crushed. He was pretending to lift weights using the drywall and thought it was easy until they slipped and pinned him against the wall and, hands and feet going numb, remained there for twenty minutes.