Carol Hathaway
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| First appearance | September 19, 1994 (Pilot: 24 Hours) |
| Last appearance | May 11, 2000 (Episode: Such Sweet Sorrow) |
| Portrayed by | Julianna Margulies |
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| Nickname(s) | Cary |
| Occupation | Nurse manager (1994-2000) |
| Spouse(s) | Doug Ross |
| Children | Kate and Tess (twin daughters) Un-named step-son; via Doug |
Nurse Carol Hathaway is a fictional character on the popular television show ER who appeared from 1994 to 2000. She is portrayed by Julianna Margulies.
[edit] Career
Carol Hathaway is a registered nurse and was the Nurse Manager of the ER at the beginning of the series. It is revealed in one episode that she holds a master's degree in nursing. In Season Three she considers medical school but decides against it.
Carol is sometimes hostile to the ER's Physician Assistant and says to Peter Benton, a surgeon, 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 Millicent Carter, Dr. John Carter's grandmother. 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.
[edit] Personal life
Carol is the nurse manager in the emergency room of County General Hospital in Chicago. Just after her character is introduced on the show, she is rushed into hospital for taking an overdose of barbiturates in a failed suicide attempt. Although she later denies it, it is suspected that her suicide attempt was brought on due to her failed romance with Doug Ross, a womanizing pediatrician who also works in the ER. After she recovers, Carol returns to work, where it becomes obvious that while she was intermittently attracted to him, she still harbours some animosity towards Doug. Meanwhile, Doug continues to try to win Carol back, and although their friendship is rekindled slightly, Carol keeps Doug at a stark distance in both professional and private matters.
Later in the first season, Carol gets engaged to John "Tag" Tagilieri, an orthopedic surgeon, (played by Rick Rossovich) and despite Doug making a deliberate attempt to persuade her out of marrying him, Carol decides to go through with the wedding. However, right before they are about to walk down the aisle, Tag informs Carol that he knows she could never love him the way he loves her and decides he can't go through with the wedding. He leaves Carol to explain the situation to their many guests. Prior to this, Carol attempted to adopt an abandoned Russian girl, who was suffering from AIDS. However, after a background check showed her suicide attempt only months earlier, her application was rejected.
Carol began Season Two by purchasing a run-down, rickety house. She later becomes involved with a paramedic, Ray "Shep" Shepard (played by Ron Eldard), who moves in with her and helps her renovate her house. However, despite a promising start, their relationship is severely strained after Shep undergoes a drastic personality change brought on by 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 he 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, so she ends their relationship.
In Season Three, Carol suffers severe financial problems, as 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 staff nurses. As Nurse Manager for the ER, Carol is privy to management decisions, and she finds herself torn between her friends and hospital administration. During a nurse sickout, Carol accidentally transfuses the wrong blood into a patient, and although it is unclear whether the blood causes his death, or if he dies from his other injuries, Carol puts the blame on herself. Carol is initially not punished for this incident, which the administration uses to cast the sickout in a bad light. Because she resents the administration's actions and because she believes she is not being punished sufficiently for her error, Carol goes to the press and is suspended.
During her suspension, Carol is held hostage at gun point, when her local grocery store becomes victim to an armed robbery. Her medical knowledge proves invaluable when several people are injured and she manages to escape the incident shaken, but unharmed. Carol later takes her MCAT exams to see if she is capable of becoming a doctor. She is helped by Doug and although she assumes she failed, she passes with flying colors (although she opts not to progress any further as she had only taken the exams to find out if 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 for a baby when Doug leaves Chicago in the middle of Season 5. (He had been 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 him, he leaves Carol pregnant. Carol delivers twins Tess and Kate at Thanksgiving in Season 6. When Doug learns of the twins' birth, he invites them to come to live with him in Seattle state, but Carol cannot decide if it is the right thing to do and attempts to raise their twins alone. She also briefly dates Kovac. After treating a woman dying of end-stage ovarian cancer and helping her family say goodbye, Carol is moved to reunite her own family. She abruptly leaves work and flies to Seattle that day to reunite with him in the second-to-last episode of Season 6. It is later revealed that Carol sent for her daughters the next day and stayed 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.
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