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* At the beginning of the next episode, "All in the Family", a just-arrived Kerry finds bloody footprints leading out of the exam room where Lucy and Carter are. She opens the door and gives a horrfied scream when she sees them, with Laura Innes selling her reaction so well you'd think she really come upon two stabbed people.

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* At the beginning of the next episode, "All in the Family", a just-arrived Kerry finds bloody footprints leading out of the exam room where Lucy and Carter are. She opens the door and gives a horrfied horrified scream when she sees them, with Laura Innes selling her reaction so well you'd think she really come upon two stabbed people.
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* At the beginning of the next episode, "All in the Family", a just-arrived Kerry finds bloody footprints leading out of the exam room where Lucy and Carter are. She opens the door and gives a horrfied scream when she sees them, with Laura Innes selling her reaction so well you'd think she really come upon two stabbed people.
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'''Carter:''' (''looks in shock at the patient'') …Dennis…? ''Oh, sweet Jesus!''\\

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'''Carter:''' (''looks in shock at the patient'') …Dennis…? …Dennis? ''Oh, sweet Jesus!''\\
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* Pratt in the trauma room bleeding out of a carotid tear. Basically he's puking up blood.

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* Pratt in the trauma room bleeding out of a carotid tear. Basically he's puking up blood.blood, and his neck is swelling from the pressure of the blood gushing out of the injury.
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** During the same episode, while the ER is flooded with patients dealing with the aforementioned crisis, Carol Hathaway has to deal with a strung out crackhead who suddenly goes into labor with a child *she didn't even know she had.* Despite Carol's best efforts, desperately telling the mother not to push while she gets the necessary tools to help deliver the child, the mother does so anyway and gives birth to her child on the floor of the ER in one of the most graphic scenes of the series to this point. Carol vainly tries to resuscitate the baby, with the mother screaming at her all the while that it was *Carol* who dropped the child, but it's to no avail- the child is dead. What makes it even worse is that after the autopsy comes back it's revealed that the child already died in utero- *two days prior*. The child never even had a chance.

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** During the same episode, while the ER is flooded with patients dealing with the aforementioned crisis, Carol Hathaway has to deal with a strung out crackhead who suddenly goes into labor with a child *she ''she didn't even know she had.* had''. Despite Carol's best efforts, desperately telling the mother not to push while she gets the necessary tools to help deliver the child, the mother does so anyway and gives birth to her child on the floor of the ER in one of the most graphic scenes of the series to this point. Carol vainly tries to resuscitate the baby, with the mother screaming at her all the while that it was *Carol* ''Carol'' who dropped the child, but it's to no avail- the child is dead. What makes it even worse is that after the autopsy comes back it's revealed that the child already died in utero- *two ''two days prior*.prior''. The child never even had a chance.
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'''Carter:''' (''looks in shock at the patient'') …Dennis…? Oh, sweet Jesus!\\

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'''Carter:''' (''looks in shock at the patient'') …Dennis…? Oh, ''Oh, sweet Jesus!\\Jesus!''\\
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'''Carter:''' (''looks in shock at the patient'') …Des…? Oh, sweet Jesus!\\

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'''Carter:''' (''looks in shock at the patient'') …Des…? …Dennis…? Oh, sweet Jesus!\\
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--->'''Maggie:''' (''looking at the pager'') Oh my God…\\
'''Carter:''' What?\\
'''Maggie:''' The patient! It's Gant!\\
'''Carter:''' (''looks in shock at the patient'') …Des…? Oh, sweet Jesus!\\
'''Benton:''' Carter, put the tube in!\\
'''Carter:''' Oh, ''GOD!''
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** During the same episode, while the ER is flooded with patients dealing with the aforementioned crisis, Carol Hathaway has to deal with a strung out crackhead who suddenly goes into labor with a child *she didn't even know she had.* Despite Carol's best efforts, desperately telling the mother not to push while she gets the necessary tools to help deliver the child, the mother does so anyway and gives birth to her child on the floor of the ER in one of the most graphic scenes of the series to this point. Carol vainly tries to resuscitate the baby, with the mother screaming at her all the while that it was *Carol* who dropped the child, but it's to no avail- the child is dead. What makes it even worse is that after the autopsy comes back it's revealed that the child already died in utero- *two days prior*. The child never even had a chance.
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* Abby suddenly getting abducted from the ER ambulance bay by gang members in "Skin".
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* Mark having a seizure during his brain surgery.
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* Although it’s PlayedForLaughs, a man learns that he has a guinea worm in leg for the past year. Even worse, the thing can only be removed 2 centimeters at a time or it’ll break.

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* Although it’s PlayedForLaughs, a man learns that he has had a guinea worm in leg for the past year. Even worse, the thing can only be removed 2 centimeters at a time or it’ll break.



* The entire confrontation between Abby, Luka, and Curtis Ames, a patient with a stroke. Basically he proceeds to stalk Kovac for weeks, then proceeds to hold Abby almost hostage until Luka arrives, forces Luka to crush his hand in a vice, then kills himself on a rooftop. All while Abby is left wondering if he'll survive.

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* The entire confrontation between Abby, Luka, and Curtis Ames, a patient with who suffered a stroke. Basically he stroke on Luka's watch and lost the use of his arm. After failing to sue him for malpractice, Ames proceeds to stalk Kovac Luka for weeks, then proceeds even going so far as to hold file a restraining order ''against Luka'', just to mess with him. Then he breaks into their apartment and holds Abby almost and baby Joe hostage until Luka arrives, forces Luka at gunpoint to crush his hand in a vice, then kills himself on a rooftop. All while Abby is left wondering if he'll survive.

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---> That's the part you don't talk about when you go home and they ask you how your day was.

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---> --> That's the part you don't talk about when you go home and they ask you how your day was.




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* Henry, Carter’s med student, unknowingly has an allergy to latex. During a trauma, he suddenly collapses and goes into anaphylactic shock. When Carter peels Henry’s gloves off, his hands are so swollen and red.
* For several episodes, a serial rapist is on the loose, targeting elderly women specifically. Several patients are brought in, beaten and raped, with one woman dying of her injuries. Although he’s eventually caught, his last victim suffers the worst - having the word ‘WHORE’ carved into her stomach before being strangled and pushed down a flight of stairs.
* Although it’s PlayedForLaughs, a man learns that he has a guinea worm in leg for the past year. Even worse, the thing can only be removed 2 centimeters at a time or it’ll break.
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[[folder:Season 4]]
* In "Ambush", the janitor talks to the camera crew about how he's used to cleaning up puke and waste but not blood and gore.
---> That's the part you don't talk about when you go home and they ask you how your day was.
* "When the Bough Breaks" - While pursing a suspect, a police officer crashes into a schoolbus full of children. The ER is soon full of little kids on stretchers, covered in blood and crying in pain. One girl’s arm is almost completely severed, and a boy tragically dies after being thrown out the exit door.

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* Romano's arm being chopped off by a helicopter rotor. It's depicted with brutal realism, including Romano going into shock and [[NauseaFuel vomiting on his own face]] from the trauma.

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