Untold Stories of the ER
Real doctors in actual emergency rooms, trauma units and intensive care wards recount the heart-pounding cases that changed their lives. Hundreds of cases are examined to find the most amazing, bizarre, humorous and emotional tales of life and death.
About The Show
Real doctors in actual emergency rooms, trauma units and intensive care wards recount the heart-pounding cases that changed their lives. Hundreds of cases are examined to find the most amazing, bizarre, humorous and emotional tales of life and death.
Episodes
S13 | E1
Grave Diagnosis
A teenage girl is impaled through the neck on an iron fence; a patient is convinced he's turning into a vampire; to save the life of a critically ill pregnant woman, a first-year attending physician has to stand up to a room full of senior specialists.
S13 | E2
Foreign Objects
The ER becomes a crime scene when a woman is brought in with intense belly pain; 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.
S13 | E3
Gunshot Affair
Two seemingly unrelated gunshot wounds lead to a bizarre night in the ER; A senior nurse unravels at the sight of a critical patient, and reveals a shocking secret; A patient's grave symptoms mysteriously disappear whenever the doctor touches him.
S13 | E4
Heart Stings
A woman's thigh is impaled with a piece of rebar; a man brings his girlfriend into the ER for an STD work-up and she's the strangest patient the doctor has ever seen; to save a woman's life, an ER doctor must confront the prejudice of her colleagues.
S13 | E5
Skin Deep
When a man with a hand injury passes out from abdominal pain, tests lead to a shocking discovery; the estranged daughter of a patient helps solve the mystery of his deadly symptoms; the ER is overrun with delirious Civil War reenactment soldiers.
S13 | E6
Blackout, Bleedout
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 in the hospital foils the ER team's effort to get a dying patient to the O.R.
S13 | E7
Fire in the Hole
The hospital is locked down when a nurse is shot in the ER; a bride is rushed in from her wedding with unexplained altered mental state; following a car accident, a doctor must perform a risky intervention to save the life of a teenage girl.
S13 | E8
End Zone
A teenage football player suffers a stroke in the ER, and a renowned doctor recounts his first major trauma as a resident in the 1970s. A doctor tries to solve the mysteries of a patient with abdominal pain and a man who was run over twice by his wife.
S13 | E9
Thin Red Line
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, and a paramedic becomes a patient when she's suddenly struck down by a mysterious illness.
S13 | E10
Law and Disorder
An apparent drive-by shooting victim is missing his nose, and a girl deteriorates before her family's eyes from a severe case of meningitis. A doctor's fight to save a suicidal patient is complicated by a snake-bite victim who tries to have him arrested.