

Greene tries to deal with an elderly man who insists on keeping his wife on life support even though she is DNR. Div Cvetic, over care for a senile patient. Lewis butts heads with the resident psychiatrist, Dr. The head nurse, Carol Hathaway, returns several hours after her shift as a patient, overdosing in an apparent suicide attempt. Doug Ross, the ER pediatrician, confronts a woman over potential abuse of her son. Peter Benton diagnoses a patient with a triple A and risks his career in order to treat him. Susan Lewis, another ER resident, deals with a myriad of patients, including a patient with advanced cancer. Mark Greene, an ER resident physician, is mulling an offer to go into private practice, while juggling his responsibilities with his position in the ER and his strained marriage. John Carter, a third-year medical student, begins the first day of his rotation in the ER at County General Hospital.

Supporting cast Doctors and Medical students
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Also joining the production team were Mimi Leder, Robert Nathan, and Lydia Woodward as supervising producers and Paul Manning as Co-producer.Ĭrichton wrote the series pilot and is credited as the creator of the series for the rest of the season. Crichton, Wells, and Spence-Rosato continued these roles for the series proper while Murphy was replaced as producer by Christopher Chulack. The series pilot was executive produced by Michael Crichton and John Wells, Dennis Murphy produced the pilot episode and Wendy Spence Rosato served as associate producer.

After her death, he becomes romantically involved with her physical therapist Jeanie Boulet. Benton is forced to cope with his busy surgical schedule, while caring for his ailing mother. She admits she does not love him as much as he loves her, and he leaves her shortly before the ceremony.ĭr. John Taglieri, questions the strength of her love for him. Hathaway gets back on her feet in the aftermath of her suicide attempt she gets engaged and tries to adopt an HIV-positive Russian orphan, but is denied due to her suicide attempt. Div Cvetic.Ĭarter comes to grips with the fast-paced life of an ER doctor, while trying to win the approval of his demanding supervising resident, Dr. Kayson and romantically with mentally unstable psychiatrist Dr. Lewis also struggles professionally with cardiologist Dr. Lewis tries to cope with her rebellious sister, Chloe, who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a daughter at the end of the season. Meanwhile, a lovelorn Ross struggles to come to terms with the fact that a recovered Hathaway is moving on with her life while Dr. At work, he experiences problems, after making a fatal error in the treatment of a pregnant woman in the Emmy-winning episode "Love's Labor Lost.” He falls into a depression. Greene's marriage begins to disintegrate. One of the major events this season is a blizzard that sends multiple patients to County General.Īlso over the course of the season, Dr. Her love interest in the first season is John "Tag" Taglieri. Audiences responded so well to her character that producers decided to offer Julianna Margulies a permanent spot in the cast. Originally, Carol Hathaway died by suicide, but her death in the pilot was never shown or referred to by other characters, leaving her open for a return. The episode also sees an attempted suicide from staff nurse Carol Hathaway, who had previously been in a long-term relationship with Doug Ross, as well as the first day for medical student John Carter. Greene considering a move into private practice at the request of his wife, Jen. Susan Lewis, medical student John Carter, head nurse Carol Hathaway, and second-year surgical resident Dr. In ER's first season, the core cast consisted of Chief Resident Dr.
