ER engages you with it's multi-facet backdrop stories, episode title plots, storylines & 'goings-on' with its cases, patients & staff - ie: the regular cast, it's guest appearances of actors & hosts. Some of the 'guest list' appear as Consultants, Doctors, Nurses & other Medical Professionals whilst others appear as Patients. You'll be surprised who turns up as what on their way up the aspiring ladder of success on being a now 'household name' in Entertainment.
ER is a very emotive, heart-wrenching, tear-jerker, that even the joyous occasions have an element of sadness in this American County General Hospital - 'A & E' TV Drama Series. The politics involved in/with 'Duty of Care', Care In The Community', 'Medical Insurance', staff taking their work home as well as staff dealing with their own personal issues & problems are all present in the show.
Some of the stories are followed up on in later episodes & series, but many are not. It's very much the 'Director's Choice' as to which plots continue - and to what extent.
Some backdrop stories relate to the episode title, whilst some episode titles relate to the main plots. There's so much 'going-on' in one episode that it can make it difficult to find specific cases that you may want to YouTube or re-watch. If you see something that struck a cord with you the first time you watch it, make a note of the title, season & episode straight away.
George Clooney who plays the rogue Dr Ross are my favourite Episodes & Seasons. In addition to the above, i believe Season 3 sets the stage for stories from the original cast that continue through to Season 8, New characters are continually being added/introduced throughout the whole series as medics or patients, with little to no room for recurring roles who are not main characters.
Be Warned though, there is a serious flip side to this TV Drama Series.
The serious flip side could influence your thinking on medical issues or the health care system - ie: you'll question the differences between the UK's National Health System (NHS) that tends to treat all its people's symptoms of health problems Verses the USA's Health Insurance system that tends to look for the source & treat the cause of its people's health problems - depending on the level of insurance each person has.
That serious flip side is how the medics 'play god' with saving lives - 'our' lives - continually assessing, deciding or determining 'our worth' 'our value' our 'fate'. It just somehow doesn't seem fair or right - and that's only the ones that get it right. The ones that get it wrong cover their tracks for the mis-diagnoses & mistakes they make on our lives.
So now whenever I hear that there were 'complications' during an emergency treatment or someone died on the operating table, due to complications that arose, I will always be thinking 'Uh Oh! Somebody's made a mistake - like Dr Benton, Dr Greene & Carol Hathaway did all in Season 3.
All Seriousness Aside - Without having to YouTube it, I spotted one 'Goof' in S3. However, when putting all goofs & laughs aside, I'd like to ask just how did they do it? How did the actors do it - ie: how did the they act, learn their lines, remember the names of all those medical instruments, terms & terminologies & apply the right abbreviations to the situation?
Great performances by all!
ER is a very emotive, heart-wrenching, tear-jerker, that even the joyous occasions have an element of sadness in this American County General Hospital - 'A & E' TV Drama Series. The politics involved in/with 'Duty of Care', Care In The Community', 'Medical Insurance', staff taking their work home as well as staff dealing with their own personal issues & problems are all present in the show.
Some of the stories are followed up on in later episodes & series, but many are not. It's very much the 'Director's Choice' as to which plots continue - and to what extent.
Some backdrop stories relate to the episode title, whilst some episode titles relate to the main plots. There's so much 'going-on' in one episode that it can make it difficult to find specific cases that you may want to YouTube or re-watch. If you see something that struck a cord with you the first time you watch it, make a note of the title, season & episode straight away.
George Clooney who plays the rogue Dr Ross are my favourite Episodes & Seasons. In addition to the above, i believe Season 3 sets the stage for stories from the original cast that continue through to Season 8, New characters are continually being added/introduced throughout the whole series as medics or patients, with little to no room for recurring roles who are not main characters.
Be Warned though, there is a serious flip side to this TV Drama Series.
The serious flip side could influence your thinking on medical issues or the health care system - ie: you'll question the differences between the UK's National Health System (NHS) that tends to treat all its people's symptoms of health problems Verses the USA's Health Insurance system that tends to look for the source & treat the cause of its people's health problems - depending on the level of insurance each person has.
That serious flip side is how the medics 'play god' with saving lives - 'our' lives - continually assessing, deciding or determining 'our worth' 'our value' our 'fate'. It just somehow doesn't seem fair or right - and that's only the ones that get it right. The ones that get it wrong cover their tracks for the mis-diagnoses & mistakes they make on our lives.
So now whenever I hear that there were 'complications' during an emergency treatment or someone died on the operating table, due to complications that arose, I will always be thinking 'Uh Oh! Somebody's made a mistake - like Dr Benton, Dr Greene & Carol Hathaway did all in Season 3.
All Seriousness Aside - Without having to YouTube it, I spotted one 'Goof' in S3. However, when putting all goofs & laughs aside, I'd like to ask just how did they do it? How did the actors do it - ie: how did the they act, learn their lines, remember the names of all those medical instruments, terms & terminologies & apply the right abbreviations to the situation?
Great performances by all!