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After 10 years at Chicago's County General Hospital, Attending Physician Dr. John Carter has risen to a role of respect and moral leadership in the emergency room.

Lonely, Carter struggles with his unfulfilled dreams in the wake of his girlfriend's departure--and lurches towards a dangerous temporary solution.

On a busy Fourth of July weekend, Carter oversees an understaffed hospital that is flooded with patients.

Two small children are rushed to the emergency room after falling out of a third-floor window.

Neela starts a new job in the emergency room after working at the convenience store near the hospital.

This groundbreaking episode traces real-time events in the emergency room as Kovac, Abby and Sam struggle to save the life of Charlie Metcalf.

Sam and Kovac treat a woman who was brutally beaten and raped and wants to help the police--although she can barely speak. Lewis schedules a surprise JCAHO emergency drill.

When a police officer shot during a robbery is rushed to the emergency room, Lewis, Neela and Ray stabilize him, but the injuries to his carotid artery, leave him in a coma.

On Christmas Eve, the emergency room staff scrambles to finish work and go home for the holiday. While Abby treats a dialysis patient who is in critical condition…

Recently promoted to Chief of Emergency Medicine, Lewis finds out how hard it is to be in charge of her colleagues. Patient satisfaction scores are down from the previous years…

In an effort to raise plummeting patient satisfaction scores, Lewis directs Kovac to teach the residents effective patient communication.

When a 16-year-old girl who had received a kidney transplant from her father arrives at the emergency room feeling dizzy, Carter traces the problem to a new drug that the girl was taking.

While examining a young boy,Pratt finds a suspicious gash across his chest and calls Wendall for a consult. Kovac and Pratt examine a man who was shot when he confronted his boss with a gun.

Weaver encounters an evasive patient, Helen Kingsley, who shocks her by revealing that she is her birth mother, who at the age of 15 delivered Weaver and put her up for adoption.

When Ellie Shore, a young mother of three, is brought in with symptoms of a potentially fatal stroke, Kovac and Sam fight the odds to save her life.

In Iraq, a young girl is wounded in a car bombing, and local hospitals are not equipped to help.

Neela is surprised when she hears that Gallant came to the emergency room with a young Iraqi burn victim. Sam is troubled by a visit from her ex-husband.

The staff treats a woman suffering from the effects of a hunger strike.

Eighty-five-year-old Jules "Ruby" Rubadoux is wheeled into the emergency room and erroneously accuses Carter of killing Ruby's wife 10 years ago.

Much to everyone's chagrin, Dr. Archie Morris is appointed as the new chief resident and immediately challenges Pratt as they treat casualties from an apartment building fire.

Pratt loudly reprimands Neela for performing a complicated procedure on a baby;Abby misdiagnoses a patient;and Ray's procedural misstep on a victim who was stabbed produces terrible results.

On Carter's final shift at County General, four new interns begin their medical careers.