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For the doctors and emergency room personnel of County General Hospital, an urban Chicago teaching hospital, the difference between life and death often depends on split-second decisions.

Carter returns to the Congo to search for the body of a fellow doctor and reunites with several associates from his previous trip.

A frustrating day for Abby gets worse when she receives an upsetting letter from Carter, who is still in the Congo. Her fellow nurses protest work conditions, and her opinions are ignored.

Confident second-year resident Pratt wants to prove his abilities when he works the graveyard shift, but his heroics sometimes backfire.

Lewis fears for a distraught architect, Ben Hollander, whose degenerating eyesight makes him despondent.

Pratt and Kovac clash over a miscarriage-prone young woman, Denny, who arrives to deliver a premature baby.

To everyone's amazement, Lewis makes a date to share a home-cooked dinner with the elderly Ben Hollander, her depressed patient who is going blind.

On Thanksgiving, the harried staff struggles with a shortage of doctors. Abby treats an HIV-positive woman, Loren, who is hemorrhaging and may be pregnant.

Two cultures commingle when Neela treats two Amish teenagers who were in a car accident and are exploring the outside world to determine if they want to return to their reclusive society.

On Christmas Eve, the chilly emergency room staffers do their best to observe the holiday while a crusading Carter does the same--half a world away in a rundown Congolese medical clinic.

Carter returns to County General to hearty welcomes. Although Abby is shocked to learn that Carter's beautiful African girlfriend, Kem, is already pregnant with Carter's child.

In a special episode focusing on the neonatal intensive care unit medical students Abby and Neela serve a three-week rotation in the unit and gain a new perspective on emergency care.

Carter makes the mistake of bringing his naïve girlfriend, Kem, to observe the emergency room. Kem makes an impact--wanted or not--almost everywhere she wanders…

Sam treats an abused and newly pregnant teen, Layla, as well as a woman, Kathy, who could lose her entire family after a car accident.

Carter misses his pregnant girlfriend who has returned to Africa. A family of four is rushed to the emergency room after suffering carbon monoxide poisoning from their faulty furnace.

A psychotic patient vows to punish the medical staff and steals an army tank, grinding his way across Chicago towards the hospital.

Carter defends his protégée Neela when Weaver and other doctors rate the residents. Carter urges his student to be more proactive in the emergency room…

Weaver rushes to the aid of her female life partner, Sandy Lopez, when the firefighter is severely injured while working and must now battle for her life.

Pratt struggles to diagnose a woman who suffers mysterious chronic seizures. An attractive woman, Campbell, informally accuses flirtatious Pratt of sexual harassment.

A panic-stricken Weaver is ordered to give her son to the Lopez family.

When Carter suspects a problem, he rushes his pregnant girlfriend, Kem, to the emergency room.

In the season finale, Good Samaritan Kovac helps a stranded female motorist and her young son who then get struck and gravely injured by a car.