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Untold Stories of the E.R.

At Halloween, a doctor faces a patient with an ax sticking out of the top of his head and realizes it's no gag; paramedics wheel in an 18-year-old woman who is unresponsive after being involved in a car accident, then discover she's pregnant.

Dr. Schissel is faced with a mystery when a seemingly healthy baby develops an oxygen deficiency; the baby's blood is brown, not red, and the doctor races to figure out what's causing the infant's condition before it spirals out of control.

A drunk cowboy teaches the city slicker doctors a lesson or two about treating patients; another patient comes in after being shot in the thigh, but the doctors can't find the bullet and grow alarmed when the patient complains of chest pains.

A nurse brings her delirious husband to the emergency room and discovers his breath smells like mothballs; a young mother delivers her baby, then goes into life-threatening convulsions; identical twin doctors create confusion in the emergency room.

A patient believes she needs an exorcism; a tough guy is afraid of needles; a man stabs himself with a Ninja sword; a man goes into anaphylactic shock.

A doctor must figure out why a student is having trouble breathing and what his fraternity brothers may be hiding; a man falls off a roof and is impaled by a shovel; a police officer has a heart attack that endangers the hospital staff.

A man is brought into the emergency room with what looks like a minor laceration to his upper eyelid; Dr. Leistiko's hunch pays off when an x-ray shows that the patient has a five-inch piece of glass lodged in his brain.

A man is shot in a hunting accident; a patient's small intestines burst from his abdomen; a man crashes his car into the hospital and claims that someone shot him; a woman gives birth in the hallway.

A woman stops eating because she believes she is dead; a runner goes blind in one eye during a marathon and takes a detour to the emergency room; doctors are baffled by an ER tech's stroke-like symptoms, until his loved one also becomes ill.

A health fanatic's juice diet lands him in a coma; juggling multiple critical patients, doctors nearly misdiagnose one who begins to deteriorate; a geriatric playboy has minor injury that quickly turns deadly.

The man known as the king of the gypsies is brought into the emergency room with his entire entourage; doctors are baffled by a retired admiral's growing weakness.

A teenager is rushed to the emergency room after being violently tackled in a high school football game; a CT scan reveals the patient's liver is split in half and his other organs are shutting down; he needs emergency surgery.

A grown man begins acting like a child; family members fall deathly ill during a birthday party; a wheezing woman comes to the emergency room with a difficult-to-diagnose problem and a very angry husband.

A doctor's friend is combative and out of control; a cyclist's throat is torn open when a driver opens a car door in her path; a nursing student is found passed out on the hospital floor.

Opera singer Jason is nearly decapitated from an accident with a glass tabletop; not only is Dr. Ted Khalili desperate to save Jason's life but his voice as well.

An injured ER doctor puts on a show to stop a patient's violent outbursts; a man's heart fails as his daughter and girlfriend fight; on Christmas Eve, the family of a patient with severe burns prays for a miracle.

A bride has appendicitis on her wedding day; a young girl is mysteriously paralyzed from the waist down; a young man complains of a splitting headache, but his motives seem suspicious.

A shooting victim is brought to the hospital; a Rottweiler gets loose in the emergency room; a young mother's asthma attack turns into heart failure; a comatose man is covered with a mysterious rash.

An exotic snake collector is brought into the emergency room, fighting to stay alive; not knowing what kind of snake bit his patient, Dr. Bush must figure out what type of anti-venom will bring his patient back from the brink of death.

Dr. Harry Severance is shocked when a patient is brought in with a 4-foot tree branch sticking out of his neck, while still awake and conscious; the emergency room is taxed when paramedics bring in 10 critically ill teenagers.

A man falls gravely ill while attending his own anniversary party; an embarrassing secret prevents a heart attack patient from being rushed to the operating room for surgery; doctors race to save a frozen young man with no pulse.

A teenager is bleeding internally from an ectopic pregnancy, but denies she has ever had sex; a young mother mysteriously goes in and out of flat-line; a healthy patient refuses to leave the emergency room.

A young woman claims to have worms living inside her; a young man is bleeding from his ears with no other apparent injuries; a soldier comes in with a stab wound; a young woman overdoses on diet pills.

The treatment of a boy's broken leg leads to an investigation into possible child abuse; a mysterious white dog wanders the hospital halls on Halloween; a neurologist encounters an unconscious motorcyclist on the side of the road.

A young pregnant woman in labor begs the doctor to keep her pregnancy and delivery a secret from her father; twins share similar symptoms; a man with no pulse or blood pressure is still alive and breathing, mystifying his doctors.

A Halloween zombie has a problem below the belt; a doctor helps police determine which unconscious patient may have attempted a carjacking; a doctor makes a mistake that explains a patient's condition.

An anesthesiologist has a heart attack; a pregnant woman has a cerebral aneurysm; doctors are sprayed with blood from a man who was stabbed in the heart; a prostitute's unusual hiding place for money is found.

A man injured in a medieval roleplaying battle has a sword impaled in his head; a critically ill patient is so afraid of germs he won't allow doctors to treat him; two patients with the same life-threatening symptoms arrive separately from a fashion show.

A carjacker has shot a policewoman in the chest; A homeless woman has cellulitis; A drug dealer is unresponsive after having been beaten. Two middle-aged men with severe burns; A man in his 70s has been found unresponsive in a public place.