Untold Stories of the E.R.

2004 • Discovery Life
4.6
611 reviews
TV-14
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Season 5 episodes (8)

1 Heart in Hand
11/25/11
Season-only
A doctor opens a nurse's chest, and takes her heart in his hand, in a desperate effort to save her life. Swords, severed limbs and suspicious stories lead to confusion in the ER and things go totally nuts at the hospital during a Greek Festival.
2 Life and Limb Too
2/19/11
Season-only
A pregnant woman's leg pain turns out to be flesh-eating virus, threatening life and limb. A Desert Storm war veteran swallows razor blades on a dare, and a bride-to-be spends her wedding day in the ER after collapsing at the altar.
3 Ice Cold Mom
2/19/11
Season-only
A grown man screams incessantly for no reason, a young mother is alert but ice cold and a young boy seems to have overdosed on drugs but denies it. All these cases are medical mysteries, requiring "out of the box", life-saving solutions.
4 Grandma's Back
2/26/11
Season-only
A college student collapses in the ER, and doctors do hours of CPR, hoping she'll revive. A man with a 5-hour erection gets caught between his wife and his mistress, and a 70-year-old grandmother wakes up after being pronounced dead.
5 Short Circuited Heart
2/26/11
Season-only
A young nurse collapses in the ER, and her co-workers must restart her heart. A young father brings his baby into the hospital convinced there are maggots in her hands. A patient is writhing in pain, because she says her liver is cursed.
6 Minutes to Live
3/4/11
Season-only
An unconscious woman is bleeding internally. Doctors must quickly assess the problem, and convince a reluctant surgeon to take the case. A man with a 4-day erection needs extraordinary help. A woman arrives in the ER with a knife in her chest.
7 Man With Two Faces
3/5/11
Season-only
A woman is dragged out of a house fire and has a heart attack in the ER. A schizophrenic patient believes he has someone else's face, and an untrained medical student is mistaken for a doctor and must deliver a baby.
8 Death Breath
3/5/11
Season-only
An ER nurse brings her delirious husband to the ER, then discovers a strange clue, his breath smells like mothballs. A young mother delivers her baby, then goes into life-threatening convulsions. Identical twin doctors create confusion in the ER.

About this show

Untold Stories of the ER breaks open the secret world of Emergency Room doctors to tell their greatest stories. They expose the true dramatic nature of medicine practiced under pressure, where every moment can be a turning point, and every life can hang on one decision by a very determined, yet very vulnerable doctor.

Ratings and reviews

4.6
611 reviews
MoonChild Dreaman
April 7, 2013
I watch this show every time it's on. I love how the doctors get stumped when they can't figure out what's wrong with patients. Didn't know there were so many test you can run. This program is very informative.
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Crystal Lundy (silvermist)
July 12, 2017
Honestly, I love watching the untold stories of the er because my dad use to come home from work and tell us the most wildest stories ever. It brings me back to my childhood :) it really honestly and truly does. ❤
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Norman Martin
April 2, 2013
You really never know what could happen at any given time. All I try to do is "Be Prepared".
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