A teenage girl is impaled through the neck on an iron fence; a patient is convinced he's turning into a vampire; a first-year attending physician stands up to a room full of senior specialists to save the life of a critically ill pregnant woman.
The ER is a crime scene when a woman's belly pain is caused by smuggled narcotics; a doctor is mystified by heart attacks occurring the same day in the same family; strange markings on the body of a car crash victim lead to the cause of the accident.
Two seemingly unrelated gunshot wounds lead to a bizarre night in the ER; a senior nurse unravels at the sight of a critical patient, and reveals a shocking secret; a patient's grave symptoms mysteriously disappear whenever the doctor touches him.
A woman comes in with a piece of rebar impaling her thigh; a man brings his girlfriend into the ER for an STD workup; an ER doctor confronts a woman's prejudiced colleagues.
A man passes out from abdominal pain; a woman helps solve the mystery of her estranged father's deadly symptoms; a group of delirious Civil War re-enactment soldiers arrives in the ER.
A wrist fracture turns into a medical mystery; two fishermen get stuck on the same lure; a cheerleader with a sprained finger nearly dies of an unexpected cause; a power outage foils the ER team's effort to get a dying patient to the O.R.
A doctor with a severe bee allergy is stung while treating a critical patient who's been stabbed in the eye; a man comes into the ER after slitting his own throat; a paramedic becomes a patient when she's struck by a mysterious illness.
The hospital is locked down when a nurse is shot in the ER; medics rush a bride from her wedding who is in an unexplained altered mental state; a doctor must perform a risky intervention to save the life of a teenage girl.
An apparent drive-by shooting victim is missing his nose; a girl deteriorates before her family's eyes from a severe case of meningitis.
Two separate car crash victims are brought to the ER in their underwear; a woman is acting delusional and refuses to allow the ER staff to touch her; a doctor struggles to diagnose a dehydrated and nauseous 10 year old.
A patient gets brought in with a live shark clamped onto his thigh, and he wants to save the shark; complications arise for a woman with a life-threatening condition; a mysterious condition causes a man to pass out.
A surfer is impaled between the legs; a football player's severe leg pain leads to an unexpected diagnosis; a woman is given a clot-busting drug to cure her stroke, but she has another condition that could cause that same drug to kill her.
A man's itchy rash turns out to be more than just poison oak; a young woman bleeds profusely from the inside of her lip, but there is no obvious cause; a family of three is admitted as car accident victims, but the doctor makes a shocking discovery.
A fishing lure embedded in a man's face turns out to be the least of his problems; a pair of unconscious teenagers get brought to the ER, where dramatic family secrets come out; an ER technician collapses and refuses traditional medical treatment.
Police officers bring in a criminal that is comatose; a man found passed out in the snow with no jacket or shoes arrives in the ER and a doctor is faced with a family emergency on her day-off.
An urgent care physician must think outside the box to care for two emergencies at once; a woman with abdominal pain receives an unexpected diagnosis; a yoga instructor has a dangerously high temperature for no obvious reason.
A patient appears to be hallucinating and sends ER staff on a wild goose chase; a new nurse makes a shocking mistake; doctors try to help a former EMT who was found lethargic and slurring his words.
A patient's pet causes pandemonium; a man experiences paralysis that climbs up his legs to his chest until he can no longer breathe; a war veteran suffers from phantom pain in his amputated hand.
A woman is convinced her neighbors are plotting to kill her; a is man pierced in his chest by an arrow; two women with abdominal pain refuse to reveal the cause of the swelling.
A sword-swallower has a case of the hiccups; a mother and daughter both collapse in the ER; a woman loses control of her legs.
An ER doctor's friend arrives at the hospital 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.
A man is impaled in his abdomen by a stiletto heel; a seemingly healthy outdoorsman has a series of seizures that baffle his doctors; two patients make their doctor suspicious when they both complain about identical headaches that started during sex.
A man with a wrist injury reveals a startling secret; a woman shocks the ER staff with an unexpected birth; after falling off a bed while helping a patient, a surgeon requires urgent treatment.
A boy is suddenly unable to move his arms and legs while at a sleepover; a woman gets shot at her own bachelorette party, but something is suspicious; a woman suffers a stroke due to bubbles in her blood; with extra exclusive content.
A young girl is mysteriously paralyzed from the waist down; a young man complains of a splitting headache; a bride-to-be has appendicitis on her wedding day.
Doctors use a robot to treat a seizing 7-year-old boy; a chef's tongue is swelling; a woman who crashed her car insists her injured dog be treated first.
A circus sword-swallower suffers from a persistent case of hiccups; a mother and daughter mysteriously collapse in the ER; a woman loses control of her legs at her daughter's graduation.
A student's head is impaled by a trophy deer's antlers; a semi-conscious car crash victim; a woman with an allergic reaction.
A Halloween zombie with a problem below the belt mystifies doctors; two unconscious men are involved in an accident, a doctor makes a mistake that amazingly explains a patient's condition.
A woman risks losing her finger after trying on an ill-fitting engagement ring; a body builder can't breathe and doctors are shocked to discover why; a gunshot victim.
A pianist's finger goes missing after getting accidentally sawed off; a man's pacemaker threatens to kill him; a man behaves bizarrely.
A man injured in a medieval role playing 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.
A man's face and body suddenly double in size; a young woman is burning up from the inside out after a day at the beach; a grumpy old man nearly dies before revealing an emotional secret.
A doctor treats three gunshot victims who claim be innocent bystanders; a doctor must perform emergency brain surgery on his first day; a bride-to-be suddenly slips into a diabetic coma.
A woman stops eating because she believes she is dead; a runner goes blind in one eye during a marathon; an ER tech's stroke-like symptoms.
A pregnant woman is shot in the abdomen; a doctor is the victim of a car burglary; a storm is preventing a patient's life-saving surgery.
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; a bride-to-be spends her wedding day in the ER after collapsing at the altar.
In this TV special, a doctor delivers a baby in a car and another one to parents unaware they were expecting!
From the life-threatening to the light-hearted, nurses tell true medical stories from their unique perspectives.
From extraordinary challenges to outrageous predicaments, nurses tell true medical stories from their unique perspectives.
An alligator snapping turtle is clamped to a man's neck; an impending hurricane; impaled by a chainsaw.
Two skydivers are impaled by a fence post; multiple patrons stop breathing; a bride's finger gets stuck in a make-up jar.
A hospital worker feels like she is dying; a physician's young son is her patient; wild mushroom picking.
A man's mysterious injury; a patient says they've been shot in the head; a woman is brain dead.
Featuring a man with blue skin; abdominal pains for a girl; the only survivor of a plane crash.
A teenager's bulging tummy and stomach pains; a man's own attempted murder; a college coed stops breathing mysteriously.
A man thinks he's constipated; a young woman in cardiac arrest; a patient's family is clueless.
A student has difficulty breathing; a man impaled by a shovel; a police officer has a heart attack.
A man injured by a boat propeller; a deadly chain of events; the ER comes to a standstill.
Two gunshot victims; a jogger goes into a coma; the ER staff becomes detectives.
A college student's face covered in a plaster mask; a stroke patient's heart keeps stopping and restarting without intervention.
A patient's violent outbursts; a man's heart fails; a patient with severe burns prays for a miracle.
A elder playboy has a minor injury that turns deadly; a health fanatic's juice diet leaves him in a comatose state; while juggling multiple critical patients, doctors nearly misdiagnose one who has suddenly deteriorated.
A patient gets drunk to save his life; a patient is stiff after a fall; a patient tasered by the police; a boy impaled by a bottle rocket in the neck.
A golfer's life-saving surgery; three nearly naked adults in the ER; a patient accidentally shot by his brother.
Bizarre fishing injuries; deadly abdominal pains; teenage victims of a car crash.
A newlywed's hand gets stuck in a kitchen appliance; a student with an injury down under; a heavy drinker has complications.
Doctors join their impaled patients for a few rounds of How Did That Get There.
In this TV special, two skydivers land on a metal post and a woman has a tie rod sticking out of her temple.
A night on the town quickly turns into a fiasco in the ER.
A deranged cowboy; a metal rod impaled into a woman's head; two teenage girls short of breath.
A storm halts a life-saving surgery; two ladies end up breathless; a bewildered man brought to the ER.
A violent patient that can't be sedated; an unexplained headache; a fencepost through a man's torso.
A man smashed by a dumpster; an elderly nun and a drunken prostitute in the ER: a deadly rare virus.
A physician diagnoses his own illness; an ER doctor is threatened.
A woman bitten in the face by a dog; an ER doctors overcomes his fears; cardiac arrest.
A mountain biker has multiple injuries; a man's legs are severed; a drunken bachelor.
A fraternity plagued with blue urine; a pregnant woman may lose her baby; a man's trip abroad nearly costs him his life.
A patient forgets the past 20 years; reviving a cardiac arrest victim; an asthma patient runs away.
A woman gives birth in her car; a bride feels possessed; a comatose heart attack patient.
A wheezing woman; a grown man acts like a child; a whole family becomes deathly ill at a birthday party.
A man chokes while at a holiday party; a boy's leg turns blue.
A patient with a severe headache is seizing; a naked woman behaving badly; a wrestler vomits for days.
Two inch pipe in a man's head; a bride's prolonged bleeding; two prisoners from rival gangs.
A victim's heart has a hole; a woman possessed by demons; an unusual predicament.
A stroke patient's wife and two girlfriends fight over him; soldiers who lost limbs in an IED explosion; a child's play bite.
A nurse collapses in the ER; a father thinks there are maggots in his daughters hands; a patient says her liver is cursed.
A woman is bleeding internally; doctors must convince a surgeon to take a case; a woman with a knife in her chest.
An ER nurse discovers her delirious husband's breath smells like mothballs; a young mother goes into convulsions; identical doctors in the ER.
A doctor takes a nurse's heart in his hands in an effort to save her life; the ER goes nuts during a Greek festival.
A car accident leaves a pole impaled through one teenager's chest and through another girl's thigh.
Treating a boy attacked by a shark; a woman needs something removed from her ear.
Doctors race to save a man bitten by a rattlesnake.
A young girl paralyzed from the waist down arrives at the emergency room.
Doctors perform a chest incision while awaiting surgeons; an iguana is brought in following a car accident.
A man goes into anaphylactic shock; a tough guy fears needles; a man stabs himself with a ninja sword; a patient believes she needs an exorcism.
A soldier has a stab wound; a young man bleeds from the ears; diet pill overdose.
The king of the Gypsies; doctors search for the cause of a patient's weakness.
A small community ER must handle three survivors of a plane crash.
A car crash injures a bride on the way to her wedding; a prisoner arrives in the ER.
A cowboy shows the staff how to treat patients; a patient with a gunshot wound in the thigh complains of chest pains.
An accident severs a boy's head; a patient complains of chest pains.
A patient with multiple personality disorder; a man with a neck injury.
A boy's feet are crushed; a woman falls into an icy river.
Dr. Bush must figure out what type of anti-venin to use on his patient.
A patient is passing out for no apparent reason.
A budding artist accidentally cuts his hand off at work.
When a 6-year-old's illness has no discernible cause, the doctor begins to suspect his mother is poisoning him.
Two gang members threaten to kill Dr. Carroll while he tries to save three men with gunshot wounds; reattaching fingers; car burglar.
An unconscious patient suddenly awakes; a family with a mysterious condition; a man with a knife wound refuses help.
Ten critically injured teens; a victim has a tree branch in his neck.
A 6-year-old boy punctures his skull with a pitchfork; a racist woman refuses treatment from a black doctor.
A man, 21, suffers massive internal injuries in a motorcycle accident; four trauma patients hurt in a car crash are treated.
Doctors declare a man brain dead, and his wife keeps him on life-support so that his organs may be harvested.
A man stabilizes his wife's condition; a homeless woman goes into labor.
Small intestines bursting; gun shot wound to the chest; a car crashes into the hospital.
A 3-month-old baby loses consciousness for no apparent reason; a patient complaining of stomach cramps is pregnant.
A man appears to have a minor laceration to his upper eyelid.
Dr. Greg Bush, an emergency room rookie, is about to be initiated into the operating room.
A trauma surgeon must squeeze a woman's heart in order for it to pump blood; an emergency room veteran is surprised by a patient.