Untold Stories of the ER

Real doctors in actual emergency rooms, trauma units and intensive care wards recount the heart-pounding cases that changed their lives. Hundreds of cases are examined to find the most amazing, bizarre, humorous and emotional tales of life and death.

Episodes

S13 | E1

Grave Diagnosis

A teenage girl is impaled through the neck on an iron fence; a patient is convinced he's turning into a vampire; to save the life of a critically ill pregnant woman, a first-year attending physician has to stand up to a room full of senior specialists.
S13 | E2

Foreign Objects

The ER becomes a crime scene when a woman is brought in with intense belly pain; 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.
S13 | E3

Gunshot Affair

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.
S13 | E4

Heart Stings

A woman's thigh is impaled with a piece of rebar; a man brings his girlfriend into the ER for an STD work-up and she's the strangest patient the doctor has ever seen; to save a woman's life, an ER doctor must confront the prejudice of her colleagues.
S13 | E5

Skin Deep

When a man with a hand injury passes out from abdominal pain, tests lead to a shocking discovery; the estranged daughter of a patient helps solve the mystery of his deadly symptoms; the ER is overrun with delirious Civil War reenactment soldiers.
S13 | E6

Blackout, Bleedout

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 in the hospital foils the ER team's effort to get a dying patient to the O.R.
S13 | E7

Fire in the Hole

The hospital is locked down when a nurse is shot in the ER; a bride is rushed in from her wedding with unexplained altered mental state; following a car accident, a doctor must perform a risky intervention to save the life of a teenage girl.
S13 | E8

End Zone

A teenage football player suffers a stroke in the ER, and a renowned doctor recounts his first major trauma as a resident in the 1970s. A doctor tries to solve the mysteries of a patient with abdominal pain and a man who was run over twice by his wife.
S13 | E9

Thin Red Line

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, and a paramedic becomes a patient when she's suddenly struck down by a mysterious illness.
S13 | E10

Law and Disorder

An apparent drive-by shooting victim is missing his nose, and a girl deteriorates before her family's eyes from a severe case of meningitis. A doctor's fight to save a suicidal patient is complicated by a snake-bite victim who tries to have him arrested.