Most people in America have at least one program they can’t live without. Most kids will rush out of school to see cartoons like Batman or Gargoyles. Most homemakers set the ironing-board in front of daytime talk shows like Sally Jesse Raphael or Oprah. My Grandmother will hold all call for The Young and the Restless. If you work during the day time hours, you may tape your favorite shows or just find new ones, such as late night talk show Jerry Springer or evening dramas Law and Order and NYPD Blue. Although I can do without these programs, I have to have my weekly dose of the night time medical drama ER.
I have to watch it every week because it keeps me in suspense. Something new is always happening. Events are mostly unpredictable in a real hospital emergency room, and ER’s story lines are too. Almost everything has come through the emergency room doors, from a baby in a car accident to a woman who thought she had been abducted by aliens. You never know who or what will come next! At times it seems like the writers take the scripts from the morning newspaper, “Bus Load of Children in a Five Car Pile-Up!” or “Medical Intern Jumps in Front of the Evening Train!” Once in a while there is a situation so intense that you almost hold your breath until it’s over. Whether the patient can be helped or not, you find yourself wishing and hoping form him or her to live anyway.
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On one episode, for example, a pregnant woman was in a car accident along with her husband. Her husband and her baby survived, but she didn’t. During the entire time she was on the operating table you could see signs that she just might make it, but in a quick second she died and there was nothing anyone could do for her. Another time a child was trapped in a sewer and discovered by one of ER’s doctors who was unable to leave the boy and seek help. Eventually the doctor was able to contact other people and get the boy to safety, but the suspense during that hour was heart-stopping!
Unlike most suspense filled movies or series, ER lets people know that every human action produces an effect. A lot of contemporary movies and television series show people killing and sleeping around without consequences. ER mote realistically portrays life in its treatment of both emergency room patients and the private lives of doctors and nurses. For example, on of ER’s nurses contracted the HIV virus as a result of her husband’s extramarital affair. During this period, the nurse was also having an affair with Dr. Benton. And though Dr. Benton has not yet tested HIV positive, he lives with the fear that he may and she with both the reality of her condition and the guilt of putting her lover at risk. Each episode emphasizes this interdependence of people and the idea that there are often unforeseen consequences to our actions. In fact, in almost every episode of ER it’s evident that the reason most people end up in the emergency room is because of something they or someone else did, whether by accident or not.
Lastly, ER prescribes the best medicine in the world-laughter. Although ER is a serious medical drama, it’s not too serious. Seeing how the show is so unpredictable and that most unpredictable thing can be funny, the writers use this to their advantage. This has been the case in numerous episodes. There was one patient who wouldn’t stop saying “uncle.” Another patient was talked into teaching the nurses to line-dance in the waiting room. Another time, during a snowstorm, the staff had no patients; so to kill their boredom, they had roller-chair races down the hospital halls. In a recent episode, when Dr. Benton needed an appendectomy, his ill-treated student Dr. Carter performed the operation and afterwards took unflattering photographs of Dr. Benton lying with a few other willing interns and doctors while he was still sedated.
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ER fills my weekly prescription for suspense, life-lessons and laughter. Other people may be addicted to their Monday or Wednesday night sitcoms, but for me the doctor ordered ER.
