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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I did/am doing the same, OP! I did peter out after about season 6-7 but it was so fun to rewatch, the show was great. I think I posted this recently, because on my rewatch I was reminded of how much ER did to normalize HIV and AIDS. I also got a kick out of how many actors who went on to become major stars appeared as unknowns in an episode of ER (a lot of then-famous actors also guest starred). [/quote]

It's also fascinating to see the major changes in hspitals. I'm mid-Season 3 and no reference to HIPAA, no privacy whatsoever, occasional reference to patient confidentiality but there's the whiteboard with people's names/medical problem on it as well. Hospital is crazy ugly, all colors of the old asbestos floor tile and garish wall colors. I get that some stuff is ramped up for TV when little league players storm the ER but every episode has people's friends/family crashing into the trauma rooms with nobody stopping them. Hospital design these days basically makes the kind of chaos you see impossible now. Hospital we use was built 10 years ago. Creepy as hell because there is no nurse's station to see, they are off in a room that requires badge entry, lighting is dim and windows seem tinted as well. They have their workstation niches in the hall but most of the time you see nobody in the hallways at all. There is no way someone is crashing their way into the ER, let alone a trauma room.  Patient dumping still happens(reference in one episode but they refer to COBRA, afaik EMTALA was not passed as a part of an omnibus bill) even though EMTALA was 10 years old by then (unless the private hospital they refer to didn't take federal money, which seems hard to believe). Bloody gloves get tossed into regular bins, at least sometimes, instead of separate hazardous waste containers.

Julianne Margolis is amazing. As far as I'm concerned, she's really the lead character.

I was watching it on another service and to my surprise at the end of ep 10 of the Pitt HBO went right into ER S1E1. [/quote]

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