ER
Fortune's Fools
Season 3, Episode 13 · Aired 1997-01-30
Synopsis
Carol takes an interest in an ailing police sergeant who's hiding a degenerative ailment. She also meets with a newspaper reporter to air the complete story on her fatal mistake and is subsequently suspended. Peter runs into a pregnant Carla, upsetting the rest of his day. Carter, already fed up with Benton's lackluster attitude, accepts a transfer to Hicks's team after Peter fails to show up at a lecture the two were to give. Jeanie and Greg Fischer disagree on whether to inform a patient's spouse that he's suffering from neurosyphilis. Weaver and Mark each take a trio of prospective students through a day in the ER, with widely differing results. Chuny and Mark break up; and both get over it rather quickly.
In the series
This episode is part of ER (1994–2009) on NBC.
Steadicam adrenaline and cast breakouts on a weekly trauma loop.
Key cast
- Anthony Edwards as Dr. Mark Greene
- George Clooney as Dr. Doug Ross
- Eriq La Salle as Dr. Peter Benton
- Julianna Margulies as Nurse Carol Hathaway
- Noah Wyle as John Carter
- Gloria Reuben as Jeanie Boulet