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* [[Berserk Button]]: Abused children, for Dr. Doug Ross. Which makes perfect sense, seeing as he was one. Even ''more'' [[Fridge Brilliance]] kicks in when you realize this is probably why he became a pediatrician in the first place.
* [[Between My Legs]]: This shot is used when [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f_WGbwXb70 Abby is taking pictures of Neela].
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: In one episode, Luka recited part of Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy, and lapsed into Croatian after a few lines. Crosses over to [[Shout
* [[Black Dude Dies First]]: Not ''first'' considering this is ''ER'', but two regular black male cast members eventually die on the show. One in [[The Teaser]] with a voice over.
* [[Blood From the Mouth]]: Countless patients, including {{spoiler|Pratt}}
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* [[Claustrophobia]]: Neela
* [[Code Silver]]
* [[CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable]] As far as "clean" and "pretty" are concerned, typically played straight. In terms of "reliable", usually somewhat averted, as virtually all patients who are in cardiac arrest require defibrillation, and most require ACLS drugs. And of course, many patients don't make it.
** Totally averted in one episode where John Carter is vomited on when he tries to give CPR to an overdosing medical student.
** Dr. Carter also breaks an elderly man's rib once during CPR while awaiting a defibrillation.
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* [[Dysfunction Junction]] - Most of the ER staff are this. Abby's father left her when she was very young and her mother and brother have bipolar disorder. Same thing with Pratt's father, though {{spoiler|we find out that he tried to get back with Pratt's mother, but she never answered his letters}}. Sam had come from a family of alcoholics. Carter's relationship with his parents was never that great and his grandfather resented him for choosing a career as a doctor. Ross' father was abusive and ultimately abandoned him and his mother. Subverted with Mark Greene: He had spent most of an episode resenting his father for ... it's not clear (having a dominating personality?), when Doug Ross (who really DID have an abusive/neglectful father) angrily told him to "get your head out of your ass!" Greene eventually admitted to his daughter that he didn't even remember why their relationship was so bad, only saying that it was "probably my fault."
* [[Everybody Is Single]]
* [[Excuse Me, Coming Through]]: Done with a runaway bottle of compressed air.
* [[Expy]]: Dr. Julia Wise isn't Rory Gilmore, she just acts exactly like her and happens to be played by the same actress.
* [[Fake Guest Star]]: Leland Orser as Dr. Dubenko.
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* [[Monster Clown]]: Dr. Malucci has some unresolved fear of Clowns.
* [[Naive Newcomer]]: The med students were almost always this.
* [[Nipple
* [[One of Our Own]]: Frequently. Hospital staff, cops, and paramedics get preferential treatment, which is [[Truth in Television]] in real-life emergency departments.
** Lampshaded in "All in the Family" when Benton operates on Carter after his stabbing. Benton is so distraught at Carter's condition that he nearly removes a salvageable kidney and has to be talked down by a senior surgeon. Meanwhile, Romano insists on trying to revive Lucy, whereas with a patient he had no connection to, he would have been objective enough to acknowledge that she was gone.
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* [[Say Your Prayers]]: Kovacks did this in one episode while in the Congo, but winds up living through it.
** It's actually a bit of a subversion since the praying saves him. The rebels holding him think he's is a priest and shooting priests is the one thing they won't do.
* [[Self -Harm]]: In one episode, a self-injurer is treated at the clinic.
* [[Scary Surprise Party]]: a [[Running Gag]] where the staff would trick a co-worker into thinking they were needed for a medical emergency, only to happen upon their surprise birthday party/welcome back party/going away party/bridal shower/baby shower.
* [[Secretly Wealthy]]: Everyone was stunned when Carter was revealed to be from a wealthy family.
* [[Sexy Shirt Switch]]: Played straight plenty of times and subverted with Ray and Neela. Neela wears Ray's shirt to bed because it's comfortable, not because they're sleeping together. This is later important because the two develop feelings for each other and she offers it back when she moves out.
* [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]]: Luka {{spoiler|lost his wife and children in the Yugoslav wars}}. Quite a lot of his behaviour can be attributed to [[Heroic BSOD]].
* [[Shout
* [[Ship Tease]]: Tons, but none more merciless than Ray and Neela.
* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Plenty.
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* [[Welcome Episode]]
* [[Welcome to Hell]]: In "Doctor Carter, I Presume?"
* [[Wham! Episode]]
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: As fate would have it, the psychopathic [[Abusive Parents|abusive father]] that went on a killing spree targeting Dr. Greene's family landed in County General, having been shot by the cops. Dr. Greene personally puts takes him up to surgery. When he codes in the elevator, Greene uses the defibrillator and shocks the air in the killer's plain view. You can see the panic in his eyes as he slowly dies.
* [[The Windy City]]: Although filmed in California, the show shot exterior scenes in Chicago (the show's setting) pretty often.
* [[Worst Aid]]: Typically averted, though some of the CPR scenes practically qualify as [[Narm]].
** Most of the erroneous CPR was justified: performing completely realistic-looking CPR on an actor could be dangerous. The trope still applies to the more [[Egregious]] examples, though.
** A good example of a complete aversion came in the 6th season finale when, at the scene of a mass shooting, Dr. Kovac told a police officer to stop giving CPR to somebody [[Boom! Headshot!|whose brains were splattered all over the concrete]].
* [[Write Who You Know]]: Someone writes a torrid soap-opera romance novella set in an emergency room and featuring characters that are all romanticized (or in Weaver's case, vilified) versions of the ER staff.
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