physician narrates through a series of "talking head" clips, while their interactions with the patient are reenacted. The show follows a docudrama format in which the real-life E.R. physician is too overwhelmed or unequipped to handle the caseload but cannot transfer responsibility for the patient(s) to someone else. Typically these involve medical sabotage, violently or strangely acting patients, life-threatening injuries, or even situations in which the E.R. In this program, real-life emergency department doctors discuss their most bizarre and puzzling cases. is an American docudrama television series which airs on TLC and Discovery Life. Discovery Life Channel is part of Discovery Communications (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK), the world’s #1 pay-TV provider reaching nearly 3 billion cumulative subscribers in 220 countries and territories.Untold Stories of the E.R. The network is under the purview of Nancy Daniels, Executive Vice President and General Manager of TLC, and Howard Lee as General Manager. From critical turning points to unexpected moments, Discovery Life tackles life’s surprising twists and turns. Discovery Life brings viewers a kaleidoscope of human emotions and experiences through the true stories of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.
On January 15, 2015, Discovery Fit & Health became Discovery Life Channel – a network that embraces all of life’s unplanned moments. UNTOLD STORIES OF THE ER is produced by GRB Entertainment for Discovery Life. In the premiere episode of the new season a college student’s head is impaled by a trophy deer’s antlers a semi-conscious car crash victim leads the doctor to believe that she has lost her baby in the accident and a nurse’s ex-boyfriend brings his new girlfriend to the ER with an allergic reaction.
They’ll treat it all, including a patient faking a seizure condition, a man’s finger that was reattached after being swallowed by a dog, and a man who transforms into a giant marshmallow – swollen up beyond recognition after a car accident. It’s a matter of life or death as doctors are pushed to make decisions to choose the correct treatment for their patients. UNTOLD STORIES OF THE ER opens the world of emergency rooms, doctors and patients as they retell and reenact the most extreme and challenging cases they’ve ever encountered while on the clock. Each episode of the series features emergency room physicians as they revisit cases they weren’t necessarily taught to handle in medical school. This season of UNTOLD STORIES OF THE ER goes deep into the stories of patients and their doctors, exposing bizarre medical situations. Since 2002, UNTOLD STORIES OF THE ER has followed 270 doctors as they’ve treated animal bites, impalements, accident victims, and rare diseases.
In the ER, it doesn’t take long for things to go south, and it’s up to the doctors and nurses to solve the problems. But, before viewers witness all-new medical cases, they can relive the 460 most outrageous and unexpected life-changing moments with a weeklong marathon event beginning Sunday, November 29 th at 1/12c. (Silver Spring, MD) – Medicine’s most harrowing, challenging and unusual stories return to Discovery Life in an all-new season of UNTOLD STORIES OF THE ER, premiering Friday, December 4 th at 10/9c.