
"Untold Stories of the E.R." is a fast-paced medical series that blends re-enactments of real emergency room cases with comments by the actual physicians and nurses involved in the procedures. Often the patients give first-person accounts as well, and some even play themselves during the re-enactments.

A four-pound steel hook impales the skull of a construction worker and a trauma surgeon faces the task of keeping the man alive; neurosurgeon, Dr. David Jimenez, has to devise a plan to extract the hook.

A ruptured brain aneurysm threatens to kill the ER's medical director, making Dr. Yamarick face one of his most difficult moments.

A surgical resident puts her training to the test when a mugging survivor arrives with two bullet wounds.

A baby comes to the ER with an oxygen deficiency and bizarre brown blood; a man has his arm stuck in a meat grinder, and he is losing blood.