Plot Synopsis

This series follows real-life cases in Accident & Emergency (A&E) departments in the United Kingdom, highlighting cases like: a woman whose boyfriend smashed a golf ball into her teeth; a student who gets trapped under an engine transmission; a man falls into an industrial cement mixer; a man who gets a fishing weight buried inside his eye socket; a man who severs his upper limb during a round of arm wrestling; a man who slips with his scissors and gouges his groin; a woman for whom doctors stuff bloodsucking leeches into her mouth to keep her transplanted tongue alive; a fisherman who suffers a groin injury from a swinging anchor; a boy who ends up with toes on his hands due to a freak accident; a shoemaker who stitches up her thumb; a boy who melts his pants as he tries to put out a sparkler; a vet who is attacked by a cat during a routine neutering; a man who is gored by a cow; a bartender who may have a broken foot when a keg falls on it; a boy who walks around for six weeks not knowing a pencil has punctured his lung; a man whose ear is bitten off in a fight; a patient whose body is engulfed by giant red spots; and many more extreme emergency room cases. Discovery Fit & Health aired the U.S. premiere of this series on Saturday, July 16, 2011 at 10pm ET. On Saturday, July 6, 2013 at 10pm ET -- following a six-hour marathon (4-10pm) of older episodes -- Discovery Fit & Health aired the Season 5 U.S. premiere of BIZARRE ER, showing back-to-back episodes that were never-before-seen in America