Plot Synopsis

Using re-enactments and first-person interviews with patients, family and medical personnel, UNTOLD STORIES OF THE E.R. chronicles stories of real-life trips to the emergency room. Each one-hour episode of this series features three cases, including: an inmate who is brought into the ER with a fever of 108; a woman who has been eating toliet paper complains about stomach pains; a mother who brings her chronically ill six-year-old son to the ER, causing the doctor to suspect she may be poisoning him; a homeless woman complaining of stomach pains, who finds out she's in labor; a husband walks into the ER and stabilizes his wife's condition by touching her forehead; a multiple personality disorder patient comes in with strange markings all over her body and chest; a man is rushed to the ER with a 16-inch bar protruding from his neck; a patrol officer lies in shock when his legs were badly mangled after being slammed between his cruiser and a speeding driver; a woman is dragged out of a house fire and has a heart attack in the ER; a schizophrenic patient believes he has someone else's face; an untrained medical student must deliver a baby when he is mistaken for a doctor; and many more medical maladies and melodrama. Discovery Fit & Health aired the Season 8 premiere of UNTOLD STORIES OF THE E.R. on Sunday, October 6, 2013 at 9pm. The season opener featured ER visits by a man who crashed his car into a cow, a woman with a stiletto heel in her cheek, and a patient who says she's dying of a broken heart. UNTOLD STORIES OF THE E.R. returned for its ninth season on Friday, July 11, 2014 at 9pm ET/PT on Discovery Fit & Health. In the Season 9 premiere, "Turtle Trouble," an alligator snapping turtle is clamped to a man's neck and won't let go; an ER physician races against an impending hurricane to clear the ER of patients before it hits; and a tree trimmer is 20 feet above ground when he is impaled by his chainsaw. Season 10 of UNTOLD STORIES OF THE E.R. premiered on Friday, December 4, 2015 at 10pm ET/PT on Discovery Life Channel, immediately following an all-day marathon (6am-10pm) of encore episodes. In the season opener, "Oh, Deer!," a college student's head is impaled by a trophy deer's antlers; a car crash victim leads the doctor to believe her baby may still be at the accident scene; a nurse's ex-boyfriend brings his new girlfriend to the ER and the nurse must help save her life. On Friday, January 5, 2018 from 9-11pm ET/PT, TLC premiered a new season of UNTOLD STORIES OF THE E.R., debuting back-to-back episodes.
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TLC premiered the thirteenth season of UNTOLD STORIES OF THE E.R. on Thursday, July 11, 2019 at 10pm ET/PT. In the season opener, "Grave Diagnosis," a teenage girl is impaled through the neck on an iron fence; a patient is convinced he's turning into a vampire; to save the life of a critically ill pregnant woman, a first-year attending physician has to stand up to a room full of senior specialists.