A teenage girl is impaled through the neck on an iron fence; a patient is convinced he's turning into a vampire; a first-year attending physician stands up to a room full of senior specialists to save the life of a critically ill pregnant woman.

The ER is a crime scene when a woman's belly pain is caused by smuggled narcotics; a doctor is mystified by heart attacks occurring the same day in the same family; strange markings on the body of a car crash victim lead to the cause of the accident.

Two patients arrive with seemingly unrelated gunshot wounds, but police uncover the bizarre truth. Plus, a nurse unravels when a critical patient comes into ER. Also, a patient's grave symptoms mysteriously disappear whenever the doctor touches him.

A woman comes in with a piece of rebar impaling her thigh; a man brings his girlfriend into the ER for an STD workup; an ER doctor confronts a woman's prejudiced colleagues.

A wrist fracture turns into a medical mystery; two fishermen get stuck on the same lure; a cheerleader with a sprained finger nearly dies of an unexpected cause; a power outage foils the ER team's effort to get a dying patient to the O.R.