Untold Stories of the ER

Doctors recount the most memorable cases they’ve ever encountered. Unusual, touching, humorous or life-changing – no story is too big or too small when it comes to the ER.

Genre: Action & Adventure, Drama, Reality,

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Country: United States of America,

Type: tv

Season: 15

Episode: N/A

Duration: 45 minutes

Release: 2004-04-26

Rating: 8.095

Season 1 - Untold Stories of the ER
2004-04-26
In order to get a snakebite victim the correct anti-venom, a doctor has to find the type of snake that he has been bitten by.
2004-05-03
The doctors treat patients with various problems. Two patients have internal bleeding, one passes out after drinking cold water, and a man who cut off his own hand with a meat cleaver because he was tired of the problems it was giving him.
2004-06-21
An artist has to have his hand reattached after accidentally cutting it off while working on a new project.
2005-05-30
A 6-year-old boy who punctured his skull with a pitchfork is rushed into surgery; a woman refuses treatment by a black doctor.
2005-06-06
Victims of a plane crash bring reporters when they come to the small E.R. Meanwhile, a doctor faces a difficult decision about a teen patient.
2005-06-13
A 33-year-old is declared brain-dead from a gunshot wound, and the victim's wife agrees to keep her husband on life support until his organs can be harvested and donated.
2005-06-27
Cops arrive at the E.R. with a suspected criminal. Meanwhile, the doctors try their best to save a boy with severe head injuries.
2005-07-11
An X-ray reveals a five-inch piece of glass lodged in a man's brain.

Season 2 - Untold Stories of the ER
2005-04-04
Whe a man's religion keeps him from getting the proper treatment for a snake bite, the doctors try to find some way to help him.
2005-04-11
Comprised of three stories: "Mother and Fetus Shot" "Frozen from Fiji" "Traveling Bullet"
2005-04-18
While working on an art project, an amateur artist accidentally cuts off his hand.
2005-04-25
A chronically ill 6-year-old boy is brought to the ER. The doctor thinks the boy's being poisoned by his mother.
2005-05-02
Members of rival gangs are admitted and their fellow gang members come to the ER; Sister Della Rosa is admitted with trouble breathing, and she doesn't want treatment; A surgeon loses his fingers in a saw accident; A patient has cut his fingers and tells conflicting stories about how it happened.
2005-05-09
A patient who was completely unconscious suddenly awakens; a family of three has a mysterious condition; a man walks into the ER with a knife wound and refuses help.
2005-05-16
One patient arrives with a tree branch stuck through his neck while doctors are treating ten teens that have been critically injured.
2005-05-23
Paramedics treat a teen who is unresponsive after a car accident and discover she's pregnant; a patient arrives with an axe in his head.
2005-06-20
A husband walks into the E.R. and miraculously stabilizes his wife's condition by touching her forehead; a homeless woman complaining of stomach pains turns out to be pregnant.
2005-07-04
A 3-month-old is rushed to the ER because he keeps losing consciousness; a patient complains of stomach pains and the staff is convinced the patient is a man in drag, but the patient turns out to be pregnant.
2006-06-14
A group of teenage girls are rushed to the E.R. after their car crashes into a chain link fence sending a pole flying through several passengers.
2006-06-21
Doctors must perform an extremely dangerous operation to save a young man that has been stabbed repeatedly in the chest. Meanwhile, a pet iguana is brought to the hospital for treatment after it was involved in a car accident.

Season 3 - Untold Stories of the ER
2005-10-10
The doctors face one of their toughest cases ever when a patient that has been attacked by a mountain lion comes to the E.R. with the most severe injuries that the doctors have ever encountered. Meanwhile, one woman complains of being dizzy but ends up actually being high. Also, a young girl is stuck by thousands of needles after rolling down the side of a cliff.
2005-10-17
A man is shot through the heart while his store is being robbed.
2005-10-24
A man's religion prohibits him from getting treatment for a rattlesnake bite, so ER doctors struggle to find a way to help him.
2005-10-31
When an 11-year-old comes down with a severe ailment that has a track record of killing almost all of its victims, the doctors are forced to try an untested treatment.
2005-11-07
After a tornado strikes Oklahoma, a woman comes to the E.R. with a fence picket impaled through her head.
2005-11-28
The E.R. doctors have to reattach a 7-year-old boy's arm after he is involved in a truck accident. Meanwhile, a teenage boy comes to the hospital unable to move his ankles and feet. Also, a man has a serious skin rash that is stumping the doctors and collapsing his lungs.
2005-12-05
A young boy is rushed to the emergency room immediately after a football game.
2005-12-12
A skier runs into bad luck after hitting a tree at 50 miles per hour when his blood will not clot and the power goes out at the emergency room.
2005-12-19
Doctors have to not only worry about a patient's severed arm, but also the amount of damage that his liver and splein have suffered.
2006-01-09
A boy that has been crushed under a heavy stack of drywall is brought in with a possibilty of multiple organ failure.
2006-01-16
A woman on the way to her own wedding has a car accident and is sent to the ER with severe facial injuries. Meanwhile, a prisoner comes to the ER, but the doctors are wary of him.
2006-01-23
A drunken cowboy ends up in the ER while a patient with a gunshot wound in the thigh complains of chest pains.
2006-01-30
A young boy is brought in that has been ejected from a car during an accident and he doesn't look good at all.
2006-02-06
Doctors must fight to save an injured police officer's legs. While this happens, a royal prinncess has a hangover and a boy gets a blood clot and could die.
2006-02-27
A snakebite specialist finds it difficult to treat his own son. Also, a young boy who broke his leg was drugged up with weed and a golfer got a golf club through his head.
2006-07-13
A 15-year-old boy suffers a severe head injury that he got while playing baseball. Meanwhile, a doctor tries to help a patient claiming to have bugs crawling inside of her scalp.
2006-11-01
A very unexpected gunman takes hostages and guns down the ER.
2006-11-08
A trauma surgeon attempts removing a four pound hook from a construction worker's skull without putting his life in any more danger.

Season 4 - Untold Stories of the ER
2006-06-28
A mountain lion attacks a young woman.
2006-07-05
A jewelry shop owner undergoes open-heart surgery after being shot during a robbery.
2006-07-12
Dr. Keller thinks a boy struck by a baseball bat has a concussion, but a CT scan reveals massive brain bleeding, and he suffers kidney failure.
2006-07-19
An 11-year-old girl has streptococcal pneumonia, which has a high fatality rate.
2006-07-26
A tornado slams a fence picket into a woman's head.
2006-08-02
A 7-year-old boy undergoes surgery to reattach his left arm after it was severed in a truck accident.
2006-09-27
A teenager rushes to the ER after a football game.
2006-10-04
A skier hits a tree at 50 mph.
2006-10-11
An automobile accident critically injures a driver.
2006-10-18
A stack of drywall collapses on a young boy.
2006-11-01
A crazed gunman storms a large metropolitan hospital and opens fire in the ER.
2006-11-08
A car accident ejects a young boy from a vehicle.
2006-11-15
A team of doctors tries to save a patrol officer's life.
2006-11-29
A rattlesnake bites the 2-year-old son of a snakebite expert.
2006-12-13
A ruptured brain-aneurysm threatens the life of the ER's medical director.
2006-12-20
A surgical resident puts her training to the test when a mugging survivor arrives with two bullet wounds.
2006-12-27
A seemingly healthy baby suddenly develops an oxygen deficiency.
2006-11-08
A construction worker's skull has a 4-pound hook embedded in it and a trauma surgeon struggles to extract it without killing him.

Season 5 - Untold Stories of the ER
2010-11-10
A woman's leg pain turns out to be flesh-eating virus; a veteran swallows razor blades on a dare; a bride-to-be collapses at the alter.
2010-11-17
A man screams incessantly for no reason; a mother is alert but ice cold; a young boy seems to have overdosed on drugs but denies it.
2010-11-24
A college student collapses in the ER; a man is caught between his wife and mistress; a grandmother wakes up after being pronounced dead.
2010-12-01
A nurse collapses in the ER; a father thinks there are maggots in his daughters hands; a patient says her liver is cursed.
2010-12-08
A woman is bleeding internally; doctors must convince a surgeon to take a case; a woman with a knife in her chest.
2010-12-15
A woman has a heart attack in the ER after being dragged from a house fire; a patient believes he has someone else's face; an untrained medical student must deliver a baby.
2010-12-22
An ER nurse discovers her delirious husband's breath smells like mothballs; a young mother goes into convulsions; identical doctors in the ER.
2010-11-03
A doctor takes a nurse's heart in his hands in an effort to save her life; the ER goes nuts during a Greek festival.

Season 6 - Untold Stories of the ER
2012-01-06
Two inch pipe in a man's head; a bride's prolonged bleeding; two prisoners from rival gangs.
2012-01-13
A woman with undiagnosed rectal bleeding; body part stuck in a camp stove; a rare massive stroke.
2012-01-20
A dialysis patient bleeds; a naked man falls into a cactus; radioactive rocks in the ER.
2012-01-27
A victim's heart has a hole; a woman possessed by demons; an unusual predicament.
2012-02-03
A mysterious white dog; an unconscious motorcyclist; a young boy's broken leg.
2012-02-10
A Rottweiler gets loose in the ER; a deadly heart failure; a mysterious rash.
2012-02-17
A stroke patient's wife and two girlfriends fight over him; soldiers who lost limbs in an IED explosion; a child's play bite.
2012-02-24
An older patient with prolonged CPR; a stabbing victim on the street; a doctor's dream job becomes a nightmare.

Season 7 - Untold Stories of the ER
2012-10-19
A fraternity plagued with blue urine; a pregnant woman may lose her baby; a man's trip abroad nearly costs him his life.
2012-10-26
A patient forgets the past 20 years; reviving a cardiac arrest victim; an asthma patient runs away.
2012-11-02
A bridesmaid drinks herself into coma; a man's eyeballs pop out; a premature infant is abandoned.
2012-11-09
A woman gives birth in her car; a bride feels possessed; a comatose heart attack patient.
2012-11-16
A wheezing woman; a grown man acts like a child; a whole family becomes deathly ill at a birthday party.
2012-11-23
A man impaled through the skull with a crowbar; a woman's cough; a bride is in pain.
2012-11-30
A man dressed as Santa is near death; a man swallows something strange at a party; a woman dressed as an elf passes out; a blue leg.
2012-12-07
A patient with a severe headache is seizing; a naked woman behaving badly; a wrestler vomits for days.
2012-12-14
A teen suffers from an ectopic pregnancy; a young mother goes in and out of flat-line; a healthy patient refuses to leave the ER.

Season 8 - Untold Stories of the ER
2013-10-04
A man crashes his car into a cow ending up covered in manure; a stiletto heel jammed into a woman's cheek; a patient dying of a broken heart.
2013-10-11
A disoriented woman in a bunny costume; a severed thumb; a man paralyzed from the waist down.
2013-10-18
A deranged cowboy; a metal rod impaled into a woman's head; two teenage girls short of breath.
2013-10-25
A belly dancer collapses while working; mending an elderly patient; a six year old girl has seizures.
2013-11-01
A storms halts a life-saving surgery; two ladies end up breathless; a bewildered man brought to the ER.
2013-11-08
An extreme love of chocolate pudding; a patient may be allergic to his girlfriend.
2013-11-15
A snake bite victim; a C-section surgery; a masturbating patient.
2013-11-29
A woman gets stuck in a toilet bowl; a man's leg is mangled by a stump grinder; a nurse collapses.
2013-12-06
A violent patient that can't be sedated; an unexplained headache; a fencepost through a man's torso.
2013-12-13
A convicted murder with paralysis; a father stabbed in the heart; a college cheerleader in cardiac arrest.
2013-12-20
A man smashed by a dumpster; an elderly nun and a drunken prostitute in the ER: a deadly rare virus.
2013-12-27
A physician diagnoses his own illness; an ER doctor is threatened.
2014-01-03
A woman bitten in the face by a dog; an ER doctors overcomes his fears; cardiac arrest.
2014-01-10
A young man is frozen; a man gets deathly ill; a heart attack patient.
2014-01-17
A mountain biker has multiple injuries; a man's legs are severed; a drunken bachelor.

Season 9 - Untold Stories of the ER
2014-07-11
A snapping turtle bites a man's neck; a tree trimmer is impaled by a chainsaw.
2014-07-18
Two skydivers are impaled by the same fence post; a bride-to-be gets her finger stuck in a makeup jar.
2014-07-25
A boy is crushed by an ATV; a partygoer become paralyzed.
2014-08-01
A physician's son becomes her patient; a woman visits the ER after picking wild mushrooms.
2014-08-08
A patient claims he was shot in the head; a doctor tries to save a brain-dead woman.
2014-08-15
A man with blue skin is treated by doctors; a teenage girl experiences mysterious abdominal pains.
2014-08-22
A college student stops breathing; a teen experiences stomach pains.
2014-08-29
A man thinks he's constipated, but realizes he has a life-threatening condition.
2014-11-21
A man injured by a boat propeller; a deadly chain of events; the ER comes to a standstill.
2014-11-28
Two gunshot victims; a jogger goes into a coma; the ER staff becomes detectives.
2014-12-05
A college student's face covered in a plaster mask; a stroke patient's heart keeps stopping and restarting without intervention.
2014-12-12
A patient's violent outbursts; a man's heart fails; a patient with severe burns prays for a miracle.
2014-12-26
A minor injury turns deadly; a health fanatic in a comatose state; multiple critical patients.
2015-01-02
A patient gets drunk to save his life; a patient is stiff after a fall; a patient tasered by the police; a boy impaled by a bottle rocket in the neck.
2015-01-09
A golfer's life-saving surgery; three nearly naked adults in the ER; a patient accidentally shot by his brother.
2015-01-16
Bizarre fishing injuries; deadly abdominal pains; teenage victims of a car crash.
2015-01-23
A newlywed's hand gets stuck in a kitchen appliance; a student with an injury down under; a heavy drinker has complications.
2014-09-05
A snapping turtle bites a man's neck; a tree trimmer is impaled by a chainsaw.
2015-02-02
A golfer needs life-saving surgery; three near-naked adults wreak havoc in the ER; a marathon runner pushes his limits way too far; a patient accidentally shot by his brother.
2015-02-09
Two patients arrive at the ER with bizarre fishing injuries; a martial arts instructor suffers abdominal pains; teenage victims of a car crash fill a small ER.
2015-03-06
An ER doctor gets his patient drunk to save his life; doctors are concerned when a patient is stiff after a fall; another is tasered by police; a boy is impaled in the neck by a bottle rocket.
Celebrations morph into medical mania after their special occasions land them in the ER.
Doctors join their impaled patients for a few rounds of How Did That Get There.
A night on the town quickly turns into a fiasco in the ER.
A first hand look at individuals who didn't expect to become human shish kabobs.

Season 10 - Untold Stories of the ER
2015-12-04
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.
2015-12-11
2015-12-18
2015-12-25
2016-01-22
A man's face and body suddenly double in size; an ER physician races to determine why a young woman is burning up from the inside out after a day at the beach; a grumpy old man nearly dies before revealing an emotional secret
2016-01-29
Two unidentifiable victims of a car accident are brought into the ER. One of them is a carjacker but which one?
2016-01-29
A doctor treats three gunshot victims who claim be innocent bystanders but the police want to know who shot who; on his first day on the job, a doctor must perform emergency brain surgery in the ER; a young bride-to-be suddenly slips into a diabetic coma.
2016-02-05
A woman stops eating because she believes she is dead; a runner goes blind in one eye during a marathon and takes a detour to the ER; doctors are baffled by an ER tech's stroke-like symptoms, until someone he loves also becomes ill
2016-02-27
A woman believes her neighbors want to kill her; a man is near death after an arrow pierces his chest; two women with swollen abdomens refuse to explain the cause of their pain.

Season 11 - Untold Stories of the ER
2014-11-14
An ER doctor must solve why a student is having difficulty breathing, and what his fraternity brothers might be hiding; a man falls off a roof and is impaled by a shovel; a police officer has a heart attack that endangers the hospital staff.
2015-12-04
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.
2015-12-11
A Halloween zombie with a problem below the belt mystifies doctors; when two unconscious men are involved in an accident, a doctor helps police determine which one was the carjacker; a doctor makes a mistake that amazingly explains a patient's condition.
2015-12-18
A woman risks losing her finger after trying on an ill-fitting engagement ring; a body builder can't breathe and doctors are shocked to discover why; a doctor takes a break outside and is nearly struck by a car driven by her next patient.
2015-12-25
A pianist's finger is accidentally sawed off and missing until his wife and dog come to the ER; a man's pacemaker is killing him, yet keeping him alive; and after his bachelor party, a nurse's fiancé is behaving bizarrely and needs urgent medical care.
2016-01-01
A man injured in a medieval role-playing battle has a sword impaled in his head; a critically ill patient is so afraid of germs he won't allow doctors to treat him; two patients with the same life-threatening symptoms arrive separately from a fashion show.
2016-01-08
A woman's face-lift goes terribly wrong; a hospital chaplain's sudden personality change baffles the ER staff; a pregnant woman's life-threatening symptoms need urgent treatment but the doctor must convince others of the diagnosis he saw in her eyes.
2016-01-15
A man's face and body suddenly double in size; an ER physician races to determine why a young woman is burning up from the inside out after a day at the beach; a grumpy old man nearly dies before revealing an emotional secret.
2016-01-22
A doctor treats three gunshot victims who claim be innocent bystanders but the police want to know who shot who; on his first day on the job, a doctor must perform emergency brain surgery in the ER; a young bride-to-be suddenly slips into a diabetic coma.
2016-01-29
A woman stops eating because she believes she is dead; a runner goes blind in one eye during a marathon and takes a detour to the ER; doctors are baffled by an ER tech's stroke-like symptoms, until someone he loves also becomes ill.
2016-02-05
A pregnant woman is shot in the abdomen but refuses some testing and treatment jeopardizing her life and the baby's; a doctor is the victim of a car burglary and thinks her patient may be the culprit; a storm is preventing a patient's life-saving surgery.
2016-02-19
A pregnant woman's leg pain turns out to be flesh-eating virus, threatening life and limb; a Desert Storm war veteran swallows razor blades on a dare; a bride-to-be spends her wedding day in the ER after collapsing at the altar.
2016-02-26
Panicked moms-to-be and their anxious partners delivering far outside of their birth plans.
2016-03-04
Doctors faced with extraordinary challenges and young lives hanging in the balance.
2016-05-07
From the life-threatening to the light-hearted, nurses tell true medical stories from their unique perspectives.
2016-05-07
From extraordinary challenges to outrageous predicaments, nurses tell true medical stories from their unique perspectives.
2016-09-23
Strange-but-true spooky cases that leave doctors proclaiming it must be a full moon.

Season 12 - Untold Stories of the ER
2016-10-07
A woman believes her neighbors want to kill her; a man is near death after an arrow pierces his chest; two women with swollen abdomens refuse to explain the cause of their pain.
2016-10-14
A man with a slashed wrist has a startling secret; a woman gives birth unexpectedly, shocking the ER staff; a surgeon requires urgent treatment after falling off a bed while trying to help his patient.
2016-10-21
An ER doctor's friend arrives at the hospital combative and out of control; a cyclist's throat is torn open when a driver opens a car door in her path; a nursing student is found passed out on the hospital floor.
2016-10-28
A man is impaled in his abdomen by a stiletto heel; a seemingly healthy outdoorsman has a series of seizures that baffle his doctors; two patients make their doctor suspicious when they both complain about identical headaches that started during sex.
2016-11-04
A young pregnant woman in labor begs the ER doctor to keep her pregnancy a secret from her father; twins share confusing symptoms; a man with no pulse or blood pressure is still alive and breathing.
2016-11-11
A young boy at a sleepover party mysteriously loses control over his arms and legs; a woman is shot in the leg at her own bachelorette party; bubbles in a woman's arteries are causing a stroke.
2016-11-18
A patient suddenly starts seizing; an ER physician is at a restaurant when she is thrown into an emergency situation to save a child; a pregnant woman's heart is racing.
2016-11-25
A young girl is mysteriously paralyzed from the waist down; a young man complains of a splitting headache; a bride-to-be has appendicitis on her wedding day.
2016-12-02
Doctors use a robot to treat a seizing 7-year-old boy; a chef's tongue is swelling; a woman who crashed her car insists her injured dog be treated first.
2016-12-09
A circus sword-swallower suffers from a persistent case of hiccups; a mother and daughter mysteriously collapse in the ER; a woman loses control of her legs at her daughter's graduation.

Season 13 - Untold Stories of the ER
2018-01-05
A patient is brought to the ER with a live shark clamped onto his thigh, and he wants to save the shark! Complications arise for a woman with a life-threatening condition, and the mysterious condition that caused a man to pass out.
2018-01-05
Two separate car crash victims are brought to the ER in their underwear; a woman is acting delusional and refuses to allows the ER staff to touch her; and a doctor struggles to diagnose a dehydrated and nauseous 10-year-old.
2018-01-12
A surfer is impaled between the legs; a football player's severe leg pain leads to an unexpected diagnosis; a woman is given a clot-busting drug to cure her stroke, but she has another condition that could cause that same drug to kill her.
2018-01-19
A man's itchy rash turns out to be more than just poison oak; a young woman bleeds profusely from the inside of her lip, but there is no obvious cause; a family of three is admitted as car accident victims, but the doctor makes a shocking discovery.
2018-01-26
A fishing lure embedded in a man's face turns out to be the least of his problems; a pair of unconscious teenagers get brought to the ER, where dramatic family secrets come out; an ER technician collapses and refuses traditional medical treatment.
2018-02-02
Police officers bring in a criminal that is comatose; a man found passed out in the snow with no jacket or shoes arrives in the ER and a doctor is faced with a family emergency on her day-off.
2018-02-09
An urgent care physician must think outside the box to care for two emergencies at once; a woman with abdominal pain receives an unexpected diagnosis; a yoga instructor has a dangerously high temperature for no obvious reason.
2018-02-16
A boa constrictor has wrapped around a man's arm and won't let go; a young woman has a severe laceration, but doctors begin to suspect there may be more to her case than the injury; a young man goes into anaphylactic shock after a dinner out.
2018-03-02
A patient appears to be hallucinating and sends ER staff on a wild goose chase; a new nurse makes a shocking mistake; doctors try to help a former EMT who was found lethargic and slurring his words.
2018-03-09
A patient's pet causes pandemonium in the ER; a man experiences paralysis that climbs up his legs to his chest until he can no longer breathe, a war veteran suffers from phantom pain in his amputated hand.

Season 14 - Untold Stories of the ER
2019-07-11
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.
2019-07-18
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.
2019-07-25
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.
2019-08-01
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.
2019-08-08
A man passes out from abdominal pain; a woman helps solve the mystery of her estranged father's deadly symptoms; a group of delirious Civil War re-enactment soldiers arrives in the ER.
2019-08-15
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.

Season 15 - Untold Stories of the ER
2020-02-13
A teenager football player suffers a stroke in the ER. Plus, a doctor tries to solve the mysterious abdominal pains of a patient and a man is run over by his wife twice.
2020-03-05
A doctor with a severe bee allergy is stung while treating a critical patient who's been stabbed in the eye; a man comes into the ER after slitting his own throat; a paramedic becomes a patient when she's struck by a mysterious illness.
2020-03-12
The hospital is locked down when a nurse is shot in the ER; medics rush a bride from her wedding who is in an unexplained altered mental state; a doctor must perform a risky intervention to save the life of a teenage girl.
2020-03-19
An apparent drive-by shooting victim is missing his nose; a girl deteriorates before her family's eyes from a severe case of meningitis.