Cook County General Hospital -
The emergency room of this Chicago, Illinois medical facility was the focus
of the medical drama ER/NBC/1994+. The on-duty physicians included Anthony
Edwards as chief resident Dr. Mark Greene; George Clooney as pediatric
attending physician Dr. Douglas Ross (who later moved to the Pacific
Northwest); Sherry Stringfield as Dr. Susan Lewis (who later moved to
Phoenix); Eriq LaSalle as resident surgeon Dr. Peter Benton; Noah Wyle
as resident Dr. John Truman Carter III; William H. Macy as Dr. David
Morgenstern, Chief of Emergency
Services (who later resigns); Michael
Ironside as Dr. William "Wild Willie" Swift; Glenne Headly as
pediatric surgeon Dr. Abby Keaton (now working in Pakistan); Rick Rossovich
as Dr. John Taglieri; Ming-Na Wen as Dr. Deb Chen; Christine Elise as
third-year medical student Harper Tracy; CCH (Carol Christine Hilaria)
Pounder as Dr. Angela Hicks; and Laura Innes as attending physician Kerry
Weaver (who replaced Dr. Greene when he got promoted); David Brisbin as
Pedes anesthesiologist Dr. Alexander Babcock; Maria Bello as pediatrician
& ER resident Dr. Anna Del Amico (who later resigns); Alex Kingston as
surgical resident/intern Dr. Elizabeth Corday; and Kellie Martin as
third-year medical student Lucy Knight; Gloria Reuben as (PA) Physician
Assistant Jeanie Boulet (who contracts AIDS); Jorja[n] Fox as resident Dr.
Maggie Doyle; John Aylward as Hospital Chief of Staff Dr. Donald Anspaugh;
David Spielberg as Head of Pediatrics Dr. Neal Bernstein; Amy Aquino OB/GYN
attending Dr. Janet Coburn; Robert Minchenberg as Surgeon Dr. Simon; Melissa
Chan as surgical resident Dr. Leung Joo Hua Fran Bennett as Mary Cain, Head
of hospital re-engineering committee; Clancy Brown as Dr. Ellis West;
Michael Ironside as Dr. William Swift; Jami Gertz as Psychiatic
consultant Dr. Nina Pomerantz; Omar Epps as surgical intern Dr. Dennis Gant
(later killed by train); John
Terry as Psychiatrist Dr. Div Cvetic; and Tyra Ferrell as surgical resident
Dr. Sara Langworthy. Other support staff on hand were Julianna Margulies as
Head Nurse Carol Hathaway (who also runs a free-clinic); Ellen Crawford as
Nurse Lydia Wright; Connie Marie Brazelton as Nurse Connie Oligario; Yvette
Freeman as Nurse Haleh Adams; Vanessa Marquez as Nurse Wendy Goldman; Laura
Ceron as Nurse Chuny Marquez; Lily Mariye as Nurse Lily Jarvik; Deezer D
(real name: Dearon Thompson) as Nurse Malik McGrath; Gedde Watanabe as Nurse
Yosh Takata; Penny Johnson as Free Clinic Nurse Practitioner Lynette Evans;
Bellina Logan as Surgical Nurse
Kit; Dinah Lenney as Surgical Nurse Shirley; Paul Collins as Hospital labor
rep Drummond; Lucy Rodriguez as
Surgery Floor Nurse Bjerke; Kristin Minter as Administrations Desk Clerk
Randi Fronczak; Mariska Hargitay as Administrations Desk Clerk Cynthia
Hooper; and Abraham Benrubi as Jerry Markovic, Emergency Services
Coordinator, aka Administrations Desk Clerk. The hospital exterior used on
the show to portray the ER facility is actually the University of Illinois
Hospital (part of the University of Illinois Medical School) located at 1720
W. Taylor Street about a half-mile from the real Cook County Hospital. A
similarly named facility the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
Hospital is eight blocks to the east. An earlier produced 90-minute medical
drama CHICAGO STORY/CBS/1982 starred Maud Adams as Dr. Judith Bergstrom and
Kristoffer Tabori as Dr. Max Carson as two physicians who also worked at the
Windy City's Cook County Hospital Trauma Unit.
