 Pilot for the popular TV series is set during 24 frantic hours in the lives a group of doctors, nurses, and workers of a busy emergency room at a Chicago hospital in dealing with the seemingly endless casualties that stumble into their place of employment. The central characters being the chief resident and family man Dr. Mark Greene who looks out of his current position for a job in a private practice due to pressure from his demanding lawyer wife Jennifer; outgoing Dr. Doug Ross who deals with cases in his own personal way; straight-arrow Dr. Susan Lewis in trying just to get by other long 36-hour shift; naive new intern John Carter; veteran intern Peter Benton; the troubled chief nurse Carol Hathaway; and E.R. head doctor David Morgenstern.