life operations. The writers scouted out hospitals around the  L.A. area to get ideas for new episodes. An early episode, in which  a baby gets a coat hanger stuck in its throat, was based off a real  emergency in a Los Angeles hospital. However, the situation was  dramatized by adding a scene where the baby bleeds profusely, and  requires a tracheotomy (in real life, they simply reached in and  pulled the hanger out).