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Mystery ER

Weaving together interviews and re-enactments, doctors and investigators come together to present stories of unusual and baffling medical cases.
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  1. S1 E1 - Burning Love
    January 26, 2007
    44min
    7+
    Doctors are puzzled as they examine little Ricky, a frequent patient of the ER, with persistent vomiting and an odd rash around his mouth and chest. There's no explanation for why the young child wheezes, but his every breath is a painful struggle.
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  2. S1 E2 - Hard to Swallow
    February 2, 2007
    44min
    7+
    When Aaron's panic-stricken parents bring their son into the ER with seizures, doctors discover a strange mass inside the boy's brain. Fearful it's cancer, they prepare Aaron for a biopsy until a sharp-eyed radiologist identifies it as a pork tapeworm.
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  3. S1 E3 - Seeping Through the Cracks
    March 2, 2007
    44min
    7+
    Arunas has lived his life in good health, but after turning 50, he suddenly experiences recurrent bouts of vomiting, heart palpitations, weakness and malaise. After rigorous testing, doctors suspect he is mentally ill, but one last test says otherwise.
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  4. S1 E4 - Bittersweet
    March 9, 2007
    44min
    7+
    The pain in Alice's legs and back is unbearable. Doctors find nothing and suspect she's neurotic. When her son and neighbors begin to experience similar symptoms, the doctors are baffled. But the cause is not an epidemic, it's a vindictive boyfriend.
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Cast
Harry Pritchett
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