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Episode 053 "Fear of Flying"
Original Air Date: November 07, 1996
Written by: Lance Gentile
Directed by: Christopher Chulack
Guest Stars:
  • Jenny O'Hara (Nurse)
  • Cecil Hoffman (Gail)
  • Dwier Brown (Herlihy)


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Mark and Susan have to go on a helicopter where there has been a car accident.  Susan is really afraid of flying.  A van and a truck have crashed.  The guy in the truck is dead.  In the van is a man, his wife, a boy and a baby girl.  The boy is Zach Herlihy and he needs surgery.  David is the father and he has a head trauma and looses some of his memory for a while.  He is a pediatrician.  Susan has to go back to get the mother and the baby girl.  Haleh is on vacation, so they send a nurse named Rhonda to come and help in the ER.  She has no idea what she is doing and her and Carol clash.  She almost kills a patient by handing over the wrong syringe with the wrong medicine in it.  Carol pulls her off of helping patients.  She kisses Mark before she boards the helicopter to get them.  The baby is named Megan and Carter, Benton, Abby and Peter are working on her.  Jeanie and Maggie take care of Mr. B.  He is a man who wishes to be cryogenically frozen so that he can be with his wife.  His wife was frozen eight years earlier.  Mr. B.'s caregiver brings him in.  He dies and Maggie and Jeanie promise to take care of him until the man can come and get him.  They get ice from Doc Magoo's and cover him up in it.  Carol and William study at Doc Magoo's and Doug comes in and meets him.  Hubert Skinner, from the cryogenics facility, comes in after Mr. Brazil's body.  Abby has to go check on the boy and leaves Peter and Gant to finish.  Benton makes a bad judgment call and the baby bleeds a lot.  Abby comes back after Gant runs to find her and she makes Benton step back.  Abby has to tell the parents about the babies condition, but she does not tell them that Peter caused it.  Gant tries to make Peter feel bad, but Peter just blows him off.  Peter tries to say a prayer, but he can't remember the words to it.  It is a Psalm.  

Reviewed by Tony Conner on 10-12-2000

NBC Review

ON THE SCENE RESCUE -- In response to a remote, near-fatal car accident, doctors Greene and Lewis ride in a rescue helicopter to help the victims. Lewis momentarily gets over her fear of flying and arrives on scene to help a family of four involved in the crash. When the parents, their seven-year-old son and infant daughter are airlifted back to the ER, it's up to Benton and the others to save them.

TV Guide Review

117962.jpg (57002 bytes) 110796.jpg (178601 bytes)November 7, 1996: Fear of Flying: Benton has the most devastating experience of his career on a powerful episode about a truck's collision with a van — and the victims' treatment at County General. Greene and Lewis are the first to arrive at the scene, where they learn that the trucker is dead and a family (including a 7-year-old boy and a 10-day-old girl) has suffered severe injuries. Although the family is freed from the wreckage, the tragedy escalates at the hospital because of the inexperience — and arrogance — of a nurse (Jenny O'Hara) and Benton's stubborn behavior.