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Untold Stories of the ER: Extra Dose is a spin off that takes normal episodes of the series and does a Pop-Up Video-esque take on them by featuring pop up facts about diseases, medication, etc. Current episodes are now aired on Discovery Life and TLC. The Discovery Health airings moved to Discovery Fit & Health (now Discovery Life) when Oprah Winfrey Network replaced Discovery Health in January 2011 however, as of February 2011, select reruns are also appearing in OWN's daytime lineup. While the show's format originally focused on one story per episode, since 2010 each episode covers three separate cases. The show began its 15th season in February 2020. On November 11, 2015, the show was renewed through season 11. All cases are based on actual events, but may have the surrounding circumstances changed for the sake of dramatization and not necessarily accurate from a clinical or technical standpoint.
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Occasionally, patients' names are changed and actors play their roles.
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In addition, the patients are sometimes shown in brief interviews to explain what happened during their ordeal. The doctors often play themselves, and whenever possible, the patients themselves take part in the reenactment as well. physician narrates through a series of "talking head" clips, while their interactions with the patient are reenacted. A pianists finger is accidentally sawed off and missing until his wife and dog come to the ER a mans pacemaker is killing him, yet keeping him alive and after his bachelor party, a nurses fiancé is behaving bizarrely and needs urgent medical care. The show follows a docudrama format in which the real-life E.R. physician is too overwhelmed or unequipped to handle the caseload but cannot transfer responsibility for the patient(s) to someone else. Typically these involve medical sabotage, violently or strangely acting patients, life-threatening injuries, or even situations in which the E.R. In this program, real-life emergency department doctors discuss their most bizarre and puzzling cases. is an American docudrama television series which airs on TLC and Discovery Life.