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Dear Abby

Season 10, Episode 3, Aired Oct 09, 2003

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New residents arrive at County, including 2nd year Nick "Coop" Cooper. Coop talks back to Romano and is nearly killed when Neela gives him too much epi during an asthma attack. Pratt and Chen's dinner is invaded by her parents. Chen later dumps him when he states his feelings about their relationship. Romano's hospital insurance doesn't cover a good prosthetic arm. Instead, he gets a hook. He has been trying to cut the budget by giving the nurses fewer shifts and filling the rest with temps. Most of the nurses stage a walk out and receive 90-day suspensions as a result. Abby and Lewis treat a girl whose parents don't want to tell her that she's dying. Fast Eddie and Corday do it in a car. Luka arrives at County and Gillian gives Abby her letter from Carter, in which he dumps her. Frank picks it up off the ground from next to a trash can and soon everybody knows.moreless

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Rhonda Aldrich

Mrs. Reiser
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George Kee Cheung

Mr. Chen
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Kieu-Chinh

Mrs. (Dr.) Chen

Alex Kingston

Dr. Elizabeth Corday
Laura Innes

Dr. Kerry Weaver
Maura Tierney

Nurse Abby Lockhart
Mekhi Phifer

Dr. Greg Pratt
Ming-Na

Dr. Jing-Mei "Deb" Chen
Parminder Nagra

Neela Rasgotra

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carter and abby are over...:( noo! i dont like this, but it happens! on the other hand... abby: well change is good ,right?/ now she thinks like that? now? i'm sorry but this really upset me...and is abby now cosidering to get back to med-school? yeah!!moreless

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By macrosol, Mar 29, 2008

i dont have so much to say... i already did... i think carter and abby were a great couple and i love them! i dont know why the writers did this, the audience loved them...i think maybe, i'm not sure...this had sth to do with the fact that noah wyle requested 3 months off from the show in order to enjoy his son...and then the writers would bring abby and carter back together but then noah wyle decided that season 11 would be his last one so... i dont kwow but i think that everybody wanted them to be together without their families screwing everything up!
i'm peruvian and i started watching the series this year, from season 7, and i instantly loved it! now i'm buying the dvds so i can watch er from the very first season!! my favorite character is john carter, noah wyle is just GREAT! although i know noah left er after its eleveth season i'm glad to know he returned in guest appearances inseason 12 and he will in season 14!moreless
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This isn't a review, but there's no other way to add info to this page. PLEASE fix this website so the "edit" buttons actually WORK. Otherwise, mistakes are here forever, carved in virtual stone...which is very frustrating to us serious E.R. fans.moreless

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By flora68, Feb 29, 2008

Under "Allusions", the only entry needs editting, but the edit button doesn't work. The claim is that the episode title, "Dear Abby", refers to a "Dear John letter" (that much is accurate ) as a letter "written usually by a BOYFRIEND to break up with a GIRLFRIEND". WRONG.

Well, totally BACKWARD anyway, and therefore in need of correcting, but unfortunately the "edit" button only takes me to the homepage. (And yes, I'm signed in.) The term "Dear John Letter" became well-known in World War 2, and referred to a serviceman, usually an actual MAN, getting dumped via a letter that typically began with a cool, unemotional "Dear John" (or "George" or whatever); a MAN, & unless "Dear John" was gay the letter wasn't from a man.

Fix it, wouldja?moreless
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By Parricida, Feb 22, 2008

So, Luka is brought back and Abby hardly gets a change to visit him and then learns that he has someone - that girl from Congo follows him.

Abby also gets a letter from Carter who dumps her - I thought she already did it but, now it is over - am I happy about that? Maybe, but I think they were great together but I am glad to know that Carter will find someone else.

On the any other point - Romano acts terrible and turns nurses life miserable and it was really.. oh, he is miserable and you should have seen the look he has when Cordey walked away with that other doctor.

It was good and great character development but...moreless
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- Dorset: (to Cooper and Morris) You boys remember the law of LaPlace? Abby: Stress on the arterial wall is pressure times radius divided by wall thickness. Dorset: You two have just been nurse-slapped.
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- Prosthetist: I can prepare another letter to the insurance company. Romano: I've got two letters for the insurance company; "F" and "U"!
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- Prosthetist: How's the stump feeling? Romano: It's suffering from delusions of grandeur; it still thinks it's an arm.
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- One of the nurses: You lost the triage lottery, Abby. You got the cage from 9 to 1. Abby: Oh come on, no way! I lose every time. That's like statistically impossible!
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- (Abby showing around new residents) Abby: These are two of our clerks, Jerry and Frank. Please don't feed them.
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- (Abby is looking for Luka, who's been admitted to the hospital with malaria) Luka: He left. Abby: What are you doing? Luka: I needed to stretch my legs. It's good to see you. You look great. Abby: You look like hell. (laughs) Luka: Too much partying on the plane. (pause) Abby: So... Luka: So...? Abby: So, I met Gillian. She seems, uhm... Luka: Yeah, she is. Abby: Must be nice having a private nurse. Luka: She gave you your letter? Abby: Did you read it? Luka: No. Abby: Well, you're the only one. Luka: I think he wanted to try and explain why he stayed. He saved my life. It's different over there. It changes you. I think Carter found himself. Abby: I didn't know he was missing. Luka: (laughs) He's gonna be o.k. Abby: I don't wanna talk about Carter anymore. I think it was doomed from the start. I'm glad one of us had the courage to put it out of it's misery. Luka: It feels strange to be here. I think maybe I've changed too. Abby: Well change is good, right? I think I'm well over due myself.
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- Romano: Did you get rid of those nurses? Jerry: Yeah. They, uh, they went up to nursing administration saying something about hiring a hit man. Frank: Hell hath no fury like an RN scorned.
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- Morris: Why is the board see-thru? Abby: So we can see through it. Frank: Remind me not to get sick anytime soon.
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- Romano: (to Abby) Fecal impaction in 4 needs some good old fashioned finger-digging. Enjoy!
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- Abby: Congratulations, you just saved your first resident.
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- Abby: Since when did I become the guru of sluttiness?
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- Romano: You really are one grade-A bitch, you know that Kerry? Weaver: No, Robert, I'm your boss, and as long as I am, you're my bitch. Now get your ass back to work.
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- Music: "Use Me," Bill Withers
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- In this episode, Scott Grimes makes his first appearance as Dr. Archie Morris. He would be a recurring guest star throughout Seasons 10 and 11, joining the main cast as a regular in the Season 12 premiere "CaÃ±on City."
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- This episode marks the final appearance of several of the supporting cast as series regulars: Conni Marie Brazelton (Nurse Conni Oligario), whose first appearance was in the pilot, "24 Hours"; Gedde Watanabe (Nurse Yosh Takata), who joined the series in the Season 4 episode "Freak Show"; and Ellen Crawford (Nurse Lydia Wright), who also made her first appearance in the pilot. Crawford would later return in the series finale, "And In the End...."
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- Although in the opening credits, Noah Wyle does not appear in this episode.
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- Parminder Nagra becomes a series regular with this episode.
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- Frank: Hell hath no fury like an RN scorned. This refers to the popular saying "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned," a proverb adapted from a line in the play The Mourning Bride, by William Congreve, an English author of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The actual lines in his work read "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned/ Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."
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- Title: "Dear Abby" This title is a twist on the "Dear John" letter, generally written by a woman to her boyfriend or husband wherein she tells him that their relationship is over, usually because she has found someone else.
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