Fear of Flying

Season 3, Episode 6, Aired
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Mark and Susan take to the air for helicopter flight rotation, which brings to the ER an entire family injured in an accident. Benton's overconfidence during Keaton's absence results in a dire mistake. Carol deals with a "floater" nurse who can't cope with the speed of the ER. Jeanie and Maggie are given the task of keeping a dead man on ice in anticipation of cryogenic storage.moreless
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  • Emotional, dramatic and cathcing case.

    9.6
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    By Parricida, Sep 01, 2007 Report Abuse
    Most of the screen time is this episode is given to the case to the family who has been in accident. We first have some moments between Susan and Greene, some really great helicopter scene, a lot of excitement of the crash place. I really think one of the best tempo on there. Action, really enjoyable. Then the episode continues in ER, where doctors try their best to help the family. The mother is quite ok, boy gets out of the surgery, dad has memory problems but it comes out he is ok. Then stays the baby who seems to be the most ok, but she has serious inner injuries. The story goes to OR, where Benton makes a mistakes, as he thinks he knows well enough of infants. The baby got complications and ends up in life threating situation.

    Marvelously well plotted, a lot of action and excitement, much to think of, really catching story. Defenetly the best episode of this season so far.moreless

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  • A fine episode from the ER writers, not quite my cup of tea but I can see that others must surely have loved it!

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    By Shana868, Feb 22, 2006 Report Abuse
    This was a traditional ER episode in that we saw a few patients and they were treated by all the doctors.
    The patients in question were a family, which allowed some interesting story-lines as different members of the family were worked on by different medics.
    I have to ask though - why aren't doctors taught about treating small children in their initial intern training??? It seems absurd that they're not! Surely not every hospital has its own paediatritian!
    More Keaton loves Carter and Benton shows himself up this episode. It so far seems to be the distinguishing story of the season. Hopefully there will be a progression in this relationship soon, or it may grow boring.
    Was it the drafted nurse's fault she was in the ER? Because I thought Carol was quite rude to her. She made a large mistake, but the ER needed extra nurses and she shouldn't have been allowed in trauma anyway.
    Gant's line to Benton was brilliant, "You're a prick." serves Benton right for treating Gant so poorly and ignoring senior doctors.
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  • very well done

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    By DanLC03, Aug 24, 2005 Report Abuse
    This is an amazing episode because it manages to tie together several story lines in one single event. There is one family that is treated by just about every major character on the show. It was a difficult episode to film with all of the elements, the helicopter scenes and the OR scenes and everything. It was very interesting to watch the commentary on the DVD about this episode. I think that the lesson learned by Dr Benton and by many others vicariously was that patience is a virtue and if one jumps ahead of his or her abilities, bad things happen. I think it's a shocking episode seeing Dr Benton realizing what he had done and how he could have affected the family. The most powerful scene of the episode is Dr Benton in the NICU praying.moreless

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    • In the scene where the man is supposed to be on ice, they used silicone chips rather than real ice to avoid injuring the actor. Edit

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    • Despite still being a member of the cast (and also being prominently featured in this episode), Sherry Stringfield is not in the opening credits. The sequence used is the one intended for later in the season, after "Union Station," the episode in which Stringfield leaves the series. Edit
    • Music: "The Loco-motion," Little Eva Edit
    • This episode won an Emmy Award for Sound Mixing. It also received a nomination in the Directing category (Christopher Chulack). Edit

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    • (holding a chart he's been trying to decipher) Mark: Does that say "chicken belt"? Randy: Conjunctivitis. Mark: I hate chart Q&A. Edit
    • Mark: What are you doing? Susan: Hyperventilating. Leave me alone! Edit
    • Mr. Brazil's caregiver: I've been Mr. B.'s caretaker for 20 years. He wants to be cryogenically preserved when he de-animates. Jeanie: He wants to what? Pickman: Be put on ice when he croaks. Jeanie: Frozen? Pickman: Like a popsicle. Edit

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    • "Coming back in the future like the dinosaurs in that movie" is a reference to Steven Spielberg's 1993 blockbuster adaptation of Michael Crichton's book Jurassic Park. Spielberg and Crichton had been working together on Crichton's script for an ER movie, but got a bit sidetracked and ended up making Jurassic Park instead. They would later renew their ER collaboration; Spielberg served as an uncredited executive producer during Season 1. Edit

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