History NightmareFuel / ER

* [[https://er.fandom.com/wiki/Match_Made_in_Heaven Abby treats a mother of five who collapses and later assists the woman with getting an abortion before her husband finds out]]. The poor woman is absolutely exhausted with five young children and has resorted to starving herself in order to induce a miscarriage. The husband is absolutely *chilling*. The wife is terrified of him, and he is at minimum controlling and emotionally abusive, blaming the wife for "taking on too much" and "wearing herself out" without offering any help to her. Abby is able to arrange for the wife to get an abortion, but the husband finds out shortly afterward and is irate. In the wife's final scene, after being left alone with the husband, she tells Abby, in a dissociated and loopy way, that they will start trying again for another child soon.

[[folder:Season 10]]
* In "Touch and Go," Pratt is treating a 19 year-old boy with a disorder making his bones incredibly brittle. He goes into arrest and Pratt attempts to put in a tube against the orders of Carter and the advice of Neela. As Carter enters what follows is horrifying. The pressure Pratt applies to the kids neck is too much and we are given a shot of the patient's head leaning back slightly too far followed by a sickening snap, followed by silence as our cast realizes that his neck is broken and the patient is now paralyzed for life.

* Kerry miscarrying her baby. It's ''heartbreaking'', and absolute Nightmare Fuel for any woman who loses a wanted pregnancy -- or wants children and fears losing one.

* [[https://youtu.be/9AdUR_2IhzY Carter's stabbing]] at the end of "Be Still My Heart". As he falls to the floor, he (and the audience) sees Lucy in even worse condition. That's right. As horrifying as the attack on Carter was, with only the aftermath, we instantly realize that whatever Lucy went through was even moreso.

* There is an episode where Pratt is treating a 19 year-old boy with a disorder making his bones incredibly brittle. He goes into arrest and Pratt attempts to put in a tube against the orders of Carter and the advice of Neela. As Carter enters what follows is horrifying. The pressure Pratt applies to the kids neck is too much and we are given a shot of the patient's head leaning back slightly too far followed by a sickening snap, followed by silence as our cast realizes that his neck is broken and the patient is now paralyzed for life.

* The Season 7 finale, "Rampage," has '''''2''''' ParanoiaFuel doses -- first the idea of abusers GoingPostal on anyone helping victims, then the idea of medics coldly denying lifesaving measures (despite the SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome of this time being Mark invoking PayEvilUntoEvil on the abuser).

** To wit, a patient is brought into the ER so mangled after having been run over by a train that his face is completely indistinguishable. Not until his pager goes off (Benton had asked Lydia to page Gant to call him to the trauma room) do they realize who it is, and they're all completely horrified.
* Mark being beat up in the men's room. Completely unprovoked and unexpected and to make it worse, at one point, it seems to be over, only for for the attacker to strike again.

* Carter's stabbing at the end of "Be Still My Heart". As he falls to the floor, he (and the audience) sees Lucy in even worse condition. That's right. As horrifying as the attack on Carter was, with only the aftermath, we instantly realize that whatever Lucy went through was even moreso.
** Can you imagine what was going through poor Lucy's head? She's been lying there for who knows how long, desperately hoping someone will come to her aid, but when Carter walks in, she can't warn him or help him, and when she sees him collapse, she realizes her only chance of rescue is gone.

* There is a Season 8 episode with Abby alone in her bathrobe, when she hears a knock on the door, and she hears from the intercom that it's the pizza she ordered. She buzzes him in, and then opens the door to find out that it was the wife-hitter whose wife she had just saved. He tries to find out where his wife is, Abby doesn't tell him and he then leaves after a threat to call the police. She hears another knock on the door, and she stupidly unlocks the door (but leaves the chain lock on) and, it's still the hitter and he somehow forces himself inside and punches Abby until she falls unconscious.
* In the Season finale, "Lockdown" two kids come in with fever and rashes. The parents think it's chicken pox. Carter takes a look at the music drops, he runs into the lounge to check public health posters which confirm his worst fears...it could be Smallpox. For a medical professional this is an absolute nightmare scenario, an airborne, highly infectious, airborne disease with a mortality rate near 50%. And they were treated two weeks prior and were walking around in a major urban center while infectious? Fortunately it turns out NOT to be smallpox. But if it had been?

[[folder:season 10]]
* There is an episode where Pratt is treating a 19 year old boy with a disorder making his bones incredibly brittle. Eventually he goes into arrest and Pratt attempts to put in a tube against the orders of Carter and the advice of Neela. As Carter enters what follows is horrifying. The pressure Pratt applies to the kids neck is to much and we are given a shot of the patients head leaning back slightly to far followed by a sickening snap, followed by silence as our cast realises that his neck is broken and the patient is now paralysed for life.

* The Season 7 finale, "Rampage," has ''2'' ParanoiaFuel doses -- first the idea of abusers GoingPostal on anyone helping victims, then the idea of medics coldly denying lifesaving measures, despite the SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome of this time being Mark invoking PayEvilUntoEvil on the abuser.

[[folder:Season 12]]
* In "Two Ships", one patient, Adrian, comes in apparently in asystole, but Pratt and Ray performing CPR is keeping him conscious. Apparently, the nerves that control the heart were irreparably damaged. This is industrial-grade AndIMustScream. Pratt, Ray and Sam keep Adrian alive long enough for his family to arrive. Eventually, Adrian grasps Pratt's arm with a SingleTear, a sign that he's ready for Pratt to stop doing compressions on him.

* In "Two Ships", one patient, Adrian, comes in apparently in asystole, but Pratt performing CPR is keeping him conscious. Apparently, the nerves that control the heart were irreparably damaged. This is industrial-grade AndIMustScream. Pratt keeps Adrian alive long enough for his family to arrive. Eventually, Adrian grasps Pratt's arm with a SingleTear, a sign he's ready for Pratt to stop doing compressions on him.

[[folder: General]]

[[folder: Season 3]]
* [[spoiler: Gant's]] death was extremely bone-chilling.

[[folder: Season 6]]
* Carter's stabbing. As he falls to the floor, he (and the audience) sees Lucy in even worse condition. That's right. As horrifying as the attack on Carter was, with only the aftermath, we instantly realize that whatever Lucy went through was even moreso.

[[folder: Season 7]]
* The Season 7 finale, "Rampage," has ''2'' ParanoiaFuel doses -- first the idea of abusers GoingPostal on anyone helping victims, then the idea of [[spoiler: medics coldly denying lifesaving measures (despite the SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome of this time being Mark invoking PayEvilUntoEvil on the abuser).]]

[[folder: Season 8]]

[[folder: Season 13]]
* The entire confrontation between Abby, Luka, and Curtis Ames, a patient with a stroke. Basically he proceeds to stalk Kovac for weeks, then proceeds to hold Abby almost hostage until Luka arrives, forces Luka to crush his hand in a vice, then kills himself on a rooftop. All while Abby is left wondering if he'll survive.

[[folder: Season 15]]
* Pratt in the trauma room bleeding out of a carotid tear. Basically he's puking up blood.

[[folder: Unsorted]]
* One patient, Adrian, comes in apparently in asystole, but CPR is keeping him conscious. Apparently, the nerves that control the heart were irreparably damaged. This is industrial-grade AndIMustScream. They keep him alive long enough for his family to arrive. Eventually, he grasps the arm of the doctor currently doing compressions on him with a SingleTear, a sign he's ready for them to stop.

* The Season 7 finale, "Rampage," has ''2'' ParanoiaFuel doses -- first the idea of abusers GoingPostal on anyone helping victims, then the idea of [[spoiler: medics coldly denying lifesaving measures (despite the SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome of this time being Mark invoking PayEvilUntoEvil on the abuser).]]
* There is a Season 8 episode with Abby alone in her bathrobe, when she hears a knock on the door, and she hears from the intercom that it's the pizza she ordered. She buzzes him in, and then opens the door to find out that it was the wife-hitter whose wife she had just saved. He tries to find out where his wife is, Abby doesn't tell him and he then leaves after a threat to call the police. She hears another knock on the door, and she stupidly unlocks the door (but leaves the chain lock on) and, it's still the hitter and he somehow forces himself inside and punches Abby until she falls unconscious.
* [[spoiler: Gant's]] death was extremely bone-chilling.
* Mark being beat up in the men's room. Completely unprovoked and unexpected and to make it worse, at one point, it seems to be over, only for for the attacker to strike again.
* Carter's stabbing. As he falls to the floor, he (and the audience) sees Lucy in even worse condition. That's right. As horrifying as the attack on Carter was, with only the aftermath, we instantly realize that whatever Lucy went through was even moreso.

* One patient, Adrian, comes in apparently in asystole, but CPR is keeping him conscious. Apparently, the nerves that control the heart were irreparably damaged. This is industrial-grade AndIMustScream. They keep him alive long enough for his family to arrive. Eventually, he grasps the arm of the doctor currently doing compressions on him with a SingleTear, a sign he's ready for them to stop.
* Pratt in the trauma room bleeding out of a carotid tear. Basically he's puking up blood.

* [[spoiler: Gant's]] death was extremely blood chilling.

* The Season 7 finale, "Rampage", has ''2'' ParanoiaFuel doses -- first the idea of abusers GoingPostal on anyone helping victims, then the idea of [[spoiler:medics coldly denying lifesaving measures (despite the CrowningMomentOfAwesome of this time being Mark invoking PayEvilUntoEvil on the abuser).]]
* There is a season 8 episode with Abby alone in her bathrobe, when she hears a knock on the door, and she hears from the intercom that it's the pizza she ordered. She buzzes him in, and then opens the door to find out that it was the wife-hitter whose wife she had just saved. He tries to find out where his wife is, Abby doesn't tell him and he then leaves after a threat to call the police. She hears another knock on the door, and she stupidly unlocks the door (but leaves the chain lock on) and, it's still the hitter and he somehow forces himself inside and punches Abby until she falls unconscious.
* [[spoiler: Gant's]] death was extremely blood-chilling.

* The entire confrontation between Abby, Luka and Curtis Ames, a patient with a stroke. Basically he proceeds to stalk Kovac for weeks, then proceeds to hold Abby almost hostage until Luka arrives, forces Luka to crush his hand in a vice, then kills himself on a rooftop. All while Abby is left wondering if he'll survive.

* The Season 7 finale, "Rampage", has ''2'' ParanoiaFuel doses -- first the idea of abusers GoingPostal on anyone helping victims, then the idea of [[spoiler:medics coldly denying lifesaving measures -- despite the CrowningMomentOfAwesome of this time being Mark invoking PayEvilUntoEvil on the abuser.]]