
Best-selling novelist Michael Crichton ("Jurassic Park") wrote the script 20 years earlier, based on his experiences at Harvard Medical School in the 1960s.Which was a TV medical marvel, considering: TV's longest-running medical series won 23 Emmy Awards (from a record 124 nominations for a TV drama), and a prestigious Peabody Award.

"ER," which aired for 15 years, was the No. Susan Lewis (Sherry Stringfield) medical student John Carter (Noah Wyle) nurse Carol Hathaway (Julianna Margulies) and Dr. Instantly, viewers fell in love with the hospital staff working exhausting 36-hour shifts: Dr. Doug Ross at Chicago's fictional County General Hospital on Sept. Northern Kentucky University's most famous drop-out was a 10-year Hollywood journeyman until he debuted as womanizing pediatrician Dr.

CINCINNATI - George Clooney wasn't exactly rushed into the "ER," but the NBC drama which premiered 20 years ago changed his life and the lives of his co-stars.
