NY ER is a raw and intimate look at life inside the crowded emergency rooms of some of America's best hospitals. Join Dr. Oz as he introduces us to rare scenes within some of the very walls he trained, exploring this high pressure profession. With unprecedented access, cameras document the mayhem and miracles that occur daily at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Brooklyn’s Lutheran Medical Center.
Meet some of the cast of NY ER and be sure to tune in Saturdays @ 10pm!
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Ben van Boxtel is a baby-faced first-year ER resident, usually the first to greet a trauma victim in the wee hours of the grueling overnight shift. He struggles to balance work with spending time with his wife and two-year-old son.
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Katie Duke is a sharp-witted ER nurse who delivers her humor with a Midwestern drawl. Though known for her practical jokes around the ER, she can turn on a dime and is often the one shouting orders when a trauma rolls through the door.
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Debbie Yi is a Korean-American ER resident with a rapid fire, no-nonsense delivery and a mischievous sense of humor. Even more shocking than her dry sense of humor is her reason for getting into the field of crisis medicine in the first place.
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Diana Costine is a redheaded firecracker, knowing when to put unruly patients in their place but never hesitating to show empathy in her caregiving. Having a heart problem herself, she can relate to being on the other side of patient care and remembers the name of every nurse that attended to her.
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Marina Dedivanovic is a brassy Bronx-born ER nurse whose knock-‘em-dead good looks leaves some admiring patients stammering. After graduating from nursing school at the top of her class, she threw herself into the ER and calls herself an adrenaline junkie.
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Rahul Sharma, born in India, came to the U.S. when he was only six years old. This ER doc’s list of accomplishments runs long, but he’s most proud of earning the prestigious Eagle Scout badge from the Boy Scouts of America. He’s also achieved some recognition in the ER as a snazzy dresser, claiming that dressing up helps calm patients.
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Chris Towe is a charming, lighthearted trauma surgeon, known to ride his kick scooter to and from work. Chris found the hospital is not only a place for meaningful work relationships, but it’s also where he met his wife, who is training to be a surgeon. He says he loves to get texts from her that say ‘I see you’ while they’re in the hospital.
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Alexis Halpern is a pint-sized and passionate ER attendant with a knack for putting patients at ease. Before becoming a doctor, she was torn between pursuing a career in dance or a career in medicine, but she chose the ER and hasn't looked back since.
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