ER: Season 8, Episode 20

The Letter (2 May 2002)

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Dr. Carter reads a letter from terminally ill Dr. Green to the ER staff. Dr. Weaver lashes out at a mentally challenged patient. A terminal, homeless man continues asking for Dr. Green.

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Dr. Carter reads a letter from terminally ill Dr. Green to the ER staff. Dr. Weaver lashes out at a mentally challenged patient. A terminal, homeless man continues asking for Dr. Green.

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The speech that Carter gives to Gallant in this episode is the same as the one that Dr. Greene gave to him in the Pilot. See more »

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After the letter that Dr.Greene has written is pinned to the board in the ER, Dr.Lewis pins the bottom half of the letter to the Board. In the ending scene, you see the letter floating in the wind from the open doors. The bottom half is not pinned down and the first page of the letter floats away into the hall because it is not pinned down. See more »

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Dr. Robert Romano: Amazing how the human body can turn on itself. The very process we need to grow in the womb, to regenerate ourselves, systematically eating us alive. But no-one's sacred. Little girls. Fathers with little girls. Cancer. Brain cancer, liver cancer, breast cancer. It's the same traitor. The merciless unrelenting predator. Like time itself.
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