Season Nine
| # | Title | Orignal Air Date |
| 01. | Chaos Theory | Thursday September 26th, 2002 |
| 02. | Dead Again | Thursday October 3rd, 2002 |
| 03. | Insurrection | Thursday October 10th, 2002 |
| 04. | Walk Like A Man | Thursday October 17th, 2002 |
| Gallant resents the unfeeling treatment afforded an elderly patient. Carter discovers Abby drank alcohol while out with friends. Kovac flirts with a young patient’s mother. | ||
| 05. | A Hopeless Wound | Thursday October 31st, 2002 |
| 06. | One Can Only Hope | Thursday November 7th, 2002 |
| Dr. Corday clashes with the new surgical resident over a patient’s treatment. Abby wonders about her brother’s erratic behavior. | ||
| 07. | Tell Me Where It Hurts | Thursday November 14th, 2002 |
| Drs. Carter and Chen treat a frightened nanny who may have been impregnated by her employer. Doctors frown on a new resident’s bedside manner. | ||
| 08. | First Snowfall | Thursday November 21st, 2002 |
| Abby searches for her AWOL brother, who may have bipolar disorder, and meets with their mother to prevent his court-martial. | ||
| 09. | Next of Kin | Thursday December 5th, 2002 |
| Abby’s mother interferes with Eric’s treatment. Dr. Pratt treats a young patient with a terrible secret. A baby is abandoned in the emergency room. | ||
| 10. | Hindsight | Thursday December 12th, 2002 |
| Dr. Kovac’s car hits another on an icy road. The ER staff treats belligerent elves and a female hockey player who has a head wound. | ||
| 11. | A Little Help From My Friends | Thursday January 9th, 2003 |
| Dr. Pratt brings a gun into the emergency room. Weaver tries to conceal her pregnancy. A woman schemes against her dying husband. Chen treats math students who overdosed on a stimulant. | ||
| 12. | A Saint in the City | Thursday January 16th, 2003 |
| Dr. Weaver is in a difficult situation when an influential alderman tests positive for syphilis. Dr. Carter is impressed when he meets a man who runs an inner-city clinic. | ||
| 13. | No Good Deed Goes Unpunished | Thursday January 30th, 2003 |
| Dr. Pratt’s disabled roommate leads him to a wounded robber. Carter decides to practice medicine in Africa. A doctor makes a pass at Corday. | ||
| 14. | No Strings Attached | Thursday February 6th, 2003 |
| Abby learns her troubled brother is missing. An automobile strikes a crowd of teenage girls. An alderman gives Dr. Weaver a promotion. Susan looks forward to a blind date. | ||
| 15. | A Boy Falling Out of the Sky | Thursday February 13th, 2003 |
| Abby comes close to a breakdown while dealing with her mother. Pratt accompanies paramedics. Weaver confronts the man who stole her purse. Lewis has a teenage admirer. | ||
| 16. | A Thousand Cranes | Thursday February 20th, 2003 |
| Drs. Pratt (Mekhi Phifer) and Gallant (Sharif Atkins) see the when they are pulled over and questioned as possible suspects in a murderous rampage at the hospital’s local diner while a sympathetic Dr. Lewis (Sherry Stringfield) befriends an enamored teenaged cancer patient (guest star Patrick Fugit, “Almost Famous”) who fears he might not have long to live. Elsewhere, Dr. Carter (Noah Wyle) learns a sobering earful from Maggie (Oscar-winning guest star Sally Field) when he reluctantly takes her to the airport even as he ponders a life-changing personal decision. In addition, troubled Dr. Kovac (Goran Visnjic) ruminates on his tragic life when he is forced to consult a psychologist.
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| 17. | The Advocate | Thursday March 13th, 2003 |
| Dr. Weaver finds herself in a deep hole when she bends the rules to treat the syphilitic lover of her powerful new patron — Alderman Bright — but when the patient has a severe allergic reaction, she desperately tries to cover her tracks and compromises her ethics even further. In the meantime, Weaver’s career continues to get a boost at the expense of a stubborn Dr. Romano and Dr. Carter and Abby reassess their relationship. Elsewhere: Dr. Kovac ruminates aloud on his star-crossed career path while he ministers to a rebellious teenaged girl who claims she was sexually abused at a boot camp for wayward youths, and Carter cares for a nasty middle-aged woman who’s slowly being poisoned.
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| 18. | Finders Keepers | Thursday April 3rd, 2003 |
| A tense E.R. spins further into chaos when a bitter Dr. Romano assumes control and offends nearly everyone with his inept and dictatorial policies, while Dr. Lewis is pleasantly surprised by the visit of an intimate relative. Meanwhile, a sympathetic Dr. Kovac employs Dr. Corday’s help in his quest to bring a sickly Croatian boy to America for his only chance to live. Corday also counsels a frightened young pregnant women whose cancer jeopardizes both her life and the baby’s. Elsewhere, Corday’s nanny accidentally runs over the foot of a cunning street salesman Dr. Pratt scrambles to buy Dr. Chen a gift for her birthday; and Lewis is startled at what happens to a woman who fell and is admitted with a broken wrist.
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| 19. | Things Change | Thursday April 24th, 2003 |
| Abby is threatened by an over-medicated psychotic patient and gets an update regarding her missing brother. Elsewhere, Dr. Romano continues to make rash judgments — and enemies — when he orders a man with a severe sore throat to be released and then tries to perform surgery in the emergency room. Dr. Kovac welcomes a old friend — a fellow Croatian doctor — to observe the chaos of an American inner-city hospital. Carter also receives some emotional news from home as he guides a group of eager medical students who witness him refuse to give up trying to save a cardiac-arrested patient.
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| 20. | Foreign Affairs | Thursday May 1st, 2003 |
| Despite receiving some tragic family news, Dr. Carter tries to prevent a grieving gang member from seeking vengeance while Dr. Kovac bends the rules to get a dying Croatian boy to Chicago in a race to save his life. Meanwhile, Carter’s sad family gathering is interrupted by Abby’s mentally troubled brother Eric who leaves his voluntary care facility to cause trouble. Elsewhere, Dr. Lewis just can’t seem to break off her relationship to her former “husband”, a minor league baseball player with a serious heart ailment is treated on the eve of his pitching debut with the Cubs and a tormented Dr. Romano makes a dramatic decision about his mangled arm.
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| 21. | When Night Meets Day | Thursday May 8th, 2003 |
| In the Emmy Award-winning series’ 200th episode, a dual storytelling device divides the “day and night” shifts of Drs. Carter and Pratt. A frustrated Carter nearly has a meltdown when he treats two cult victims from a mass poisoning tied to the day’s unnerving solar eclipse as well as a wounded gang-banger, a dying Buddhist nun and a heart-attack victim. On the night scheduled to be his last in the E.R., Pratt treats a woman whose unborn child was cut out of her — prompting a search for the baby — plus a burned firefighter and other cult victims. Meanwhile, Dr. Romano experiences life as a patient when he undergoes surgery.
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| 22. | Kisangani | Thursday May 15th, 2003 |
| In a change-of-pace episode, a sweat-soaked Dr. Carter finally arrives in the war-torn Congo as part of a voluntary medical program and he finds primitive Third-World facilities, a few heroic staffers and woeful patients overflowing the tiny hospital while a bloody civil war threatens to engulf them all. Carter ventures deeper into the jungle to reunite with Dr. Kovac as they risk their lives manning a crude outpost used for a vaccination campaign — and soon find themselves in the withering line of fire between the warring tribes.
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