This episode of ER was rather like Groundhog Day and It’s A Wonderful Life in that Neela – on whom the entire episode centred – had three differing outcomes for the same day, courtesy of three dreams which showed the confused medic – and the even more confused viewer; me – how minor changes in behaviour can have huge consequences.

Neela’s day – thrice over – began with her pager going off at 5am and her wishing Ray a happy birthday. And then the story begins but it was interwoven into, as I said, three different outcomes.

The central story surrounded two patients; Anastacia, a young girl with sickle cell anaemia and Nick, who had messed up brain chemistry which caused him to “act out” his dreams as though he were awake. He was in the ER because during a somnambulistic wander, he’d managed to get big chunks of glass embedded in his abdomen… Read more & comment »