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John Truman Carter III, M.D. is a fictional character from the NBC television series ER. He was portrayed by Noah Wyle and appeared as one of the series' principal characters from the pilot episode until the eleventh season finale. Carter's career path is one of the main story arcs of the series, beginning as a third-year medical student, becoming a resident, first in surgery and then in emergency medicine, before being promoted to an attending physician.

John Carter, M.D.
ER character
Noah Wyle as John Carter
First appearanceSeptember 19, 1994
(Pilot, "24 Hours")
Last appearanceApril 2, 2009
(15x22 "And in the End...")
Portrayed byNoah Wyle
Duration1994–2006, 2009
In-universe information
GenderMale
TitleCounty General:
Medical student (1994–1996)
Intern (1996–1998)
Resident (1998–2001)
Chief Resident (2001–2002)
Attending Physician (2002-2005, 2009)

Other:
Chairman, Carter Family Foundation
NGO Volunteer
(2003, 2005–2006)
OccupationPhysician
FamilyJohn "Jack" Carter Jr. (father)
Eleanor Carter (mother)
Robert "Bobby" Carter (brother, deceased)
Unnamed Sister (mentioned)
SpouseMakemba Likasu
ChildrenJoshua Makalo Carter (son, with Makemba; stillborn)
RelativesJohn Carter Sr. (grandfather, deceased)
Millicent "Gamma" Carter (grandmother, deceased)
Chase Carter (cousin)
BornJune 4, 1970[1]

In the twelfth season, Wyle made guest appearances in four episodes, from "Quintessence of Dust" to "There Are No Angels Here". During the fifteenth season, Wyle again reprised the role for eight additional episodes, first returning in "The Beginning of the End" and ending with the series finale.


Character history


Carter arrived at County General as a third-year medical student. His career got off to a rocky start when on his first day at County, he nearly vomited in the emergency room after seeing a critically wounded patient and had to be consoled by Chief Resident Dr. Mark Greene (Anthony Edwards).

Carter had a dedicated and compassionate approach with his patients. Initially interested in surgery, he switched to emergency medicine, much to his mentor Dr. Peter Benton's (Eriq La Salle) initial dismay and disappointment. During his surgical residency, Carter laments on the lack of patient connection, specifically the lack of thorough follow-up and care.

In order for Carter to change from his surgical residency to an emergency medicine residency, he agreed to work without pay. He was part of an influential and wealthy family and did not need a salary, enabling County General to take him on despite the lack of funding for an additional position. As a resident, his confidence grew, and he often went out of his way to help patients.


Season 6–7


During season 6, Carter and medical student Lucy Knight (Kellie Martin) are stabbed by patient Paul Sobricki (David Krumholtz), a law student suffering from schizophrenia. Knight dies from her injuries while Carter's injuries leave him with lifelong kidney problems. As a result of Carter's chronic battle with pain, survivor guilt, and resistance to getting help, he eventually develops an addiction to narcotics. He begins making mistakes at work. After Abby Lockhart (Maura Tierney) catches him injecting left-over fentanyl from a trauma into his wrist, Carter's colleagues hold an intervention and Dr. Greene demands that he go to an inpatient rehab center for medical doctors in Atlanta or be fired. Although Carter is initially opposed to going, Dr. Benton convinces him and boards the plane with him.

Upon returning from rehab in season 7, Carter makes peace with Chase, and apologizes for his long absence, saying, "I didn't want to admit to the fact that I was just like you." At the end of the season, Kerry Weaver (Laura Innes) rejects Carter's application for Chief Resident because of his history of addiction.


Season 9–10


During season 9, Carter and Abby begin sleeping together after they are quarantined in the ER for two weeks during an outbreak of monkeypox. Meanwhile, the health of Carter's grandmother, Millicent (Gamma), continued to decline, and his mother, Eleanor, had difficulty accepting her divorce from Carter's father, Jack. Worse, Abby and Carter continued to disagree over whether or not Abby, a recovering alcoholic, should be drinking at all, even moderately. These personal issues come to a head when Abby's bipolar brother Eric (Tom Everett Scott) reappears the day Gamma dies. Abby giving precedence to her duty as a sister marks the beginning of the end of Carter and Abby's relationship.

Unable to shake his grief, Carter decides to join Dr. Luka Kovač (Goran Visnjic) in Congo without Abby's support. While there, he mended his previous rift with Kovač (due to their feelings for Abby) and they began to understand one another better. When the clinic is overrun by militia, Luka is threatened by guerrilla soldiers. However, a young soldier recognized Carter as the doctor that tried desperately to save his brother though he ultimately failed. Out of respect for Carter’s actions, the guerrillas spare everyone at the clinic aside from an Army soldier they had been treating.

He returned two weeks later in season 10. When Kovač is reported killed in Africa, Carter goes back to retrieve his body, but finds that Kovač is alive but ill with malaria. He arranges for Kovač to be sent home, and sends a letter to Abby ending their relationship. Carter remains in Africa for several months and works in Makemba "Kem" Likasu's (Thandiwe Newton) AIDS clinic. Carter and Kem develop a relationship, and when she gets pregnant with his child he asks her to accompany him to Chicago, where he introduces her to his colleagues.

Kem's pregnancy ends tragically at eight months when she gives birth to a stillborn son in the episode "Midnight". While they are both devastated, Kem and Carter's relationship manages to survive.


Season 11–12


During season 11, Carter started building an HIV/AIDS clinic adjacent to County General, with funding from his family's charity foundation. It is named after his stillborn son - "The Joshua Makalo Carter Center." Afterward, he went to Paris, where Kem is visiting her mother. They reconnect and he offered to go to Africa with her so they can start afresh. She hesitated but later accepted the offer. Dr. Carter returned to Chicago and bids adieu to his friends and colleagues. In a fitting ending to his career at County, Carter's last patient is a young girl who he had delivered 11 years before when he had just been first starting out.

In season 12, Carter appeared in a four episode arc, working with a fellow doctor in Darfur, Sudan, where he is joined by Dr. Greg Pratt (Mekhi Phifer) and Debbie (Mary McCormack). Pratt informed him that Luka and Abby have reunited and are expecting a baby.


Season 15


In the season 15 episode, "The Book of Abby", long-serving nurse Haleh Adams shows the departing Abby Lockhart a closet wall where all the past doctors and employees have put their locker name tags. However, Carter's is missing; according to Haleh, he did not want to do it because it was "defacing government property."

Carter later returned in the season 15 episode, "The Beginning of the End”, in which he rejoined the ER at County General. He explains to Cate Banfield that he is relocating to Chicago, and is looking to pick up some shifts. She agreed, after finding out that one of his teachers at the hospital was Mark Greene. He visited the Joshua Makalo Carter Center. At the end of the episode, it is shown that Carter is on dialysis[2] because of amyloidosis developing from schistosomiasis which irreparably damages Carter's remaining kidney. He was back in Chicago to be placed on the US transplant list. Working in the ER once again, he is shown to still be a good doctor with good judgment, but is still catching up with the latest medicines and techniques being used in the US. Eventually, his condition worsens, causing him to collapse while attending to a patient. While being treated by Dr. Gates and Dr. Archie Morris (Scott Grimes), he goes into V-tach, but is brought back thanks to Morris' quick thinking. He is then transferred to Northwestern Medical Center.

In the episode "Old Times", while a patient at Northwestern, he is visited by Benton, to whom he reveals that his marriage with Kem is going through a rough patch. In the same episode, Benton acts as a back-seat driver and supervises the operation to make sure Carter is well taken care of. Thanks to Benton's thoroughness which initially annoys the surgeon performing the operation, a complication is resolved and the operation is a success. Unbeknownst to Carter, the kidney is arranged for him thanks to the efforts of his old friends Carol Hathaway (Julianne Margulies) and Doug Ross (George Clooney), who are also unaware that they are helping Carter and only find out that "some doctor" got the kidney.

In "And In The End", the series finale, Carter uses his family fortune to finally open the Joshua Carter Center, a medical clinic for the underprivileged that fits into the plans he announces when his grandmother's will is read. Kem surprises Carter by attending the opening ceremony, but she is seemingly uncomfortable around him. In a later conversation she tells him that she felt sad in Chicago because it reminded her of their son's death. As she leaves the clinic's opening, she tells Carter to call her to set up breakfast before she flies back to Paris. Carter indicates he might come back to County for good; however, this is potentially contradicted by his earlier idea that he would leave Chicago if it would save his marriage.

In the final scene, victims of an explosion come to County and while tending to a patient he invites Rachel Greene (Hallee Hirsh), Dr. Mark Greene's daughter who is considering going to medical school, to come help him, even calling her "Dr. Greene".



Early in the series, Carter's plots typically stayed in the realm of the ER. In a symbolic gesture of this transference, he was told by Mark Greene "you set the tone" on Dr. Greene's last day in the ER. Dr. Greene had been told the same thing, by Dr. Morgenstern, in the pilot episode in season 1 of the show. Dr. Carter, in turn, said the same thing to Dr. Archie Morris as Carter left the ER, although Morris did not understand the significance.


Family


Throughout the course of the series (particularly at the beginning of season 8) we meet various members of Carter's wealthy family and see that he is very uncomfortable with coming from money, to the point where he goes out of his way to not talk about his background.

His father, John (Jack) Truman Carter Jr. (Michael Gross) is caring but reserved, and very acquiescent with his wife until he gets tired of her being an "emotional vampire" and divorces her. He and Carter have an awkward relationship; they love each other, but John does not respect his father. Jack recognizes this and keeps some distance from his son as a result. Carter's mother, Eleanor (Mary McDonnell), is emotionally distant and cold. Her personality was largely shaped because she blamed herself for the death of Carter's older brother, Bobby, from leukemia. Carter eventually figures out that much of her sadness comes from this and they briefly become closer, but eventually Eleanor cut ties with her family after Jack divorces her, to the point where John has no idea how to reach her and she refuses to return a phone call he makes after her mother passes away. It is noteworthy that neither of Carter's parents are present when he dedicates the Joshua Carter Public Health building in the series finale.

Carter's grandfather, John Truman Carter Sr. (George Plimpton), is disappointed by Carter's career choice, and though Carter respects him, he also resents him. Carter's grandmother, Millicent Carter (Frances Sternhagen), is a benefactor of the hospital, even funding Carol Hathaway's clinic. Carter is very close to his grandmother, whom he calls "Gamma", and intermittently lives at her home. They do occasionally argue, however, usually in regard to Carter's reluctance to participate in matters related to the family foundation; Gamma modifies her will to remove Jack as the head of the foundation and puts John in charge of it, leading to him changing its mission from supporting Chicago arts programs to supporting public health initiatives.

Chase Carter (Jonathan Scarfe) is John's first cousin and a "functioning"[clarification needed] heroin addict. Carter, with the assistance of his colleague Anna, attempts to detox and rehabilitate him, but fails. Chase eventually overdoses, resulting in severe brain damage. Carter pleads for the family to keep Chase in physical therapy, and Chase improves significantly. Elaine Nichols Carter (Rebecca De Mornay), the ex-wife of another of Carter's cousins, comes to the hospital for treatment for breast cancer and she and Carter have an affair.


Romantic Relationships


Carter had a number of unsuccessful relationships. Significant girlfriends are listed below:


Notes


  1. "Full Moon, Saturday Night". ER. March 30, 1995. NBC.
  2. The Beginning of the End, NBC episode summary


Other offices
Preceded by
Jing-Mei "Deb" Chen
Chief Resident
2001-2002
Succeeded by
Unknown

На других языках


- [en] John Carter (ER)

[es] John Carter (ER)

John Truman Carter III, más conocido simplemente como John Carter, es un personaje de ficción del drama médico ER, interpretado por Noah Wyle de 1994 a 2005, con apariciones especiales en 2006 y 2009.

[fr] John Carter (Urgences)

Le Dr. John Truman Carter III, interprété par Noah Wyle, est un personnage de fiction de la série télévisée Urgences. Généralement appelé « Carter » par les autres personnages, il fut le seul personnage principal à rester depuis le premier épisode (pilote) jusqu'à la saison 11, ainsi que dans quelques épisodes des saisons 12 et 15.

[it] John Carter (E.R. - Medici in prima linea)

John Truman Carter III è un personaggio della serie televisiva E.R. - Medici in prima linea, interpretato da Noah Wyle. Chiamato semplicemente "Carter" dalla maggior parte dei colleghi, è stato introdotto nell'episodio Pilota, ed è stato l'unico personaggio del cast originario a rimanere nella serie per undici stagioni consecutive. Noah Wyle decise di lasciare la serie come personaggio regolare alla fine dell'undicesima stagione, a dispetto delle offerte ricevute. Nella serie il personaggio di Carter esce di scena trasferendosi in Africa per sposare la compagna, Makemba Likasu. Dopo la sua uscita di scena, Wyle è ritornato come guest star in quattro episodi della dodicesima stagione e in cinque della quindicesima e ultima stagione.



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