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Dr. John Truman Carter Three is a fictional medical doctor from the idiot box series ER. Over the course of the series, he grows from a bumbling medical student, to a confident, competent leader, influenced by the guidance of his mentors. He is portrayed by Noah Wyle.

Early in the series, Carter's plots typically stayed in the realm of the ER. Since his graphic symbol was the nearly visible resident, and residents in the U.South. often are on call in excess of fourscore hours a week, this was an extension of that do. Withal, with the departure of several lead male person actors, beginning with George Clooney in 1999, Wyle was groomed to assume a greater role on the series - both as male lead and central love character. When Anthony Edwards decided to leave later viii seasons in 2002, Noah Wyle was essentially promoted to the tiptop lead, and received top billing on the prove. Carter'due south grapheme, consequentially took a central role, and he appeared in almost every episode, and took on leadership position (equally an attending) in the ER. In a symbolic gesture of this transference, he was told by Mark Greene "you set the tone" on Greene's concluding day in the ER. Greene had been told exactly the same thing by Dr. Morgenstern in the pilot episode, after Carol's suicide attempt, and so Carter, in plow, said the same matter to Archie Morris, right earlier Carter left the ER for the last time.

Contents

• i History
  • ane.1 Early life
  • 1.2 Season i (3rd year Med Student)
  • i.3 Season 2 (quaternary yr Med Pupil)
  • one.4 Flavor iii (Surgical intern)
  • one.5 Season 4 (ER intern)
  • i.6 Flavour six (ER Resident)
  • 1.7 Season 7 (ER Resident)
  • 1.8 Flavour 8 (ER Resident/Chief Resident)
  • 1.nine Flavor 9
  • 1.10 Season ten
  • one.eleven Season 11
  • one.12 Flavor 12
  • 1.thirteen Flavor 15
• two Personality
• iii Relationships
  • 3.1 Romantic
  • three.ii Family
• 4 Trivia
• v Gallery

History

Early life

John Truman Carter Iii was born on June four, 1970. He comes from a very wealthy family. His father was one time estimated to be worth U.s.$178 one thousand thousand, although in afterward seasons at that place are hints that this is only a fraction of the family's total net worth. Carter had a blood brother, Bobby, with whom he had a adept relationship. At one point, Carter tells a story in which he and his brother were playing in a tree, and Carter was accidentally pushed off. His brother fabricated him promise not to tell their parents; withal, it's revealed their mother was aware of the incident. In earlier seasons, Carter mentions he has a sister, simply this singular mention is the simply indication given of her existence.

When Carter was a child, his blood brother died of leukemia. This fractured Carter's relationship with his mother, who was left traumatized past the loss of one son and responded by pulling away from the other. It was his blood brother's expiry that fabricated Carter want to practise medicine. Carter also had a positive relationship with his grandmother, whom he calls "Gamma." Carter's family did not support his decision to practice medicine in an inner-city hospital, preferring instead that he devote more fourth dimension to the family'southward philanthropic endeavors. Despite his family unit's antipathy towards his career selection, for the outset few seasons Carter had few, if any, fiscal worries. His grandmother also eventually came effectually to the idea of Carter practicing medicine, even going and so far equally to help fund a clinic at Canton (though this is arguably due to the efforts of Carol Hathaway).

In season one, Carter mentions that he received his undergraduate degree from the Academy of Pennsylvania, where he competed on the wrestling team.

Season ane (tertiary yr Med Student)

Carter in the ER Season 1 premiere episode, "24 Hours".

Carter comes to County General as a third year medical student. As a medical pupil, Carter is not always the most gifted doctor, but he is very dedicated and empathetic with his patients. Carter is assigned to resident Peter Benton, simply is too unofficially mentored by Mark Greene.

On his showtime day he is introduced to the hospital by Benton. Nonetheless, he becomes unexpectedly sick while attending to a car crash victim, as he is unused to seeing actual medical trauma firsthand. Carter leaves to sit exterior in the ambulance bay, where Greene finds him. Greene delivers a monologue that Carter volition later echo to Michael Gallant, telling him that in that location are ii kinds of doctors: the kind that hibernate their feelings and succumb to them, and those that go rid of their feelings, and that no matter how you feel, it's the patients that thing.

During his time every bit a student, Carter oft finds himself at odds with Benton, though it is articulate Benton does care well-nigh him. He is also the subject of many pranks, such as having his STD testing on the message lath, or having his hand placed in hot h2o (courtesy of Greene and Lewis). Carter'south frequent dealing with psychological trauma in the workplace, such as a transgender patient who commits suicide, leaves Carter unsure if he made the right career choice, simply after helping a woman give birth, his option is reconfirmed.

Season 2 (fourth year Med Pupil)

Carter accompanies Benton in helping Dr. Vucelich on a research project, and even attempts to go along working with Vucelich after Benton is removed from the project for questioning Vucelich'southward data reporting. Carter develops a cavalier and disdainful attitude towards patients during this time, which adds stress to various professional relationships. Just before graduation, John requests a review of his transcript in order to determine whether he will graduate with honors. He is informed, notwithstanding, that he has non seen a sufficient number of pediatric patients, and in order to graduate on time, he volition need to serve a rotation with Doug Ross in Pediatrics, rather than the Plastic Surgery rotation he was interested in.

Flavor 3 (Surgical intern)

He is initially interested in surgery—even completing the get-go yr of his surgical residency—and is mentored by surgical resident Benton. One event that left an impact on him that year was the possible suicide of surgical intern Dennis Gant.

Season 4 (ER intern)

After extended exposure to the emergency room, and a short word with Dr. Anspaugh during the finale of the previous season, he decides to modify his specialty to emergency medicine, to Benton's dismay. In social club for Carter to change from his surgical residency to an emergency medicine residency, he agrees to work for free for his first year, since County Full general had no more funding for an additional spot. As a resident, his confidence grows, and he often does whatever is in his power (or, sometimes, things exterior of his ability, much to the annoyance of his superiors) to help patients.

Season half dozen (ER Resident)

Carter being attacked by Paul Sobriki, a patient with schizophrenia, from the Season 6 episode, "Exist Withal My Centre".

Things continue at a normal stride for Carter upward until the episode, Be However My Heart where while looking at a Valentine's Day carte in a patient'due south room, Carter is attacked and stabbed in the dorsum past a schizophrenic patient - Paul Sobriki, who had been lying in wait.

As Carter slips to the flooring, crying for help which goes ignored due to the loud music at the office Valentine's Twenty-four hour period party, he discovers that Sobriki has likewise attacked and stabbed medical pupil, Lucy Knight who is lying on the floor, also haemorrhage heavily. Carter whispers Lucy'south name, horrified and watches as she passes out before he as well passes out seconds later.

Carter nearly to undergo surgery.

In All in the Family unit, Kerry Weaver heads into the Exam Room and discovers Carter and Lucy lying on the ground, both unconscious, promptly bringing the party to an sharp stop as the ER staff work to save both their seriously injured colleagues.

Thank you to surgery, Carter survives his injuries but he's left with lifelong kidney bug due to his kidney beingness damaged, while Lucy succumbs to her injuries and dies, leaving the ER team devastated.

As a event, Carter is left emotionally and psychologically damaged, eventually developing survivor's guilt due to his guilt and grief over Lucy'due south death, and equally a result, he develops an addiction to Fentanyl, even going so far as to inject himself while on the job which gets worse when he gives a patient some medicine, despite her telling him that she was allergic to it.

After Abby Lockhart catches him shooting up Fentanyl following a trauma, Kerry Weaver and the other doctors stage an intervention in the Season 6 finale episode, "May Day", where they tell him that he has a choice to either go to an inpatient rehab center for medical doctors in Atlanta, or be fired. Although initially opposed to going, Carter eventually agrees to go, with Dr. Benton accompanying him.

Season vii (ER Resident)

Upon returning from rehab, Carter makes peace with his recovering heroin-aficionado cousin, Chase, and apologizes for his long absenteeism, saying, "I didn't want to admit to the fact that I was just similar you."

In "The Greatest of Gifts", Carter on impulse grabbed a couple of pills, though however immediately realizing his error, he ran to the bathroom and threw them upwards. He then informed Abby of what he did, and she responded by telling him that he should tell Weaver nearly what happened, Carter, however, wasn't willing to risk his career, and was at beginning reluctant to tell her, though eventually gathered the nervus to do it anyhow. Weaver was glad he told her, and permit him go along his piece of work at the hospital, though she told him non to make her regret going easy on him.

Flavor 8 (ER Resident/Chief Resident)

In the eleventh episode of Season 8, Across Repair, Carter suffered an unpleasant blast from the past when he met patient, Paul Sobriki who at the time of their get-go meeting had been in the grip of a psychotic outbreak and had stabbed Carter and Lucy with Lucy subsequently dying from the injuries sustained. Carter reacted strangely calm at first, but upon heading into a hospital bathroom, he vomited.

In On the Beach, following the decease of his predecessor, Marking Greene, from brain cancer, Carter became the new Attending, with Carter eventually donning his ain version of the green scrubs that Greene himself had worn in the past.

Flavor 9

During Season ix, Carter dates Abby after they were quarantined in the ER for three weeks considering of the outbreak of monkeypox. They have long been attracted to each other, and their romantic relationship was the natural next step. Still, Abby's brother Eric is diagnosed with bipolar disorder (like their mother) and his behavior becomes erratic. He then disappears. Meanwhile, the health of Carter'southward grandmother, Millicent, continues to decline, and Carter's female parent has difficulty accepting her divorce from Carter'due south begetter. Worse, Abby and Carter continue to disagree over whether or not Abby (who is a recovering alcoholic) should be drinking at all, fifty-fifty moderately. These personal bug come to a head when Abby'south blood brother reappears the aforementioned solar day Carter'southward grandmother dies. Carter is cleaved by his grief, notwithstanding Abby feels it is her duty to go and get her destitute blood brother, essentially leaving Carter alone to grieve. When the uninvited Eric behaves inappropriately at Millicent'south funeral, even falling into her open grave, information technology marks the beginning of the end of Carter and Abby's human relationship. About a month later, Carter cannot shake his grief or his troubles with Abby, and agrees to get to the Congo (without Abby'southward consent) to join Luka and the Doctors Without Borders program. While there, he is nigh killed by guerrilla soldiers. He returns after 2 weeks.

Flavour ten

When Luka Kovač is reported killed in Africa, Carter goes to retrieve his trunk at the showtime of Season x. To his surprise, he finds Kovač - all the same alive. He arranges for Kovač to be sent dwelling house, during which he gives Kovač a letter for Abby, which is a "Dear John" letter that ends their relationship. Around this fourth dimension, Wyle had his get-go child, and requested to have three months off from the show in order to spend time with his infant son. Producers complied with this request. To bargain with this absence, Carter remains in Africa for several months. He primarily works in Kem's AIDS clinic. They initially differ on approaches to treatment, but come up to respect and love each other.

Season 11

During Season 11, Carter starts building an HIV/AIDS clinic side by side to County General, with full funding by his family's charity foundation. It will exist named after his stillborn son - "The Joshua Carter Center." Afterwards, he goes to Paris, where Kem is visiting her mother, who has fallen ill. Later a very awkward reunion, their human relationship begins to grow once again, and Carter offers to get to Africa with Kem and start all over. She doesn't answer correct away, but later accepts the offering. Dr. Carter goes back to Chicago to finish out his work with County General, and, after saying goodbye to his friends, goes to Africa to be with Kem.

Season 12

In Season 12, Carter appears in a four episode arc, working with a young man doctor in Darfur, Sudan, where he is joined by Greg Pratt, and Debbie (Mary McCormack). During this arc, Pratt informs him of Abby'south pregnancy.

Season 15

In Season 15, Carter returns in a v-episode arc shut to the end, reappearing on Chicago and taking shifts at County General while waiting for a kidney transplant.

Personality

Carter begins his stay in the ER as a bright, naïve, but determined med student. He attends to patients across the time well-nigh other doctors would allot, sparking Benton'southward comment that Carter would not do well in a surgical elective because he'due south as well soft. While Carter does accept the surgical elective, he finds himself taking on cases to boost his academic profile instead of as a doctor who'southward best interests are the patient, and later on shifts to an ER elective.

Relationships

Romantic

A variety of actresses were called to play the love interests of Carter. Due to ER's increasing popularity and iconic status in the 1990s, this proved to be a pivotal plough in the career of several actresses, probably well-nigh notably for Maria Bello. Meaning girlfriends (and the actresses that played them) are listed beneath:

• Harper Tracey (Christine Elise), a fellow med student, they dated during Season 2. She cheats on Carter very early in the human relationship with Dr. Ross. Carter forgives her, only for her to dump him a few months subsequently because Carter tricks another med pupil in social club to get a procedure.
• Abby Keaton (Glenne Headly), a pediatric surgeon from Southside Hospital reassigned to County when Southside closes. She begins a pediatric surgical rotation with Dr. Peter Benton. Carter is Benton's intern, and Carter and Keaton begin working together, eventually embarking on a clandestine relationship that ends when Keaton leaves for a volunteer mission to teach Pakistani surgeons.
• Anna Del Amico (Maria Bello), they develop a close friendship during Flavor 4, but Carter's crush on her is never reciprocated. She was a new resident in the ER. She eventually returns to Philadelphia and makes upward with her ex-boyfriend, a doc and former painkiller aficionado.
• Roxanne Delight (Julie Bowen), an insurance salesmen and patient of Carter, the two began dating in Flavour five. The relationship falls apart for many reasons, including both of their busy work schedules, and perchance because Carter liked Lucy Knight.
• Lucy Knight (Kellie Martin), a med student, and cast regular in Seasons 5-vi, Lucy was a few years younger than Carter. Although Lucy and Carter never actually date, they flirt with each other and come close to having a romantic moment, only do non continue over Carter's indecision over their differences and the fact that he has a girlfriend. Despite grapheme popularity, Kellie Martin decided to exit the series; her character died from injuries afterward she was stabbed by a schizophrenic patient in the Season 6 episode, Be Notwithstanding My Heart and All in the Family.
• Rena Trujillo (Lourdes Benedicto), Carter briefly dates Rena during Flavor 7, until he finds out that she is still a student and is but 19. He dates her for a brief time until she dumps him because she knows he has feelings for Abby Lockhart.
• Susan Lewis (Sherry Stringfield), Susan Lewis left ER early in Season three to comfy residency in Phoenix, Arizona, just to return in 2001. As Carter had a shell on her during her get-go tenure on the show, this dropped plot was resumed. But, afterward finally dating, during Season 8, their chemical science is very depression and they never share a physical relationship. Susan could sense Abby's subtle jealousy ever since Carter was giving her much attending since she came dorsum to Canton. They separate amicably later Susan tells him to "tell Abby".
• Abby Lockhart (Maura Tierney), both date during Season 9, after being very adept friends during Seasons 7 and eight. She is a nurse in the ER. After a series of personal crises and general dysfunction on the part of them both (see "Key Events" above), their relationship finally dissolves when Carter goes to the Congo for vii months. He breaks up with her by letter. Millicent initially didn't like Abby; but shortly before her decease gave Carter her blessing, and her mother's engagement ring.
• Makemba "Kem" Likasu-Carter (Thandie Newton), they begin dating in Season x. A French/Congolese AIDS worker in the Congo, Carter meets Kem while working for Doctors Without Borders. They have a passionate, fast-paced romance culminating in Kem's pregnancy. Even so, she loses the baby after eight months of pregnancy, and begins to shut downwardly emotionally. Carter proposes, but she doesn't respond and moves back to Africa. During their separation, they date others, simply when Carter visits her while she is in France, they reconcile, and give their relationship another hazard. During Flavour 12, we larn that Kem and Carter got married. Carter is wearing a wedding band and someone refers to Kem as "Carter'south wife".
• Wendall Meade (Mädchen Amick), a social worker in the ER, she dates Carter during Season eleven. But, despite his protests, she dumps him after he admits that he doesn't love her and can't cease calling Kem. She apologizes for not realizing that he wasn't ready for a new relationship.

Family

Throughout the course of the serial (peculiarly at the starting time of Season half-dozen) nosotros encounter various members of Carter's family. His father, John (Jack) Truman Carter, Jr. (played by Michael Gross), is caring but stiff, and very acquiescent with his wife. He and Carter have an awkward relationship. Carter's mother, Eleanor (played by Mary McDonnell), is emotionally afar and cold. Her personality apparently became even colder after the death of Carter's older brother, Bobby (Robert), from leukemia.

Carter's granddaddy, John Truman Carter, Sr. (portrayed by George Plimpton), is the most disappointed by Carter'due south career choice, and though Carter respects him, he likewise resents him for that. Carter's grandmother, Millicent Carter (played by Frances Sternhagen), is a benefactor of the hospital, even funding Carol Hathaway'south clinic. Carter is very shut to his grandmother (whom he calls "Gamma") and intermittently lives at her home. They practice occasionally debate, nonetheless, usually in regard to Carter's reluctance to participate in matters related to the family foundation.

Chase Carter (played by Jonathan Scarfe) is John's get-go cousin and a "functioning" heroin addict. Carter, with the assistance of his colleague Anna, attempts to detox and rehabilitate him, but fails. Chase somewhen overdoses, resulting in astringent brain harm. Carter pleads for the family to keep Hunt in concrete therapy, and Chase improves significantly.

In earlier episodes, Carter mentions having a sister who lives in London and who traveled to Chicago for his med school graduation, but she is never seen, nor named, and in later on episodes she is never mentioned at all.

Trivia

• He wears a fitted coat in at least his med student days. This is the subject of ridicule to the other ER employees.

Gallery

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Characters	Mark Greene • Doug Ross • Susan Lewis • John Carter • Ballad Hathaway • Peter Benton • Jeanie Boulet • Kerry Weaver • Anna Del Amico • Elizabeth Corday • Lucy Knight • Luka Kovač • Abby Lockhart • Cleo Finch • Dave Malucci • Jing-Mei Chen • Michael Gallant • Greg Pratt • Neela Rasgotra • Samantha Taggart • Ray Barnett • Archie Morris • Tony Gates • Simon Brenner • Cate Banfield

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