Doctors recount the most memorable cases they’ve ever encountered. Unusual, touching, humorous or life-changing – no story is too big or too small when it comes to the ER. The patients’ lives are hanging in the balance and it’s up to the doctors to save them.

Careers and relationships are imperiled as the patients’ worsening ailments wreak havoc on their lives. Follow the incredible true stories of people struggling with baffling and life-threatening illnesses – and the brilliant doctors who diagnose them.

Shock Trauma: Edge of Life is an unscripted series that follows stories of the doctors, nurses, and patients at the world-renowned Shock Trauma Center on the campus of the University of Maryland in Baltimore.

Love makes the world go round, for sure. But in some instances, love and sex can lead people 'round to the swinging doors of the emergency room, with medical mishaps that are bizarre, potentially risky and very, very funny.