The literature about Crichton doesn’t entirely explain why he returned to what would become one of the most celebrated medical dramas of all time.
“I had spent time in the ER during my medical training, and I felt that environment had never really been portrayed on film,” the late Crichton recalls on his website.
It’s hard to believe, sometimes, that seminal works such as Jurassic Park, Westworld, and ER all originated in the same brain.
St Elsewhere, another medical drama, had run on NBC from 1982 to 1988, and the team weren’t sure that the timing was right to revisit that genre.