ER (TV Series) They Treat Horses, Don't They? (1998) User Reviews

Dr. Green in a bomb suit....

[slak96u · 7/10 · 20 February 2022]

The whole bomb vest guy storyline was ridiculous, between Benton and Green. Not great...

It is funny to see yet another plotline Grey's ripped off of ER though. Not a bad episode, but not a great one.

Medicaly outdated

[gacsogergely · 8/10 · 10 January 2021]

Benton's son finaly starts his hearing-treatment. The episode is excelnt mentioning hyper-new technologies, then they go of course the traditional way. Which at that time was to teach deaf people speak. As for today the stand is revisioned, and sign-language is preferred as first-language for hearingly impaired, I wonder how the story would look like today.

They Treat Horses, Don't They? (#5.3)

[ComedyFan2010 · 8/10 · 18 February 2015]

A good episode with a variety of interesting patients. There was a guy with a knife in his head, a guy with a bomb and even a horse.

I did like the horse story, it was of course very small and mainly humorous but I loved how they did it. Mark was trying to get closer to his daughter after he noticed in the morning that she won't talk to him the way she does to her mother. And Jerry was pretty awesome in it, ah his face when dealing with a horse!.

Carter had to make an important and hard decision. This story about the old lady without DNR had a lot of good scenes. He really looked more mature than ever before. Although one was not surprised, it was the only way for it to end.

We also have a familiar face, Ashley Johnson, as Dana Ellis, a young cancer patient who may lose her leg. I recognized her face and turned out she was Krissy Seaver on growing Pains. Really disliked her on that show but she was pretty good here.

The star of the episode to me though was Dr. Weaver. She was showing a lot of emotions such as stress and irritation, absolutely great acting and am looking to see what will happen to her and the title.

Even for '98 standards of care the Audiology/ENT recs are woefully ill portrayed

[jknousak · 5/10 · 28 May 2024]

By now we know Reese Benton is deaf. Audiology was poorly presented in the previous episode including the testing, the presentation of findings and the recommendations. People born w/ severe SNHL -- sensorieural hearing loss -- will never hear like normal-hearing people. W/ a cochlear implant planted w/in the first 3 years of life, they may talk/speak very-well/clearly.

In this episode, the ENT doc saying "we can teach him to hear and speak" -- really? Those docs don't know most of the time! And the many decisions to be made by the parents (96% of babies born severely or profoundly HI have normal-hearing parents) about treatment options should not be given flippant, opinionated and judgemental advice/recommendations as depicted here.

Finally, health insurances do not/did not pay for hearing aids NOT because they don't want to pay for the elderly's devices (!!!!!), but because those very elderly of 1998 who were 25, 35 and 40 years old in 1965 did not vote for/include in Medicare hearing aid services and products. Also, there aren't enough working people (ages 20 to 65) who demand to have hearing aid coverage in insurances provided by their employers.

Just sayin' . . .