A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

BUT AT LEAST SHE KEPT HER ARMS: Tonight, Dr. Abby Lockhart (Maura Tierney) checks out of the ER for the last time. Recaps EW:

Abby Lockhart was born from a one-ep guest spot as Carol Hathaway's OB nurse way back in 1999. She then entered med school, helped John Carter through his weird post-stabbing-of-Lucy addiction to pills, went back to nursing after her deadbeat ex stole her money, dealt with her bipolar brother and way more bipolar mom (Sally Field!), eventually got her medical degree, struggled with alcoholism, dated Luka Kovac, dated Carter, dated this sort of Paul Rudd-lookin' med student named Jake, fell in love with Luka, got pregnant, had his baby, nearly died in childbirth, struggled with alcoholism again, slept with Stanley Tucci, got back together with Luka for the most part, and recently survived an mob-related ambulance bombing. And that's leaving out the majority of the weekly attacks, storms, helicopter crashes, hijackings, kidnappings, run-ins with Forest Whitaker, and assorted other catastrophes she's endured over the past nine years. There really isn't room on the internets for all of it.

To put her tenure in perspective (as well as that of the show), she has appeared in more episodes than Anthony Edwards, and she's done this despite the fact that by the time she joined the cast, George Clooney and Gloria Reuben had already left the show.