Noah Wyle
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531 appearances
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3 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 22 Apr
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Yeah, but how, I mean, in retrospect, how long was that period of time for me? So short. So short that it's almost ridiculous that I could have been impatient. The truth is I started when I was 19, and when I was 22 or 23, I did the pilot for ER and never looked back after that.
I'm really incredibly grateful to George, Anthony, and Tony. They were all 10 years older than I was and really took me under their wing like big brothers. To a certain extent, Sherry and Julianne as well.
I'm talking about the cast of ER, George Clooney, Anthony Edwards, Eric LaSalle. So they were mentors and tutors to me in the early years. And I don't know how I would have handled all the success and the workload if I hadn't had such incredible role models around me showing me how to be professional.
No, I think it's very true. Well, the work was being recognized as groundbreaking and it lasted a long time. I took for granted how well run the show was and how smooth it was produced and produced. how well cared for I was in that ecosystem.
And then I spent the next 15 years trying to recreate something that I thought was an industry standard without realizing it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. And then I've been blessed by having lightning strike twice.
Yeah, I left and I called it a divorce with visitation rights.
I left a certain amount of episodes in the balance knowing that I wanted to stay part of the narrative and also having had John Wells tell me that he wanted me to be part of the finale, that John Carter coming back to the emergency room as an attending seemed like a really lovely bookend to the whole experience from where the pilot began. So I wanted to be part of that.
Your medical student, first day of his rotation in the emergency room.
Become a drug addict, fall in love, almost become a father.
Well, sure. During that period of time and subsequently, I was approached by a lot of different charities and organizations, a lot of them medical-based, to use my celebrity to raise awareness or money for them. And I got very selective because you want to pick and choose.
You want to make sure that when you go out and stump for something, it has some resonance in your own life and you can speak intelligently about it, passionately about it.
And then I got approached by this group called Doctors of the World that was an American-based version of Doctors Without Borders, which is French, that was doing frontline triage medicine in different war zones around the world. And I was really moved by – it's a purely volunteer organization.
Doctors, GPs from America would go and volunteer their time to go halfway around the world and practice wartime MASH medicine in very harrowing circumstances. Yeah.
And I had an opportunity to go during the war in Kosovo and be in a refugee camp in Macedonia and watch firsthand the heroic efforts of these doctors trying to treat this refugee population and came back really galvanized about helping this organization and ones like it do that kind of humanitarian aid thing.
And it was catalytic for us doing the storylines in Darfur and the Belgian Congo that we eventually did on the show.
Well, I wasn't, but it was sort of an all-hands-on-deck situation there, too. A bus would show up with maybe... 50, 60 refugees of varying ages, mostly young children and old women, because any man that was of fighting age was fighting. So a lot of people had been on the road for a really long time. They were wearing everything that they could carry.
So there was a lot of dehydration and a lot of malnutrition and a lot of fear, you know. And it began with taking people off buses and doing basic medical assessments. And then also there were lawyers and psychiatrists who would go and do interviews with the refugees and ask them about their experiences.
And those became testimonials that were later used in the war crimes tribunal trials with Milosevic. But I saw in that moment the sort of hand-in-hand medical psychological tandem treatment that was having an effect, both treating the body but also treating the psychological damage of the trauma.
And that led me to another organization called Human Rights Watch, which is a legal-based advocacy group that – Does exactly that kind of work. They go around and they take testimony to try and affect social change. So those two organizations kind of defined the 90s and early teens for me in terms of activism.
It's been a long time since I've been in contact with them. I've been involved with a lot of other grassroots medical organizations over the years, ones that do anything from feeding people in disaster zones domestically to international stuff. Obviously, the cutbacks in U.S.
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