Noah Wyle

So while you haven't seen them before, I knew early on that I was going to be a Trojan horse that was going to introduce all this young talent to your living room.

Awfully intense.

It's tough to get the impact of that clip on radio, but that was a Laforte 3 floating face fracture, which when you put your fingers on somebody's teeth and you pull their teeth forward, their entire face comes with it.

It's rather dramatic.

You don't see it very often in an emergency room.

I knew quite a bit of it.

You know, after 15 years on a medical show, you pick up certain things through osmosis.

The specifics of what each patient needs when they come in is a total mystery to me.

And thankfully, we've got a great team of technical advisors on the writing staff and on the set.

Our secret weapon is a man named Dr. Joe Sachs, who is a board certified emergency room physician.

He was

a technical advisor and a writer on ER, and he is with us again.

And he is meticulous in his attention to detail.

And he basically does those trauma scenes.

He will sort of present what the appropriate medicine and procedures are, what each person in the room's role is, given their hierarchy in the hospital, and even weighing in a little bit on emotionally how they may be feeling given the circumstances and stakes of the case.

One of the decisions we made early on was to not employ any soundtrack in the show.

And by lifting the music out, we've sort of removed the artifice that says you're watching a TV show and we need you to feel sad here because we're playing strings, or exciting here because we're using percussion.

We're letting the sort of symphony of the sound of the procedures in the room

be our cadence, and a lot of that is the technical jargon that the doctors are employing.

It becomes the soundtrack and the scene, and the intensity with which they're delivering those lines becomes the emotional equivalent of a score.