Season 11 and Departure
While trying to avoid the shooting, the car spins out of control and crashes into the Chicago River, with Jing-Mei shot in the leg and Elgin shot in the neck. Jing-Mei and Greg Pratt require major surgery, and Elgin dies while receiving emergency care.
Later in Season 11, an overwhelmed Jing-Mei/Deb quits County after Dr. Susan Lewis the newly appointed chief of emergency medicine refuses her request for leave to care for her father on Christmas Eve. Dr. Pratt discovers that Dr. Chen is constantly asking for her to help him commit suicide and in her bewildered state she considers listening to her father's wishes and giving him a lethal dose of Potassium or Ativan to kill him. She eventually fulfills this wish and when she does it he almost immediately dies. Pratt covers for her by telling the paramedics that Chen's father had died in his sleep. Chen returns to China to bury her father.
Unlike other characters who are mentioned after they left the show, there is no mention of what job Jing-Mei may have moved onto or where she ended up; the viewer is left with no further information about the character at all.
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