Season 1 and Early Life At County
Jing-Mei Chen experiences several difficult transitions in her years at County General Hospital. As mentioned, she suffers a crisis of career early in her medical studies. She arrives right in the middle of Season one as an eager young medical student ready to learn, only to quit near the end of the season after almost killing a man by trying to insert a central line into his chest. At that time, she decides that she was better suited to medical research than to working directly with patients, because after seeing and growing to understand that she was only interested in the science of medicine and not the direct application of it on the very people that are affected by disease or the effects of trauma on the body. She leaves County and does not continue her medical training.
She was also revealed to have been very wealthy (although not as wealthy as John Carter) early in her appearances, since both of her parents were doctors; her mother was Chief of Surgery at another hospital. In her first appearance she was at first shown to be intimidated by John because he arrived earlier and supposedly wiser and more skilled than her, but this was quickly dispelled when it was shown that he was the source of pranking and joke making for most of the ER staff even for their supervising resident Dr. Peter Benton, with the encouragement of Nurse Haleh Adams she ends up playing a prank on John Nurse Adams does this because of seeing his initial treatment of Deb.
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