Kerry Weaver - Season Twelve

Season Twelve

Kerry continues to play the background in most of the episodes this season. Even though she's staying very busy with her administrative meetings and tasks, Kerry occasionally takes shifts in the ER to keep her emergency skills sharp. In the episode "Out on a Limb" Kerry finally goes through with surgery to fix her hip dysplasia, that's been giving her pain over the last few months. In the episode "No Place To Hide," Kerry walks for the first time on the series without the aid of her forearm crutch. (Reportedly, this storyline was done, at least in part, because Laura Innes really was starting to develop hip and back problems after ten years of walking with a fake limp for the sake of her role.) Laura Innes described this arc as the character, "Shedding some of her hardness and moving on in her life."

At the end of the season, Kerry faces criticism for hiring Dr. Victor Clemente (John Leguizamo) as an attending physician, who compromised patient care leading to possible liability and lawsuits to the hospital. Kerry tries to divert the fire towards Dr. Luka Kovač (Goran Visnjic), the Chief of Emergency Medicine, risking his job as a result.