Mark Greene

Doctor Mark Greene, M.D. was a protagonist in the first eight seasons of the NBC medical drama ER. He was portrayed by , who had earlier played Nick "Goose" Bradshaw in the movie Top Gun. 
Mark was the son of David and Ruth Greene. As his father had an established career in the United States Navy, Mark spent much of his childhood years following his parents all over the US for David's Navy assignments. The longest assignment for David was in Hawaii, and the place that felt most like home to Mark. He meets a young woman named Jen during high school and while he was at medical school the couple married. Soon afterwards they had a daughter named Rachel. The marriage fell apart due to the long hours that Mark had to undertake in completing his residency in emergency medicine and being unwilling to leave for a private practice with more "family friendly" hours. 
While in medical school he also befriended Doug Ross. The two men began work at County General Hospital in Chicago and continued their friendship. Mark also became friends with resident Dr. Susan Lewis and Nurse Manager Carol Hathaway. The four of them were working at the hospital in March 1994. Mark became friends with and later fell in love with Dr. Elizabeth Corday. 
Around the year 2000 an inoperable tumor was discovered within Mark's brain. While he tried to keep the condition hidden, he was no longer able to hide it when he had a seizure in the middle of an argument with Carter. Mark traveled to New York to undergo an experimental procedure to excise the tumor.
Following recovery, Mark proceeded to buy a house in Chicago, and then he and Elizabeth got married. When the tumor came back a year later the surgeon who performed the initial operation said that at the very least it had given him time he wouldn't have had otherwise, that he got married and got to see his baby daughter Ella.
He took his elder daughter Rachel out to Hawaii to reconnect with her and spend his final days on the beach, Mark was happy to see Elizabeth and Ella join them at the cottage. Mark wrote a letter to his former colleagues in Chicago, telling them that their friendship had meant so much over the years. A particularly bad seizure left him bedridden, and the next morning Mark died at 6:04am. His body was flown back to Chicago for burial in the city that had become his home in the final years of his life. 
==Legacy==
The memory of Dr. Greene would be felt in the ER for many years to come. In the 14th season of ER Nurse Chuny Marquez finds it hard to believe that young doctors Pratt and Morris would be in charge of the ER, given how at one time Doug Ross and Mark Greene ran the ER.
A year later Rachel returned to Chicago to interview at medical schools, including the one attached to County General. The series ended with the circle completing as Carter tells her all the things to check on when new patients are admitted to the ER as Mark had once did for him.
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