Erik

**Erik** was a young man visiting Atlanta who inadvertently became a John Doe during a mass casualty event.

## Biography

### Season One

#### Identity Crisis

In the midst of a mass casualty event, Erik arrived at Chastain having wiped out on his skateboard and hit his head due to having not been wearing a helmet. The overwhelmed new nurse, Tiffany, categorized Erik as Basic due to his apparent minor injuries and ordered him to sit in a chair in the waiting room. Erik laid down on a gurney instead and was noticed by a passing nurse who asked about his ID bracelet. Erik admitted that he didn't get one and asked for some aspirin due to his massive headache. However, the nurse refused until Erik got to see a doctor and promised to get him an ID bracelet. Moments later, a backpack was knocked off of a gurney and landed on the floor near Erik, who tried to draw attention to it before being consumed by his head pain.

Shortly thereafter, a nurse mistook the backpack as belonging to the nearly-unconscious Erik and tossed it onto the gurney. Erik got a text from his mother asking how he was finding Atlanta, but passed out as he was checking it and dropped his phone, which accidentally got kicked away. A nurse then tripped over the unconscious Erik, drawing the attention of Dr. Devon Pravesh to his situation. Finding Erik to be completely unresponsive and with a weak pulse, Devon called for help from Drs. Conrad Hawkins and Mina Okafor and Conrad discovered that Erik had a blown pupil, suggesting that he had a brain bleed. Observing the situation, Tiffany explained that she didn't have time to check him in and misidentified Erik as Ian Robinson based off of the ID card in the backpack that had been thrown onto his gurney. Conrad and Mina guessed that Erik had a subdural hematoma that was probably compressing his brain stem, but without knowing where it was from the scans, they couldn't drill burr holes in order to relieve the pressure. Erik crashed moments later and the doctors were unable to revive him.

Tiffany was left devastated by Erik's death and her mistake that had led to it. Conrad furiously told Tiffany that with a head injury, Erik should've always been triaged as Urgent, not Basic. A more sympathetic Devon pointed out that there aren't always symptoms at first with a head injury, but Conrad was unrelenting in his anger. Irving Feldman pointed out that Tiffany would always have to live with causing Erik's death, which Mina and Devon agreed with and Conrad reluctantly moved on.

Due to Erik's misidentification as Ian Robinson, Conrad mistakenly informed the real Ian's father of his "son's" death. Mr. Robinson was able to reveal that Erik was not Ian, but without any form of an identification on him, Erik was labeled as a John Doe. Erik was fingerprinted by the police, his picture circulated around the hospital and Missing Persons' reports checked in a futile attempt to identify him.

At the end of the day, Nurse Ellen Hundley was rehired by Chastain and revealed to Conrad that a janitor had found Erik's dropped cell phone and had turned it in. Using Erik's emergency contact information stored in his cell phone, Conrad was able to call Erik's mother and inform her of her son's death.

## Trivia

* He was credited as Hero Guy / Erik.
* According to the Medical ID on his phone, Erik was 5' 11', 165 pounds and was born on December 15, 1995.