1. Elizabeth Corday first appeared at the beginning of the fourth season and became a lead character before departing towards the start of the eleventh season.
30 Facts About Elizabeth Corday
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Elizabeth Corday's mother is an astrophysicist with whom she has a rather rocky relationship; Elizabeth Corday feels that her mother didn't spend enough time with her as a girl and that she was "raised by nannies and boarding schools", although she finds a more nuanced perspective on things once she becomes a mother herself.
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However, Elizabeth Corday has a good relationship with her father, Charles.
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Elizabeth Corday introduces herself as "Miss Corday", as is customary for members of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and not "Dr Corday".
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Elizabeth Corday nevertheless becomes popular among the other staff, both for her surgical skill and for her personality.
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Elizabeth Corday befriends many of the female ER staff, including Carol Hathaway and Dr Anna del Amico; and later on Abby Lockhart and Susan Lewis.
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However, Elizabeth Corday can be extremely harsh in criticizing her fellow physicians, such as when she berated David Malucci for abandoning his med student with a patient.
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Elizabeth Corday even agrees to take over as her supervisor after a while.
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Elizabeth Corday takes the job and soon finds herself getting caught up in hospital politics.
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In season 6, Elizabeth Corday saves the life of serial rapist and killer who starts to engage her in a series of mind games.
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At the last minute, Elizabeth Corday realizes that the killer was afraid of her for the power that she held over him and she spares his life, breaking his will and 'winning the game'.
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Elizabeth Corday becomes romantically involved with Dr Mark Greene during season 5, and in season 7 finds out that she is pregnant with his child.
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Elizabeth Corday accompanies Greene to New York City and is present in the operating room for the procedure, by his side all the time.
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Elizabeth Corday is heavily pregnant at the time of the wedding, and gives birth to baby, Ella, a short time later.
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Things are not much better for her there, though - she and Elizabeth Corday are constantly arguing, culminating eventually in Ella swallowing ecstasy that belonged to Rachel.
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Elizabeth Corday is so furious that she tells Rachel to leave the house, and after Mark refuses to send Rachel back to Jen, or press charges, Elizabeth Corday moves out instead, taking Ella with her.
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When Susan Lewis returns to County General after five years, Elizabeth Corday seems to be at odds with her.
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Elizabeth Corday is cautious because of the relationship that Susan and Mark once had.
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Elizabeth Corday indirectly finds out about Mark's plight from Susan, and her half-hearted initial claim to him that she'll come back home is rejected by Mark, with him saying he doesn't want her to return on account of his terminal illness.
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Elizabeth later has a medical case hit close to home and after getting a dose-of-reality from speaking to Romano, Corday does move back in with him and Rachel.
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Corday tells Rachel after the funeral that it would be all right for her to visit her sister, and later on she does so and Elizabeth bemusedly helps Rachel acquire birth control pills when her stepdaughter shows up with her teenage boyfriend.
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Later in the season, Dr Elizabeth Corday is appointed to Chief of Surgery by Kerry Weaver.
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Elizabeth Corday begins a relationship with a charismatic surgeon, Dr Dorset, which quickly ends when she discovers that he is married.
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In Season 11, Elizabeth Corday is angry that Kerry Weaver hired Dr Lucien Dubenko to be a surgeon without consulting her, with Elizabeth Corday noting that this was the only candidate she had expressly recommended against.
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Elizabeth Corday is convinced by Dr John Carter to perform the illegal donation procedure between two HIV positive patients, because she believes the operation is the right thing to do and because it'll piss Kerry off.
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Elizabeth Corday returned to ER in the fifteenth season on January 15,2009, in the episode "Dream Runner", in a one-episode return billed as a special appearance.
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Dr Elizabeth Corday comes to County General to interview potential employees, including the surprised Neela Rasgotra, for positions at Duke University.
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Elizabeth Corday tells Neela that she lived in England for a few years after leaving Chicago but came back to the United States where she took a position as Chief of Trauma Surgery at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, where she lives with nine-year-old Ella.
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Rachel too lives in Durham and attends Duke where she receives lowered tuition because Elizabeth Corday is on faculty.
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Elizabeth Corday briefly meets Dr Simon Brenner after finishing her interview with Neela.