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Fictional character Susan Lewis, M.D. is a character from the medical drama series ER, portrayed by American actress Sherry Stringfield. Susan appeared as a primary character in the pilot episode and left the show part way through in the third season. She later returned in the eighth season and remained as a member of the main cast until the start of the twelfth season. Finally, she returned to make a guest appearance in the series finale. Development During the third season of the series, actress Sherry Stringfield left the series for the first time. In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, Stringfield explained that having a family was one of the primary reasons she left the show. According to Entertainment Weekly, Stringfield's decision to quit angered the show's executive producer John Wells, because she left just as Dr. Lewis got embroiled in a budding romance with Anthony Edwards' Dr. Mark Greene in the show. Stringfield revealed it was not a pleasant situation and, "The producers were in shock. They tried to talk me out of it. It took a long time to get out of my contract."However, by the eighth season, Stringfield's schedule allowed her to return to the series. Wells said they were "delighted to welcome her back as a series regular and [couldn't] wait to work with her again." Stringfield remained in the main cast for four more seasons, until August 2005, when she announced that she would be leaving the show again and stated: "I am extremely grateful for the time I spent on ER," Stringfield explained. "It is a wonderful show, and there are so many people I will miss. But I'm ready for new roles and new challenges." Character history Seasons 1–3 and first Departure (1994–1996) In season 1, Susan is a second-year resident. She is shown to be an eager and competent young doctor working in the emergency department of County General Hospital. She is good friends with Nurse Carol Hathaway, Dr. Doug Ross and especially Dr. Mark Greene, who is her best friend. Though an extremely capable doctor, Susan is initially seen to have problems asserting herself. This is frequently taken advantage of by the senior and more forthright doctors in the hospital, such as Dr. Peter Benton and particularly Dr. Jack Kayson. This leads to several confrontations and animosity worsens when Kayson discharges one of Susan's patients, failing to notice the severity of his symptoms, which ultimately leads to the patient's death. Kayson attempts to shift the blame onto Susan, leading to doubts about her competence. Her supervisor, Mark, is compelled to oversee her actions, straining their friendship. In the case review, the board ultimately sides with Susan, reprimands Kayson, much to his dissatisfaction. Shortly after, Kayson is rushed into hospital suffering from a heart attack. Despite their past disagreement on the issue, Kayson opts for Susan's non-invasive form of treatment against the advice of a senior doctor, who (like Kayson) is an advocate of surgical angioplasty. Susan, finally asserting herself, stands her ground and rejects the idea of Kayson undergoing surgery. After his recovery, Kayson expresses gratitude by inviting Susan to be his valentine date, but she awkwardly declines. Susan's personal life is far less settled than her professional one. In Season 1, she is seen to have a brief relationship with psychiatrist Div Cvetic, who ultimately has a nervous breakdown and disappears. Susan later learns that he married someone he met through a dating service, run by a taxi driver from his cab. Most of her problems, however, are family-related. Susan's parents, Cookie and Henry, are shown to be flighty (her father is jokingly referred to as a test pilot for Barcalounger) and difficult to talk to. Her older sister, Chloe, is the source of most of her distress, with a seemingly never-ending series of problems with alcohol, drugs, men, and money. Chloe eventually has a baby girl, who she names Susan ("Little Susie") after her sister. During season 2 Chloe begins to use alcohol and drugs once again. After deciding that she cannot look after her baby, she leaves Chicago, abandoning Susie on a flustered and overworked Susan. Susan struggles to be a good mother to the child while completing her demanding residency. Already overstressed, Susan clashes numerous times with the new Chief Resident, Kerry Weaver, forcing Mark Greene to step in between them. Animosity between Kerry and Susan lessens over time, but never goes away completely. Realizing that Chloe may never return, Susan considers giving Susie up for adoption. She gets as far as introducing the baby to potential adoptive parents, but cannot bring herself to part with her niece, so she decides to keep her and adopt the child as her own. Susan grows extremely attached to the baby, but she gets a surprise when a reformed Chloe reappears later in the season and tries to reclaim "Little Susie". Susan can't see past Chloe's mistakes, regardless of her recent turnaround and new responsible boyfriend. Desperate to keep the baby, Susan attempts to fight Chloe for custody, but she is forced to reconsider when the judge warns her that she would lose. Susan begrudgingly reaches an agreement with her sister, and after regaining custody of "Little Susie", Chloe moves her family to Phoenix, Arizona to start a new life. Susan grapples with the loss of her niece, experiencing grief and seeking counseling. To escape loneliness, she immerses herself in work, impressing Weaver. With Mark's encouragement, Kerry offers Susan the position of chief resident. Although many ER staff members hoped for Susan to attain the title, she declines the position, expressing to Mark that there is more to life than work. Setting up Stringfield's departure from the series in season 3, the beginnings of a romance develops between Susan and Mark, or more to the point, they are shown to have problems identifying their current relationship as friendship. Both seem timid and cautious around each other. Initially more upfront one about the situation, Susan invites Mark to join her on holiday in Maui, Hawaii, but is embarrassed when he appears hesitant, causing her to later retract the offer, feeling she overstepped a boundary. Fearful that he may have missed his chance with Susan, Mark attempts to convey his attraction upon her return, though he cannot find the courage to follow through and is left perplexed by Susan's reticence. It transpires that Susan never actually made it to Maui, she instead visited her sister and "Little Susie" in Phoenix because she could not overcome her fear of flying. Mark helps her overcome this fear in the following episode ("Fear of Flying"), supporting her during a medical helicopter flight rotation where they are called upon to treat victims of a serious car accident. As they grow closer, Mark finally plucks up the courage to casually ask Susan out. She declines, telling him that they "need to talk". Shortly after, Mark witnesses Sus.... Discover the Susan Lewis popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Susan Lewis books.
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Murder in the Bistro
Susan Kiernan-LewisIs there a connection between the cat found napping in the flour barrel of the newest bistro and the dead American chef in the meat freezer? When it comes to Maggie Newberry ...
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Heading Home
Susan Kiernan-LewisAfter two years of living and adjusting to life after the bomb, Sarah and John have discovered that happiness can trump grief and loss. Together they’ve created a life of fell...
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Stolen
Susan LewisLucy Winters' parents have always been there for her. Loving, gentle and kind they have given her everything she could have wished for. Now, estranged from her husband, she has mov...
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Dying to be French
Susan Kiernan-LewisFrom fashion to food and their famous je ne sais quoi attitude toward life itself, everybody wants to be French. But a passion can quickly turn into an obsession. The City of...
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Dead On
Susan Kiernan-Lewis“These days the nightmares don’t end with waking…they just get all the more real.” Sometimes it was hard for Sarah to believe that the horror of life in postapocalyptic Ireland cou...
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End Game
Susan Kiernan-LewisSome decisions can be the death of you. After ten years of a brutal apocalypse, Sarah Donovan doesn’t want much. Just a place where she can live where people aren’t try...
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Murder in Avignon
Susan Kiernan-LewisEvery great play needs a drama queen. Preferably alive. The French city of Avignon is known for many things: its Papal Palace, the annual summer theater festival, its Medieval brid...
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Murder in St-Tropez
Susan Kiernan-LewisEven the Riviera can’t put a gloss on murder. Maggie and her vintner husband Laurent are long overdue for a real vacation. So with the harvest in their Provençal vineyard due in a ...
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Murder in Nice
Susan Kiernan-LewisThe French Riviera is the ultimate travel destination…unless murder is on the itinerary. When an old high school friend is murdered on the Côte d’Azur while auditioning for t...
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Shameless
Susan Kiernan-LewisWhen a terrified young Hispanic man is murdered in Atlanta, Jack Burton and partner Mia Kazmaroff are determined to bring his killer to justice. They discover a festerin...
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Murder in Provence
Susan Kiernan-LewisThis book takes you further into the sleepy little village of StBuvard where Maggie and Laurent discover not one but four murders to spice up their tenure in Provence. A year spent...
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Murder in the Abbey
Susan Kiernan-LewisMurder in the Abbey is a leap across the English Channel into the path of the most ruthless adversary Maggie has faced yet. Situated in the rolling hills of England’s Cotswold...
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The Hideaway
Sheila O'Flanagan'The sultry Spanish location is wonderfully escapist ... a captivating, sunsoaked read' Daily Express 'If you're seeking an escape of your own, this sunny, evocative story is the p...
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Stranded in Provence, Books 1-3
Susan Kiernan-LewisMy name is Jules Hooker. I have lived through a few crappy moments in my lifeand with a name like Hooker, you can just imaginebut nothing, nothing, compares to the two intensely an...
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The Girl in the Letter
Emily Gunnis'A great book, truly hard to put down. Fast paced, brilliantly plotted and desperately sad at times all hallmarks of a bestseller' Lesley Pearse on The Girl in the Letter 'I was g...
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Heartless
Susan Kiernan-LewisHow dangerous could a little online dating be? Victoria Baskerville had been hurt in love. Badly. Although she spent her days trolling a popular online dating site, these day...
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The Secret
Kathryn Hughes'Riveting' Lesley Pearse on The LetterGripping' Good Housekeeping on The Secret. From the #1 bestselling author of The Letter comes The Secret a powerful, twisting novel that you ...
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Deadly Faux Pas
Susan Kiernan-LewisA pleasant evening dinner boat ride on the Seine is destroyed by a shocking murderand a kidnapping. This time, there is no question who the perpetrator is. Even his master plan is ...
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Ruthless
Susan Kiernan-LewisA serial killer stalks the streets of Atlanta. Dubbed the Weekend Killer, the murderer takes his victims on Friday and sends a souvenir to the Atlanta Major Crimes Divisi...
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The Girl Behind the Gates
Brenda DaviesTOP TEN BESTSELLER'Compelling. Poignant. Haunting. Heart wrenching. Just beautiful. Everyone needs to read this wonderful book.' Renita D'Silva, bestselling author of The Forgotte...
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Cold Comfort
Susan Kiernan-LewisSome people were born to take advantage of a bad situationlike Sinead Branigan, who has found a way to create happiness for a nation of childless couples by stealing and selling th...
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Murder in Cannes
Susan Kiernan-LewisSummer on the Côte d’Azur means tan bodies, wide beaches and glamorous nightclubs throbbing with the vitality of the rich and beautiful. So when Maggie Newberry arranges to meet an...
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Murder in Paris
Susan Kiernan-LewisThe City of Light is anything but when a killer stalks the cobblestone streets… For a woman who loves fashion, there is no place on earth more exciting than Paris where ...
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Wicked Good
Susan Kiernan-LewisLiddy James put off her dream of owning her own French cupcake shop for 25 years. Now a widow and an empty nester, she knows if she's ever going to do it, she better make it happen...
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Never Never
Susan Kiernan-LewisYou’ll never know what your limits are……until you reach them. After a second EMP destroys the fragile progress of postapocalyptic Ireland, and brings the UK and Europe crashing to ...
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The Mia Kazmaroff Mysteries, Books 1-3
Susan Kiernan-LewisSave on the first 3 books of the Mia Kazmaroff Suspense Series! This sexy romp through Atlanta's underworld is a spinetingling, pageflipping thrill ride from one book to the next! ...
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Black Out
Susan Kiernan-LewisJust when you think you have nothing left to lose… In the exciting conclusion of White Out, Book 11 of the Irish End Games brings Mike and Sarah to a place they never thought they’...
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Going Gone
Susan Kiernan-LewisTragedy strikes the family of three Americans where they live in Ireland. Sarah Woodson is brutally taken across the Irish Sea to the pastoral beauty of England’s Cotswolds a...
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Murder in Grenoble
Susan Kiernan-LewisMaggie and Grace's plan to work out their differences at a charming ski resort in Grenoble takes a deadly nosedive when they become trapped by an avalanche with ten people–one of w...
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Reckless
Susan Kiernan-LewisMia Kazmaroff has a gift nobody wants. She's able to tell the story behind any object simply by touch. This gift comes in handy when her only brother, a detective with the Atlanta ...
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White Out
Susan Kiernan-LewisSarah faces the world her children will inherit but one no mother should ever live to see. As life in postapocalyptic Ireland teeters on the brink of the abyss, she’s forced to ris...
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The Irish End Games, Books 1-3
Susan Kiernan-LewisThe first three books of the Irish End Games take an average American family and puts them in the middle of a postapocalyptic meltdown in a rural setting in Ireland. Free Falling s...
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Murder in the Vineyard
Susan Kiernan-LewisLife in Provence was just settling down for American expat Maggie Newberry when a dead body shows up in her vineyard…with a knife in its back. Curious to learn about who the victim...
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Killing It In Paris
Susan Kiernan-LewisLife begins to settle down for Claire after her horrific first year in Paris. Her career as the exclusive private investigator for the Paris expat community continues to thrive whe...
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Free Falling
Susan Kiernan-LewisA fun family vacation turns into an apocalyptic nightmare when a couple and their young son find themselves trapped in the Irish countryside during an international crisis. With al...
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Murder in the South of France
Susan Kiernan-LewisMaggie Newberry is a whipsmart advertising copywriter who’s fast on her feet and a little stunned to realize that she’s over 30 and still hasn’t found true love. When her longmissi...
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Murder in Marseille
Susan Kiernan-LewisFrom bouillabaisse to betrayal… …and the beautiful city that is home to both When the dead body of one of Marseille’s most corrupt politicians is found stuffed in Maggie’s car trun...
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No One To Hear You
Samantha HayesYOU TRY TO TELL THE TRUTH. BUT THERE IS NO ONE TO HEAR YOU.'An emotional thriller that'll keep you on the edge of your seat' LOOK'Wow! It was one of those books that made you negle...
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Murder in Arles
Susan Kiernan-LewisOnce an arena for gladiators and wild beasts, the Arles Amphitheatre today is a popular tourist attractionexcept when it is a setting for murder When an afternoon flea market held ...