Star: Maura Tierney's character steps out to have a smoke, but gets kidnapped by a street gang and has to deal with this [they show a clip of Abby in the car with the street gang] I like that doctor. Please welcome Maura Tierney!

 

[the audience claps and Maura comes out a shakes hands with everyone from The View and then sits down next to Star]

 

Joy: How can you work on a show with death and dying when I read that you're a hypochondriac? I don't get it.

 

Maura: It's bad actually. Um, I just think I have a lot of dieses all the time.  

 

[laughter]

 

Elisabeth: Do you look them up online? Cuz that's what I do sometimes.

 

Maura: Oh, I don't even need to. Someone just needs to mention it.

 

Elisabeth: And then you get it?

 

Maura: yes.

 

Meredith: What about the fainting guy on the bachelorette?

 

Maura: What about the fainting guy! I'm wondering if he skipped from 1 to 4 to fast and that's why he fainted. Introduction, intimacy and he couldn't- , but that poor guy.

 

Joy:  Maybe he had low flow blood. Don't they feed them on that show?

 

Meredith: There's food, but I don't think anyone realizes that its gonna take so long.

 

Maura: How long is it? Am I allowed to ask that?

 

Meredith: Sure, it probably- I didn't get home that day until 8 in the mourning

 

Maura: is that 24 hours?

 

Meredith: When he fell it was probably 3am, maybe 4.

 

Maura: He fainted on television

 

Meredith: I know, I feel bad for him.

 

Joy: You know what, they didn't have to put that in, they could've-

 

Maura: But, its good tv.

 

Elisabeth, Joy, Star, & Meredith: yeah

 

[laughter]

 

Star: Speaking of good tv, you've been Abby Lockhart now for what? 5 seasons?

 

Maura: yeah, this is my 6th.

 

Star: Ok 6th, now were in the 6th season, you started out as a nurse, then you moved to the medical student, then it really is intense as Joy said and it kinda tests that medical knowledge. If somebody in the audience screamed Is there a doctor in the house! Would you have any idea what to do?

 

[Maura makes a face that kinda says she wouldn't & there's laughing]

 

Maura: I mean, [laughs] if somebody screamed is there a doctor in the house, I'm afraid I might say yes, which is dangerous, cuz like that's bad, but I might say yes.

 

Joy: but, you have learned some things.

 

Maura: I've learned some things, but I-there are some cast members I won't name names that really do think they could do stuff.

 

Joy: Oh, really?!

 

Star: Noah

 

Maura: yes, he does.

 

Star: I know Noah

 

Maura: He totally thinks- and so does Alex.

 

Elisabeth: That's alittle scary.   

 

Maura: It is.  They think they could intubate- both of them think they could intubate, I could probably sucher, um

 

Joy: Really?

 

Star: You bet you could stitch us up?

 

Maura: I think if I had the right tools and enough time.

 

Elisabeth: You know what? I like you, but I don't want you stitching me up.

 

[laughter]

 

Maura: you don't want me stitching you up, but like if there was nobody else.

 

Joy: If she[Elisabeth] had to get a angioplasty in the emergency you could do it!

 

[laughter]

 

Maura: [laughing]: I could stitch it up, I wouldn't want to make the incision.  

 

Elisabeth: I'm gonna pass out now.

 

[laughter]

 

Meredith: Your using terms like sucher, so did they give every cast member a dictionary full of medical terms, is that right?

 

Maura: yeah.

 

Meredith: And do you have a favorite medical term?

 

Maura: I have some favorites. I like the ones that are easy for me to say. I like to say newmomedumstima, is a word I like to say a lot, um I'm not exactly sure what it means

 

[laughter]

 

Star: What does stat mean?

 

Maura: Stat means right away, I believe. But we don't say that. Its so funny because lots of people make that joke to me, but I don't think its ever been said my whole 5 years.

 

Star: What do they say when they say Get to the ER right away?

 

Maura: Get to the ER right away

 

[laughter]

 

Joy: Code blue, isn't that code blue?

 

Maura: Code blue? Oh, code red, we don't say, we just say code. We don't say the colors.

 

Joy: If your in a red state say code red, if your in a blue state say code blue.

 

[laughter]

 

Elisabeth: Its purple now, don't you know there all purple now. Let me ask you this, in the 11th season of ER a lot of doctors have left to pursue movie careers, like George Clooney and you've actually done a few yourself, how long do you think you'll stay with ER?

 

Maura: I'm definitely staying through the end of next year, which is what ER is contracted through, that'd be season 12 with the network and I don't really know what will happen after that, its up to John Wells, like you know does he want to extend the show, it seems like they would.

 

Elisabeth: Do you like tv better?

 

Maura: I like my job a lot. I mean ER is a really fun place to work, but its different. Its not sort of like ones better then the other.

 

Joy: Why do you name your dog Rose Kennedy I'd like to know.

 

Maura: So, she'll live forever.

 

Joy: Oh, I see.

 

Maura: Rose Kennedy was like wasn't she like a hundred-

 

Joy: 104 something like that.

 

Maura: yeah, so-

 

Elisabeth: That's a good idea.

 

Maura: yeah. So far she's hanging in there.

 

Star: So, wait a minute let me just go to something sense, you jumped off the band wagon here.

 

[laughter]

 

Joy: Sorry

 

Star: I'm a big poker girl and I understand you were the women, you won a 100 grand on Celebrity Poker Showdown.

 

Maura: I know, [picture of Maura on Celebrity Poker Showdown appears on screen] for my charity.

 

Star: Your that good?

 

Maura: I'm not really, but I was that day, so that's all that counts.

 

Star: You've got a good poker face.

 

Maura: I do, I mean are you a real poker player?

 

Star: Actually, I enjoy playing, but I have the worse poker face in all of America.

 

Maura: So, you show if you get excited?

 

Star: Hercules, Hercules, Hercules!

 

[laughter]

 

Star: You gotta work with me backstage.

 

Maura: yeah. The whole thing made me very tense actually, it wasn't so much fun for me, I mean I was happy to win, um but it was I don't know I have a hard time gambling because I sort of feel guilty when I win, I'm angry when I lose.  

 

Elisabeth: Your emotional.

 

Star: Your charity lucked out on this one.

 

Maura: Yes, that was really good.

 

Star: Yeah, so we love that and so do we each and every week and our thanks to Maura Tierney, ER airs on Thursday nights, like you don't know that, check your local listings for times.

 

[end of interview]