"Love's Labor Lost" is the nineteenth episode of the first season of the American medical drama ER.
Dr. Mark Greene encounters the case of a pregnant woman suffering from what he initially thinks is a urinary tract infection, due to protein in the urine, but what is actually eclampsia.
Motionless, after a McRobert's maneuver fails, he's forced to perform a crash c-section with tragic results.
[5] Ray Richmond of Los Angeles Daily News praised the episode, calling it "one of the rare instances when network television stands tall as true art".
The episode also won an American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited One-Hour Series for Television for Randy Jon Morgan and Rick Tuber.