Eton native stars in new season of ‘Untold Stories of the ER’

DALTON, Ga. — Dr. Ruthie Pannell Crider, an Eton native and nationally board certified emergency room physician, is starring in two more episodes of “Untold Stories of the ER.”

The first of her episodes will air on the TLC television channel on Friday at 9 p.m., and the second will air on the cable network on Friday, Feb. 16, at 9 p.m.

This is the fourth season and eighth episode Crider has filmed of the show that is taped in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Now entering its twelfth season, “Untold Stories of the ER” is a docudrama television series during which real-life emergency room doctors tell about their most puzzling cases. The series first aired in 2004.

Crider grew up on the family farm in Eton. She is the daughter of Judge and Mrs. Charles A. Pannell Jr. of Eton and the sister of Chad Pannell, an attorney in Atlanta. She is married to Bill Crider, president of Crider Foods Inc., and they have two sons, Billy, 9, and Bo, 8.

Crider earned her high school diploma from Murray County High School in 1995, her bachelor’s degree from the University of Georgia in 1999 and her medical doctorate from Mercer University School of Medicine in 2003. She is a practicing emergency room physician at East Georgia Regional Hospital in Statesboro with Georgia Emergency Associates.

Her affiliations include membership in the Medical Association of Georgia and the Ogeechee River Medical Society. She is certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine. She was inducted into the Murray County High School Hall of Fame in 2017.

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