Reuben joinedERin the first season as a recurring character and became a series regular in season two.

Jeanie gets tested and in the third season premiere she learns she’s positive.

She did not die from AIDS.

Gloria Reuben

Gloria Reuben on ‘ER’.NBC/courtesy Everett Collection

She walked out of that ER after having remarried and adopted a baby.

Because you know what?

At that time, late 90s medicine was helping people.

It was literally giving people with HIV their lives back, many of them.

Reuben leftERin episode six of season six, “The Peace of Wild Things.”

However, Boulet retuned eight years later in the season 14 episode “Status Quo.”