Dave Malucci

Dave Malucci
Erik Palladino as Dave Malucci
First appearance	October 7, 1999 (Season 6, "Last Rites")
Last appearance	October 25, 2001 (Season 8, "Never Say Never")
Portrayed by	Erik Palladino
Information
Nickname(s)	Dr. Dave
Gender	male
Occupation	Physician
Title	Resident (1999-2001)
Children	(Supposedly) one child

Dr. Dave Malucci is a fictional character on the NBC prime time drama ER. He was portrayed by Erik Palladino.

Dave Malucci first appears as a second-year resident. He often breaks protocol to get things done; he appears uncaring but is occasionally shown to be both sensitive and insightful. In "Last Rites," Malucci and John Carter steal medical gear from an ambulance to help some construction workers injured at a site; later, he and Carter are reprimanded by Kerry Weaver for violating emergency protocols. Malucci attended medical school in Grenada, and in "Great Expectations," he uses his knowledge of the Caribbean to diagnose a patient with a rare disease called Jamaican Vomiting Sickness. In "Such Sweet Sorrow," Malucci mistakenly allows Abby Lockhart to discharge a female patient without examining her personally. The patient later suffers an internal injury and nearly dies. After performing surgery to correct Malucci's mistake, Elizabeth Corday bluntly tells him that "[none of us] think you're much of a doctor." He was used for comic relief in many situations due to his off beat personality and tendency to get pranked, injured, or end up doing odd things like eating cereal out of an Emesis basin (with milk that, he didn't realize, was breast-pumped by Nurse Carol Hathaway). He and Chen had a somewhat-adversarial relationship that also hinted at possible signs of attraction between the two, with some signs being blatant like the time Dave flustered when Deb walked into County's front desk to pick up files wearing a "nice" dress while he was trying to flirt with Abby. This got shunted aside once Dave found other staff members to annoy after his repeated flirting with her and her efficiently shutting him down often (though he wasn't particularly upset about that).