Strong Medicine (2000)

Donors

The second season begins with Dana and Lu at odds over the fate of a dead college student'...

Adverse Reactions

After denying employment to a candidate who is both overqualified and overweight, Robert f...

Gray Matter

Dana's bedside manner is put to the ultimate test when a former high-school rival comes to...

History

Lu travels to Puerto Rico, where her beloved grandmother urgently needs a bone-marrow tran...

Attachments

The parents of conjoined twins refuse to have them surgically separated, even though that...

Relief

Philadelphia baseball fans blame Dana when the home team loses a crucial playoff game. Lu...

Impaired

An Alzheimer's patient attempts to maintain custody of her 15-year-old son with Down syndr...

Rebirth

A woman hoping to form a maternal bond with her adopted teenage daughter ignores Dana's ad...

Control Group

Robert's wife's battle with MS becomes more difficult, so he asks Dana to try a new experi...

Zol Zein Gezint

A patient of Dana's gives birth to twins — one baby is black, the other is white. And Lu...

Systemic

Dana debates whether she should risk her relationship with Nick to comfort a terminally il...

Accidents

Dana waits for Nick to decide when they will get married, and treats a figure skater who's...

Silent Epidemic

Dana suspects an Amish woman is infected with mad-cow disease; and Lu treats Lana for a se...

Hot Flash

A pregnant and very ill pro-life politician has her principles put to the ultimate test wh...

Bloodwork

Dana counsels a woman and her emotionally distant son, who are both being treated for lead...

Black 'n' Flu

Lu's return to her college alma mater is marred by an outbreak of meningitis. At the clini...

Precautions

Dana is troubled when a patient requests new breast implants immediately after her first o...

Shock

Striking nurses send the hospital into chaos, forcing Dana to withhold an experimental tre...

Type and Cross

The Rittenhouse doctors cope with a blood shortage in Philadelphia. Dana helps a patient w...

Rape Kit

Lu is raped by Rittenhouse's star surgeon — but he insists that the sex was consensual....

Trauma

Lu copes with the trauma of being raped by devoting her thoughts to a patient who accident...

Recovery Time

Lu tries to cope with the aftershocks of her rape, she finds her life spinning out of cont...

Positive

As Dana's upcoming birthday makes her decide to seek a volunteer sperm donor so that she c...

Outcomes

When Dana's attorneys make Peter's being a sperm donor difficult, Dana considers getting p...

Stages

Although it is now several months since she was raped, Lu is still reluctant when a cute p...

Heartbeat

A teenage cancer patient refuses to continue chemotherapy, Dana makes preparations for wha...

Compassionate Release

Hospital executives approach Dana to perform a risky procedure to save an unborn child's l...

Discharged

Dana tries to win custody of an HIV-infected baby, even though becoming its full-time care...

Admissions

Lu has plenty of opinions when it comes to deciding on Dana's replacement, but she soon le...

Contraindications

It's Andy Campbell's official first day as co-head of the Rittenhouse Women's Health Clini...

Family History

Andy goes beyond the call of duty to expedite the Food and Drug Administration's approval...

House Calls

When an old colleague with a breast lump calls for Andy's help—from space, of all places...

Flesh and Blood

Strange things are brewing at Rittenhouse. A patient seeks Lu's treatment for what appears...

Blush

A local politician hot on the campaign trail needs Andy's help to remain cool under pressu...

Deterioration

Trouble hits home when Andy suspects that her daughter has an eating disorder. On the job,...

Poison

Lu faces the horrifying memory of her rape when a patient turns to her for help in dealing...

The Philadelphia Chromosome

Lu goes up against the government when one of her patients turns out to be a suspected ter...

PMS, Lies and Red Tape

Andy returns to the Army for reserve duty and helps a woman with post polio syndrome (PPS)...

Orders

Andy is forced to confront her father after discovering that he has a degenerative nerve c...

Blocked Lines

Dr. Campbell's diagnosis of the first local case of West Nile Virus causes a near panic in...

Intensive Care

Dr. Campbell's husband hits her and she kicks him out of their house.

Addicted to Love

Andy Campbell's kids miss their dad and want to know when he is coming home. Dr. Campbell...

Degeneration

Academy Award-winning actress Rita Moreno guest stars in this episode of ""Strong Medicine...

Risk

Andy helps Jesse cope having back surgery and trying to set things right between her husba...

The Hero Heart

In a surprise twist following the suspenseful season finale cliffhanger, Mickey jumped in...

Emergency Contacts

Lu faces the doctor that raped her when he needs surgery that can save his life. Peter goe...

Heartbeats and Deadbeats

Andy and Milo treat a woman with an enlarged heart and conflict about what surgery to perf...

Rash Decisions

Andy finds out that a TV chef has leperachy when she develops a rash. Lu must decide betwe...

Breathing Lessons

Lu fears that a little girl who keeps getting injured might be being physically abused by...

Misdiagnosis Murder

Lu faces an ethical dilemma about her doctor/patient confidentiality when an abused, pregn...

Vaccinations

A smallpox vaccine for a hospital worker leads to life-threatening complications for her c...

Temperature's Rising

As a heat wave hits Philadelphia, Andy & the staff will need to get used to its disaster p...

Speculum for a Heavyweight

Dr. Campbell files for divorce from her husband while battling a cough. Lu tries to stop a...

Bad Liver

When Lu's (Rosa Blasi) patient receives a desperately needed transplant, Andy (Patricia Ri...

Maternal Mirrors

When a patient of Andy's takes a turn for the worse under Lu's watchful eye, the two docto...

Jeaneology

Andy and Lu put their heads together when each of their patients show signs of being poiso...

Skin

After Andy saves the life of a gunshot-wound victim, she and Robert must decide whether to...

Love and Let Die

Lu helps a terminally ill patient's family deal with the complicated issues surrounding as...

Coming Clean

When Andy encounters a young woman with amnesia and her fiance, she must decide which secr...

Prescriptions

A drug company is offering cash to participants testing a new anti-smoking drug and one of...

Seize the Day

Lu deals with the schizophrenic mother who takes her five year old girl who suffers from e...

Ears, Ho's and Threat

An Indian heiress with a deformity turns to Andy for treatment so that her parents can arr...

Weights and Measures

A friend of Marc's may be being abused by her boyfriend. Lu treats an HIV-infected woman...

The Real World Rittenhouse

Lu treats a young girl for E. Coli who may have contracted E. Coli from eating undercooked...

Identity Crisis

Ben Sanderson wants to cut screening tests for newborns. A patient of Lu's thinks a patie...

Quarantine

Lu treats a patient who may SARS the doctors tell patents about SRS as they wait for the l...

Positive Results

Nick is transferred to Manhatten General. Ben's HIV test has a positive result. Also, Ben...

Touched by an Idol

Andy tells a famous rock star and a patient to rest and cancel some of her concerts becaus...

Omissions

Dr. Campbell treats a patient for what she believes is alcoholism but she won't admit to h...

Cape Cancer

Andy and Milo are invited to stay in a beachside cabin owned by a patient of Andy's in a b...

Fractured

Andy is surprised when ex-husband Les shows up unexpectedly after Lizzy has her knee opera...

Goodbye Slash Rest in Peace

Andy worries about a patient who continues to ask for surgery to make her breasts perfect...

Healing Touch

Kayla is frustrated when a patient refuses to let her treat her due to her race and her in...

Bleeding Heart

Dr. Campbell is asked to write an endorsement for a new book about female heart health wri...

Prophylactic Measures

Lu is asked to perform physicals for actors and actresses who are shooting ########### vid...

Life in the Balance

An estranged sister must work up the courage to ask her Olympic gymnast sibling to donate...

Like Cures Like

A victim of a mysterious accident suffers severe brain damage. Kayla, Andy, and the head n...

Cinderella in Scrubs

Andy diagnoses a patient with uterine cancer. The patient had gone to nine other doctors a...

Body Mass Increase

Lana bets her pink feather pen that she'll sign up more people than a friend will for the...

Selective Breeding

Lu treats a young patient with Bi-Polar disease which causes her to act hazardously violen...

A Dose of Reality

Lu and Andy treat 3 patients that have similar symptoms but seem to have nothing in common...

Graft

On a stormy Halloween night, a 7 year old girl suffers a serious burn while trick or treat...

Code

Andy is considered for the prominent Chief of Surgery position (after the current Chief re...

Virgin Birth

With Christmas only a few days away, Lana goes on a frenzy decorating the clinic and organ...

Foreign Bodies

Lana finds a crafty way to help one of Lu's patients, a construction worker with a brain t...

First Response

In a special episode of Strong Medicine, the Rittenhouse Hospital Emergency Medical Servic...

Implants, Transplants, and Cuban Aunts

Andy treats a beauty pageant finalist and finds that she has a shocking disease caused in...

Cutting The Cord

Andy must face the questions of people opposed to her becoming Surgeon General while she s...

New Blood

Lu meets Andy 's replacement, Dr. Dylan West, an obnoxious man she worked with when she w...

Feeling No Pain

Lu tries to find out why a young patient has mysterious bruises on her body. Lu suspects...

Clinical Risk

After a policewoman uses a stun gun to discipline an 11-year-old boy with behavioral probl...

Differentials

Dying Inside

The Y Factor

Paternity Test

Infectious Love

Gunshot Wedding

Family Business

Broken Hearts

It Takes a Clinic

Agony and Ecstasy

Chief Complaints

Promising Treatment

Rhythm of the Heart

We Wish You a Merry Cryst-Meth

My Sister, My Doctor, Myself

Unorthodox Treatment

Baby BOOM!

Dr. Thornton Hears A Who?

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