Episodes cast for
"Strong Medicine" (2000) More at IMDbPro »

Season: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
Year: 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006

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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot

23 July 2000
In order to keep her South Philadelphia women's free health clinic open, Dr. Luisa "Lu" Delgado turns to Rittenhouse Hospital for financial help. But, however it is discovered that Dr. Dana Stowe blames Lu for ruining her breast cancer study. The Chief of Staff, Dr. Bob Jackson tells Dana to take a tour of the clinic to see if Rittenhouse should help fund it; meanwhile, Dana has to tell one of her patients that her sister might be at risk for ovarian cancer in which her ovaries would need to be removed.

Season 1, Episode 2: Pre-Existing Conditions

30 July 2000
Dana and Lu find it hard to work together. Dana has to tell a surrogate couple that their child will be born with severe mental birth defects which makes them question whether or not they can raise a special needs child; Lu investigates a clinic that supposedly gave a woman a hysterectomy due to bleeding fibroids, but it turns out that they never gave her one at all.

Season 1, Episode 3: Misconceptions

6 August 2000
Lu and Dana clash over the case of a woman with AIDS and how she chooses to treat her child; after Dana treats the woman who has taken her HIV-positive son off of his medication because it makes him very ill, she reports Lu to the Chief of Staff; Lu reveals that she told his mother it was okay to take him off his medication, but Dr. Jackson requires that he goes back on his medicine. Dana receives a visit from a talk-show host who wants to do a story on artificial insemination; Peter makes a house call that doesn't go as well as expected.

Season 1, Episode 4: Second Look

13 August 2000
Dana is surprised when a former beauty queen asks her to perform a surgery on her that she thinks will make her husband believe that she's beautiful; Lu overreacts when accuses a former drug addict of using again, but it is later discovered she has a very serious medical condition; Peter doesn't understand why a transvestite is having side effects of menopause and he also counsels Lu's son, Marc about one of the issues of male adolescence; Lu and Lana figure out a way to punish two teenagers who spray-painted graffiti on the inside of the clinic.

Season 1, Episode 5: Performance Anxiety

20 August 2000
After a female basketball player collapses on the court, Lu discovers that she is taking steroids and wonders if the whole basketball team is also taking them as well; Dana is surprised when an unconscious woman shows up in the ER with her name and phone number in her pocket, but she's never met her before.

Season 1, Episode 6: Drug Interactions

11 June 2000
Dana is shocked when Dr. Jackson's wife, Susan comes into the ER with bruises which at first she thinks that Robert gave them to her, but Susan is later diagnosed with multiple sclerosis; Lu deals with Marc's mugging at school and a group of drug-addicted prostitutes who want their tubes tied for money.

Season 1, Episode 7: Do No Harm

3 September 2000
After a councilwoman comes to the clinic to see Dana a few gang members are upset when they are unable to get insurance and the councilwoman refuses to listen. Seconds later, an unknown gunman begins shooting at the clinic which accidentally injures the councilwoman; Peter treats a woman who was traumatized during the shooting and learns that she grew up in Cambodia during the war, but soon discovers the real source of her pain.

Season 1, Episode 8: Miracle Cure

10 September 2000
After Dana treats a commercial pilot who has a degenerative brain disease, she is conflicted about whether or not she should break doctor-patient privilege to prevent her from flying another plane; Lu discovers that a couple's daughter has a genetic disorder called Tay-Sachs, but both parents are Catholic.

Season 1, Episode 9: Dependency

8 October 2000
Lu treats a young orphaned boy with attention deficit disorder and discovers that his foster guardian has been using the Ritalin that she prescribed to him; Dana helps the wife of a high-powered real estate developer who has been abusing her.

Season 1, Episode 10: BRCA1

15 October 2000
Lu, Peter, and Lana host a dance-a-thon and a free mammogram clinic for Breast Cancer Awareness weekend; Lu tries to intervene to help a patient keep her breast and her job after her mammogram reveals a lump; Dana gets some unexpected results of her breast cancer clinical trial and learns that her mother has breast cancer.

Season 1, Episode 11: BRCA2

15 October 2000

Season 1, Episode 12: Brainchild

29 October 2000

Season 1, Episode 13: Second Opinion

3 December 2000

Season 1, Episode 14: Side Effects

10 December 2000

Season 1, Episode 15: Blessed Events

17 December 2000

Season 1, Episode 16: Fix

7 January 2001

Season 1, Episode 17: Maternity

14 January 2001

Season 1, Episode 18: Complications

21 January 2001

Season 1, Episode 19: Child Care

18 February 2001

Season 1, Episode 20: Drugstore Cowgirl

25 February 2001

Season 1, Episode 21: Wednesday Night Fever

4 March 2001

Season 1, Episode 22: Mortality

11 March 2001

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Season 2

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Season 2, Episode 1: Donors

15 July 2001

Season 2, Episode 2: Adverse Reactions

22 July 2001

Season 2, Episode 3: Gray Matter

29 July 2001

Season 2, Episode 4: History

5 August 2001

Season 2, Episode 5: Attachments

12 August 2001

Season 2, Episode 6: Relief

19 August 2001

Season 2, Episode 7: Impaired

26 August 2001

Season 2, Episode 8: Rebirth

9 September 2001

Season 2, Episode 9: Control Group

16 September 2001

Season 2, Episode 10: Zol Zein Gezint

7 October 2001

Season 2, Episode 11: Systemic

14 October 2001

Season 2, Episode 12: Accidents

21 October 2001

Season 2, Episode 13: Silent Epidemic

11 November 2001
Dana suspects an Amish woman is infected with mad-cow disease; and Lu treats Lana for a sexual dysfunction stemming from her days as a prostitute.

Season 2, Episode 14: Hot Flash

18 November 2001

Season 2, Episode 15: Bloodwork

2 December 2001

Season 2, Episode 16: Black 'n' Flu

9 December 2001

Season 2, Episode 17: Precautions

6 January 2002

Season 2, Episode 18: Shock

13 January 2002

Season 2, Episode 19: Type & Cross

20 January 2002

Season 2, Episode 20: Rape Kit

17 February 2002
Lu deals with a life-changing event that makes her the patient for once, and Dr. Stowe has a patient whose dying wish is more difficult to grant than she first thought.

Season 2, Episode 21: Trauma

24 February 2002

Season 2, Episode 22: Recovery Time

3 March 2002

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Season 3

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Season 3, Episode 1: Positive

21 July 2002

Season 3, Episode 2: Outcomes

28 July 2002

Season 3, Episode 3: Stages

4 August 2002

Season 3, Episode 4: Heartbeat

11 August 2002

Season 3, Episode 5: Compassionate Release

18 August 2002

Season 3, Episode 6: Discharged

25 August 2002

Season 3, Episode 7: Admissions

8 September 2002

Season 3, Episode 8: Contraindications

8 September 2002

Season 3, Episode 9: Family History

6 October 2002

Season 3, Episode 10: House Calls

13 October 2002
An old friend of Andy's who is on the space station calls her because she has a medical problem. It seems she needs surgery but can't get off the station. So she has to try to coach the doctor on the station who is a vet on how to do it. So NASA techs come to the hospital so they set a link with them. Lu as a patient who has symptoms she can't figure out is causing it. And another patient wants to have a mastectomy because she fears of having breast cancer.

Season 3, Episode 11: Flesh and Blood

20 October 2002

Season 3, Episode 12: Blush

10 November 2002

Season 3, Episode 13: Deterioration

17 November 2002

Season 3, Episode 14: Poison

8 December 2002

Season 3, Episode 15: The Philadelphia Chromosome

15 December 2002

Season 3, Episode 16: PMS, Lies and Red Tape

5 January 2003

Season 3, Episode 17: Orders

12 January 2003

Season 3, Episode 18: Blocked Lines

19 January 2003

Season 3, Episode 19: Intensive Care

16 February 2003

Season 3, Episode 20: Addicted to Love

23 February 2003

Season 3, Episode 21: Degeneration

9 March 2003

Season 3, Episode 22: Risk

16 March 2003

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Season 4

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Season 4, Episode 1: The Hero Heart

19 June 2003

Season 4, Episode 2: Emergency Contact

22 June 2003

Season 4, Episode 3: Heartbeats and Deadbeats

29 June 2003

Season 4, Episode 4: Rash Decisions

6 July 2003

Season 4, Episode 5: Breathing Lessons

13 July 2003

Season 4, Episode 6: Misdiagnosis Murder

20 July 2003

Season 4, Episode 7: Vaccinations

27 July 2003

Season 4, Episode 8: Tempertures Rising

10 August 2003
In the middle of a crushing heat wave, Andy is confronted with the ethical dilemma of whether to help a single woman, pre-destined to have early Alzheimer's disease, have a baby. Also, Lu fights to save a sixteen-year old girl who has been shot in a gang initiation and finds out the truth about a mother who turns in her daughter with Downs Syndrome as the perpetrator of the shooting. Andy struggles with introducing Dr. Milo Morton to her daughters. Elsewhere, Andy and Milo stop a baby's heart in the fight to save its life.

Season 4, Episode 9: Speculum for a Heavyweight

17 August 2003

Season 4, Episode 10: Bad Liver

7 September 2003

Season 4, Episode 11: Maternal Mirrors

14 September 2003

Season 4, Episode 12: Jeaneology

5 October 2003

Season 4, Episode 13: Skin

12 October 2003

Season 4, Episode 14: Love and Let Die

2 November 2003

Season 4, Episode 15: Coming Clean

9 November 2003
When Andy encounters a young woman with amnesia and her fiance, she must decide which secrets should remain untold. Meanwhile, when a pregnant patient refuses to stop using drugs, Lu faces an ethical dilemma and must decide whether to intervene.

Season 4, Episode 16: Prescriptions

7 December 2003

Season 4, Episode 17: Seize the Day

14 December 2003

Season 4, Episode 18: Ears, Ho's & Threat

11 January 2004

Season 4, Episode 19: Weights and Measures

18 January 2004

Season 4, Episode 20: The Real World Rittenhouse

25 January 2004

Season 4, Episode 21: Identity Crisis

8 February 2004

Season 4, Episode 22: Quarantine

15 February 2004

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Season 5

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Season 5, Episode 1: Positive Results

13 June 2004

Season 5, Episode 2: Touched by an Idol

20 June 2004
Andy tells Amber Seale, a famous rock star, and a patient to rest and cancel some of her concerts because of fatigue. The rock star invites Lu's young patient Lily who has a terminal disease to spend the day with her. Lu's patient's mother directs a terrible accusation at the rock star. Ben starts a concierge service to keep the clinic open after it faces financial difficulties.

Season 5, Episode 3: Omissions

27 June 2004
Dr. Campbell treats Rachel, a patient she believes is an alcoholic but she won't admit to her drinking problem. The patient's daughter Jordan goes to desperate measure to get her mom to stop drinking. Another of Andy's patients needs to get a kidney transplant but nobody in her family is a match. Tammy's mom then reveals a horrible secret that could save her daughter's life - she was raped and her daughter is the product of that rape. Meanwhile, Lu, Lana, Peter, and Ben go out on the streets to find out what is threatening the lives of young infants.

Season 5, Episode 4: Cape Cancer

11 July 2004
Andy and Milo are invited to stay in a beach-side cabin owned by a patient of Andy's at Cape June, a beach-side vacation community. The vacation gets interrupted when a young boy suddenly becomes very ill with similar symptoms to Andy's patient who has cancer. Andy is further shocked to learn that 9 other residents of the town have died from cancer.

Season 5, Episode 5: Fractured

18 July 2004

Season 5, Episode 6: Goodbye/Rest in Peace

25 July 2004

Season 5, Episode 7: Healing Touch

1 August 2004

Season 5, Episode 8: Bleeding Heart

8 August 2004