Episode guide
Strong Medicine: Season 1
22 episodes · premiered Jul 23, 2000
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- Episode 1: Pilot Jul 23, 2000 · 1h Dr. Lu Delgado is running out of money to run her free clinic by herself. When Lu goes to prestigious Rittenhouse Hospital to ask for assistance, famous O.B.G.Y.N./surgeon Dr. Dana Stowe…
- Episode 2: Preexisting Conditions Jul 30, 2000 · 1h As Dana & begin to work together, Dana has to tell a surrogate couple that their unborn baby has a defect that will cause it to be mentally disable. After the surrogate couple tells Dana…
- Episode 3: Misconceptions Aug 6, 2000 · 1h Dana treats an HIV positive patient of Lu's when Lu is out of the clinic and learns that his mother took him off the HIV medication with Lu's permission. She is furious and reports the…
- Episode 4: Second Look Aug 13, 2000 · 1h Dana's former beauty queen patient doesn't think her husband finds her attractive and insists on having extensive plastic surgery. Dana refuses to perform the surgery but when Terri Ann…
- Episode 5: Performance Anxiety Aug 20, 2000 · 1h Lu coaches a teenage basketball team and is troubled when a player faints at a game. She later finds traces of steroids in her blood and wonders if the entire team is on the drugs. Dana is…
- Episode 6: Drug Interactions Aug 27, 2000 · 1h Dana has big problem on her hands when Susan Jackson comes to the hospital with bruises. Dana wonders if Robert Jackson gave her the bruises because their marriage problems. Dana gets the…
- Episode 7: Do No Harm Sep 3, 2000 · 1h After a councilwoman comes to the clinic to see Dr. Dana Stowe, Lu Delgado is trying to get gang members who are angry at the Councilwoman because they are unable to get insurance. The…
- Episode 8: Miracle Cure Sep 10, 2000 · 1h When a command pilot learns she has a brain disorder she must learn to cope with not being able to fly a plane anymore. Dr. Stowe tells Jane that it would be wise to quit her job as an…
- Episode 9: Dependency Oct 8, 2000 · 1h Dana goes underground to help the wife of a high-powered real estate developer whose financial grip on his spouse is making her black and blue. Meanwhile, Lu comes between an orphaned boy…
- Episode 10: BRCA1 Oct 15, 2000 · 1h It's Breast Cancer Awareness Weekend at the Rittenhouse Hospital Women's Clinic, where Lu (Rosa Blasi), Lana (Jenifer Lewis) and Peter (Josh Coxx) are hosting a dance-a-thon and a free…
- Episode 11: BRCA2 Oct 15, 2000 · 1h Dana takes a leave from the clinic to help her mother through a double mastectomy. Lu's impromptu safe-sex speech at a prep school's career day puts her in the middle of a legal dispute…
- Episode 12: Brainchild Oct 29, 2000 · 1h A woman's advanced Parkinson's disease forces Dana and Robert to decide whether to perform a controversial fetal cell transplant. Peter's stint as a nude model leads to a romantic…
- Episode 13: Second Opinion Dec 3, 2000 · 1h Lu (Rosa Blasi) and Dana (Janine Turner) intervene when a woman with a controversial bone and muscle disease is denied her disability claim. And Dana gets in the middle of an immigration…
- Episode 14: Side Effects Dec 10, 2000 · 1h A mother- and father-to-be clash over whether or not to allow Dana to perform in utero surgery to correct a birth defect on their unborn son. Lu must decide whether or not to get involved…
- Episode 15: Blessed Events Dec 17, 2000 · 1h It's Christmas at Rittenhouse Hospital. A woman engaged to be married finds out she's pregnant — even though she's a virgin. Robert fires a kitchen employee, assuming her to be drunk on…
- Episode 16: Fix Jan 7, 2001 · 1h A journalist comes in with an infection on her foot and Dana(Janine Turner)realizes that she is actually a closet heroine addict. Lu (Rosa Blasi) is called to the emergency room when her…
- Episode 17: Maternity Jan 14, 2001 · 1h Environmental toxins in a low-income housing unit trigger early menopause in one of its 25-year-old residents. A new mother spirals into depression and runs away from home. Dana meets…
- Episode 18: Complications Jan 21, 2001 · 1h When a 12-year-old girl is diagnosed with oral gonorrhea, she tells Lu (Rosa Blasi) that she got it from her teacher. Lana (Jenifer Lewis) takes on a new role at Rittenhouse: that of…
- Episode 19: Childcare Feb 18, 2001 · 1h Dana Stowe must help a family consider if they should take Scarlett off of life support because of the disease she has. Scarlett has expressed to her husband that she does want life…
- Episode 20: Drugstore Cowgirl Feb 25, 2001 · 1h Dana cares for a dying patient who has been disguising herself as a man in order to fulfill her calling to the priesthood. Lu prescribes Demerol for a woman suffering from sickle cell…
- Episode 21: Wednesday Night Fever Mar 4, 2001 · 1h It's an all-nighter for Lu at Rittenhouse — and there's not a moment's rest. Robert's wife, Susan, is back in the hospital as her MS progresses. A baby is kidnapped — from a pregnant…
- Episode 22: Mortality Mar 11, 2001 · 1h A mother goes on a hunger strike in the hopes of saving her son from being executed. And when something goes wrong in the OR, Dana wonders whether it's time for her to leave Rittenhouse.