Episode guide
Strong Medicine: Season 2
22 episodes · premiered Jul 15, 2001
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- Episode 1: Donors Jul 15, 2001 · 1h The second season begins with Dana and Lu at odds over the fate of a dead college student's fertilized eggs. The day is further complicated by the arrival of Peter's mother, who clings to…
- Episode 2: Adverse Reactions Jul 22, 2001 · 1h After denying employment to a candidate who is both overqualified and overweight, Robert faces off against a civil-rights lawyer famous for her plus-size clientele. Elsewhere, Dana comes…
- Episode 3: Gray Matter Jul 29, 2001 · 1h Dana's bedside manner is put to the ultimate test when a former high-school rival comes to her for treatment. A nurse considers suing the hospital after she tests positive for the HIV…
- Episode 4: History Aug 5, 2001 · 1h Lu travels to Puerto Rico, where her beloved grandmother urgently needs a bone-marrow transplant to survive. As the headstrong doctor copes with this life-or-death situation, she flashes…
- Episode 5: Attachments Aug 12, 2001 · 1h The parents of conjoined twins refuse to have them surgically separated, even though that means they may both die. Lu suspects a leukemia patient may have attempted suicide by starting a…
- Episode 6: Relief Aug 19, 2001 · 1h Philadelphia baseball fans blame Dana when the home team loses a crucial playoff game. Lu cares for a piano prodigy with scleroderma, a potentially fatal disease that hardens the body's…
- Episode 7: Impaired Aug 26, 2001 · 1h An Alzheimer's patient attempts to maintain custody of her 15-year-old son with Down syndrome, and a domestic diva puts the health of her unborn child at risk.
- Episode 8: Rebirth Sep 9, 2001 · 1h A woman hoping to form a maternal bond with her adopted teenage daughter ignores Dana's advice and proceeds with plans to re-create the child's birth. A second patient of Dana's seeks Lu's…
- Episode 9: Control Group Sep 16, 2001 · 1h Robert's wife's battle with MS becomes more difficult, so he asks Dana to try a new experimental drug on her. Lu treats a young Korean woman for anorexia.
- Episode 10: Zol Zein Gezint Oct 7, 2001 · 1h A patient of Dana's gives birth to twins — one baby is black, the other is white. And Lu suspects that a woman with chronic back pain is addicted to prescription drugs.
- Episode 11: Systemic Oct 14, 2001 · 1h Dana debates whether she should risk her relationship with Nick to comfort a terminally ill flame from her past, while Lu faces off against a Philly police officer who mistook a diabetic…
- Episode 12: Accidents Oct 21, 2001 · 1h Dana waits for Nick to decide when they will get married, and treats a figure skater who's determined to compete in the Olympics despite being diagnosed with osteoporosis. Elsewhere, Lu…
- Episode 13: Silent Epidemic Nov 11, 2001 · 1h 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.
- Episode 14: Hot Flash Nov 18, 2001 · 1h A pregnant and very ill pro-life politician has her principles put to the ultimate test when the only treatment that will save her life will result in losing her baby. Meanwhile, a patient…
- Episode 15: Bloodwork Dec 2, 2001 · 1h Dana counsels a woman and her emotionally distant son, who are both being treated for lead poisoning. Also, Lu goes to bat for a stenographer with carpal-tunnel syndrome.
- Episode 16: Black 'n' Flu Dec 9, 2001 · 1h Lu's return to her college alma mater is marred by an outbreak of meningitis. At the clinic, Dana develops symptoms suggesting she is pregnant.
- Episode 17: Precautions Jan 6, 2002 · 1h Dana is troubled when a patient requests new breast implants immediately after her first ones rupture. Elsewhere, Lu fears for the life of a wanted criminal's sickly newborn.
- Episode 18: Shock Jan 13, 2002 · 1h Striking nurses send the hospital into chaos, forcing Dana to withhold an experimental treatment for a dying baby. Also, an abused patient of Lu's is turned away.
- Episode 19: Type and Cross Jan 20, 2002 · 1h The Rittenhouse doctors cope with a blood shortage in Philadelphia. Dana helps a patient who unknowingly contracted hepatitis from her husband, and Lu deals with a family of illegal dog…
- Episode 20: Rape Kit Feb 17, 2002 · 1h Lu is raped by Rittenhouse's star surgeon — but he insists that the sex was consensual. Meanwhile, Dana attempts to help a critically injured woman whose car crash may or may not have…
- Episode 21: Trauma Feb 24, 2002 · 1h Lu copes with the trauma of being raped by devoting her thoughts to a patient who accidentally overdosed on over-the-counter cough medicine. Dana, meanwhile, grudgingly turns to Dr. Kilner…
- Episode 22: Recovery Time Mar 3, 2002 · 1h Lu tries to cope with the aftershocks of her rape, she finds her life spinning out of control. Her rage causes Robert to dismiss her from Rittenhouse, and at home her son Marc barely…