Episode guide
Strong Medicine: Season 5
22 episodes · premiered Jun 13, 2004
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- Episode 1: Positive Results Jun 13, 2004 · 1h Nick is transferred to Manhatten General. Ben's HIV test has a positive result. Also, Ben hires his ex-wife to make up for the damage he caused to her career. Andy learns that her daughter…
- Episode 2: Touched by an Idol Jun 20, 2004 · 1h Andy tells 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 who has a terminal disease to spend the day…
- Episode 3: Omissions Jun 27, 2004 · 1h Dr. Campbell treats a patient for what she believes is alcoholism but she won't admit to her drinking problem. The patient's daughter goes to desperate measure to get her mom to stop…
- Episode 4: Cape Cancer Jul 11, 2004 · 1h Andy and Milo are invited to stay in a beachside cabin owned by a patient of Andy's in a beachside vacation community. The vacation gets interrupted when a young boy suddenly becomes very…
- Episode 5: Fractured Jul 18, 2004 · 1h Andy is surprised when ex-husband Les shows up unexpectedly after Lizzy has her knee operated on after a soccer accident. Les learns that his wife is dating Milo. Andy invites Milo to…
- Episode 6: Goodbye Slash Rest in Peace Jul 25, 2004 · 1h Andy worries about a patient who continues to ask for surgery to make her breasts perfect even after she has had many surgeries. Andy warns her patient that if she continues to have more…
- Episode 7: Healing Touch Aug 1, 2004 · 1h Kayla is frustrated when a patient refuses to let her treat her due to her race and her intern status. Andy refuses to treat her and insists that Kayla handles the patient. A complaint is…
- Episode 8: Bleeding Heart Aug 8, 2004 · 1h Dr. Campbell is asked to write an endorsement for a new book about female heart health written by a friend and patient. After the author dies of a heart attack, her husband refuses to…
- Episode 9: Prophylactic Measures Aug 15, 2004 · 1h Lu is asked to perform physicals for actors and actresses who are shooting ########### videos. She accidentally tells an actress that she has contracted gonorrhea while she is in the…
- Episode 10: Life in the Balance Aug 22, 2004 · 1h An estranged sister must work up the courage to ask her Olympic gymnast sibling to donate her liver to save her life. Andy and Kayla help a clinically depressed and struggling resident get…
- Episode 11: Like Cures Like Sep 26, 2004 · 1h A victim of a mysterious accident suffers severe brain damage. Kayla, Andy, and the head neurologist at Rittenhouse, along with his wife, must help him decide whether or not he should have…
- Episode 12: Cinderella in Scrubs Oct 3, 2004 · 1h Andy diagnoses a patient with uterine cancer. The patient had gone to nine other doctors and all of them had declared her perfectly healthy as they didn't give her the test needed to…
- Episode 13: Body Mass Increase Oct 10, 2004 · 1h Lana bets her pink feather pen that she'll sign up more people than a friend will for the Rittenhouse Breast Cancer Walk. She faces some difficulties, however, and goes to extreme measures…
- Episode 14: Selective Breeding Oct 17, 2004 · 1h Lu treats a young patient with Bi-Polar disease which causes her to act hazardously violent. Her mother must decide whether to keep her or give her up to a mental institution. Meanwhile…
- Episode 15: A Dose of Reality Oct 24, 2004 · 1h Lu and Andy treat 3 patients that have similar symptoms but seem to have nothing in common. Meanwhile, Andy must meet face-to-face with the drunk driver who killed Milo. Andy is horrified…
- Episode 16: Graft Oct 31, 2004 · 1h On a stormy Halloween night, a 7 year old girl suffers a serious burn while trick or treating and the only person who could possibly save her life by giving her a skin transplant is her…
- Episode 17: Code Dec 5, 2004 · 1h Andy is considered for the prominent Chief of Surgery position (after the current Chief retires) and discovers a competitor bribing members of the board which is going to decide on a…
- Episode 18: Virgin Birth Dec 12, 2004 · 1h With Christmas only a few days away, Lana goes on a frenzy decorating the clinic and organizing a Secret Santa gift exchange. However, when a plan to set up Peter and Kayla backfires, she…
- Episode 19: Foreign Bodies Jan 9, 2005 · 1h Lana finds a crafty way to help one of Lu's patients, a construction worker with a brain tumor, raise enough money for a necessary surgery. Andy treats a woman who needs to have surgery to…
- Episode 20: First Response Jan 16, 2005 · 1h In a special episode of Strong Medicine, the Rittenhouse Hospital Emergency Medical Services team is introduced. EMTs Kate and Zach are attacked while trying to save a young girl's life…
- Episode 21: Implants, Transplants, and Cuban Aunts Jan 23, 2005 · 1h Andy treats a beauty pageant finalist and finds that she has a shocking disease caused in part by her breast implants that requires surgery. Also, Andy tries to find time to talk to her…
- Episode 22: Cutting The Cord Jan 30, 2005 · 1h Andy must face the questions of people opposed to her becoming Surgeon General while she struggles to get Senate confirmation. Lu's unique way of practicing medicine and their relationship…