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The Best Episodes of Strong Medicine

Every episode of Strong Medicine ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Strong Medicine!

The Best Episodes of Strong Medicine

The lives of staff in the womens' health clinic of a fictitious hospital in Philadelphia.

Seasons6

  1. Background image for Bleeding Heart
    9.8/10(10 votes)

    #1 - Bleeding Heart

    S5:E8

    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 publically announce her cause of death because he fears it would hurt sales of the book even though her diet had nothing to do with her death (she had heart disease). Lu is shocked when three high school girls come into the ER with similar and shocking symptoms that point towards poisoning.

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  2. Background image for Body Mass Increase
    9.5/10(12 votes)

    #2 - Body Mass Increase

    S5:E13

    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 to get people to sign up. Lu tells a teenaged patient that she is pregnant and she in turn tells Lu that Lu's son Marc is the father. In a shocking ending, the girl reveals a horrifying secret. Andy, meanwhile, takes action when Lizzy's friends receive ""fat letters"" and instead makes the school food healthier when Lizzy starts to severely diet.

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  3. Background image for My Sister, My Doctor, Myself
    9.5/10(13 votes)

    #3 - My Sister, My Doctor, Myself

    S6:E18

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  4. Background image for Dr. Thornton Hears A Who?
    9.5/10(10 votes)

    #4 - Dr. Thornton Hears A Who?

    S6:E21

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  5. Background image for Type and Cross
    9.4/10(10 votes)

    #5 - Type and Cross

    S2:E19

    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 fighters who have Lyme disease.

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  6. Background image for Trauma
    9.4/10(24 votes)

    #6 - Trauma

    S2:E21

    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 for advice about a pregnant woman with colon cancer.

    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Baby BOOM!
    9.4/10(18 votes)

    #7 - Baby BOOM!

    S6:E20

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  9. Background image for Rash Decisions
    9.3/10(10 votes)

    #8 - Rash Decisions

    S4:E4

    Andy finds out that a TV chef has leperachy when she develops a rash. Lu must decide between avenging Mickey's death and her own beliefs about the death penalty and honesty when she is asked to testify in the defense of his murderer who clearly is mentally unstable. Lu also is shocked when she discovers her neighbor's body and corruption in the Philadelphia Police Department.

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  10. Background image for Gunshot Wedding
    9.3/10(11 votes)

    #9 - Gunshot Wedding

    S6:E9

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  11. Background image for Ears, Ho's and Threat
    9.2/10(14 votes)

    #10 - Ears, Ho's and Threat

    S4:E18

    An Indian heiress with a deformity turns to Andy for treatment so that her parents can arrange a marriage for her. Things get complicated when the woman realizes that she will lose the freedoms she has been afforded because of her imperfection. Also, Lu helps an older woman with Alzheimer's use her past for her own benefit. Meanwhile, Andy counsels a young woman who is seeking ""revirginization"" surgery.

    Director:Jerry London
    Writer:Unknown
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  12. Background image for Graft
    9.2/10(19 votes)

    #11 - Graft

    S5:E16

    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 twin sister. Lu must decide if it is ethical to ask the young girl to proceed with such a risky and painful procedure. Meanwhile, Lizzy and her friends witness a crime in the hospital morque while Peter and Lana get the hospital into the Halloween spirit.

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  13. Background image for Intensive Care
    9.1/10(14 votes)

    #12 - Intensive Care

    S3:E19

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

    Director:Jan Eliasberg
    Writer:Unknown
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  14. Background image for The Hero Heart
    9.1/10(11 votes)

    #13 - The Hero Heart

    S4:E1

    In a surprise twist following the suspenseful season finale cliffhanger, Mickey jumped in front of Lu and took the bullet for her; saving her life. Lu quickly rushes him to the hospital but little can be done to save his life besides putting him on a respiratory machine. Andy and Bob try to convince Lu to take him off the respirator. While Lu deals with the emotional trauma of Mickey's death, Andy tries to perform an experimental procedure on a baby in a bubble but is interrupted by Bob with news that the FDA has un-approved the procedure. Meanwhile Andy gets herself into a bureaucritical battle when she tries to get a patient who has no health insurance a free heart transplant. Also, Andy must tell Lizzy and Jesse that she and Les are getting a divorce and that he is moving across the country.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  15. Background image for Temperature's Rising
    9.1/10(12 votes)

    #14 - Temperature's Rising

    S4:E8

    As a heat wave hits Philadelphia, Andy & the staff will need to get used to its disaster plan to cope with heat wave. Claire a patient of Dr. Campbell is told she will develop Alzheimer's disease within 10 years, she also wants to have a baby. Andy & tells her kids about Dr. Morton, her kids question why she can't make time for kids. Clare worries that her kids might have the gene PGD (the gene that leads to finding Alzheimer's early.) A young girl with Down's Syndrome tells Lu she shot a girl to get in a gang. The mother later tells Lu that she had her 16 year old (with Downs Syndrome) confess to the crime to protect her sister who actually committed the crime.

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  16. Background image for Omissions
    9.1/10(14 votes)

    #15 - Omissions

    S5:E3

    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 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. Meanwhile, Lu, Lana, Peter, and Ben go out on the streets to find out what is threatening the lives of young infants.

    Director:Oz Scott
    Writer:Unknown
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  17. Background image for Life in the Balance
    9.1/10(11 votes)

    #16 - Life in the Balance

    S5:E10

    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 back on track after a suicide attempt. Lu tries to convince Jonas not to build a large discount multi-purpose store in her neighborhood as it would close down many of the mom and pop stores that had been there for years.

    Director:Jerry London
    Writer:Unknown
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  18. Background image for Selective Breeding
    9.1/10(13 votes)

    #17 - Selective Breeding

    S5:E14

    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, Andy helps a woman have an invitro fertilization. She uses new technology to help the couple have a boy because of a genetic female-only disease in the family but later a web of lies and deceivements is revealed. Peter gets jealous when Kayla dates a man he volunteers for at a zoo.

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  19. Background image for A Dose of Reality
    9.1/10(14 votes)

    #18 - A Dose of Reality

    S5:E15

    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 when Jesse befriends him after he gives a speech about the dangers of drunk driving at her school. Meanwhile, Jonas is investigated for insider trading. Later, in a shocking climax, Jesse is in a drunk driving accident.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  20. Background image for History
    9.0/10(16 votes)

    #19 - History

    S2:E4

    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 back to her days as a resident, recalling her first meeting with Peter and Lana. Mary J. Blige guest stars as a moody blues singer named Simone.

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  21. Background image for Hot Flash
    9.0/10(12 votes)

    #20 - Hot Flash

    S2:E14

    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 of Lu's who is trying to pass herself off as a much younger woman is hampered by the inconvenient arrival of menopause.

    Writer:Unknown
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  22. Background image for Emergency Contacts
    9.0/10(10 votes)

    #21 - Emergency Contacts

    S4:E2

    Lu faces the doctor that raped her when he needs surgery that can save his life. Peter goes out with a woman who has terminal diabetes.

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  23. Background image for Misdiagnosis Murder
    9.0/10(12 votes)

    #22 - Misdiagnosis Murder

    S4:E6

    Lu faces an ethical dilemma about her doctor/patient confidentiality when an abused, pregnant woman appears to be missing. Andy confronts a doctor whose chauvinism may have cost a patient her life.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  24. Background image for Cape Cancer
    9.0/10(11 votes)

    #23 - Cape Cancer

    S5:E4

    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 ill with similar symptoms to Andy's patient who has cancer. Andy is furthur shocked to learn that 9 other residents of the town have died from cancer.

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  25. Background image for Healing Touch
    9.0/10(15 votes)

    #24 - Healing Touch

    S5:E7

    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 filed against Andy because she refused to treat the patient. A new doctor at Rittenhouse must take over Milo's patients and replace him in the hospital.

    Director:Oz Scott
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  26. Background image for Prophylactic Measures
    9.0/10(11 votes)

    #25 - Prophylactic Measures

    S5:E9

    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 middle of shooting a scene and everybody there hears because the studio has microphones everywhere. Andy loses control of herself in the ER when she is unable to save the life of a woman. She decides she has Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder because of her guilt over not saving Milo's life even though there was no way she possibly could have.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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Best Episodes Summary

"Bleeding Heart" is the best rated episode of "Strong Medicine". It scored 9.8/10 based on 10 votes. Directed by Philip Casnoff and written by Laura Wolner, it aired on 8/8/2004. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Body Mass Increase".