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

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    Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 2 - Preexisting Conditions
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Preexisting Conditions

    S1:E2

    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 they will put the baby up for adoption. Dana tries to get the biological mother, who can barely afford to take care of her other children, to keep her baby. Lu finds out that a woman who claims to have had a hysterectomy has not.

    Director:Rick Rosenthal
    Writer:Tammy Ader

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  2. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 3 - Misconceptions
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Misconceptions

    S1:E3

    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 mother. Although the boy suffers terrible side effects from the medication, Dr. Bob Jackson insists that he be put back on it. Dana falls for her handsome intern.

    Director:Rick Wallace
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 7 - Do No Harm
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Do No Harm

    S1:E7

    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 gang members continue arguing with the councilwoman who isn't interested in what they have to say. Seconds later an unknown gunmen began shooting at the clinic and Dana's patient is accidentally shot and is in need of immediate medical attention. The operation helps Dana's patient learn a valuable lesson. Also in this episode, Peter treats a woman who goes berserk at the shooting in the clinic. He later finds that she grew up in Cambodia during the war. But she may be suffering from more than pain from the memories.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 10 - BRCA1
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - BRCA1

    S1:E10

    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 mammogram clinic. When one woman's mammogram reveals a lump, she must choose between losing both her breasts and losing her job. After Dana (Janine Turner) delivers the unexpected results of her breast cancer clinical trial, she learns the very disease that's defined her career has now hit too close to home.

    Director:Joe Napolitano
    Writer:Tammy Ader

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  5. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 11 - BRCA2
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - BRCA2

    S1:E11

    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 over a date rape. Peter's ""alternative"" approach to pain management for a patient with Hodgkin's disease gets them both arrested. And Dana and Lu must each decide how much they want to know when they are both tested for the mutated BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes that would reveal a predisposition to breast cancer.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 12 - Brainchild
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Brainchild

    S1:E12

    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 interlude with an aspiring painter whose muse puts her in the emergency room. When Lu treats one of her son Marc's classmates for a broken wrist, she discovers that alcohol has hit junior high.

    Director:Scott Paulin
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 13 - Second Opinion
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Second Opinion

    S1:E13

    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 dispute when she finds out that the physical damage on a 15-year-old sexual assault victim was actually inflicted by the girl's parents.

    Director:Martha Mitchell
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 14 - Side Effects
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Side Effects

    S1:E14

    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 when a woman she was treating for schizophrenia is charged with murder.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 16 - Fix
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - Fix

    S1:E16

    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 patients, a deaf family, are brought in following a fire in their apartment building. She worries about their safety and suggests a risky ear surgery for them — but the husband disapproves. Lu brings her boyfriend home to meet Marc(Chris Marquette).

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 17 - Maternity
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Maternity

    S1:E17

    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 Nick's mother.

    Director:Carl Weathers
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 18 - Complications
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Complications

    S1:E18

    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 patient. Two of Dana's patients deliver babies — and both newborns have the same father.

    Director:Joe Napolitano
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 20 - Drugstore Cowgirl
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Drugstore Cowgirl

    S1:E20

    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 anemia, but the woman's local pharmacy will not carry high-priced drugs for fear of robbery.

    Director:Jerry London
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 21 - Wednesday Night Fever
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Wednesday Night Fever

    S1:E21

    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 mother's womb. And Lana's blind date ends in the ER.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 22 - Mortality
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Mortality

    S1:E22

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Strong Medicine Season 2 Episode 2 - Adverse Reactions
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Adverse Reactions

    S2:E2

    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 under fire from the Army when she diagnoses a 14-year veteran with Gulf War Syndrome. Lana cares for the newborn son of a neighborhood streetwalker.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Strong Medicine Season 2 Episode 3 - Gray Matter
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Gray Matter

    S2:E3

    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 virus following an incident in the ER.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Yahlin Chang

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  17. Strong Medicine Season 2 Episode 4 - History
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - 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.

    Director:Jesús Salvador Treviño
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Strong Medicine Season 2 Episode 5 - Attachments
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Attachments

    S2:E5

    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 fire. Peter is concerned about a patient with a severe rash on her arm and suspects it to be the some kind of virus. Dr. Jackson feels that Rittenhouse needs a good safety & emergency plan and he puts Lana in charge of it.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Strong Medicine Season 2 Episode 6 - Relief
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Relief

    S2:E6

    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 organs. Peter helps a retired research chimp find greener pastures.

    Director:Steve Gomer
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Strong Medicine Season 2 Episode 8 - Rebirth
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Rebirth

    S2:E8

    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 care after falling on hard times. Outside the hospital, Marc is caught cheating at school.

    Director:Steve Gomer
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Strong Medicine Season 2 Episode 9 - Control Group
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Control Group

    S2:E9

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Strong Medicine Season 2 Episode 11 - Systemic
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Systemic

    S2:E11

    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 for a drunk driver.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Strong Medicine Season 2 Episode 12 - Accidents
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Accidents

    S2:E12

    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 takes an instant dislike to her son's new girlfriend's father (Don Michael Paul). Lana looks forward to graduating from high school. Peter finds his new romantic relationship to be fleeting.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Strong Medicine Season 2 Episode 13 - Silent Epidemic
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - Silent Epidemic

    S2:E13

    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.

    Director:Randall Zisk
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Strong Medicine Season 2 Episode 16 - Black 'n' Flu
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Black 'n' Flu

    S2:E16

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Preexisting Conditions" is the best rated episode of "Strong Medicine". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Rick Rosenthal and written by Tammy Ader, it aired on 7/30/2000. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Misconceptions".