9.8/1010 votesLoading...#1 - Bleeding Heart
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 8/8/2004
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.
Director: Philip Casnoff
Writer: Laura Wolner
9.5/1021 votesLoading...#2 - Trauma
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/24/2002
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.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: N/A
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#3 - Body Mass Increase
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 10/10/2004
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.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: James Stanley
- 9.5/1013 votesLoading...
#4 - My Sister, My Doctor, Myself
Season 6 Episode 18 - Aired 1/8/2006
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.4/109 votesLoading...
#5 - Life in the Balance
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 8/22/2004
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: N/A
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#6 - Dr. Thornton Hears A Who?
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 1/29/2006
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.3/1016 votesLoading...
#7 - Baby BOOM!
Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 1/22/2006
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.2/1010 votesLoading...
#8 - The Hero Heart
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 6/15/2003
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
9.2/1011 votesLoading...#9 - Selective Breeding
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 10/17/2004
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.
Director: Craig Ross Jr.
Writer: Laura Wolner
- 9.2/1017 votesLoading...
#10 - Graft
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 10/31/2004
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.
Director: Allison Liddi-Brown
Writer: N/A
9.1/1012 votesLoading...#11 - Ears, Ho's and Threat
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 1/11/2004
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: N/A
- 9.0/1013 votesLoading...
#12 - Intensive Care
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/16/2003
Dr. Campbell's husband hits her and she kicks him out of their house.
Director: Jan Eliasberg
Writer: N/A
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#13 - Emergency Contacts
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 6/22/2003
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.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: James Stanley
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#14 - Temperature's Rising
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 8/10/2003
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.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: Laura Wolner
9.0/1014 votesLoading...#15 - Quarantine
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 2/15/2004
Lu treats a patient who may SARS the doctors tell patents about SRS as they wait for the lab tests. Ben comforts a patient. Andy worries that she will lose Jesse if she moves to California.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
9.0/1010 votesLoading...#16 - Omissions
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 6/27/2004
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: N/A
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#17 - Healing Touch
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 8/1/2004
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
Writer: James Stanley
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#18 - A Dose of Reality
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 10/24/2004
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.9/1011 votesLoading...#19 - Touched by an Idol
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 6/20/2004
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 with her. Lu's patient's mother directs a terrible accusation at the rock star. Ben starts a concierge service to keep the clinic open after it faces financial difficulties.
Director: David Solomon
Writer: Laura Wolner
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#20 - Goodbye Slash Rest in Peace
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 7/25/2004
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 surgery she could make it harder for machines to detect a possible sign for breast cancer due to the fact that she has a lot of scar tissue. Andy believes her patient may have a body-image disorder and is worried that her patient could go to extreme measures to improve her body image. Lana's computer breaks down with Marc's thesis on it and Lana, Peter, Ben, Lu, and him must pull an all-nighter to get it done and get the thesis done and turned in in time. Lu must say good-bye when Ben is transferred to Miami and Marc goes away to college.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.8/1031 votesLoading...
#21 - Relief
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 8/19/2001
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: N/A
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#22 - Hot Flash
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 11/18/2001
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.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: N/A
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#23 - The Philadelphia Chromosome
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 12/15/2002
Lu goes up against the government when one of her patients turns out to be a suspected terrorist. Meanwhile, Andy treats a deaf woman for rheumatoid arthritis, which has the potential to cripple the hands—silencing her ability to speak.
Director: N/A
Writer: Laura Wolner
8.8/1010 votesLoading...#24 - Prescriptions
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 12/7/2003
A drug company is offering cash to participants testing a new anti-smoking drug and one of Lu's patients has a very favorable response. An advice columnist Andy is treating loses her ability to read after surgery. One of Bob's daughters needs to be taught swimming for gym class. Lana watches over an elderly senile woman who was left at the clinic with a note. Peter is giving flu shots and a patient has a bad reaction. Andy and Milo Morton have trouble reconciling their busy schedules.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#25 - Cape Cancer
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 7/11/2004
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.
Director: Allison Liddi-Brown
Writer: N/A
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 lives of staff in the womens' health clinic of a fictitious hospital in Philadelphia.
Genre:Drama
Network:Lifetime
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, "Trauma".