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The Best Episodes of Strong Medicine Season 1

Every episode of Strong Medicine Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Strong Medicine Season 1!

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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 1 - Pilot
    8.3/10(54 votes)

    #1 - Pilot

    S1:E1

    Dr. Lu Delgado is running out of money to run her free clinic by herself. When Lu goes to prestigious Rittenhouse Hospital to ask for assistance, famous O.B.G.Y.N./surgeon Dr. Dana Stowe blames Lu for ruining her breast cancer study to find a cure for cancer after Lu tells a woman her opinon about test studies. Dana later is asked by Chief of Staff Dr. Bob Jackson to tour Lu's clinic and see if the clinic should get funded by Rittenhouse . Dana tells one of her patients that she has ovarian cancer and that she will not be able to have any children even though she has the desire to. In the end, Dr. Lydia Emerson comes up with the perfect solution to Lu's problem.

    Director:Rob Lieberman
    Writer:Tammy Ader

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  2. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 2 - Preexisting Conditions
    8.5/10(26 votes)

    #2 - 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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  3. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 3 - Misconceptions
    8.0/10(31 votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 4 - Second Look
    8.0/10(27 votes)

    #4 - Second Look

    S1:E4

    Dana's former beauty queen patient doesn't think her husband finds her attractive and insists on having extensive plastic surgery. Dana refuses to perform the surgery but when Terri Ann lands in the ER, she begins to doubt her decision. Peter tries to figure out why a transvestal is having side effects of menopause and counsels Marc about one of the stickier issues of adolescence. Lu and Lana try to find an appropriate punishment for two young teenagers who spray graffiti outside the hospital.

    Director:Michael Lange
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 5 - Performance Anxiety
    8.0/10(24 votes)

    #5 - Performance Anxiety

    S1:E5

    Lu coaches a teenage basketball team and is troubled when a player faints at a game. She later finds traces of steroids in her blood and wonders if the entire team is on the drugs. Dana is mystified when a complete stranger shows up in the ER with Dana's name and phone number in her purse. Dana must make a difficult decision for the women and regrets that she can't find her family so they can decide.

    Director:Martha Mitchell
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 6 - Drug Interactions
    7.5/10(28 votes)

    #6 - Drug Interactions

    S1:E6

    Dana has big problem on her hands when Susan Jackson comes to the hospital with bruises. Dana wonders if Robert Jackson gave her the bruises because their marriage problems. Dana gets the feeling Susan may not be telling her all she knows. After Dana learns Robert found his wife at the bottom of the stairs Susan tells that had double vision leading Dana to believe Susan might have Multiple Sclerosis.

    Director:Sarah Pia Anderson
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 7 - Do No Harm
    9.1/10(24 votes)

    #7 - 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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  8. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 8 - Miracle Cure
    7.6/10(26 votes)

    #8 - Miracle Cure

    S1:E8

    When a command pilot learns she has a brain disorder she must learn to cope with not being able to fly a plane anymore. Dr. Stowe tells Jane that it would be wise to quit her job as an airline pilot before her disease progresses to where she will be unable to do her job properly. Dana questions whether or not to put her patient's privacy at risk as well as her own career as a doctor by telling the airline that she can't do her job anymore due to her illness.

    Director:Jerry London
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 9 - Dependency
    7.7/10(24 votes)

    #9 - Dependency

    S1:E9

    Dana goes underground to help the wife of a high-powered real estate developer whose financial grip on his spouse is making her black and blue. Meanwhile, Lu comes between an orphaned boy with attention deficit disorder and his foster guardian when she finds the Ritalin she prescribed has fallen into the wrong hands. Lu finds a bit of romance over a Philly cheesesteak.

    Director:Steven Robman
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 10 - BRCA1
    7.2/10(34 votes)

    #10 - 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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  11. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 11 - BRCA2
    8.5/10(23 votes)

    #11 - 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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  12. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 12 - Brainchild
    9.0/10(22 votes)

    #12 - 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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  13. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 13 - Second Opinion
    8.6/10(22 votes)

    #13 - 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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  14. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 14 - Side Effects
    9.1/10(20 votes)

    #14 - 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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  15. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 15 - Blessed Events
    9.0/10(22 votes)

    #15 - Blessed Events

    S1:E15

    It's Christmas at Rittenhouse Hospital. A woman engaged to be married finds out she's pregnant — even though she's a virgin. Robert fires a kitchen employee, assuming her to be drunk on the job. Lu later diagnoses her with Lou Gehrig's disease. Lu's son Marc develops a crush on a runaway teen.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 16 - Fix
    7.4/10(311 votes)

    #16 - 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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  17. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 17 - Maternity
    7.8/10(20 votes)

    #17 - 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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  18. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 18 - Complications
    8.6/10(20 votes)

    #18 - 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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  19. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 19 - Childcare
    8.8/10(23 votes)

    #19 - Childcare

    S1:E19

    Dana Stowe must help a family consider if they should take Scarlett off of life support because of the disease she has. Scarlett has expressed to her husband that she does want life support, however her mom says her daughter doesn't want life support. Dr. Lu Delgado tries to help a Mom understand that she didn't prescribe medicine to help her daughter speak after not hearing anything from her daughter in two years. Dana tries to comebat her fear of flying and needs to do deliver a baby from 3,000 feet in the air.

    Director:Michael Lange
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 20 - Drugstore Cowgirl
    9.0/10(22 votes)

    #20 - 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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  21. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 21 - Wednesday Night Fever
    9.3/10(18 votes)

    #21 - 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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  22. Strong Medicine Season 1 Episode 22 - Mortality
    7.9/10(18 votes)

    #22 - 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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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Pilot" is the best rated episode of "Strong Medicine" season 1. It scored 8.3/10 based on 54 votes. Directed by Rob Lieberman and written by Tammy Ader, it aired on 7/23/2000. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Preexisting Conditions".