8.0/1012 votes#1 - Donors
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 7/15/2001
The second season begins with Dana and Lu at odds over the fate of a dead college student's fertilized eggs. The day is further complicated by the arrival of Peter's mother, who clings to the idea that her heterosexual son is gay. Elsewhere, a dying patient and her husband wait impatiently for a donor heart and Nick's appointment to the ER staff is in doubt.
Director: Joe Napolitano
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1012 votes
#2 - Adverse Reactions
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 7/22/2001
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1010 votes
#3 - Gray Matter
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 7/29/2001
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: N/A
Writer: Yahlin Chang
- 8.3/1011 votes
#4 - History
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 8/5/2001
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: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#5 - Attachments
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 8/12/2001
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.8/1031 votes
#6 - 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
- 8.4/1010 votes
#7 - Impaired
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 8/26/2001
An Alzheimer's patient attempts to maintain custody of her 15-year-old son with Down syndrome, and a domestic diva puts the health of her unborn child at risk.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/1014 votes
#8 - Rebirth
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 9/9/2001
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: N/A
- 7.2/1011 votes
#9 - Control Group
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 9/16/2001
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#10 - Zol Zein Gezint
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 10/7/2001
A patient of Dana's gives birth to twins — one baby is black, the other is white. And Lu suspects that a woman with chronic back pain is addicted to prescription drugs.
Director: Michael Nankin
Writer: Yahlin Chang
- 7.4/1010 votes
#11 - Systemic
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 10/14/2001
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1012 votes
#12 - Accidents
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 10/21/2001
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1015 votes
#13 - Silent Epidemic
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 11/11/2001
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: N/A
- 8.8/1010 votes
#14 - 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
- 8.5/1016 votes
#15 - Bloodwork
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/2/2001
Dana counsels a woman and her emotionally distant son, who are both being treated for lead poisoning. Also, Lu goes to bat for a stenographer with carpal-tunnel syndrome.
Director: Steve Gomer
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1010 votes
#16 - Black 'n' Flu
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 12/9/2001
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.7/1035 votes
#17 - Precautions
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/6/2002
Dana is troubled when a patient requests new breast implants immediately after her first ones rupture. Elsewhere, Lu fears for the life of a wanted criminal's sickly newborn.
Director: David Livingston
Writer: N/A
8.2/1010 votes#18 - Shock
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/13/2002
Striking nurses send the hospital into chaos, forcing Dana to withhold an experimental treatment for a dying baby. Also, an abused patient of Lu's is turned away.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#19 - Type and Cross
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 1/20/2002
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.
Director: Allison Liddi-Brown
Writer: N/A
8.5/1033 votes#20 - Rape Kit
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/17/2002
Lu is raped by Rittenhouse's star surgeon — but he insists that the sex was consensual. Meanwhile, Dana attempts to help a critically injured woman whose car crash may or may not have been an accident.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tammy Ader
- 9.5/1021 votes
#21 - 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
8.7/1015 votes#22 - Recovery Time
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 3/3/2002
Lu tries to cope with the aftershocks of her rape, she finds her life spinning out of control. Her rage causes Robert to dismiss her from Rittenhouse, and at home her son Marc barely recognizes her. Meanwhile, one of Dana's patients agonizes over whether to continue with in vitro fertilization, which will likely hasten the progress of her deadly disease, LAM.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Strong Medicine Season 2
Every episode of Strong Medicine Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Strong Medicine Season 2!
The lives of staff in the womens' health clinic of a fictitious hospital in Philadelphia.
Genre:Drama
Network:Lifetime
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Donors" is the best rated episode of "Strong Medicine" season 2. It scored 8/10 based on 12 votes. Directed by Joe Napolitano and written by N/A, it aired on 7/15/2001. This episode is rated 0.8 points higher than the second-best, "Adverse Reactions".