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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Strong Medicine Season 3 Episode 9 - Family History
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    #1 - Family History

    S3:E9

    Andy goes beyond the call of duty to expedite the Food and Drug Administration's approval of a drug that could help Robert's wife, who has multiple sclerosis. Also, Andy intervenes when a family is accused of endangering the life of their young daughter. Meanwhile, a woman with terminal lung cancer claims to be Lu's half-sister.

    Director:Martha Mitchell
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Strong Medicine Season 3 Episode 10 - House Calls
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    #2 - House Calls

    S3:E10

    When an old colleague with a breast lump calls for Andy's help—from space, of all places—the former Army colonel is at full attention. At the speed of light, she mobilizes both her hospital and NASA troops to perform a biopsy and, eventually, the removal of a growth. Back on Earth, Lu tries to help a pregnant woman with breast cancer make the delivery of her child—and the removal of the tumor—the happiest day of her life.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Laura Wolner

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  3. Strong Medicine Season 3 Episode 14 - Poison
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    #3 - Poison

    S3:E14

    Lu faces the horrifying memory of her rape when a patient turns to her for help in dealing with her brother, a convicted sex offender. When Andy's patient displays baffling, life-threatening symptoms, Andy suspects foul play.

    Director:Jan Eliasberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Strong Medicine Season 3 Episode 21 - Degeneration
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    #4 - Degeneration

    S3:E21

    Academy Award-winning actress Rita Moreno guest stars in this episode of ""Strong Medicine,"" airing March 9, 2003 on LIFETIME Television. Moreno plays a street doctor treating patients who don't have the financial means to obtain medical treatment. Dr. Delgado makes a point of checking on her when she suspects the doctor may be growing senile. Later, Lu becomes frantic when she learns that a building has collapsed and her fire fighting boyfriend is unaccounted for while Andy counsels parents who are forced to make an extremely difficult medical decision about which of their two children should have lifesaving surgery

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Strong Medicine Season 4 Episode 2 - Emergency Contacts
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    #5 - 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.

    Director:Joe Napolitano
    Writer:James Stanley

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  6. Strong Medicine Season 5 Episode 17 - Code
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    #6 - Code

    S5:E17

    Andy is considered for the prominent Chief of Surgery position (after the current Chief retires) and discovers a competitor bribing members of the board which is going to decide on a replacement. In the midst of this, she must decide whether or not to perform a potentially career-hurting dangerous surgery on a pregnant woman run over by an SUV driver talking on their cell phone. Meanwhile, Lu battles a company that wants to take her financially-deprived patient's cells to find a cure for leukemia without paying her. Also, Lana finds romance over dog residue.

    Director:Jan Eliasberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Strong Medicine Season 5 Episode 19 - Foreign Bodies
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    #7 - Foreign Bodies

    S5:E19

    Lana finds a crafty way to help one of Lu's patients, a construction worker with a brain tumor, raise enough money for a necessary surgery. Andy treats a woman who needs to have surgery to save her life. However, the woman refuses to have the surgery performed until she meets her first grandchild, who is about to be born in Paris. Peter tries to find the father of a patient's child.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Strong Medicine Season 5 Episode 20 - First Response
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    #8 - First Response

    S5:E20

    In a special episode of Strong Medicine, the Rittenhouse Hospital Emergency Medical Services team is introduced. EMTs Kate and Zach are attacked while trying to save a young girl's life, figure out the motive behind it, and reach a dubious resolution. Then, a multiple vehicle accident keeps them and Dr. Vanessa Burke, an African American trauma surgeon and Katie's adoptive sister, busy. A chemical spill threatens the lives of those in the accident and a guilty driver makes an impulsive decision. Meanwhile, a pre-teen in the accident needs a transplant and Katie and Lu search homeless shelters for a match. Even after they find one, they still face some difficulties. Vanessa amputates the legs of a man who begged her to let him die and must convince him that life without legs is still worth living.

    Director:Rob Lieberman
    Writer:Tammy Ader

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  9. Strong Medicine Season 6 Episode 4 - Differentials
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #9 - Differentials

    S6:E4

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Strong Medicine Season 6 Episode 6 - The Y Factor
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #10 - The Y Factor

    S6:E6

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Strong Medicine Season 6 Episode 7 - Paternity Test
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    #11 - Paternity Test

    S6:E7

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Strong Medicine Season 6 Episode 8 - Infectious Love
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #12 - Infectious Love

    S6:E8

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Strong Medicine Season 6 Episode 16 - Rhythm of the Heart
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    #13 - Rhythm of the Heart

    S6:E16

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Strong Medicine Season 4 Episode 11 - Maternal Mirrors
    4.8/10(25 votes)

    #14 - Maternal Mirrors

    S4:E11

    When a patient of Andy's takes a turn for the worse under Lu's watchful eye, the two doctors butt heads over whether proper procedure was followed. Meanwhile, Andy questions whether or not she can trust her oldest daughter. Also, when Andy and Morton try an experimental xenotransplant (using the heart of a chimpanzee), Peter questions the rights of the animal.

    Director:Jerry London
    Writer:Ethlie Ann Vare

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  15. Strong Medicine Season 4 Episode 15 - Coming Clean
    5.1/10(13 votes)

    #15 - Coming Clean

    S4:E15

    When Andy encounters a young woman with amnesia and her fiance, she must decide which secrets should remain untold. Meanwhile, when a pregnant patient refuses to stop using drugs, Lu faces an ethical dilemma and must decide whether to intervene.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Strong Medicine Season 3 Episode 16 - PMS, Lies and Red Tape
    5.3/10(12 votes)

    #16 - PMS, Lies and Red Tape

    S3:E16

    Andy returns to the Army for reserve duty and helps a woman with post polio syndrome (PPS). Sparks fly for Lu when she is reunited with an old friend whose mother is one of her patients. And when Lana asks if the guy was the ""first"" one Lu answers saying he was the only one.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Strong Medicine Season 2 Episode 17 - Precautions
    6.2/10(42 votes)

    #17 - Precautions

    S2:E17

    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:Unknown

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  18. Strong Medicine Season 4 Episode 5 - Breathing Lessons
    6.3/10(16 votes)

    #18 - Breathing Lessons

    S4:E5

    Lu fears that a little girl who keeps getting injured might be being physically abused by her dad. Andy suspects her nanny is stealing valuables from the house. Peter gets through to an insensitive husband of a pregnant woman about the pains of carrying a baby.

    Director:Oz Scott
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Strong Medicine Season 6 Episode 2 - Feeling No Pain
    6.3/10(13 votes)

    #19 - Feeling No Pain

    S6:E2

    Lu tries to find out why a young patient has mysterious bruises on her body. Lu suspects the mother of child abuse while Dylan suspects the girl's nanny. Meanwhile, Dylan helps a patient try to combat her ####### addiction and when she has strange symptoms, he goes undercover to find out why. Kayla moves in with Lana when she has trouble finding an apartment.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Strong Medicine Season 6 Episode 5 - Dying Inside
    6.3/10(23 votes)

    #20 - Dying Inside

    S6:E5

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Strong Medicine Season 6 Episode 17 - We Wish You a Merry Cryst-Meth
    6.3/10(16 votes)

    #21 - We Wish You a Merry Cryst-Meth

    S6:E17

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Strong Medicine Season 2 Episode 10 - Zol Zein Gezint
    6.5/10(12 votes)

    #22 - Zol Zein Gezint

    S2:E10

    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

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  23. Strong Medicine Season 3 Episode 1 - Positive
    6.5/10(19 votes)

    #23 - Positive

    S3:E1

    As Dana's upcoming birthday makes her decide to seek a volunteer sperm donor so that she can have a child, she is confronted with a newborn who is HIV-positive. Lu is accused by an enraged mother of being responsible for her teenage daughter's sexually-transmitted disease because Lu provided the girl with birth control.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Strong Medicine Season 5 Episode 2 - Touched by an Idol
    6.5/10(14 votes)

    #24 - Touched by an Idol

    S5:E2

    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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  25. Strong Medicine Season 6 Episode 12 - It Takes a Clinic
    6.5/10(15 votes)

    #25 - It Takes a Clinic

    S6:E12

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Family History" is the worst rated episode of "Strong Medicine". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Martha Mitchell and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/6/2002. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "House Calls".