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Strong Medicine

Summary Their worlds couldn't be more different but their commitment and passion brings them together. Strong Medicine is a sometimes intense, sometimes hilarious medical drama that takes us inside the world of street level medicine. Dr. Dana Stowe, a Harvard graduate who devotes her life to finding a cure for cancer, and Dr. Lu Delgado, a sing...

Directed By: Mike Fash

Written By: Tammy Ader, Whoopi Goldberg

  • TV-14
  • Lifetime
  • Jan 13, 2002
  • TV-14
  • Lifetime
  • Jan 13, 2002
Strong Medicine
S2 • Episode 18
Shock
Air Date: Jan 13, 2002
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Summary Their worlds couldn't be more different but their commitment and passion brings them together. Strong Medicine is a sometimes intense, sometimes hilarious medical drama that takes us inside the world of street level medicine. Dr. Dana Stowe, a Harvard graduate who devotes her life to finding a cure for cancer, and Dr. Lu Delgado, a sing...

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Episode 1 • Jul 15, 2001
Donors
Lu and Dana butt heads over a deceased young woman's fertilized eggs; a dying patient of Lu is in need of a heart transplant; Peter's mother pays a visit.
Episode 2 • Jul 22, 2001
Adverse Reactions
Dr. Jackson finds himself in hot water after denying a job to a overweight woman; Dana treats a patient who is diagnosed with Gulf War Syndrome; Lana cares for an abandoned newborn baby.
Episode 3 • Jul 29, 2001
Gray Matter
Dana treats a former high school rival who is diagnosed with a brain tumor; an ER nurse plans to sue the hospital after contracting HIV from a patient.
Episode 4 • Aug 5, 2001
History
As Lu travels to Puerto Rico where her grandmother needs a bone marrow transplant, she flashes back to her days as a resident and how she met Peter and Lana.
Episode 5 • Aug 12, 2001
Attachments
The parents of conjoined twin daughters refuse to have them separated; Lu suspects that a woman diagnosed with leukemia intentionally started a fire.
Episode 6 • Aug 19, 2001
Relief
Dana is blamed by baseball fans after the home team loses a playoff game; Lu treats a young woman who has been diagnosed with scleroderma.
Episode 7 • Aug 26, 2001
Impaired
Lu helps out a mother who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's that is in danger of losing custody of her teenage Down Syndrome son; Dana is concerned about the welfare of a pregnant alcoholic woman.
Episode 8 • Sep 9, 2001
Rebirth
A patient of Dana's ignores her advice when she decides to have her troubled adoptive teenage daughter undergo rebirthing therapy; Lu treats another patient of Dana's who is sick with tuberculosis.
Episode 9 • Sep 16, 2001
Control Group
Dr. Jackson asks Dana to try a new experimental drug on his wife who has multiple sclerosis; Lu treats a young woman with anorexia.
Episode 10 • Oct 7, 2001
Zol Zein Gezint
Episode 11 • Oct 14, 2001
Systemic
Dana treats a male acquaintance of hers who is diagnosed with cancer; Lu gets in trouble with the police after defending a diabetic woman who was mistaken as being a drunk driver.
Episode 12 • Oct 21, 2001
Accidents
Dana treats a promising young figure skater with osteoporosis who is determined to compete in the Olympics; Lu is not thrilled with the father of Marc's new girlfriend.
Episode 13 • Nov 11, 2001
Silent Epidemic
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.
Episode 14 • Nov 18, 2001
Hot Flash
Dana treats a pro-life politician diagnosed with preeclampsia; Lu treats a woman who is undergoing menopause.
Episode 15 • Dec 2, 2001
Bloodwork
Lu helps out a woman with carpal tunnel syndrome whose job won't cover her medical condition; Dana treats a pregnant woman and her teenage son for lead poisoning.
Episode 16 • Dec 9, 2001
Black 'n' Flu
Lu treats a young college woman with meningitis; meanwhile, Dana develops symptoms which suggest that she might be pregnant.
Episode 17 • Jan 6, 2002
Precautions
Lu is concerned about the health of the newborn of a wanted female criminal; Dana is concerned when a patient of hers requests breast implants after the first ones rupture.
Episode 18 • Jan 13, 2002
Shock
A nurses' strike affects the hospital which forces Dana to withhold an experimental treatment for a sick baby and delays a medical procedure for an abused patient of Lu's.
Episode 19 • Jan 20, 2002
Type & Cross
Rittenhouse faces a blood shortage; Dana treats a woman who has unknowingly contracted hepatitis from her husband; Lu treats a family with Lyme Disease they contracted from a stray dog that was used in illegal dog fighting.
Episode 20 • Feb 17, 2002
Rape Kit
Lu deals with a life-changing event that makes her the patient for once, and Dr. Stowe has a patient whose dying wish is more difficult to grant than she first thought.
Episode 21 • Feb 24, 2002
Trauma
Lu struggles to cope with the aftermath of her rape; Dana has no choice but to turn to Lu's rapist, Dr. Kilner for advice when a pregnant patient of hers is diagnosed with colon cancer.
Episode 22 • Mar 3, 2002
Recovery Time
After Lu discovers that Dr. Kilner will not be prosecuted for raping her, she decides to punish herself instead; Dana's best friend is diagnosed with a fatal lung disease as she is trying to become pregnant.
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