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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: Philip Casnoff

Written By: Laura Wolner

  • TV-14
  • Lifetime
  • Dec 12, 2004
  • TV-14
  • Lifetime
  • Dec 12, 2004
Strong Medicine
S5 • Episode 18
Virgin Birth
Air Date: Dec 12, 2004
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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...

Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Jun 13, 2004
Positive Results
Episode 2 • Jun 20, 2004
Touched by an Idol
Episode 3 • Jun 27, 2004
Omissions
Episode 4 • Jul 11, 2004
Cape Cancer
Episode 5 • Jul 18, 2004
Fractured
When elderly patients die under suspicious circumstances, Peter becomes a suspect; Andy treats a judge suffering from hearing loss caused by abusing pain medication.
Episode 6 • Jul 25, 2004
Goodbye/Rest in Peace
Andy is concerned that a patient of hers who has survived breast cancer is suffering from body dysmorphic disorder; Lu says goodbye when Marc heads off to college and Ben's job is transferred to Miami.
Episode 7 • Aug 1, 2004
Healing Touch
Andy finds herself in trouble after a prejudiced patient complains that Andy refused to treat her; a patient of Lu's who needs surgery asks to be treated by a faith healer that is revealed to be a young girl.
Episode 8 • Aug 8, 2004
Bleeding Heart
Episode 9 • Aug 15, 2004
Prophylactic Measures
After a young adult film star is diagnosed with an STD, Lu tries to find out how she contracted the disease; Andy seeks to gain the position of chief of surgery; Kayla treats a teenage boy with a gunshot wound.
Episode 10 • Aug 22, 2004
Life in the Balance
When the sister of a famous gymnast is in need of a liver transplant, Lu faces issues with her family who refuse to help; Kayla and Andy become concerned after a depressed resident attempts suicide.
Episode 11 • Sep 26, 2004
Like Cures Like
Kayla wants to try an experimental surgery on a paralyzed patient; Lu treats a woman who is diagnosed with avian flu; Peter treats a woman suffering from allergies with homeopathic remedies.
Episode 12 • Oct 3, 2004
Cinderella in Scrubs
In the series' 100th episode, an adoptive mother and a biological mother fight over the custody of a young girl; a patient of Andy sues her insurance company when she is diagnosed with cancer too late.
Episode 13 • Oct 10, 2004
Body Mass Increase
Episode 14 • Oct 17, 2004
Selective Breeding
Episode 15 • Oct 31, 2004
Graft
When a six-year-old girl comes into the ER with severe burns to her body, the only person who can save her life with a skin transplant is her twin sister; Andy suspects that cadavers are being illegally sold.
Episode 16 • Oct 24, 2004
A Dose of Reality
Andy meets the teenage boy responsible for Milo's death; Lu becomes suspicious when an organ-transplant patient suffers from mysterious complications.
Episode 17 • Dec 5, 2004
Code
Andy is considered for the position of Chief of Surgery; Lu deals with a drug company who wants to financially compensate her leukemia patient.
Episode 18 • Dec 12, 2004
Virgin Birth
Lu treats a surrogate mother whose adoptive parents refuse to keep the baby when it's revealed that he's disabled; Andy suspects that her patient's daughter might have a serious medical condition.
Episode 19 • Nov 21, 2004
Foreign Bodies
Andy treats a woman who has a rare lung disease who wants to see her pregnant daughter, who lives in Paris; Lu helps out a woman whose job won't cover her medical condition.
Episode 20 • Jan 16, 2005
First Response
In this failed spin-off pilot of the series, Dr. Vanessa Burke, the new chief of trauma at Rittenhouse pulls strings to get her adoptive ex-convict sister a job as a paramedic; meanwhile, Lu searches for a bone marrow donor for a infant.
Episode 21 • Jan 23, 2005
Implants, Transplants and Cuban Aunts
Lu treats a group of illegal immigrant women who are pregnant; a beauty pageant contestant who has lupus wants to get her breast implants removed.
Episode 22 • Jan 30, 2005
Cutting the Cord
Jonas reveals news that could affect his relationship with Lu; Andy leaves Rittenhouse to become the new surgeon general.
6 Seasons

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