Strong Medicine
"Hope in every heartbeat."
The lives of staff in the womens' health clinic of a fictitious hospital in Philadelphia.
Season 2 Episodes
The second season begins with Dana and Lu at odds over the fate of a dead college student's fertilized eggs. The day is …
After denying employment to a candidate who is both overqualified and overweight, Robert faces off against a civil-right…
Dana's bedside manner is put to the ultimate test when a former high-school rival comes to her for treatment. A nurse co…
Lu travels to Puerto Rico, where her beloved grandmother urgently needs a bone-marrow transplant to survive. As the head…
The parents of conjoined twins refuse to have them surgically separated, even though that means they may both die. Lu su…
Philadelphia baseball fans blame Dana when the home team loses a crucial playoff game. Lu cares for a piano prodigy with…
An Alzheimer's patient attempts to maintain custody of her 15-year-old son with Down syndrome, and a domestic diva puts …
A woman hoping to form a maternal bond with her adopted teenage daughter ignores Dana's advice and proceeds with plans t…
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 patient of Dana's gives birth to twins — one baby is black, the other is white. And Lu suspects that a woman with ch…
Dana debates whether she should risk her relationship with Nick to comfort a terminally ill flame from her past, while L…
Dana waits for Nick to decide when they will get married, and treats a figure skater who's determined to compete in the …
Dana suspects an Amish woman is infected with mad-cow disease; and Lu treats Lana for a sexual dysfunction stemming from…
A pregnant and very ill pro-life politician has her principles put to the ultimate test when the only treatment that wil…
Dana counsels a woman and her emotionally distant son, who are both being treated for lead poisoning. Also, Lu goes to b…
Lu's return to her college alma mater is marred by an outbreak of meningitis. At the clinic, Dana develops symptoms sugg…
Dana is troubled when a patient requests new breast implants immediately after her first ones rupture. Elsewhere, Lu fea…
Striking nurses send the hospital into chaos, forcing Dana to withhold an experimental treatment for a dying baby. Also,…
The Rittenhouse doctors cope with a blood shortage in Philadelphia. Dana helps a patient who unknowingly contracted hepa…
Lu is raped by Rittenhouse's star surgeon — but he insists that the sex was consensual. Meanwhile, Dana attempts to he…
Lu copes with the trauma of being raped by devoting her thoughts to a patient who accidentally overdosed on over-the-cou…
Lu tries to cope with the aftershocks of her rape, she finds her life spinning out of control. Her rage causes Robert to…
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