Strong Medicine

S01E05: Performance Anxiety

Lu coaches a teenage basketball team and is troubled when a player faints at a game. She later finds traces of steroids in her blood and wonders if the entire team is on the drugs. Dana is mystified when a complete stranger shows up in the ER with Dana's name and phone number in her purse. Dana must make a difficult decision for the women and regrets that she can't find her family so they can decide.

Overview

The lives of staff in the womens' health clinic of a fictitious hospital in Philadelphia.

Episodes

Pilot

S01E01 Pilot

July 23, 2000 60 min
Dr. Lu Delgado is running out of money to run her free clinic by herself. When Lu goes to prestigious Rittenhouse Hospital to ask for assistance, famous O.B.G.Y.N./surgeon Dr. Dana Stowe blames Lu for ruining...
Preexisting Conditions

S01E02 Preexisting Conditions

July 30, 2000 60 min
As Dana & begin to work together, Dana has to tell a surrogate couple that their unborn baby has a defect that will cause it to be mentally disable. After the surrogate couple tells Dana...
Misconceptions

S01E03 Misconceptions

August 6, 2000 60 min
Dana treats an HIV positive patient of Lu's when Lu is out of the clinic and learns that his mother took him off the HIV medication with Lu's permission. She is furious and reports the...
Second Look

S01E04 Second Look

August 13, 2000 60 min
Dana's former beauty queen patient doesn't think her husband finds her attractive and insists on having extensive plastic surgery. Dana refuses to perform the surgery but when Terri Ann lands in the ER, she begins...
Performance Anxiety

S01E05 Performance Anxiety

August 20, 2000 60 min
Lu coaches a teenage basketball team and is troubled when a player faints at a game. She later finds traces of steroids in her blood and wonders if the entire team is on the drugs....
Drug Interactions

S01E06 Drug Interactions

August 27, 2000 60 min
Dana has big problem on her hands when Susan Jackson comes to the hospital with bruises. Dana wonders if Robert Jackson gave her the bruises because their marriage problems. Dana gets the feeling Susan may...
Do No Harm

S01E07 Do No Harm

September 3, 2000 60 min
After a councilwoman comes to the clinic to see Dr. Dana Stowe, Lu Delgado is trying to get gang members who are angry at the Councilwoman because they are unable to get insurance. The gang...
Miracle Cure

S01E08 Miracle Cure

September 10, 2000 60 min
When a command pilot learns she has a brain disorder she must learn to cope with not being able to fly a plane anymore. Dr. Stowe tells Jane that it would be wise to quit...
Dependency

S01E09 Dependency

October 8, 2000 60 min
Dana goes underground to help the wife of a high-powered real estate developer whose financial grip on his spouse is making her black and blue. Meanwhile, Lu comes between an orphaned boy with attention deficit...
BRCA1

S01E10 BRCA1

October 15, 2000 60 min
It's Breast Cancer Awareness Weekend at the Rittenhouse Hospital Women's Clinic, where Lu (Rosa Blasi), Lana (Jenifer Lewis) and Peter (Josh Coxx) are hosting a dance-a-thon and a free mammogram clinic. When one woman's mammogram...
BRCA2

S01E11 BRCA2

October 15, 2000 60 min
Dana takes a leave from the clinic to help her mother through a double mastectomy. Lu's impromptu safe-sex speech at a prep school's career day puts her in the middle of a legal dispute over...
Brainchild

S01E12 Brainchild

October 29, 2000 60 min
A woman's advanced Parkinson's disease forces Dana and Robert to decide whether to perform a controversial fetal cell transplant. Peter's stint as a nude model leads to a romantic interlude with an aspiring painter whose...
Second Opinion

S01E13 Second Opinion

December 3, 2000 60 min
Lu (Rosa Blasi) and Dana (Janine Turner) intervene when a woman with a controversial bone and muscle disease is denied her disability claim. And Dana gets in the middle of an immigration dispute when she...
Side Effects

S01E14 Side Effects

December 10, 2000 60 min
A mother- and father-to-be clash over whether or not to allow Dana to perform in utero surgery to correct a birth defect on their unborn son. Lu must decide whether or not to get involved...
Blessed Events

S01E15 Blessed Events

December 17, 2000 60 min
It's Christmas at Rittenhouse Hospital. A woman engaged to be married finds out she's pregnant — even though she's a virgin. Robert fires a kitchen employee, assuming her to be drunk on the job. Lu...
Fix

S01E16 Fix

January 7, 2001 60 min
A journalist comes in with an infection on her foot and Dana(Janine Turner)realizes that she is actually a closet heroine addict. Lu (Rosa Blasi) is called to the emergency room when her patients, a deaf...
Maternity

S01E17 Maternity

January 14, 2001 60 min
Environmental toxins in a low-income housing unit trigger early menopause in one of its 25-year-old residents. A new mother spirals into depression and runs away from home. Dana meets Nick's mother.
Complications

S01E18 Complications

January 21, 2001 60 min
When a 12-year-old girl is diagnosed with oral gonorrhea, she tells Lu (Rosa Blasi) that she got it from her teacher. Lana (Jenifer Lewis) takes on a new role at Rittenhouse: that of patient. Two...
Childcare

S01E19 Childcare

February 18, 2001 60 min
Dana Stowe must help a family consider if they should take Scarlett off of life support because of the disease she has. Scarlett has expressed to her husband that she does want life support, however...
Drugstore Cowgirl

S01E20 Drugstore Cowgirl

February 25, 2001 60 min
Dana cares for a dying patient who has been disguising herself as a man in order to fulfill her calling to the priesthood. Lu prescribes Demerol for a woman suffering from sickle cell anemia, but...
Wednesday Night Fever

S01E21 Wednesday Night Fever

March 4, 2001 60 min
It's an all-nighter for Lu at Rittenhouse — and there's not a moment's rest. Robert's wife, Susan, is back in the hospital as her MS progresses. A baby is kidnapped — from a pregnant mother's...
Mortality

S01E22 Mortality

March 11, 2001 60 min
A mother goes on a hunger strike in the hopes of saving her son from being executed. And when something goes wrong in the OR, Dana wonders whether it's time for her to leave Rittenhouse.

Cast

Rosa Blasi
Rosa Blasi
Dr. Luisa 'Lu' Delgado
Jenifer Lewis
Jenifer Lewis
Lana Hawkins
Josh Coxx
Josh Coxx
Peter Riggs
Tamera Mowry-Housley
Tamera Mowry-Housley
Dr. Kayla Thornton
Rick Schroder
Rick Schroder
Dr. Dylan West

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