Strong Medicine

Two women, with very different theories on the practice of medicine, are forced to run a women's medical clinic together.

An infertile couple abandons a surrogate whose fetus may have brain damage; Lu must decide whether to report another doctor's insurance scam.

A mother takes her AIDS-afflicted son off medication; a lesbian investigates artificial insemination.

A former beauty queen trying to keep her looks goes to Dana for the surgery; Lu looks for a former junkie who has failed to show up for work fearing that she's back on drugs.

A high-school basketball player has steroids in her blood; Dana must make a life-or-death decision for a Jane Doe; Dana begins a secretive relationship with an intern.

Dana suspects spousal abuse when she treats Robert's unconscious wife; Lu confronts a woman who is paying addicts to get sterilized.

Gang members, attempting to shoot Lu's young patient, accidentally hit Dana's patient, a city councilwoman.

A childhood friend of Lu's comes to the clinic with a baby suffering from a rare terminal disease; an airline pilot is diagnosed with a career-ending illness.

A foster mother has an addiction to Ritalin; Dana helps a woman escape spousal abuse by putting her in an "underground railroad" for abused women.

Dana's bad news about the results of her clinical trial on breast cancer comes at the same time her mother must undergo a double mastectomy.

Lu takes over for Dana while she is caring for her mother; Dana's genetic test reveals she is pre-disposed to breast cancer.

A young woman's Parkinson's disease may require a controversial form of treatment; Marc's classmate may be an alcoholic.

A woman with a debilitating muscle and bone disease is denied disability coverage; a young immigrant girl is injured during a cultural ritual.

Dana suggests the hospital perform a risky in-utero surgery to treat a spinal birth defect on a baby whose parents are fearful of the procedure.

A virgin is pregnant; a hospital custodian asks that her Lou Gehrig's disease not be revealed to her family.

Lu is called to the emergency room when a deaf family is brought in following a fire in their apartment building.

A 25-year-old patient is diagnosed with early menopause; Dana helps a new mother cope with postpartum depression.

One of Dana's patients starts to lose her battle with cystic fibrosis; a patient ignores the negative side effects of her child's medication.

One of Dana's patients starts to lose her battle with cystic fibrosis; a patient ignores the negative side effects of her child's medication.

Dana cares for a dying patient who has been disguising herself as a man; Lu prescribes a drug for a woman whose pharmacist won't carry it for fear of robbery.

Lu pulls an all-nighter caring for a woman whose baby was cut from her womb during an attack, a rape victim and the man who attacked her.

Dana helps a pregnant woman, who fears her baby will die, deliver her second child; Lu treats a hunger strike patient protesting the execution of her son.