Strong Medicine

An embryo donor's death confronts Dana with an ethical dilemma; Lu tries to keep a heart transplant candidate's hopes alive.

Robert refuses to hire an obese woman as his assistant; a female Army officer refuses to seek treatment for Gulf War Syndrome in order to salvage a promotion.

As Lu tries to salvage an AIDS-infected nurse's job, Dana discovers that an old high school nemesis's religious visions are being caused by a brain tumor.

An aunt's battle with cancer takes Lu back to the founding of the South Philadelphia Women's Clinic.

Lu and Dana are at odds when the parents of conjoined twins refuse to sacrifice one child in order to allow the other to live.

Dana is demonized for causing a professional baseball player to miss an important game; Lu helps a sick concert pianist make an important audition.

Dana squares off with a pregnant mother who refuses to give up alcohol; Lu tries helping a mother whose Alzheimer's Disease could make it hard to care for her disabled son.

As she discovers that an old friend is now homeless, Dana suspects a difficult adopted teenage girl of threatening her mother.

Lu uncovers a case of survivor's guilt that has led to a young woman's eating disorder; Dana is pressured to make sure Robert's wife gets an experimental drug to treat her MS.

Dana struggles to explain how a mistake has left a black couple with one white twin baby boy; Lu uncovers the secret being kept by a prominent Rabbi and his wife.

Lu finds herself in trouble with the law and the community after stopping a diabetic from being beaten by the police; Dana's former fiancée contracts a fatal form of breast cancer.

An ice skater's Olympic hopes are jeopardized by medicine to control her epileptic seizures; Lu squares off against a controversial talk radio personality.

Dana diagnoses an Amish teenager with Mad Cow Disease; Lu's efforts to help an unlicensed daycare facility to remain open have dangerous repercussions.

A political candidate endangers her own life by refusing an abortion; Nick's misdiagnosis causes a couple to be suspected of abusing their adopted son.

Lu stands up for a patient whose job is in jeopardy because of genetic testing; a pregnant mother suspects her teenaged son's suspected of abusing drugs.

While Dana's unexpected illness suggests that she might be pregnant, Lu faces an outbreak of a deadly, and highly contagious, disease in a college dorm.

Lu tries tracking down a missing baby, she discovers that the mother is a wanted criminal; Dana reluctantly agrees to appear in a commercial for the hospital.

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.

A blood shortage at the hospital exposes the long hidden secrets.

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.

As Lu struggles following her rape, Dana is forced to turn to her attacker for help in saving a patient's life.

Lu's life spins out of control following the grand Jury's refusal to indict Dr. Kilner for rape.