Strong Medicine

Lu's budding relationship with Ben is upended when he tests positive for HIV.

A pop star's effort to help a critically ill fan spawns accusations of sexual abuse.

The need for a kidney transplant forces a young woman to consider taking an organ from her father, the same man who was sent to prison for raping her mother.

A female bodybuilder refuses to allow Lu to perform a C-Section; a romantic weekend leads Andy to uncover a popular beach town's public health crisis.

As Lizzy's broken leg puts Andy's ex-husband at odds with her new suitor, an elderly patient's death lands Peter at the center of a murder investigation.

A terminally ill woman's attitude about her impending death upsets her caretaker sister; Andy suspects that a breast cancer survivor has a body image disorder.

Andy is accused of failing to treat a racist patient; a patient's tumor is cured by a ten-year-old faith healer.

Andy struggles with her endorsement of a friend's new diet book; Lu treats high school students who show all the symptoms of having been poisoned.

Lu's physical exams at a film set uncover an underage porn star; Andy struggles to cope with the aftermath of Milo's death.

A drive-by shooting leaves a young woman dependent on her estranged sister, a world champion gymnast, for a liver transplant; Kayla and Andy worry after a resident at the hospital attempts suicide.

As Kayla teams up with a handsome neurosurgeon to perform a risky experimental surgery, a rare Avian flu outbreak casts suspicions on the owner of a small poultry business.

Lu and Andy are on opposite sides when a recovering drug addict seeks to regain custody of the daughter she abandoned; a patient's aggressive cancer prompts Andy to encourage her to sue her doctors.

The pregnancy of his high school girlfriend has Marc suspected of being the father; Andy takes action to change the diet of Lizzy and her classmates at school.

Andy is tricked into helping a couple produce a male son so that they can inherit a family fortune; Lu proposes a difficult choice in order to treat a ten-year-old patient's psychosis.

With Lu facing an ethical dilemma over treating a young burn victim, Lizzy's Halloween prank exposes illegal trafficking of body parts in the hospital morgue.

As an outbreak of rabies hits the neighborhood, Lu becomes embroiled in an insider trading investigation.

Lu fights for a leukemia patient's right to be paid for her contribution to medical research.

Christmas at Rittenhouse finds a surrogate mother faced with the decision to care for a brain-damaged baby, as a dysfunctional family rallies around a sick little girl.

Lu and Andy race against the clock to get a pregnant woman from Paris to Philadelphia before her mother has to undergo potentially life-threatening surgery.

Accident victims are treated by Rittenhouse ER surgeon Vanessa Burke and her paramedic sister, Katie.

Helping a pregnant woman leads Lu into the middle of an alien smuggling ring; Andy tries to persuade a beauty pageant contestant to forgo using breast implants.

As Andy's confirmation hearing for Surgeon General forces her and her colleagues to be on their best behavior, Lu breaks up with Jonas after learning that his company is relocating to South America.