Strong Medicine (2000)

1 - Positive Results

Nick is transferred to Manhatten General. Bens HIV test has a positive result. Also, Ben hires his ex-wife to make up for the damage he caused to her career. Andy learns that her daughter Jesses friend is addicted to cough syrup. Kayla Thorton, a new intern, is pushed into the hustle and bustle of the ER. She gets into trouble when she asks a girl if she is sexually active in front of her mother and things go terribly wrong.

2 - Touched by an Idol

Andy tells a famous rock star and a patient to rest and cancel some of her concerts because of fatigue. The rock star invites Lus young patient who has a terminal disease to spend the day with her. Lus patients mother directs a terrible accusation at the rock star. Ben starts a concierge service to keep the clinic open after it faces financial difficulties.

3 - Omissions

Dr. Campbell treats a patient for what she believes is alcoholism but she wont admit to her drinking problem. The patients daughter goes to desperate measure to get her mom to stop drinking. Another of Andys patients needs to get a kidney transplant but nobody in her family is a match. Tammys mom then reveals a horrible secret that could save her daughters life. Meanwhile, Lu, Lana, Peter, and Ben go out on the streets to find out what is threatening the lives of young infants.

4 - Differentials

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6 - The Y Factor

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7 - Paternity Test

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8 - Bleeding Heart

Dr. Campbell is asked to write an endorsement for a new book about female heart health written by a friend and patient. After the author dies of a heart attack, her husband refuses to publically announce her cause of death because he fears it would hurt sales of the book even though her diet had nothing to do with her death (she had heart disease). Lu is shocked when three high school girls come into the ER with similar and shocking symptoms that point towards poisoning.

12 - It Takes a Clinic

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14 - Selective Breeding

Lu treats a young patient with Bi-Polar disease which causes her to act hazardously violent. Her mother must decide whether to keep her or give her up to a mental institution. Meanwhile, Andy helps a woman have an invitro fertilization. She uses new technology to help the couple have a boy because of a genetic female-only disease in the family but later a web of lies and deceivements is revealed. Peter gets jealous when Kayla dates a man he volunteers for at a zoo.

14 - Love and Let Die

Lu helps a terminally ill patients family deal with the complicated issues surrounding assisted suicide. Meanwhile, when Andy helps a young couple figure out why they are unable to conceive a child, she stumbles upon a cause that changes their lives forever. As Andy and Milos relationship becomes serious, he invites her to dinner with his parents. However, Milos mother, Eve, is less than thrilled with Andy being the new woman in his life.

16 - Prescriptions

A drug company is offering cash to participants testing a new anti-smoking drug and one of Lus patients has a very favorable response. An advice columnist Andy is treating loses her ability to read after surgery. One of Bobs daughters needs to be taught swimming for gym class. Lana watches over an elderly senile woman who was left at the clinic with a note. Peter is giving flu shots and a patient has a bad reaction. Andy and Milo Morton have trouble reconciling their busy schedules.

16 - Fix

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 family, are brought in following a fire in their apartment building. She worries about their safety and suggests a risky ear surgery for them — but the husband disapproves. Lu brings her boyfriend home to meet Marc(Chris Marquette).

17 - Seize the Day

Lu deals with the schizophrenic mother who takes her five year old girl who suffers from epilepsy off of her medications in favor of a ketogenic diet which has stopped all the seizures. Additionally, Andy and Lu have a friendly competition when each one of their patients is studying for a spelling bee. Andy also has to adjust to spending her first Christmas holiday without the kids.

17 - Maternity

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 Nicks mother.

18 - Ears, Ho's and Threat

An Indian heiress with a deformity turns to Andy for treatment so that her parents can arrange a marriage for her. Things get complicated when the woman realizes that she will lose the freedoms she has been afforded because of her imperfection. Also, Lu helps an older woman with Alzheimers use her past for her own benefit. Meanwhile, Andy counsels a young woman who is seeking revirginization surgery.

18 - Shock

Striking nurses send the hospital into chaos, forcing Dana to withhold an experimental treatment for a dying baby. Also, an abused patient of Lus is turned away.

19 - Weights and Measures

A friend of Marcs may be being abused by her boyfriend. Lu treats an HIV-infected woman who looks sicker than she is. An obese couple persues gastric bypass surgery. Dr. Jackson sends Nurse Riggs on an unusual assignment that may turn into another career.

20 - The Real World Rittenhouse

Lu treats a young girl for E. Coli who may have contracted E. Coli from eating undercooked food. Lu meets Ben Sanderson, a man who works for the company that owns Rittenhouse and wants to film the doctors as they work in order to get more donations for the RWHC. Meanwhile, Andy treats a woman who has been trying to have a baby and learns a shocking secret about her Southern past. Also, Lana gives Lu and Andys patients advice, leading to amazing results.

20 - Rape Kit

Lu is raped by Rittenhouses star surgeon — but he insists that the sex was consensual. Meanwhile, Dana attempts to help a critically injured woman whose car crash may or may not have been an accident.

21 - Identity Crisis

Ben Sanderson wants to cut screening tests for newborns. A patient of Lus thinks a patient of Andys is a fugitive but doesnt believe it. Everyone worries if they will have jobs if Octavian Systems takes over Rittenhouse. Andy is asked to stay on a Rittenhouse, and fights for Dr. Jacksons job.

22 - Quarantine

Lu treats a patient who may SARS the doctors tell patents about SRS as they wait for the lab tests. Ben comforts a patient. Andy worries that she will lose Jesse if she moves to California.

22 - Recovery Time

Lu tries to cope with the aftershocks of her rape, she finds her life spinning out of control. Her rage causes Robert to dismiss her from Rittenhouse, and at home her son Marc barely recognizes her. Meanwhile, one of Danas patients agonizes over whether to continue with in vitro fertilization, which will likely hasten the progress of her deadly disease, LAM.