Strong Medicine

Strong Medicine

Lifetime Ended Drama • Medical

6 Seasons · 131 Episodes · Premiered July 23, 2000 · Ended February 5, 2006

Their worlds couldn't be more different but their commitment and passion brings them together. Strong Medicine is a sometimes intense, sometimes hilarious medical drama that takes us inside the world of street level medicine. Dr. Dana Stowe, a Harvard graduate who devotes her life to finding a cure for cancer, and Dr. Lu Delgado, a single mother whose disdain for "the system" has her battling bureaucracy and the budget-concerned chief of staff Dr. Robert Jackson, come together to start The Rittenhouse Women's Health Clinic in Philadelphia. Saucy receptionist Lana Hawkins, attractive Nurse Peter Riggs, and ER Doctor Nick Biancavilla also work in the clinic. Dr. Stowe leaves the clinic to care for her adopted children in season 3 and is replaced by former Army Colonel Dr. Andy Campbell who immediately begins a duel with Lu but after working together for a while, they become close friends.

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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

22 episodes
E01
Pilot
Mon, Jul 24 2000 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
In order to keep her South Philadelphia women's free health clinic open, Dr. Luisa "Lu" Delgado turns to Rittenhouse Hospital for financial help. But, however it is discovered that Dr. Dana Stowe blames Lu for ruining her breast cancer study. The Chief of Staff, Dr. Bob Jackson tells Dana to take a tour of the clinic to see if Rittenhouse should help fund it; meanwhile, Dana has to tell one of her patients that her sister might be at risk for ovarian cancer in which her ovaries would need to be removed
E02
Preexisting Conditions
Mon, Jul 31 2000 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
Dana and Lu find it hard to work together. Dana has to tell a surrogate couple that their child will be born with severe mental birth defects which makes them question whether or not they can raise a special needs child; Lu investigates a clinic that supposedly gave a woman a hysterectomy due to bleeding fibroids, but it turns out that they never gave her one at all.
E03
Misconceptions
Mon, Aug 7 2000 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
E04
Second Look
Mon, Aug 14 2000 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
E05
Performance Anxiety
Mon, Aug 21 2000 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
E06
Drug Interactions
Mon, Aug 28 2000 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
E07
Do No Harm
Mon, Sep 4 2000 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
E08
Miracle Cure
Mon, Sep 11 2000 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
E09
Dependency
Mon, Oct 9 2000 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
E10
BRCA1
Mon, Oct 16 2000 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
E11
BRCA2
Mon, Oct 16 2000 1:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
E12
Brainchild
Mon, Oct 30 2000 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
E13
Second Opinion
Mon, Dec 4 2000 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
E14
Side Effects
Mon, Dec 11 2000 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
E15
Blessed Events
Mon, Dec 18 2000 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
E16
Fix
Mon, Jan 8 2001 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
E17
Maternity
Mon, Jan 15 2001 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
E18
Complications
Mon, Jan 22 2001 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
E19
Childcare
Mon, Feb 19 2001 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
E20
Drugstore Cowgirl
Mon, Feb 26 2001 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
E21
Wednesday Night Fever
Mon, Mar 5 2001 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
E22
Mortality
Mon, Mar 12 2001 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min

Season 2

22 episodes

Season 3

22 episodes

Season 4

22 episodes

Season 5

22 episodes

Season 6

21 episodes

Cast

View all 7 cast members →
Rosa Blasi
Rosa Blasi as Dr. Luisa 'Lu' Delgado
Jenifer Lewis
Jenifer Lewis as Lana Hawkins
Josh Coxx
Josh Coxx as Peter Riggs
Janine Turner
Janine Turner as Dr. Dana Stowe
Brennan Elliott
Brennan Elliott as Dr. Nick Biancavilla
Philip Casnoff
Philip Casnoff as Dr. Robert Jackson
Ashley Tisdale
Ashley Tisdale as Sherry Lowenstein

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