Strong Medicine - Season 2

Strong Medicine - Season 2

Season 2

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DatesJul 15, 2001 - Mar 3, 2002
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Episodes

Donors
Season 2Episode 160 min

Donors

The second season begins with Dana and Lu at odds over the fate of a dead college student's fertilized eggs. The day is further complicated by the arrival of Peter's mother, who clings to the idea that her heterosexual son is gay. Elsewhere, a dying patient and her husband wait impatiently for a donor heart and Nick's appointment to the ER staff is in doubt.
Jul 15, 2001
Adverse Reactions
Season 2Episode 260 min

Adverse Reactions

After denying employment to a candidate who is both overqualified and overweight, Robert faces off against a civil-rights lawyer famous for her plus-size clientele. Elsewhere, Dana comes under fire from the Army when she diagnoses a 14-year veteran with Gulf War Syndrome. Lana cares for the newborn son of a neighborhood streetwalker.
Jul 22, 2001
Gray Matter
Season 2Episode 360 min

Gray Matter

Dana's bedside manner is put to the ultimate test when a former high-school rival comes to her for treatment. A nurse considers suing the hospital after she tests positive for the HIV virus following an incident in the ER.
Jul 29, 2001
History
Season 2Episode 460 min

History

Lu travels to Puerto Rico, where her beloved grandmother urgently needs a bone-marrow transplant to survive. As the headstrong doctor copes with this life-or-death situation, she flashes back to her days as a resident, recalling her first meeting with Peter and Lana. Mary J. Blige guest stars as a moody blues singer named Simone.
Aug 5, 2001
Attachments
Season 2Episode 560 min

Attachments

The parents of conjoined twins refuse to have them surgically separated, even though that means they may both die. Lu suspects a leukemia patient may have attempted suicide by starting a fire. Peter is concerned about a patient with a severe rash on her arm and suspects it to be the some kind of virus. Dr. Jackson feels that Rittenhouse needs a good safety & emergency plan and he puts Lana in charge of it.
Aug 12, 2001
Relief
Season 2Episode 660 min

Relief

Philadelphia baseball fans blame Dana when the home team loses a crucial playoff game. Lu cares for a piano prodigy with scleroderma, a potentially fatal disease that hardens the body's organs. Peter helps a retired research chimp find greener pastures.
Aug 19, 2001
Impaired
Season 2Episode 760 min

Impaired

An Alzheimer's patient attempts to maintain custody of her 15-year-old son with Down syndrome, and a domestic diva puts the health of her unborn child at risk.
Aug 26, 2001
Rebirth
Season 2Episode 860 min

Rebirth

A woman hoping to form a maternal bond with her adopted teenage daughter ignores Dana's advice and proceeds with plans to re-create the child's birth. A second patient of Dana's seeks Lu's care after falling on hard times. Outside the hospital, Marc is caught cheating at school.
Sep 9, 2001
Control Group
Season 2Episode 960 min

Control Group

Robert's wife's battle with MS becomes more difficult, so he asks Dana to try a new experimental drug on her. Lu treats a young Korean woman for anorexia.
Sep 16, 2001
Zol Zein Gezint
Season 2Episode 1060 min

Zol Zein Gezint

A patient of Dana's gives birth to twins — one baby is black, the other is white. And Lu suspects that a woman with chronic back pain is addicted to prescription drugs.
Oct 7, 2001
Systemic
Season 2Episode 1160 min

Systemic

Dana debates whether she should risk her relationship with Nick to comfort a terminally ill flame from her past, while Lu faces off against a Philly police officer who mistook a diabetic for a drunk driver.
Oct 14, 2001
Accidents
Season 2Episode 1260 min

Accidents

Dana waits for Nick to decide when they will get married, and treats a figure skater who's determined to compete in the Olympics despite being diagnosed with osteoporosis. Elsewhere, Lu takes an instant dislike to her son's new girlfriend's father (Don Michael Paul). Lana looks forward to graduating from high school. Peter finds his new romantic relationship to be fleeting.
Oct 21, 2001
Silent Epidemic
Season 2Episode 1360 min

Silent Epidemic

Dana suspects an Amish woman is infected with mad-cow disease; and Lu treats Lana for a sexual dysfunction stemming from her days as a prostitute.
Nov 11, 2001
Hot Flash
Season 2Episode 1460 min

Hot Flash

A pregnant and very ill pro-life politician has her principles put to the ultimate test when the only treatment that will save her life will result in losing her baby. Meanwhile, a patient of Lu's who is trying to pass herself off as a much younger woman is hampered by the inconvenient arrival of menopause.
Nov 18, 2001
Bloodwork
Season 2Episode 1560 min

Bloodwork

Dana counsels a woman and her emotionally distant son, who are both being treated for lead poisoning. Also, Lu goes to bat for a stenographer with carpal-tunnel syndrome.
Dec 2, 2001
Black 'n' Flu
Season 2Episode 1660 min

Black 'n' Flu

Lu's return to her college alma mater is marred by an outbreak of meningitis. At the clinic, Dana develops symptoms suggesting she is pregnant.
Dec 9, 2001
Precautions
Season 2Episode 1760 min

Precautions

Dana is troubled when a patient requests new breast implants immediately after her first ones rupture. Elsewhere, Lu fears for the life of a wanted criminal's sickly newborn.
Jan 6, 2002
Shock
Season 2Episode 1860 min

Shock

Striking nurses send the hospital into chaos, forcing Dana to withhold an experimental treatment for a dying baby. Also, an abused patient of Lu's is turned away.
Jan 13, 2002
Type and Cross
Season 2Episode 1960 min

Type and Cross

The Rittenhouse doctors cope with a blood shortage in Philadelphia. Dana helps a patient who unknowingly contracted hepatitis from her husband, and Lu deals with a family of illegal dog fighters who have Lyme disease.
Jan 20, 2002
Rape Kit
Season 2Episode 2060 min

Rape Kit

Lu is raped by Rittenhouse's 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.
Feb 17, 2002
Trauma
Season 2Episode 2160 min

Trauma

Lu copes with the trauma of being raped by devoting her thoughts to a patient who accidentally overdosed on over-the-counter cough medicine. Dana, meanwhile, grudgingly turns to Dr. Kilner for advice about a pregnant woman with colon cancer.
Feb 24, 2002
Recovery Time
Season 2Episode 2260 min

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 Dana's patients agonizes over whether to continue with in vitro fertilization, which will likely hasten the progress of her deadly disease, LAM.
Mar 3, 2002

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