Strong Medicine

A doctor from a financially strapped women's clinic is asked to partner with a wealthy Philadelphia hospital.

A family's much anticipated surrogate birth is disrupted by the discovery of a rare birth defect; Lu discovers that a sick patient was deceived by her doctor.

A prominent TV anchorwoman asks Dana to help her get pregnant; an HIV positive mother removes her four-year-old son from his anti-AIDS medication.

An old friend approaches Dana about some risky reconstructive surgery.

Dana must decide whether to put an unidentified patient into a deep coma in order to save her life; Lu discovers a high school basketball star has been using performance-enhancing drugs.

Suspicious injuries to his wife lead Dana to suspect that Robert may have beaten his wife; Lu is approached by a drug addict who wants to be sterilized in order to collect a $200 reward.

An influential city council member is critically wounded when gang rivalry leads to gunfire at the clinic; Peter uncovers a disturbing truth about a patient's past.

Dana faces an ethical dilemma after diagnosing an airline pilot with an irreversible brain disorder; Lu's diagnosis of a young girl with Tay Sachs Disease uncovers a secret about her mother's past.

Dana counsels a prominent citizen to leave her abusive husband; Lu discovers a social worker who's been stealing her a young client's medication to feed her own addiction.

The failure of her latest breast cancer research puts Dana in a difficult spot; Lu fights for a patient to get the time off she needs to have chemotherapy.

As Dana takes a leave of absence in order to help with her mother's breast cancer, Lu agrees to take over her workload, and quickly stirs up trouble.

A Parkinson's sufferer presses Dana for an experimental treatment; Peter falls for a painter whose severe migraine headaches are a source of inspiration, while Marc reveals that his girlfriend is an alcoholic.

Dana uncovers a teenage girl's ritual circumcision, while Lu faces off against the harsh bureaucracy that refuses to recognize a patient's painful chronic disease.

Dana is asked to defy a husband's wishes when his wife secretly asks for surgery to repair their son's birth defect; the cost of treating a homeless woman's schizophrenia has tragic results.

Dana treats an old friend's heroin addiction, while Lu presses a deaf couple to consider potentially risking surgery for themselves and their young daughter.

As Dana looks for the truth behind a patient's puzzling pregnancy, Lu uncovers a hospital employee's fatal disease on Christmas Eve.

As Dana treats a nursing mother's severe depression, Lu uncovers a housing project's environmental health hazard that could lead to some innocent tenants being evicted.

Dana discovers two pregnant women who unknowingly have the same mate; an epidemic of sexually transmitted disease at Marc's school costs a sixth grade teacher his job.

A popular video game designer's fatal illness exposes a rift between her mother and her husband; Lu is pressed to provide an untested treatment for an autistic child.

Dana discovers a fatally ill priest is actually a woman; Lu finds that an ex-convict's sickle cell symptoms have made her a suspect in a murder.

As Lu struggles with stopping a patient's hunger strike, the loss of a baby during childbirth causes Dana to consider leaving the clinic.