Strong Medicine

Season 4

Dr. Luisa Delgado ran the South Philly Women's Clinic so that poor women could get the medical help they needed. Dr. Dana Stowe did medical research on cancer to help women. Together they now run a women's clinic at Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Hospital to help all women.

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22 Episodes

  • The Hero Heart
    E1
    The Hero HeartAfter Mickey is shot by a mentally ill patient of Lu's, Lu faces a difficult decision whether or not she should keep him on life support or donate his organs to be transplanted; Andy treats a woman who is in need of a heart transplant and tries to help out the parents of a infant son who has a genetic disease.
  • Emergency Contacts
    E2
    Emergency ContactsLu faces the doctor that raped her when he needs surgery that can save his life. Peter goes out with a woman who has terminal diabetes.
  • Heartbeats and Deadbeats
    E3
    Heartbeats and DeadbeatsAndy and Dr. Morton work together to treat a woman with an enlarged heart; Lu searches for a bone marrow donor for a young girl with leukemia; Nick and Lana search for a woman whose health is at risk.
  • Rash Decisions
    E4
    Rash DecisionsAndy finds out that a TV chef has leperachy when she develops a rash. Lu must decide between avenging Mickey's death and her own beliefs about the death penalty and honesty when she is asked to testify in the defense of his murderer who clearly is mentally unstable. Lu also is shocked when she discovers her neighbor's body and corruption in the Philadelphia Police Department.
  • Breathing Lessons
    E5
    Breathing LessonsLu fears that a little girl who keeps getting injured might be being physically abused by her dad. Andy suspects her nanny is stealing valuables from the house. Peter gets through to an insensitive husband of a pregnant woman about the pains of carrying a baby.
  • Misdiagnosis Murder
    E6
    Misdiagnosis MurderLu faces an ethical dilemma about her doctor/patient confidentiality when an abused, pregnant woman appears to be missing. Andy confronts a doctor whose chauvinism may have cost a patient her life.
  • Vaccinations
    E7
    VaccinationsA smallpox vaccine for a hospital worker leads to life-threatening complications for her child. Also, Andy helps a premature baby unknowingly save the life of her mother.
  • Temperature's Rising
    E8
    Temperature's RisingAs a heat wave hits Philadelphia, Andy & the staff will need to get used to its disaster plan to cope with heat wave. Claire a patient of Dr. Campbell is told she will develop Alzheimer's disease within 10 years, she also wants to have a baby. Andy & tells her kids about Dr. Morton, her kids question why she can't make time for kids. Clare worries that her kids might have the gene PGD (the gene that leads to finding Alzheimer's early.) A young girl with Down's Syndrome tells Lu she shot a girl to get in a gang. The mother later tells Lu that she had her 16 year old (with Downs Syndrome) confess to the crime to protect her sister who actually committed the crime.
  • Speculum for a Heavyweight
    E9
    Speculum for a HeavyweightDr. Campbell files for divorce from her husband while battling a cough. Lu tries to stop a boxer from fighting her next match. Lu tries to get Andy to look at her but she thinks it's just allergies. Andy treats Blain who doesn't feel good. Lou looks at Lyla who has SIS (Second Impact Syndrome) and wants Lyla to stop boxing because her next match could kill her. Lu heads to the boxing ring to ask Lyla to stop and doesn't listen. Blain learns she has ATL (Adult T-Cell Leukemia.) Lu tries to track down Andy's chest x-ray thinking she may have Lung Cancer. Dr. Campbell learns she has lung infection.
  • Bad Liver
    E10
    Bad LiverAndy fights for the rights to an organ from a liver transplant; Lu helps out a woman whose husband has just been released from prison; Nick treats a paramedic who was stuck with a needle from a drug addict.
  • Maternal Mirrors
    E11
    Maternal MirrorsWhen a patient of Andy's takes a turn for the worse under Lu's watchful eye, the two doctors butt heads over whether proper procedure was followed. Meanwhile, Andy questions whether or not she can trust her oldest daughter. Also, when Andy and Morton try an experimental xenotransplant (using the heart of a chimpanzee), Peter questions the rights of the animal.
  • Jeaneology
    E12
    JeaneologyAndy and Lu put their heads together when each of their patients show signs of being poisoned. It appears their exposure to chemicals may turn out to have more to do with where they shop. Lu tries to mediate between an alcoholic and the daughter offering a piece of her liver for transplant.
  • Skin
    E13
    SkinAfter Andy saves the life of a gunshot-wound victim, she and Robert must decide whether to accept a donation to the health center from the patient's less-than-reputable father. Meanwhile, Lu helps a breast cancer survivor to overcome her fears about body image and dating after a mastectomy. Also, while planning Jesse's Sweet Sixteen birthday party, Andy must come to grips with the impending financial limitations that her divorce will place on her family. When one of Andy's patients suffers from a heart attack, she and Lu disagree about the cause.
  • Love and Let Die
    E14
    Love and Let DieLu helps a terminally ill patient's 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 Milo's relationship becomes serious, he invites her to dinner with his parents. However, Milo's mother, Eve, is less than thrilled with Andy being the new woman in his life.
  • Coming Clean
    E15
    Coming CleanWhen Andy encounters a young woman with amnesia and her fiance, she must decide which secrets should remain untold. Meanwhile, when a pregnant patient refuses to stop using drugs, Lu faces an ethical dilemma and must decide whether to intervene.
  • Prescriptions
    E16
    PrescriptionsA drug company is offering cash to participants testing a new anti-smoking drug and one of Lu's patients has a very favorable response. An advice columnist Andy is treating loses her ability to read after surgery. One of Bob's 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.
  • Seize the Day
    E17
    Seize the DayLu 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.
  • Ears, Ho's and Threat
    E18
    Ears, Ho's and ThreatAn 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 Alzheimer's use her past for her own benefit. Meanwhile, Andy counsels a young woman who is seeking ""revirginization"" surgery.
  • Weights and Measures
    E19
    Weights and MeasuresA friend of Marc's 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.
  • The Real World Rittenhouse
    E20
    The Real World RittenhouseLu clashes with a man who comes to Rittenhouse to make a fundraising film and treats a young girl who got E-Coli from an undercooked burger; the girlfriend of Nick's sister is diagnosed with lupus; Andy treats a woman who was sterilized without her consent.
  • Identity Crisis
    E21
    Identity CrisisBen Sanderson wants to cut screening tests for newborns. A patient of Lu's thinks a patient of Andy's is a fugitive but doesn't 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. Jackson's job.
  • Quarantine
    E22
    QuarantineThe emergency room is put under quarantine after a patient of Andy's is suspected of having SARS; Jesse reveals to Andy that she wants to move to California to live with her father; Lana counsels a woman who was sexually assaulted.

Cast of Season 4

  • Rosa BlasiDr. Luisa 'Lu' Delgado
  • Jenifer LewisLana Hawkins
  • Josh CoxxPeter Riggs
  • Philip CasnoffDr. Robert Jackson
  • Patricia RichardsonDr. Andy Campbell
  • Brennan ElliottDr. Nick Biancavilla
  • Whoopi GoldbergProducer

 

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