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Strong Medicine Season 5 Episodes

22 Episodes 2004 - 2005

Episode 1

Positive Results

Sun, Jun 13, 2004

As Lu and Ben's relationship begins to develop, his ex-wife comes back into the picture in search of a job and faces a health scare; new resident Kayla Thornton begins working at Rittenhouse; Jesse's friend ends up in the ER after overdosing on cough syrup in order to get high.

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Episode 2

Touched by an Idol

Sun, Jun 20, 2004

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

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Episode 3

Omissions

Sun, Jun 27, 2004

Dr. Campbell treats Rachel, a patient she believes is an alcoholic but she won't admit to her drinking problem. The patient's daughter Jordan goes to desperate measure to get her mom to stop drinking. Another of Andy's patients needs to get a kidney transplant but nobody in her family is a match. Tammy's mom then reveals a horrible secret that could save her daughter's life - she was raped and her daughter is the product of that rape. Meanwhile, Lu, Lana, Peter, and Ben go out on the streets to find out what is threatening the lives of young infants.

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Episode 4

Cape Cancer

Sun, Jul 11, 2004

Andy and Milo are invited to stay in a beach-side cabin owned by a patient of Andy's at Cape June, a beach-side vacation community. The vacation gets interrupted when a young boy suddenly becomes very ill with similar symptoms to Andy's patient who has cancer. Andy is further shocked to learn that 9 other residents of the town have died from cancer.

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Episode 5

Fractured

Sun, Jul 18, 2004

When elderly patients die under suspicious circumstances, Peter becomes a suspect; Andy treats a judge suffering from hearing loss caused by abusing pain medication.

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Episode 6

Goodbye/Rest in Peace

Sun, Jul 25, 2004

Andy is concerned that a patient of hers who has survived breast cancer is suffering from body dysmorphic disorder; Lu says goodbye when Marc heads off to college and Ben's job is transferred to Miami.

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Episode 7

Healing Touch

Sun, Aug 1, 2004

Andy finds herself in trouble after a prejudiced patient complains that Andy refused to treat her; a patient of Lu's who needs surgery asks to be treated by a faith healer that is revealed to be a young girl.

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Episode 8

Bleeding Heart

Sun, Aug 8, 2004

Lu discovers that two teenage girls have been poisoned by a girl at their high school they have bullied; a patient of Andy asks her to endorse her new heart-health diet book only to end up in the emergency room suffering from a heart attack.

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Episode 9

Prophylactic Measures

Sun, Aug 15, 2004

After a young adult film star is diagnosed with an STD, Lu tries to find out how she contracted the disease; Andy seeks to gain the position of chief of surgery; Kayla treats a teenage boy with a gunshot wound.

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Episode 10

Life in the Balance

Sun, Aug 22, 2004

When the sister of a famous gymnast is in need of a liver transplant, Lu faces issues with her family who refuse to help; Kayla and Andy become concerned after a depressed resident attempts suicide.

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Episode 11

Like Cures Like

Sun, Sep 26, 2004

Kayla wants to try an experimental surgery on a paralyzed patient; Lu treats a woman who is diagnosed with avian flu; Peter treats a woman suffering from allergies with homeopathic remedies.

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Episode 12

Cinderella in Scrubs

Sun, Oct 3, 2004

In the series' 100th episode, an adoptive mother and a biological mother fight over the custody of a young girl; a patient of Andy sues her insurance company when she is diagnosed with cancer too late.

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Episode 13

Body Mass Increase

Sun, Oct 10, 2004

Lu treats a female acquaintance of Marc's who is discovered to be pregnant and claims that Marc is the father; Andy becomes a health food advocate at Lizzie's school; Kayla asks Peter to pose as her fiance when her ex-boyfriend comes to town.

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Episode 14

Selective Breeding

Sun, Oct 17, 2004

Lu helps out a mother whose young daughter's mental illness has worsened; Andy becomes suspicious about a couple's true reason for wanting to undergo in-vitro fertilization; Peter becomes jealous when Kayla dates a man who volunteers at a zoo.

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Episode 15

Graft

Sun, Oct 31, 2004

When a six-year-old girl comes into the ER with severe burns to her body, the only person who can save her life with a skin transplant is her twin sister; Andy suspects that cadavers are being illegally sold.

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Episode 16

A Dose of Reality

Sun, Oct 24, 2004

Andy meets the teenage boy responsible for Milo's death; Lu becomes suspicious when an organ-transplant patient suffers from mysterious complications.

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Episode 17

Code

Sun, Dec 5, 2004

Andy is considered for the position of Chief of Surgery; Lu deals with a drug company who wants to financially compensate her leukemia patient.

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Episode 18

Virgin Birth

Sun, Dec 12, 2004

Lu treats a surrogate mother whose adoptive parents refuse to keep the baby when it's revealed that he's disabled; Andy suspects that her patient's daughter might have a serious medical condition.

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Episode 19

Foreign Bodies

Sun, Nov 21, 2004

Andy treats a woman who has a rare lung disease who wants to see her pregnant daughter, who lives in Paris; Lu helps out a woman whose job won't cover her medical condition.

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Episode 20

First Response

Sun, Jan 16, 2005

In this failed spin-off pilot of the series, Dr. Vanessa Burke, the new chief of trauma at Rittenhouse pulls strings to get her adoptive ex-convict sister a job as a paramedic; meanwhile, Lu searches for a bone marrow donor for a infant.

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Episode 21

Implants, Transplants and Cuban Aunts

Sun, Jan 23, 2005

Lu treats a group of illegal immigrant women who are pregnant; a beauty pageant contestant who has lupus wants to get her breast implants removed.

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Episode 22

Cutting the Cord

Sun, Jan 30, 2005

Jonas reveals news that could affect his relationship with Lu; Andy leaves Rittenhouse to become the new surgeon general.

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