Strong Medicine
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.
- 2000-2006
- 6 seasons
- Lifetime Television
- Drama
- TV-14
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.
Season 6 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 2005 - 2006
Episode 1
New Blood
Sun, Jun 12, 2005
A new male doctor, Dr. West begins his first day at Rittenhouse; a train derailment fills the ER with patients; Lu is unsure about marrying Jonas.
Episode 2
Feeling No Pain
Sun, Jun 19, 2005
Dylan treats a woman suffering from heroin addiction; Lu treats a little girl who has a rare medical condition that doesn't allow her to feel pain.
Episode 3
Clinical Risk
Sun, Jun 26, 2005
Lu becomes personally involved when her patient's 11-year-old son is tased with a stun gun at school; Dylan treats a patient with a rare form of multiple sclerosis; Kayla suspects that a patient of hers was exposed to ricin.
Episode 4
Differentials
Sun, Jul 10, 2005
When a mother's two children are suffering from kidney failure, she has to make a choice about which child to donate a kidney to; Dylan's college mentor ends up being hospitalized for a debilitating neurological disorder.
Episode 5
Dying Inside
Sun, Jul 17, 2005
When two teenagers are diagnosed with Legionnaires' disease, Dylan tries to find out how they contracted the disease; while volunteering at a women's prison, Lu fights to get adequate health care for the prisoners.
Episode 6
The Y Factor
Sun, Jul 24, 2005
Dylan discovers a teenage female football player is using steroids; paternity issues arise when a mother discovers that one of her twins has cystic fibrosis.
Episode 7
Paternity Test
Sun, Aug 7, 2005
After his old summer crush is hospitalized, Dylan believes that he is the father of her teenage daughter; Lu helps out the family of a brain-dead patient make some difficult decisions.
Episode 8
Infectious Love
Sun, Aug 14, 2005
Dylan's new girlfriend faces a health scare when she is hospitalized for symptoms of avian flu; Lu helps out a mother whose overweight daughter is removed from her custody.
Episode 9
Gunshot Wedding
Sun, Aug 21, 2005
Lu and Jonas get married; after Araya gets herself into trouble, Dylan finds himself a hostage in a courtroom by a disgruntled man.
Episode 10
Family Practice
Sun, Aug 28, 2005
Lu and Jonas' honeymoon is cut short when Lu brings a group of orphaned children from Costa Rica to Rittenhouse for medical treatment, but Jonas finds himself being charged with embezzlement; Kayla suspects a mother of making her son sick.
Episode 11
Broken Hearts
Sun, Sep 11, 2005
Lu helps out a teenage girl who wants to get out of the gang life; Dylan fights to get a young woman with Down Syndrome a heart transplant.
Episode 12
It Takes a Clinic
Sun, Sep 18, 2005
Dylan treats a governor who is in poor health and Lu seeks her help to prevent a mentally impaired inmate from being executed; Peter forms a boot camp for young fathers.
Episode 13
Agony and Ecstasy
Sun, Sep 25, 2005
Lu fears that her unborn child might have a fatal genetic condition and defends a pregnant mother who is accused of welfare fraud.
Episode 14
Chief Complaints
Sun, Oct 2, 2005
Kayla competes with a fellow male colleague to get the job of chief resident; Lu deals with a teenaged patient who wants to be emancipated so she doesn't have to donate a kidney to her sister.
Episode 15
Promising Treatment
Sun, Oct 9, 2005
Dylan helps out a woman who underwent a mastectomy whose insurance company wants her to be released from the hospital 24 hours after her surgery; Lu finds herself caught in the middle of a woman with cerebral palsy who sues her mother for negligence.
Episode 16
Rhythm of the Heart
Sun, Oct 16, 2005
Kayla searches for answers after a teenage boy dies of heart failure; two patients in a burn ward provide emotional support to each other.
Episode 17
Unorthodox Treatment
Sun, Jan 15, 2006
Dylan treats a woman suffering from cervical cancer; Lu decides to proceed with an alternative treatment for a young girl with a serious medical condition whose insurance company won't cover treatment.
Episode 18
We Wish You a Merry Cryst-Meth
Sun, Dec 11, 2005
Lu tries to help injured single mom, Melissa Nauls, who's addicted to Crystal Meth keep custody of her three kids. But when Melissa dies after going back to a crystal meth lab Lu has to find a way to keep all three kids together as Christmas approaches. Meanwhile, Kayla is attracted to blind patient Will Manning which makes Peter very jealous.
Episode 19
My Sister, My Doctor, Myself
Sun, Jan 8, 2006
When Kayla's twin sister, Keisha comes to visit, it is revealed that Keisha is mentally ill; Lu helps a patient with fertility issues.
Episode 20
Baby BOOM!
Sun, Jan 22, 2006
Kayla loses a patient who was a bank robber, only for his unstable girlfriend Jamie to show up at the hospital with a bomb strapped to her body. Meanwhile, 35-week pregnant Sirena Adkins is brought in suffering from meningitis and her mom tells Lu to only save the daughter and not the baby.
Episode 21
Dr. Thornton Hears a Who?
Sun, Jan 29, 2006
A patient experiences amazing results from an experimental drug. Araya's estranged grandparents visit.
Episode 22
Special Delivery
Sun, Feb 5, 2006
Jonas performs an emergency Caesarean section with the help of Lu's expertise.