Strong Medicine

- Season 3

(2002)

The mother of a teenage girl who is diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease blames Lu for giving her daughter birth control; Dana searches for a sperm donor in order to get pregnant.

Dana treats a family whose terminally ill daughter requires the stem cells of their newborn child; Lu suspects that a mother is purposely making her child sick; Peter agrees to be a sperm donor for Dana.

Dana decides to undergo in-vitro fertilization; Lu is reluctant to start dating again after her rape when a paramedic asks her out on a date.

A 17-year-old girl with ovarian cancer refuses to undergo any more treatment; Lu suspects a woman of being abused by her husband.

Lu treats a female prisoner who is diagnosed with cervical cancer; Dana is asked to perform a risky surgical procedure on an unborn child.

Dana decides to leave Rittenhouse to care for an HIV-positive baby and her older sister full time; Lu treats a homeless woman suffering from epilepsy.

Dr. Andy Campbell joins the Rittenhouse Women's Health Center as Lu's new partner; on Andy's unofficial first day, she clashes with Lu over a woman who had an illegal kidney transplant and a patient of Lu's who refuses to get her young son vaccinated.

Andy treats a woman who has a history of miscarriages; Lu treats a patient's heroin addiction by using a new anti-opiate drug.

A woman dying of lung cancer claims to be Lu's long-lost sister; Andy suspects a 4-year-old girl is a victim of shaken baby syndrome.

An old friend of Andy's who is on the space station calls her because she has a medical problem. It seems she needs surgery but can't get off the station. So she has to try to coach the doctor on the station who is a vet on how to do it. So NASA techs come to the hospital so they set a link with them. Lu as a patient who has symptoms she can't figure out is causing it. And another patient wants to have a mastectomy because she fears of having breast cancer.

Lu treats a woman who has a flesh-eating bacteria; Andy is concerned about the state of mind of a schizophrenic woman whose mother wants her daughter to have her tubes tied.

A patient of Andy's seeks help to stop her chronic blushing; Lu is unsure about whether or not she should prescribe a painkiller to a recovering drug addict.

Andy becomes suspicious when three patients of hers who underwent surgery suffer from complications; meanwhile, Lu treats a pregnant woman who might have been exposed to chicken pox.

The memories of Lu's rape return after a patient of hers asks for help with her sex offender brother; meanwhile, Andy is convinced that someone is trying to kill her patient.

A Middle Eastern patient of Lu's who has cancer is suspected of being a terrorist; Andy treats a deaf woman who is diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis.

Andy treats a female soldier with post-polio syndrome; Lu becomes attracted to a patient's son.

Andy finds herself in a battle with her father over his independence after he is diagnosed with a degenerative nerve condition; Lu tries to figure out how a pregnant woman is responsible for the deaths of her infant children.

Andy diagnoses a woman with West Nile virus; Lu tries to help out a woman and her hospital-bound son.

An altercation between Andy and her husband becomes violent; a year after her rape, Lu isn't sure whether or not she's ready to pursue an intimate relationship with Mickey.

After kicking her husband out of the house, Andy contemplates whether or not she should tell her daughters about his abusive behavior.

When Lu's mentor misdiagnoses a patient, Lu contemplates whether or not to tell her that she needs to retire; Andy treats a couple's two young daughters who are diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder; Andy's daughter, Jesse faces bullying over her back brace.

Lu juggles treating a woman on the verge of suicide and trying to make more time for Mickey; Andy's daughter Jesse has to undergo surgery to treat her scoliosis.