Strong Medicine

Lu tries to find a bone marrow match for a baby with leukemia; Andy and Dr. Morton try to help a woman with an enlarged heart.

Lu questions her own beliefs on the death penalty; Lu is suspicious after her neighbor is found dead; Andy helps a TV chef with a rash.

Lu suspects a girl's parents divorce is contributing to her illness; Nurse Riggs teaches a co-worker a lesson; Andy helps two sisters face a decision about their mother.

Lu must treat a pregnant patient for spousal abuse; an aging male doctor's bias against women threatens a young patient's life.

A smallpox vaccine for a hospital worker leads to life-threatening complications for her child; Andy helps a premature baby and her mother; Lu teaches a chauvinist a lesson about consent.

Andy and Milo stop a baby's heart in order to save its life; Lu fights to save a girl who was shot in a gang initiation; Andy tells her daughters she is dating.

Lu tries to convince a boxer to drop out of her next match; Andy tries to keep her composure under the emotional strain of her divorce.

A patient of Lu's receives a desperately needed transplant; Andy and Dr. Morton's relationship deepens; someone from Lana's past returns.

Tensions heat up between Andy and Lu; Andy questions whether she can trust her daughter; Andy and Morton perform an experimental transplant.

Andy and Lu work together to solve the mystery of a socialite and a manicurist who show signs of poisoning; Lu helps a young woman make an important decision; Nick befriends an Amish teen.

A patient's father wants to make a donation to the health center; Lu helps a breast cancer survivor overcome her body image fears; Andy realizes the financial limitations of her divorce.

Lu helps a terminally ill patient's family; Andy discovers a couple's infertility problem; Milo invites Andy to dinner with his parents.

Andy encounters a young woman with amnesia; a pregnant woman refuses to stop using drugs; Andy treats an elderly woman who is addicted to prescription drugs.

Lu cannot decide whether to tell her patients about an experimental antismoking clinical trial; Andy helps a bypass patient weather the side effects of surgery.

Andy and Lu engage in a friendly competition over a spelling bee; Lu helps a mother who suffers from schizophrenia; Andy adjusts to spending the holidays without her daughters.

Andy helps a young foreign princess fix a deformity; Lu treats an elderly woman with Alzheimer's.

Lu finds out her son's friend is being abused by a high-school boyfriend; Lu counsels a woman with HIV; an obese couple desperately want to lose weight.

Lu meets and butts heads with Ben Sanderson; Andy takes on the issue of legal sterilization; a girl becomes ill with E. coli bacteria.

The staff worries about their job security; Ben tells Lu he is cutting critical newborn screening tests; a patient of Andy's is identified as a fugitive.

Andy's daughter threatens to go live with her father; a patient may have SARS; the attraction between Lu and Ben grows.