Strong Medicine Lifetime (TV network) Schedule September 28, 2006 October 31, 2006

September 28
Thursday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Infectious Love" 	Dylan faces his daughter Araya's fears when he starts dating. Soon, though, he must deal with more than Araya's misgivings when his girlfriend, Sonja, is exposed to a virulent strain of Avian flu. Lu is baffled when her 11-year-old patient continues to gain weight after lifestyle, diet and exercise changes. After numerous warnings from the patient's school, the Department of Family Services takes the child on the pretext of child abuse due to overfeeding. Stunned, Lu takes on the system to solve this mysterious case. Starring: Jenifer Lewis, Rick Schroder, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx, Tamera Mowry   [CC] [TV-PG D]
September 28
Thursday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Infectious Love" 	
	 	
September 29
Friday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Gunshot Wedding" 	Lu's wedding day has arrived! Dylan is hectic covering for Lu. After performing a delicate surgery, Dylan is called away to the courthouse when his daughter, Araya, is arrested for shoplifting. While in family court, a distraught father takes the court hostage and Dylan takes action. Starring: Jenifer Lewis, Rick Schroder, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx, Tamera Mowry   [CC] [TV-PG LV]
September 29
Friday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Gunshot Wedding" 	
	 	
October 1
Sunday
1:00 am	Strong Medicine "Family Practice" 	While honeymooning in Cost Rica, Lu converses with a local doctor and visits a clinic for orphaned children with special needs. Jonas arranges to fly the kids to Rittenhouse after seeing the inadequate facilities, but meets with trouble upon his return to the U.S.. Kayla trusts her instincts to determine if a mother is abusing her child Starring: Jenifer Lewis, Rick Schroder, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx, Tamera Mowry   [CC] [TV-14 L]
October 1
Sunday
1:00 am	Strong Medicine "Family Practice" 	
	 	
October 2
Monday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Broken Hearts" 	Dylan fights to save the heart of a patient with Downs Syndrome. Lu helps 2 teenage patients get out of gang life after a harrowing initiation. Lu tells the staff she is pregnant. Starring: Jenifer Lewis, Rick Schroder, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx, Tamera Mowry   [CC] [TV-14 DL]
October 2
Monday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Broken Hearts" 	
	 	
October 3
Tuesday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "It Takes a Clinic" 	Dylan tries to save the life of the Governor while Lu advocates for her patient who is on death row. Kayla seeks Dylan's help on an emotional case. Tired of seeing overwrought teen moms, Peter begins a boot camp for teenage fathers. With Jonas gone, Lu leans on Peter and Dylan during scary moments in her pregnancy. Starring: Jenifer Lewis, Rick Schroder, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx, Tamera Mowry   [CC] [TV-PG L]
October 3
Tuesday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "It Takes a Clinic" 	
	 	
October 4
Wednesday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Agony and Ecstasy" 	Lu's patient seeks her help when she's accused of welfare fraud because her children's DNA does not match her own. Lu testifies that she personally delivered the children but a genetic retest does not support this. When the women's third child is born in the presence of a court appointed witness, the child is immediately tested and his DNA does match. A light goes off for Lu, as she herself is undergoing her own prenatal testing, when she realizes that the answer doesn't lie in the children, but in the mother. Starring: Jenifer Lewis, Rick Schroder, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx, Tamera Mowry   [CC] [TV-PG DL]
October 4
Wednesday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Agony and Ecstasy" 	
	 	
October 5
Thursday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Chief Complaints" 	Lu's patient suffers from leukemia and needs a kidney. However, her younger sister, who has spent her entire life being a donor, begs Lu to stop the surgery--even though her older sister may die. Once the sisters? parents find out about the halted surgery, Lu finds herself caught in the middle. Meanwhile, the selection for the hospital's chief resident is narrowed down to Kayla and George, a third-generation white male resident. Both are very competitive and rumblings of Affirmative Action rear its ugly head. Starring: Jenifer Lewis, Rick Schroder, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx, Tamera Mowry   [CC] [TV-14 NONE]
October 5
Thursday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Chief Complaints" 	
	 	
October 6
Friday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Promising Treatment" 	Dylan circumvents an out-of-state insurance company when they mandate his mastectomy patient be released less than 24 hours after surgery. Lu's cerebral palsy patient decides to sue her mother for negligence after she continued to smoke during her pregnancy. Dylan seeks Lu's help when he notices Araya's hormones flaring up over a boy. Starring: Jenifer Lewis, Rick Schroder, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx, Tamera Mowry   [CC] [TV-14 NONE]
October 6
Friday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Promising Treatment" 	
	 	
October 8
Sunday
1:00 am	Strong Medicine "Rhythm of the Heart" 	Lu works frantically to save two patients in the burn unit. Although they have never seen each other, they offer each other hope and support through the curtain separating them. Kayla and Peter go head-to-head after a 16-year-old boy dies in the ER from heart failure. The two come together to work with the family to establish a fund for the teen's deadly, but detectable, condition. Starring: Jenifer Lewis, Rick Schroder, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx, Tamera Mowry   [CC] [TV-PG DL]
October 8
Sunday
1:00 am	Strong Medicine "Rhythm of the Heart" 	
	 	
October 9
Monday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Unorthodox Treatment" 	Lu tackles a rare and deadly disease that does not respond to conventional treatment. Lu circumvents the insurance system for a far less conventional but much more effective medication. Dylan uses his faith to try and convince his patient to fight for her life. Starring: Jenifer Lewis, Rick Schroder, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx, Tamera Mowry   [CC] [TV-PG L]
October 9
Monday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Unorthodox Treatment" 	
	 	
October 10
Tuesday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "We Wish You a Merry Cryst-Meth"	With Dylan on vacation with Araya, Lu juggles his heavy caseload and a hectic clinic while the Christmas holidays quickly approach. Lu also searches for someone to take care of three kids abandoned by their meth-addicted mother. Meanwhile, the hospital's Bad Santa dampens Christmas spirits all around the hospital. Starring: Jenifer Lewis, Rick Schroder, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx, Tamera Mowry   [CC] [TV-14 NONE]
October 10
Tuesday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "We Wish You a Merry Cryst-Meth"	
	 	
October 11
Wednesday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "My Sister, My Doctor, Myself" 	When Lu's patient's appendix ruptures, she looks to Dylan to help her save the woman's fertility. Kayla tries to make amends with her estranged twin sister Keisha, but after she becomes unreasonably belligerent, Kayla begins to worry something more than sibling rivalry is troubling her. Tia Mowery guest stars. Rick Schroeder directs. Starring: Jenifer Lewis, Rick Schroder, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx, Tamera Mowry, Tia Mowery   [CC] [TV-14 NONE]
October 11
Wednesday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "My Sister, My Doctor, Myself" 	
	 	
October 12
Thursday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Baby BOOM!" 	Lu tries to save an ill woman who is eight months pregnant without harming her baby. Kayla struggles to keep up the illusion a patient is alive when his unstable girlfriend claims to have a bomb. Peter searches for a missing boy and Lana comforts an elderly man about to enter a nursing home. Starring: Jenifer Lewis, Rick Schroder, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx, Tamera Mowry   [CC] [TV-14 V]
October 12
Thursday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Baby BOOM!" 	
	 	
October 13
Friday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Dr. Thornton Hears a Who?" 	Dylan and Lu walk an ethical fine line when their patient shows amazing results to an experimental drug. Araya's estranged maternal grandparents come for a visit and while their family rift mends, they ask Araya to make a huge decision about her future. Starring: Jenifer Lewis, Rick Schroder, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx, Tamera Mowry   [CC] [TV-PG NONE]
October 13
Friday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Dr. Thornton Hears a Who?" 	
	 	
October 15
Sunday
1:00 am	Strong Medicine "Special Delivery" 	Lu is forced to have a special delivery after she is trapped in a basement. With her medical guidance, Lu's husband, Jonas, performs an emergency c-section. Dylan struggles to save a gunshot patient who tells him the name of the gang member who shot her. After going to the police, Dylan realizes he may have put his family in danger. Starring: Jenifer Lewis, Rick Schroder, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx, Tamera Mowry   [CC] [TV-14 NONE]
October 15
Sunday
1:00 am	Strong Medicine "Special Delivery" 	
	 	
October 16
Monday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Skin" 	After 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 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. Starring: Jenifer Lewis, Patricia Richardson, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx, Brennan Elliot   [CC] [TV-PG DL]
October 16
Monday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Skin" 	
	 	
October 17
Tuesday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Pilot" 	Luisa Delgado, a young doctor trying to save her downtown Philadelphia free clinic from financial ruin, approaches the city's most prestigious hospital, Rittenhouse, for a loan when she learns that a famous research doctor is in town to raise millions for the hospital. The hospital's chief of staff sends their head of women's medicine, Dr. Dana Stowe, to Lu's clinic to check it out. The two doctors immediately clash because Lu is willing to bend the rules of medical ethics to keep her patients, and since Dana is committed to keeping the high standards of Rittenhouse,she refuses to approve the loan. When Lu goes to the hospital to confront Dana for failing to approve the loan, Dr. Lydia Emerson, the famous research doctor, gets involved to bring Lu and Dana together to run a new women's medical clinic that will merge Lu's clinic with a new wing of Rittenhouse Hospital. Starring: Janine Turner, Jenifer Lewis, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx, Whoopi Goldberg   [CC] [TV-PG DL]
October 17
Tuesday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Pilot" 	
	 	
October 18
Wednesday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Pre-existing Conditions" 	Dana and Lu are relocated to a new wing of Rittenhouse that, once renovated, will be the new home of the women's health clinic they will run together. Dana is confronted with an infertile couple and their pregnant surrogate, whose amnio just revealed that the fetus may be brain damaged. When the infertile couple decide not to keep the baby, Dana must enlist Lu's help to try to convince the surrogate to keep the baby. Lu treats a 35-year-old Chinese woman in horrible pelvic pain, and an exam reveals that the woman has bleeding fibroids. Lu orders an immediate hysterectomy, but it turns out that the doctor who allegedly already performed a hysterectomy on this woman took the insurance money without doing the procedure. Lu asks Dana to perform surgery, but Dana convinces Lu and the woman to use high-tech alternatives available at Rittenhouse so she can avoid a hysterectomy. Lu then confronts the woman's former doctor, who runs a free clinic similar to Lu's old clinic, about the hysterectomy she failed to perform. When the doctor pleads that money from an occasional insurance scam is her only way of keeping the clinic open, Lu must decide whether to report her. Starring: Janine Turner, Jenifer Lewis, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx   [CC] [TV-PG DL]
October 18
Wednesday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Pre-existing Conditions" 	
	 	
October 19
Thursday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Misconceptions" 	When one of Lu's patients, a mother with AIDS, brings her injured son (who also has AIDS) to the clinic, Dana jumps in to treat him in Lu's absence. Dana discovers the mother has taken her son off AZT because of the horrible side effects. Concerned that this mother is shortening her son's lifespan, Dana goes behind Lu's back and reports her to social services. Lu is furious, but must convince the mother to put him back on AZT to prevent his removal from the home. The results are devastating to the boy, and Dana and Lu must each deal with the consequences of their actions. Meanwhile, a famous NYC talk show host visits Dana under the pretense of covering a story on artificial insemination. Once in Dana's office, the host reveals that she's really there for her and her boyfriend's own fertility problems. But when Dana probes into the couple's sex life, she discovers that the woman is actually in love with and trying to have a baby with her "boyfriend's" sister, and is trying to hide her lifestyle from the press. Starring: Janine Turner, Jenifer Lewis, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx   [CC] [TV-14 D]
October 19
Thursday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Misconceptions" 	
	 	
October 20
Friday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Precautions" 	Dana reflects on her image as a female doctor when a patient of hers asks for new breast implants, after she is rushed in for surgery for the rupture of an old implant. When Lu delivers the baby of an unknown woman who is rushed to the clinic in labor, she discovers that the baby has a rare metabolic disorder that must be treated immediately, but the mother checks out of the hospital with her baby before Lu can tell her. Lu notifies the police to track them down, and learns that the mother is a violent criminal on the run. Starring: Janine Turner, Jenifer Lewis, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx, Brennan Elliot   [CC] [TV-PG DLV]
October 20
Friday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Precautions" 	
	 	
October 22
Sunday
12:00 am	Strong Medicine "Black 'n' Flu" 	Lu returns to her city college alma mater and unexpectedly finds herself on the front lines in a battle against meningitis. Dana starts to wonder if she is pregnant when she is hit with a wave of nausea and dizziness, but when it turns out that she has just come down with the flu, she has mixed feelings. Starring: Janine Turner, Jenifer Lewis, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx, Brennan Elliot   [CC] [TV-PG DLSV]
October 22
Sunday
12:00 am	Strong Medicine "Black 'n' Flu" 	
	 	
October 22
Sunday
1:00 am	Strong Medicine "Second Look" 	Still adjusting to the new clinic, Dana gets a professional visit from a friend, a former beauty queen, who wants a unique kind of plastic surgery to keep her husband's attention. Dana refuses to do the surgery, but regrets it when her friend goes to an unqualified doctor who botches the surgery, putting her in the Rittenhouse emergency room. A patient of Lu's, a former junkie who Lu helped get off the streets and into a job, fails to show up for work. Afraid that her patient is using again, Lu tracks her down, and the woman's obvious symptoms confirm Lu's fears. However, even Lu is surprised when it turns out her patient has Lupus. Starring: Janine Turner, Jenifer Lewis, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx   [CC] [TV-14 DL]
October 22
Sunday
1:00 am	Strong Medicine "Second Look" 	
	 	
October 23
Monday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Systemic" 	When Dana's ex-fiance comes to her with a lump in his breast, Dana confirms that he has terminal cancer. After going into insulin shock while driving, a diabetic woman turns to Lu to help her convince the police that she is not a drunk driver. Starring: Janine Turner, Jenifer Lewis, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx, Brennan Elliot   [CC] [TV-PG LV]
October 23
Monday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Systemic" 	
	 	
October 24
Tuesday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "BRCA1" 	It is Breast Cancer Awareness Weekend and the clinic is encouraging women to come in for free breast exams. During an examination, Lu finds a lump in one of her patient's breasts. When Lu tells the woman, she is surprised to hear that the woman cannot come in for the lumpectomy because her boss will not allow her the time away from work. Dana announces the results of her bone marrow treatment study and everyone, especially Robert, is surprised to learn that the results are not what she had hoped for. Dana also learns that her mother has stage 2 breast cancer and must undergo a double mastectomy. Starring: Janine Turner, Jenifer Lewis, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx, Diane Ladd, Whoopi Goldberg   [CC] [TV-14 NONE]
October 24
Tuesday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "BRCA1" 	
	 	
October 25
Wednesday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "BRCA2" 	Lu takes over Dana's patients and responsibilities while Dana is caring for her mother, who has just been diagnosed with breast cancer. After delivering a sex talk that Dana was scheduled to give at an upper-class prep school, a student comes to the clinic to see Lu, looking for the morning-after pill. Lu speaks to the student about responsible sex and learns that the student was actually raped. Dana goes to Virginia to convince her father to come to Philadelphia to support her mother during her surgery. Meanwhile, Peter is arrested after supplying a patient with medicinal marijuana. Starring: Janine Turner, Jenifer Lewis, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx, Diane Ladd, Whoopi Goldberg   [CC] [TV-14 D]
October 25
Wednesday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "BRCA2" 	
	 	
October 26
Thursday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Performance Anxiety" 	Lu, volunteering as a medical trainer for a local high school basketball team, prescribes a decongestant to the star player. The girl collapses during a game, bleeding from nose and mouth, and Lu discovers that she has steroids in her blood. When the girls and her coach vehemently deny the use of steroids, Lu investigates. Dana is called to the emergency room when an unidentified patient with massive head injury is found to have Dana's name and number on her. Never having met this woman, Dana must make a life-or-death decision about trying an experimental new procedure which will force the patient into a deep coma so her brain will not hemorrhage, but the risk of death is high no matter what Dana decides. Dana goes forward with the procedure, which saves the woman's life. Dana has also begun a secret relationship with one of her interns, Nick. Starring: Janine Turner, Jenifer Lewis, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx   [CC] [TV-PG D]
October 26
Thursday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Performance Anxiety" 	
	 	
October 27
Friday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Shock" 	Chaos hits Rittenhouse when all of the nurses go on strike. Robert cancels all elective surgeries, causing the hospital to be open to emergencies only. This affects a patient of Lu's who has suffered serious physical abuse from her husband, and it also affects a patient of Dana's, who is a new mother to an infant in desperate need of an experimental treatment that could heal her heart and save her life. Starring: Janine Turner, Jenifer Lewis, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx, Brennan Elliot   [CC] [TV-PG DL]
October 27
Friday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Shock" 	
	 	
October 29
Sunday
1:00 am	Strong Medicine "Control Group" 	When Robert's wife is rushed into the hospital unconscious, Dana wrongly concludes that spousal abuse is involved, only to discover that the woman has multiple sclerosis. When Lu's patient, a drug addict, comes in asking to have her tubes tied, Lu finds out about a woman who is paying addicts $200 each to get sterilized, and must confront her. Starring: Janine Turner, Jenifer Lewis, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx, Whoopi Goldberg   [CC] [TV-PG DL]
October 29
Sunday
1:00 am	Strong Medicine "Control Group" 	
	 	
October 30
Monday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Do No Harm" 	Dana and Lu have to work together to find a liver match for a patient who was hit by flying bullets in a drive-by shooting outside the clinic. Starring: Janine Turner, Jenifer Lewis, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx, Jill Eikenberry   [CC] [TV-14 V]
October 30
Monday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Do No Harm" 	
	 	
October 31
Tuesday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Miracle Cure" 	After Lu diagnoses her friend Meredith's sick baby with a rare, hereditary terminal disease, she has to convince Meredith and her husband to defy their Roman Catholic beliefs and start using birth control. Meanwhile, Dana is caught in a moral dilema when she diagnoses a good friend with a degenerative disease that will end her career as an airline pilot. Dana's friend refuses to deal with the reality of the situation and decides to end her life on her own terms. Starring: Janine Turner, Jenifer Lewis, Philip Casnoff, Rosa Blasi, Josh Coxx   [CC] [TV-14 D]
October 31
Tuesday
1:30 am	Strong Medicine "Miracle Cure"