Strong Medicine (2000)

Episode Overview

Dana steps away from her clinic duties to support her mother during her double mastectomy. Meanwhile, Lu finds herself embroiled in a legal controversy after delivering an unexpected safe-sex message at a career day event at a prep school, which leads to a date rape case. Peter's unconventional method for managing pain in a Hodgkin's disease patient results in their arrest. As both Dana and Lu undergo testing for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations, they face the challenging decision of how much information they truly want regarding their potential breast cancer risk.