Strong Medicine - Season 5 (2006)

Andy and Milo are invited to stay in a beach-side cabin owned by a patient of Andy's at Cape June, a beach-side vacation community. The vacation gets interrupted when a young boy suddenly becomes very ill with similar symptoms to Andy's patient who has cancer. Andy is further shocked to learn that 9 other residents of the town have died from cancer.

When elderly patients die under suspicious circumstances, Peter becomes a suspect; Andy treats a judge suffering from hearing loss caused by abusing pain medication.

Andy is concerned that a patient of hers who has survived breast cancer is suffering from body dysmorphic disorder; Lu says goodbye when Marc heads off to college and Ben's job is transferred to Miami.

Andy finds herself in trouble after a prejudiced patient complains that Andy refused to treat her; a patient of Lu's who needs surgery asks to be treated by a faith healer that is revealed to be a young girl.

Lu discovers that two teenage girls have been poisoned by a girl at their high school they have bullied; a patient of Andy asks her to endorse her new heart-health diet book only to end up in the emergency room suffering from a heart attack.

After a young adult film star is diagnosed with an STD, Lu tries to find out how she contracted the disease; Andy seeks to gain the position of chief of surgery; Kayla treats a teenage boy with a gunshot wound.

When the sister of a famous gymnast is in need of a liver transplant, Lu faces issues with her family who refuse to help; Kayla and Andy become concerned after a depressed resident attempts suicide.

Kayla wants to try an experimental surgery on a paralyzed patient; Lu treats a woman who is diagnosed with avian flu; Peter treats a woman suffering from allergies with homeopathic remedies.

In the series' 100th episode, an adoptive mother and a biological mother fight over the custody of a young girl; a patient of Andy sues her insurance company when she is diagnosed with cancer too late.

Lu treats a female acquaintance of Marc's who is discovered to be pregnant and claims that Marc is the father; Andy becomes a health food advocate at Lizzie's school; Kayla asks Peter to pose as her fiance when her ex-boyfriend comes to town.

Lu helps out a mother whose young daughter's mental illness has worsened; Andy becomes suspicious about a couple's true reason for wanting to undergo in-vitro fertilization; Peter becomes jealous when Kayla dates a man who volunteers at a zoo.

When a six-year-old girl comes into the ER with severe burns to her body, the only person who can save her life with a skin transplant is her twin sister; Andy suspects that cadavers are being illegally sold.

Andy meets the teenage boy responsible for Milo's death; Lu becomes suspicious when an organ-transplant patient suffers from mysterious complications.

Andy is considered for the position of Chief of Surgery; Lu deals with a drug company who wants to financially compensate her leukemia patient.

Lu treats a surrogate mother whose adoptive parents refuse to keep the baby when it's revealed that he's disabled; Andy suspects that her patient's daughter might have a serious medical condition.

Andy treats a woman who has a rare lung disease who wants to see her pregnant daughter, who lives in Paris; Lu helps out a woman whose job won't cover her medical condition.

In this failed spin-off pilot of the series, Dr. Vanessa Burke, the new chief of trauma at Rittenhouse pulls strings to get her adoptive ex-convict sister a job as a paramedic; meanwhile, Lu searches for a bone marrow donor for a infant.

Lu treats a group of illegal immigrant women who are pregnant; a beauty pageant contestant who has lupus wants to get her breast implants removed.

Jonas reveals news that could affect his relationship with Lu; Andy leaves Rittenhouse to become the new surgeon general.