As of July 2026, Strong Medicine Season 5 aired in 2004 with 22 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Strong Medicine Season 5

2004 22 Episodes Drama ⭐ 7/10

If you want a drama that takes its characters as seriously as its plot, Strong Medicine Season 5 is available on streaming right now. A compact run that never overstays its welcome. A 7/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. Watch it for Rosa Blasi — one of the stronger performances out there right now. Available now — press play and find out why people keep recommending it.

Strong Medicine Season 5 arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. Strong Medicine Season 5 takes its time building the world its characters inhabit, and the patience pays off. Season 5 of Strong Medicine includes 22 episodes. It aired from June 2004 to January 2005. This season stars Rosa Blasi, Jenifer Lewis and Josh Coxx. Rosa Blasi and Jenifer Lewis lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2004. What elevates Strong Medicine Season 5 is a refusal to let any character off the hook too easily. It delivers reliably on what it promises, which is more than most of its competition manages.

Drama fans who appreciate slow-burn storytelling will feel right at home with Strong Medicine Season 5. It rewards viewers regardless of what else is in their watch history. Best experienced as a single, sustained watch if your schedule allows. Rosa Blasi carries the material with a performance that rewards close attention. Worth starting sooner rather than later.

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🎬 Strong Medicine Season 5 — Episode Guide

E1
Positive Results
2004-06-13
Nick is transferred to Manhatten General. Ben's HIV test has a positive result. Also, Ben hires his ex-wife to make up for the damage he caused to her career. Andy learns that her daughter Jesse's friend is addicted to cough syrup. Kayla Thorton, a new intern, is pushed into the hustle and bustle of...
E2
Touched by an Idol
2004-06-20
Andy tells a famous rock star and a patient to rest and cancel some of her concerts because of fatigue. The rock star invites Lu's young patient who has a terminal disease to spend the day with her. Lu's patient's mother directs a terrible accusation at the rock star. Ben starts a concierge service ...
E3
Omissions
2004-06-27
Dr. Campbell treats a patient for what she believes is alcoholism but she won't admit to her drinking problem. The patient's daughter goes to desperate measure to get her mom to stop drinking. Another of Andy's patients needs to get a kidney transplant but nobody in her family is a match. Tammy's m...
E4
Cape Cancer
2004-07-11
Andy and Milo are invited to stay in a beachside cabin owned by a patient of Andy's in a beachside 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 furthur shocked to learn that 9 other resid...
E5
Fractured
2004-07-18
Andy is surprised when ex-husband Les shows up unexpectedly after Lizzy has her knee operated on after a soccer accident. Les learns that his wife is dating Milo. Andy invites Milo to dinner to meet Les and is shocked by the tragedy that ensues. Andy meanwhile treats a prominent judge for hearing l...
E6
Goodbye Slash Rest in Peace
2004-07-25
Andy worries about a patient who continues to ask for surgery to make her breasts perfect even after she has had many surgeries. Andy warns her patient that if she continues to have more surgery she could make it harder for machines to detect a possible sign for breast cancer due to the fact that sh...
E7
Healing Touch
2004-08-01
Kayla is frustrated when a patient refuses to let her treat her due to her race and her intern status. Andy refuses to treat her and insists that Kayla handles the patient. A complaint is filed against Andy because she refused to treat the patient. A new doctor at Rittenhouse must take over Milo's ...
E8
Bleeding Heart
2004-08-08
Dr. Campbell is asked to write an endorsement for a new book about female heart health written by a friend and patient. After the author dies of a heart attack, her husband refuses to publically announce her cause of death because he fears it would hurt sales of the book even though her diet had not...
E9
Prophylactic Measures
2004-08-15
Lu is asked to perform physicals for actors and actresses who are shooting ########### videos. She accidentally tells an actress that she has contracted gonorrhea while she is in the middle of shooting a scene and everybody there hears because the studio has microphones everywhere. Andy loses contro...
E10
Life in the Balance
2004-08-22
An estranged sister must work up the courage to ask her Olympic gymnast sibling to donate her liver to save her life. Andy and Kayla help a clinically depressed and struggling resident get back on track after a suicide attempt. Lu tries to convince Jonas not to build a large discount multi-purpose s...
E11
Like Cures Like
2004-09-26
A victim of a mysterious accident suffers severe brain damage. Kayla, Andy, and the head neurologist at Rittenhouse, along with his wife, must help him decide whether or not he should have an experimental and potentially life-threatening surgery that would place a chip in his brain. When he concentr...
E12
Cinderella in Scrubs
2004-10-03
Andy diagnoses a patient with uterine cancer. The patient had gone to nine other doctors and all of them had declared her perfectly healthy as they didn't give her the test needed to diagnose the cancer. She is furious and sues her insurance company. In the end, she does something that will shock yo...
E13
Body Mass Increase
2004-10-10
Lana bets her pink feather pen that she'll sign up more people than a friend will for the Rittenhouse Breast Cancer Walk. She faces some difficulties, however, and goes to extreme measures to get people to sign up. Lu tells a teenaged patient that she is pregnant and she in turn tells Lu that Lu's s...
E14
Selective Breeding
2004-10-17
Lu treats a young patient with Bi-Polar disease which causes her to act hazardously violent. Her mother must decide whether to keep her or give her up to a mental institution. Meanwhile, Andy helps a woman have an invitro fertilization. She uses new technology to help the couple have a boy because o...
E15
A Dose of Reality
2004-10-24
Lu and Andy treat 3 patients that have similar symptoms but seem to have nothing in common. Meanwhile, Andy must meet face-to-face with the drunk driver who killed Milo. Andy is horrified when Jesse befriends him after he gives a speech about the dangers of drunk driving at her school. Meanwhile, Jo...
E16
Graft
2004-10-31
On a stormy Halloween night, a 7 year old girl suffers a serious burn while trick or treating and the only person who could possibly save her life by giving her a skin transplant is her twin sister. Lu must decide if it is ethical to ask the young girl to proceed with such a risky and painful proced...
E17
Code
2004-12-05
Andy is considered for the prominent Chief of Surgery position (after the current Chief retires) and discovers a competitor bribing members of the board which is going to decide on a replacement. In the midst of this, she must decide whether or not to perform a potentially career-hurting dangerous s...
E18
Virgin Birth
2004-12-12
With Christmas only a few days away, Lana goes on a frenzy decorating the clinic and organizing a Secret Santa gift exchange. However, when a plan to set up Peter and Kayla backfires, she has a lot of explaining to do. Meanwhile, Lu delivers a virgin surrogate mother's baby but when the parents find...
E19
Foreign Bodies
2005-01-09
Lana finds a crafty way to help one of Lu's patients, a construction worker with a brain tumor, raise enough money for a necessary surgery. Andy treats a woman who needs to have surgery to save her life. However, the woman refuses to have the surgery performed until she meets her first grandchild, w...
E20
First Response
2005-01-16
In a special episode of Strong Medicine, the Rittenhouse Hospital Emergency Medical Services team is introduced. EMTs Kate and Zach are attacked while trying to save a young girl's life, figure out the motive behind it, and reach a dubious resolution. Then, a multiple vehicle accident keeps them and...

🎭 Cast of Strong Medicine Season 5

Rosa Blasi
Rosa Blasi
Dr. Luisa 'Lu' Delgado
Jenifer Lewis
Jenifer Lewis
Lana Hawkins
Josh Coxx
Josh Coxx
Peter Riggs
Philip Casnoff
Philip Casnoff
Dr. Robert Jackson
Patricia Richardson
Patricia Richardson
Dr. Andy Campbell
Tamera Mowry-Housley
Tamera Mowry-Housley
Dr. Kayla Thornton

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