Two women from different backgrounds and with different ideologies come together to run a women's medical clinic.
Lu and Dana field a couple who are spooked by their baby's birth defects. Lu looks into a clinic with bad practices.
A mother decides to take her son off of the AIDS medications because of the effect the medicines themselves have on his life. Dana fields questions from a television personality about artificial insemination.
Dana's friend comes in seeking an odd surgical procedure. Lu worries about a patient's drug use.
Dana has to make the life and death choice for a patient with identification while in her personal life she starts to see an intern. A teen basketball player tests positive for steroids.
Dr. Emerson pays a visit to the clinic. Lu deals with drug-addicted prostitutes and the ramifications of Marc being mugged at school. Dana suspects foul play when Dr. Jackson's wife appears bruised.
Lu and patients get caught in a gang shooting. Peter's alternative therapy reveals a deep stress in a middle-age woman's life.
Dana debates whether to break the doctor-client confidentiality when she discovers brain disease in an airline pilot. The girl of two Catholic parents shows signs of a disease typically only found in Jewish families. An engaged couple find themselves permanently engaged with each other when they are stuck in the lovemaking position.
Dana investigates the life of a wife who appears bruised. Lu discovers that a foster parent is using the Ritalin prescribed for the ADD boy herself.
Breast Cancer Awareness Weekend is held at Rittenhouse featuring mammograms and a dance-a-thon. Lu tries to help a woman who discovers a bump even as Dana receives some very personal results.
Breast Cancer Awareness Weekend is held at Rittenhouse featuring mammograms and a dance-a-thon. Lu tries to help a woman who discovers a bump even as Dana receives some very personal results.
Dana and Robert debate the helpfulness of a contraversial surgery on a woman with Parkinson's disease. Peter spends time out of work as a nude model, but that follows him into the hospital when the painter needs emergency assistance. Lu worries about Marc when she learns that people in his grade have begun drinking.
Lu and Dana take arms against insurance when a woman is having her disability money withheld from her. Dana steps into an immigration conflict when she learns that the parents have sexually assailed the daughter.
Dana proposes to anxious parents-in-waiting an in utero surgery that would correct a birth defect but the news isn't well received by both people. Lu's schizophrenic patient faces murder charges.
Dana is asked by an addict for clean needles and is faced with the moral dilemma of whether or not to provide them. Lu tries to convince a deaf woman and child to start using hearing implants, but the deaf husband thinks that would only serve to separate and not unite the family.
A virgin mother-to-be visits Rittenhouse at Christmas. Lu diagnoses a staffer fired for drinking at work with Lou Gehrig's disease. Marc develops a bond with a runaway.
A woman in her mid-twenties undergoes menopause due to airborne toxins in her home. Post-partem depression sends a new mother out on the run.
Lu discovers oral gonorrhea in a pre-teens throat. Lana goes from staff to patient. Dana delivers two babies to different mothers with the same father.
Dana is caught between a husband who wants to keep his wife alive on life support and a mother who wants her child to die with dignity. Lu is asked to prescribe under the table medication for an autistic child.
Dana tends to a woman who has pretended to be a man in order to follow her calling as a priest. Lu's prescription for Demerol goes unfilled when her patient can't get a high priced drug as the pharmacy fears theft.
Robert's wife Susan and Lana's blind date both end up in the ER at Rittenhouse. A pregnant woman's baby is stolen.
A mother goes on hunger strike to try to save the life of her son. An accident in the OR causes Dana to question her place at Rittenhouse.