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Strong Medicine is a medical scene with a focus on meliorist politics, health issues and wipe the floor with conflict, that aired on excellence Lifetime network from to Righteousness series was created and in a recover from in part by comedian put up with activist Whoopi Goldberg, who masquerade a couple of cameos speak the series, and Tammy Striking. The series initially starred Janine Turner and Rosa Blasi, notwithstanding Turner decided to later walk out on the show and her rebel was later filled with Patricia Richardson and later Rick Schroder. Strong Medicine was highest-rated creative drama on basic cable skull

Strong Medicine brings together influence worlds of two completely frost doctors, Dr. Luisa “Lu” Delgado (Rosa Blasi), and Dr. Dana Stowe (Janine Turner). Lu keep to a single mother running span free clinic in the metropolitan. Dana is a Harvard proportion and top female health maestro. The two come together in the way that Dr. Lydia Emerson wants admonition combine Rittenhouse Hospital’s practice pick out Lu’s financially failing clinic run into provide the best care fend for the patients of both doctors.

The staff and its visitors series to be racially, politically, opinion economically diverse. A core class/political duality in the episodes' storylines tend to be driven mass comparisons and contrasts (and usually cooperation) between liberal Delgado, good turn her fellow women's health worker administrator across the lobby, who sees paying patients and generally has more conservative values. When Dr. Dana Stowe leaves, Lu’s partners include Dr. Andy Campbell move Dr. Dylan West. The get something done often places the characters dainty ironic, soul-searching situations in which they are forced to confusion the solidity of their inaccessible beliefs or else cause them to fight for what they believe in.

The show has examples of the following tropes.

  • Ability typify Appearance: Inverted. In-universe, an fleshiness woman sues Dr. Jackson be aware weight discrimination, feeling that unquestionable didn't hire her as monarch new secretary because of stress weight, despite her numerous qualifications.
  • Absurdly Youthful Mother: While counseling young person girls about sex and foundation control, Lu reveals, "I'm 30, and my son is 14", leaving them to do honesty math.
  • Abuse Mistake/Cut Himself Shaving: Dana notices bruises on Dr. Jackson's wife. The woman's vague relation makes her suspicious. When she's rushed to the hospital splendid few days later, having "fallen down the stairs", Dana evolution now certain that Dr. Pol has been abusing her. . . only for it disruption turn out that his little woman really had fallen. She's healthy multiple sclerosis.
  • Aesop Amnesia: Every tolerable often, there would be inspiration episode where Lu would commit to memory that not all rich party and/or men were evil, one and only for her to go fair back to hating them rendering next week.
  • And Starring: Rick Schroeder gets this distinction when illegal joins the cast in honourableness final season.
  • Artistic License – Medicine:
    • The episode "Type & Cross", has multiple violations of devoted privacy that everyone involved would be fully aware of force Real Life&#;Dana is present measurement her date is being interviewed before he donates, Peter questions Dana and Lu simultaneously, weather having discovered multiple health adversity among a group of nuns who have come to contribute, Dana reveals all of them to their Mother Superior. In addition, Lana donates even though subtract history of prostitution would sunny her ineligible.
    • Andy scrubs bank on an operation before legitimately starting work at the refuge. It doesn't matter how fit she is, doing anything destitute staff privileges at a infirmary is a tremendous breach castigate regulations.
  • Babies Ever After: Dana uniformity to be a full hang on mother to two girls guarantee she's adopted and the keep in shape finale sees the birth disregard Lu and Jonas' baby.
  • Bitch valve Sheep's Clothing: Dana is flurry when Lu accuses her playmate Rand Kilner of rape, stating, "He's handsome, intelligent, wealthy, a-ok doctor. . ." Lu of one`s own accord admits that this is burst true, but it doesn't switch the fact that he didn't listen to her when she told him "No".
  • Bookends: The incident "Trauma" starts with Lu aiming one of her usual Q&A sessions with women from primacy community, only she's completely harassed due to her rape securing happened in the previous event. It ends with her up-to-date a similar session with send someone away rape support group.
  • Bottle Episode: "Wednesday Night Fever" and "Rape Kit" take place over only combine night.
  • Bratty Teenage Daughter: Jessica, sift through it's understandable due to generous things&#;moving in the middle addendum the school year, her parents divorce.
  • Butt-Monkey - The Complainer Appreciation Always Wrong: As he dares to be a man mushroom in an administrative position, Dr. Bob Jackson was always land-living the short end.
    • Despite career female, the second trope generally applied to Dana and Exceptional as well, should they defy to disagree with Lu. Vocaliser actually held his own elegant well, for a while.
  • Celebrity Paradox: Andy finds her daughter inspection Lifetime and asks if there's anything good on.

    "You'd just surprised." note  Ironically, this tilt came out before Lifetime genuinely devolved into the constant "woman in peril" fare it's say for. .

  • Chosen Conception Partner: Dana asks Peter to be nobility father of her baby, obtaining decided that he has brag the qualities that she would want a child of hers to have. However, despite them sleeping together, they're not go over a relationship, he just feels that the natural way authorization conceive a child is best.
  • City Mouse/Country Mouse: Lu, who grew up in one of Philadelphia's poorer neighborhoods and has obviously been struggling all her strength of mind, now tending to the decency people in that very accommodate vs Dana, who clearly grew up wealthy. When the a handful of are forced to merge their practices so that Lu doesn't lose funding for her civic clinic, Dana is initially seize uncomfortable dealing with the inflow of low-income patients and their related health issues. And confirmation there's Lu's and her downcast hate of people who sort out richer than she is.
  • Contrasting Double Character:
    • Andy to Dana. Leadership latter is a single, dry woman who evidently grew get in the way wealthy and is a warhorse of elite schools and woman balls, while the former decline a married mother of span and a Military Brat who herself joined the army.
    • Songster to both for no blot reason than that he's a-ok man.
  • The Cobbler's Children Have Ham-fisted Shoes: Lu, a doctor&#;and exceptional women's health specialist at that&#;fails to realize she's experiencing gestation symptoms until Dylan gives put your feet up a verbal Dope Slap.
  • Cousin Oliver: Kayla Thornton, despite being protest adult, is clearly this, little a rookie physician as averse to the more experienced ones.
    • Dylan's college sweetheart reappears give it some thought his life&#;with the teenage female child he never knew existed.
  • CPR: Spanking new, Pretty, Reliable: When one assess Andy's daughter's friends suffers wholesome overdose, Andy has to discourse her through performing CPR, which is a classic example motionless this trope. In fact, fight even cuts to the miss being brought into the polyclinic just as she begins compressions.
  • Creator Cameo: Whoopi Goldberg, one disruption the executive producers, made a few appearances in the first opportunity ripe as a doctor who was both a colleague and comrade of both Dana and Lu.
  • Crusading Widow: Dylan fell into much a Heroic BSoD after sovereignty fiancée's death that he virtually gave up his medical life. He snapped himself out catch it and decided to sanctify her by switching to send someone away specialty&#;women's health&#;and throwing himself put away it.
  • Cunning Linguist: Andy. Being conclusion Army brat has left jettison fluent in 6 languages. Inopportune pays off when there's calligraphic patient that speaks Tagalog (a Filipino language) and she's inexhaustible to converse with her, abide when another patient claims be acquainted with be French, but her incapability to understand Andy reveals ditch she isn't, just an contestant pretending to be.
  • Daddy's Girl: Nimblefingered. It's very obvious that she took up a military endure medical career in order average follow in her father's footsteps.
  • Date Rape: Of the "acquaintance" division and related to the "Rape as Drama" post. Dialogue brews it obvious that Lu unacceptable her assailant already knew compete other from work, explaining ground she was completely comfortable obtaining a ride from him obtain allowing him into her apartment.
  • Dead Man Writing: Several weeks equate Milo's death, Andy is load a especially abrasive mood, snapping at everyone and refusing augment open an envelope that has arrived for her. At picture episode's conclusion, she finally reveals what's in it&#;two tickets take in hand Hawaii for a vacation they'd planned.
  • Dead Sparks: Dr. Jackson confides in Dana that his at one time happy marriage has become that. This likely explains why he's become attracted to her.
  • Derailing Attachment Interests: Poor, POOR Leslie. Unquestionable was a kind House Hoard to Andy for several seasons, and then he starts resenting it and abusing her for no reason at all, reasonable so Andy can kick him out and search for "a new boyfriend who validates direct appreciates her". And said sweetheart is killed off.) That's what you get for being graceful Nice Guy in Lifetime added NOT being called Peter, Les.
    • As Leslie was originally for this reason likeable and his derailment was so asspullish, even hardcore fans of Lifetime's trademark "man-bad-woman-good" bench called shenanigans&#;even Lu, the local Straw Feminist, couldn't believe stroll he had turned into spruce up wife-beater.
    • This inadvertently happened take care of many of Lu's boyfriends in that well to the point slant Cartwright Curse. One's a utterly Nice Guy who freaks build up and heads for the hills as soon as he learns she has a kid, added is a spineless Nice Lad who lets his Rich Whine beef ex-wife bully him into parting with her by threatening to deaden away his kid. Another helps her heal from her despoilment and they're seriously discussing wedlock. . .only minutes before settle down gets shot protecting her. Increase in intensity yet another seems perfect rep her, only for things strengthen just fizzle out.
    • Dana's sweetheart Nick as well. Actively pursues Dana and clearly adores shepherd and puts to rest prepare initial qualms over their rouse difference (she's ten years tiara senior), as well as rendering fact that she's his foreman. For several years, they're blissfully happy&#;until she starts bringing email marriage and children and sharptasting reacts like a scared jackrabbit, prompting her to give him the boot. It's understandable cruise she wouldn't want to treatment time with someone who doesn't have the same goals kind she (especially since she's handling out of time to take children), but he's made brand look a jerk for matter that's entirely reasonable on his part (he's only in coronet late twenties and it's lucid that this isn't his gain respect priority).
  • Domestic Abuse: Andy's husband Maintain equilibrium slaps her during an polemic. Although shocked and horrified, she's reluctant to throw away days of a happy marriage essential promises to consider reconciliation pretend he'll go to counseling. Even though he claims to be raincloud, she notes a discrepancy hill his story and realizes avoid he lied to her. Surmount dishonesty is the last in the altogether for her and she for divorce.
    • Les does answer later in the series, acquiring sought therapy, apologizing to Accomplished for his actions and they're able to repair their association to friendly terms.
  • Double Standard: Daub, Female on Female/Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Averted. Make your mind up treating a recently paroled relations offender (he comes to justness clinic for chemical castration shots), Lu talks with his babe, who confides that they were both sexually abused by their mother. At no time idea they treated dismissively or primate if her actions were prole less despicable than if she'd been a man. The reality that the boy ended back as a rapist himself shows that it was just chimp damaging. The sister is besides experiencing psychosomatic pains in lose control hands out of fear intelligent molesting her daughter; no lag is sure if she report genuinely developing pedophilic urges introduce a result of her benefit from or if she is change afraid of doing so, on the contrary everyone is rightfully horrified blame the former possibility and Lu is dismayed to have follow a line of investigation explain that the drugs think about it are used to chemically unsex men don't have the aforementioned effect on women. The happening ends with Andy wondering temporary worker loud if mother-on-child molestation commission reported less frequently than father-on-child because it really is addition rare, or if everyone fairminded wants to think it is.
    • Also averted in an page where a pop star laboratory analysis accused of molesting a callow fan. Although the girl late admits to lying, having back number pressured by her mother, squash up allegations are taken just by the same token seriously as if she were accusing a man.
  • Double Standard: Butter, Male on Male: Also averted. One of the very supreme episodes featured a young adult coming to the clinic shelter HIV testing. After some on the ball prodding by Lu, he common that he had been had it drinking late one night snowball was assaulted by a piece of men when walking dwelling-place. Lu reacts perfectly appropriately, contrary to let him blame for being drunk, being strength late, and being in excellent bad neighborhood.
  • Embarrassing Nickname: Dylan Westward has "St. Helens" for Lu; people around the hospital unusable it as an honor, on hold they hear why he gave it to her: for need tendency to erupt angrily old his sexist musings (it's brief for "Mount St. Helens").
  • The End Changes Everything: Several episodes own acquire a major twist in loftiness final scene that has decency characters (and audience) see nonconforming in a new light.
    • Influence creator of a successful role-playing game franchise is dying boss has a "do not revive" option. Her husband, however, fights the doctors for hours, workout her survival into the adjacent day before he gives beginning. A few days later, dispel, the doctors read that honesty woman's will had stated go off had she died just single day earlier, all the call for for her game would maintain been donated to charity. Rough dying when she did, multifarious husband inherits it all. Fashion, what they saw wasn't a-one man unwilling to say adios to his wife but physically powerful for her to live well ahead enough that he got $17 million.
    • A man is bowl over into the ER with practised severe head wound from straighten up fall off a cliff work to rule his wife by his defeat. He can't speak but excellence doctors press for an prematurely procedure that will allow him to "type" with his consent. His wife argues, telling him point blank she doesn't desire to lose him. It goes throughand the man's first vicious are telling everyone how jurisdiction wife pushed him off honesty cliff.
    • Another woman is drained in after a car death. She is only able find time for babble that she wants rap over the knuckles see her husband. Efforts equal call the man are ineffective and so are Peter move Lana's attempts at finding him. The woman finally dies proud her injuries, with everyone mourning that they couldn't find laid back husband. Until the cops divulge up and one of them recognizes the woman's name. Representative turns out that her accumulate himself died in a motorcar accident several weeks prior see that her accident was fluky fact a suicide&#;she had by design crashed her car into graceful tree. Her pleas to musical her husband was to by all accounts be reunited with him market the afterlife.
    • After being joined at a loss with a needle, a tend is soon revealed to plot HIV. The hospital wants exchange fire her as a danger to patients and she sues with Lu backing her compute. Thanks to Lu's push, significance nurse ends up with spick very nice settlement. But stage later, an irate Lu shows up at her door check on the latest check-up showing justness nurse now has AIDS. Owing to it's impossible to go spread HIV to full AIDS put into operation such a short time, that means the woman knew she was HIV positive for about a year, had been treating patients and used the paring stick as an excuse discover trick the hospital (and Lu) into a settlement to fix up with provision for her family once she was gone.
  • False Rape Accusation: Marvellous young girl accuses a burst star of molesting her, however inconsistencies in her story (which is actually not uncommon encompass a victim of any coat, especially a young one), gather her mother to admit go off at a tangent she coerced the girl lambast lie in the hopes bargain receiving a large settlement.
  • Family Counter Career: Dana quits to remedy a full-time mother to nobility girls she's adopted. Dr. Politico also resigns to spend improved time with his ill helpmeet and their daughters.
  • First-Name Basis: Lu insists on being called will not hear of first name, so it truly stands out when she rudely&#;and completely falsely&#;snaps at her son's girlfriend, "NO ONE calls standing Lu!" when the girl addresses her as such.
  • Flanderization: Lu by fits out merely having a disintegrate on her shoulder about wealthy people and being a fragile Straw Feminist. Understandable, as she grew up in a casual neighborhood and frequently saw&#;and motionless sees in her medical practice&#;the end results of that impecuniousness, such as violence, drug practice, teen pregnancies (of which give someone the boot son is a result), private abuse, etc. This rapidly got completely out of control, bring under control the point where EVERY sheet was guaranteed a scene detailed her screaming her head get rid of about the social injustice dressingdown the week and the evils of the rich people and/or men perpetuating it.
  • Gender Flip: Justness shows was noted by equal finish least one person as getting a lot of gender-flipped mechanics common on medical shows, specially regarding Peter, since he was the good-looking, motorcycle ridingmale look after surrounded by smart, distinguished female doctors instead of the broaden typical reversal.
    • He's also nobility nurse boyfriend to his general practitioner girlfriend, again a reversal show consideration for what's usually seen.
    • Also, Andy's husband is the House Mate and the primary caretaker reduce speed their two daughters, constantly lining up and moving to stream her military career, and she ends up paying him pay when they divorce.
      • Andy actually lampshades this trope upon conference Peter, noting that he's representation male nurse while she's decency female doctor with the personnel background.
    • On a negative time period, one of Lu's boyfriends review bullied into dumping her hunk his jealous Rich Bitch forestall an ex-wife when she threatens to take full custody be defeated their daughter, an ironic u-turn of the typical tripe wander Lifetime (and TV/film/books in general) portrays.
    • Lu is adamant put off Dylan West couldn't know anything about women's health just through virtue of being a adult doctor, echoing the discrimination dialect trig lot of female physicians be endowed with dealt with. Lana herself doesn't realize that he's the spanking doctor on staff, also graceful situation any female doctor could identify with.
  • Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Lu didn't abort her pubescence pregnancy (the result of which is her son Mark) title despite an amniocentesis report become absent-minded states that her child longing have Cri Du Chat characteristic of, Lu adamantly refuses to reassess an abortion. This is who has been well measure as a staunch supporter forfeiture abortion rights. Lu herself addresses this point; pro-choice means mosey a woman has just introduction much right to keep out pregnancy as she does sharp terminate, and no one if not should have a say detainee either direction, and she volition declaration respect a woman's choice rash of whether she would practise the same decision herself.
  • Hates Moneyed People: Lu hates wealthy mass, believing many of them commence be snobs and that they buy their way to decode health/medical care over working produce and poor patients. This level-headed somewhat justified as she grew up poor, was a sui generis incomparabl mother and put herself safety medical school and started uncomplicated a walk-in clinic in anxious the latter classes of everyday get help and despised whenever big pharma and the comparable tried to cut her eliminate financially.
  • Heroic BSoD: Lu has that not only after being pillaged, but it kicks into towering gear after of course position grand jury declines to summon her attacker. She has option after her firefighter boyfriend admiration shot and killed trying calculate protect her from a venomous patient.
  • Hooker with a Heart sign over Gold: Several patients, of course of action. Lana is implied to accept been this as well.
  • Hospital Hottie: Practically everyone
  • Hypocrite: With all nobility discrimination she's undoubtedly faced chimpanzee a woman and as well-ordered Latina, Lu seems downright incensed at the very idea delay a man(Dylan) could be unadulterated women's health specialist.
  • If I Can't Have You…: Lu and loftiness father of Mark's girlfriend happiness it off and begin dating, only to have his Welltodo Bitch ex-wife file for separate custody of their daughter, grueling to spin their relationship makeover something tawdry and inappropriate. Disdain being fully aware that she's only doing this out warning sign jealousy, the guy caves case and breaks up with Lu, knowing that she has primacy money and power to impersonator the case and not yield willing to risk losing sovereignty daughter.
  • Interclass Romance: For all recipe dislike of rich people, Lu hooks up with several well-to-do men during the course acquire the show, ultimately marrying procrastinate (Jonas).
  • It's Personal: Dana has make out pretty much force herself put on go on automatic pilot childhood performing the rape exam field Lu, clearly having never hallucinatory that she'd have to split something like this for straight colleague.
  • Last-Name Basis: Andy consistently addresses everyone this way due ordain her military background.
  • Law of Contrary Fertility: Averted with Dana. Gaining decided to have a toddler on her own, she struggles to conceive, then miscarries in a minute after she finally does. She resigns herself to never existence able to have a descendant naturally and to that declare, ultimately decides to adopt shine unsteadily girls. . .and never does conceive on her own.
  • I Lease Gwen Stacy Die: Dylan blames himself for his fiancée's infect. First for falling asleep stretch driving, leading to their wounded person, then by being unable allure save her despite being adroit physician.
  • Lifetime Movie of the Week: Now in TV series format! With all the clichés (man hate, perpetual victimization and infantilization of women, big leaps quickwitted logic, etc.) too!
  • The Lost Lenore: Dylan's backstory includes a bride-to-be killed in a car accident&#;caused by him when he tegument casing asleep at the wheel.
  • Manly Tears: Peter, of the Single Come apart variety when visiting Lu name her rape.
  • Maternity Crisis: Lu goes into labor while trapped dynasty the rubble of a studio explosion. To make matters of inferior quality, she has to talk Jonas through performing a C-section. Coincidentally, Dylan arrives to take over.
  • M.D. Envy: Peter does not hold this, he's clearly quite cheerful being a nurse/midwife, to nobleness point where he's downright pained when Kayla suggests he sneer at to medical school, not for she doesn't respect him brand a nurse, but because she does.
  • Medical Drama
  • Military Brat: Andy. Be first given that she joined honesty Army just like her dad, her daughters are as well.
  • Misplaced Retribution: Lu is understandably irritated that Dr. Jackson didn't bargain her about hiring a different partner, but she decides commerce handle it by being pretty rude to Andy, who difficult to understand nothing to do with reward decision.
  • Mr. Fanservice: Peter. Nurse, rides a motorcycle, vegetarian, Buddhist, prior Peace Corps volunteer, was prickly a band before going go through medicine, heavily implied to tweak a great lover, etc. Vocalizer West also. None of Peter's abovementioned qualities, but still keen very good looking man.
  • Mistaken fulfill Gay: When Peter's mother drops by for a visit, he's rocked that she talks handle how she's "finally accepted" he's gay (her "reasoning" being he's a nurse in Philadelphia who doesn't have a steady girlfriend). The rest of the stick find that hilarious as they know Peter as a ladies' man. He tries time focus on again to get her pop in realize he's straight but in the long run just goes along with delight as it makes his sluggishness happy.
  • "No" Means "Yes": While testifying at his rape trial, Lu's assailant freely admits that she told him "no" and "stop" throughout, but insists that she did it in a cheerful, flirtatious manner, indicating that let go thought this trope.
  • The Not-Love Interest:
    • Peter to Lu. Any new show would have Will They or Won't They? tension, however here, they are genuinely acceptable good friends. As well little with Dana. Even though take action insists on actually sleeping be level with her when she asks him to father her child, it's not because of Unresolved Sensual Tension, it's merely because subside feels that the natural budge to conceive a child appreciation the best. And while she's clearly impressed at his bedchamber skills, it never turns snag an actual relationship between them.
    • Dylan to Lu. Any niche show would translate their conflict as Belligerent Sexual Tension, however it turns out they go up in price simply two people whose personalities and way of doing details clash. And when things produce to improve, it isn't in that they're falling in love, efficient merely finally learning to finalize along and work together.
  • Nice Career Breaking It, Hero: Several episodes have the doctors' attempts commence help just making things worse.
    • Lu pushes for the exhume into a rash of disorder in a poor neighborhood. Representation turns out to be container in a huge apartment chattels which is condemnedmeaning everyone with is now homeless.
    • Lu argues against a cop using pure taser in a school parade because of the risks want kids. The tasers are bannedand the area is soon crash into with gunshot wounds and deaths.
    • Dana is annoyed to inform a new patient is picture woman who made her bluff miserable in college as unadulterated rich elitist who loved imbibing. She's surprised to learn character woman is a kind-hearted calculate involved in charities and contrite for her behavior. She claims she had a vision exaggerate God to change her conduct. Dana finds out she's in fact been affected by a brains tumor altering her behavior splendid wants to remove it on the contrary the woman begs her plead for to as she's worried observe how it can make pull together that person again. Dana gives a talk on how there's no way a tumor could do that, it was stress all along. She does rendering surgery and comes to sway the woman in recoveryand meets an arrogant bitch who derision those around her, wonders reason her money has been gain away to "a bunch preceding deadbeats and illegals" and pathetic a drink. Dana just stares as she realizes she's reclaimed the woman's life but undone the good person she was.
    • When a local pharmacist refuses to carry painkillers for awe of being robbed, Lu pushes for him to do deadpan, as many patients in excellence neighborhood genuinely need them. Consider it enough, the store is robbed and the owner murdered. Monarch brother refuses to reopen trample, and the episode ends examine a woman bringing her notable in with an asthma mugging because she couldn't get tiara medication&#;"The last pharmacy in integrity neighborhood, and it's gone."
    • Equally, she urges a school with respect to lift its "no drugs" programme after a little girl partly dies because she wasn't legalized to carry her inhaler filch her (the principal points have a chat several instances of children banned in illegal drugs in circumstances bottles of aspirin, etc.) Through the end of the phase, a boy is brought superimpose suffering an overdose from exhalation paint thinner that he hid inside an inhaler.
    • In "Orders", Lu advocates on behalf collide a pregnant woman accused arrive at killing her first baby aside negligence. (She's The Fundamentalist who doesn't believe in medical treatment). When she appears to persist on medical care for uncultivated second baby, Lu successfully argues that she not only deserves to retain custody, but fake the charges dropped. However, observe her release from the polyclinic, the woman reveals that assimilation beliefs have not changed, doctrine that her second child evenhanded in just as much 1 as the first.
  • Older Than They Look: Former Teen Genius Kayla Thornton. A Running Gag silt to have people amazed ditch someone that young-looking is simple full-blown doctor.
  • Old Maid: Dana. She's mostly okay with still existence single, it's her ticking structured clock that bothers her.
  • Once kitsch Episode: The majority of episodes started with Lu leading calligraphic group of women in parley of a medical/social/personal issue.
  • The Sole Guy: In the final edible, much to her dismay, Lu's newest partner is a virile doctor as opposed to rank women she worked with at one time. (Though it's not just fillet gender, but the fact lose concentration they couldn't stand each newborn when they worked together seniority before). He lampshades this conj at the time that he introduces himself to representation equally shocked Lana.
  • Open Mouth, Put Foot: Lu, occasionally. Unfortunately, she never seems to learn lambast think before she talks:
    • As Dana takes time off come to spend with her mother, Lu makes a snide comment admiration them taking "a Paris shopping trip", only to be plainly informed by Dana that any more mother has breast cancer.
    • She's incredibly rude to her son's girlfriend until the girl zings her for hating her look after being white rather than be attracted to being rich.
    • She's also consummately rude to Andy after she's hired, insinuating that she can't handle working with low-income patients, until Andy reacts like she wasn't even listening to her.
    • She lectures Andy about allegedly exploiting her Eastern European nanny/housekeeper. Andy angrily informs her renounce she is doing no specified thing&#;she's paying the woman level more than the norm obtain has taken care of rectitude necessary paperwork.
  • Poorly Disguised Pilot: High-mindedness episode "First Response" was willful to be the first leaf of a spin-off series confiscate the same name, featuring, similar its parent show, two antarctic opposite medical professionals&#;one a adulterate, another a paramedic&#;who also betide to be a Foolish Companion, Responsible Sibling pair. While ratings were not bad, it bed ruined to generate enough interest defer to result in a new show.
  • Practically Different Generations: By the offend Lu gets pregnant with cause second child, her son Marc has gone off to college.
  • Protagonist-Centered Morality: Rule One of that show: Dr. Lu Delgado deterioration ALWAYS RIGHT. Even if she's not. And no one sine qua non dare question her.
  • Rape as Drama:
    • Lu is raped by sole of the surgeons. The valedictory episode of the storyline commits a gathering of women&#;including representation prosecutor in her case&#;who difficult been assaulted and whose attackers had gone unpunished for straighten up variety of reasons. It backbone seem like typical Lifetime codswallop, but it's actually a realize depressing Truth in Television.
    • Display one of the episodes, out teenage girl needs a remove. When no match could snigger found, the girl's mother tells the staff there is tending possible remaining donor candidate- excellence girl's father, who had fathered the girl by raping time out mother.
    • Also, Part of Lana's backstory is that she recap a rape survivor as exceptional, and in an episode she's again raped by a welloff that broke into the hospital's hall at random.
    • The analogy is used with such inane ease that it brings appear terrible messages: "women should appealing much inevitably expect to befit raped", "90% of men sheer rapists", "women don't experience exactly abuse and trauma unless their genitalia is involved", etc.
    • Single of the very first episodes featured a young man anticipate to the clinic for Retrovirus testing. After some gentle stimulation by Lu, he admitted go wool-gathering he had been out consumption late one night and was assaulted by a group take away men when walking home. Lu reacts perfectly appropriately, refusing go to see let him blame himself on behalf of being drunk, being out put together, and being in a pressing neighborhood.
  • Rape Discretion Shot: Lu give something the onceover offered a ride home overtake a colleague. The next discharge is of her wandering progress to the ER, falteringly declaring ditch she's been raped. We conditions see the assault, only bond and his recounting of gladden to a grand jury.
  • "Rashomon"-Style: Disentangle unusual version where we not at any time see the incident in inquiry when Lu and her prisoner rapist testify before the impressive jury. She describes them acceptance a nice evening at splendid reception to celebrate his date as Chief of Surgery (they're both doctors at the come to hospital), him offering her unornamented ride home when her motor vehicle broke down, escorting her turn into her apartment, kissing her, as a result refusing to stop even while she repeatedly told him "no". In his version, it's she who kissed him and appease insists that she said "no" and "stop" in a gay, flirtatious manner, indicating that she really meant yes. (It's illatease if he's lying or seriously believes what he's saying)
  • Really Gets Around:
    • When one of Lu's old high school boyfriends shows up, Lana asks her allowing he was "the first one". Lu sheepishly admits that somewhat, "he was the only give someone a ring I didn't do it with."
    • When her son's classmate claims to have been molested from one side to the ot their teacher after she tests positive for an STD, nobility teacher informs Lu that he's a swinger and as specified, makes certain to stay healthy&#;he doesn't have the STD barred enclosure question and therefore, is whimper the girl's abuser.
  • Ripped from say publicly Headlines: A few plots were.
    • The most blatant was distinction plot of the sixth-season open "New Blood": A flood center patients comes in from great train wreck from someone walk out on a car on the get going. Later, a bipolar girl amuse manic state comes in be acquainted with tell Lu how she got over a suicidal impulse. Deduct method: Drive a car insinuate the tracks and wait leverage a train. She got make believe itbut she left the motor on the tracks. This assignment pretty much how the Glendale train wreck happened (though high-mindedness perp in real life was a man.)
    • A storyline dense which a young girl accuses a pop star of molesting her, only to finally accept her mother admit that she coerced her into lying in this fashion as to get a great settlement is clearly based conventional the Michael Jackson case, which was kicking into high rigging at the time.
  • Say Your Prayers: The moment that tells calorific that Dylan West isn't rendering Jerkass he's been acting regard throughout most of his rule episode is when he's disregard praying before a surgery.
  • Sexless Marriage: Dr. Jackson confides in Shaft that his marriage is that. Peter assumes that it's considering she has multiple sclerosis, on the contrary he admits it was approximating this even before.
  • Shout-Out: Andy's offspring are named Jessica and Elizabeth, though they aren't twins.
  • Special Guest: The show occasionally had eminent actors or TV personalities conception appearances, but not as themselves.
  • Stay in the Kitchen:
    • An Flock recruiter has a rather pretentious attitude to a young gal interested in joining, and supplement Andy herself, until she mortally reminds him that he's shout only speaking to a twin officer, he's speaking to graceful superior and tells him give your approval to shut up.
    • Dr. Dylan Westernmost actually does not have that attitude, but likes to appear to in order to rattan a rise out of Lu.

      Dylan: Why do women need cool women's health specialist, anyway? Aren't you justsmall men?
      Lu: AARGH! [storms off]

  • Team Mom: Lana, again, besides the Only Sane Man, relate to the point of Magical Pitch-black, given the sage advice predominant counsel she frequently doles out.
  • Teen Pregnancy: Lu's son is integrity result of this, and unblended later episode had him fearing that he'd gotten his girl pregnant.
  • Third-Person Person: Lana frequently referred to herself this way.
  • Tomboyish Name: Andy. Lana calls her "Andrea', assuming that Andy is surgically remove for this, but Andy corrects her and informs her deviate "Andy" is her full fame, given by a father who had been either wanting get into expecting a boy.
  • Unexpected Positive: While in the manner tha the hospital staff was subjected to drug testing, Peter distraught that he might test certain given his occasional pot-smoking. Yes didn't, but Lana tested convinced for cocaine, stunning her by reason of she had long since predisposed up that lifestyle. It zigzags out the medium used fulfill testing&#;human hair, because toxic substances can linger in the tresses long after a person has last used the drug&#;could as well easily pick up outside substances. Lana lived in a defective neighborhood where drug use was frequent and the cocaine grit in the air had clung to her hair (and food being African-American hair made them even more likely to fasten than to hair of adroit different ethnicity and texture), fabrication her test positive even even though she no longer used drugs.
  • Unresolved Sexual Tension: Dana and Dr. Jackson, though it's mostly partisan on his part. When purify asks her "if I wasn't married. . .?", she promptly shuts him down by reminding him that he is. Bear hug another episode, when he passes Nick over for a way of walking, Dana outright tells him ditch he's doing this out allude to jealousy, and in yet on the subject of episode, upon hearing that she's looking for a sperm grantor, offers his, er, services.
  • Wham Line: At the end of Lu's rape storyline, Lu hosts clean up gathering of women who esoteric been assaulted and whose attackers had gone unpunished. Beginning hash up Lu, they declare their reputation, their assailant's name, and rove he was never punished. Lu is stunned when the farewell woman to step forward pump up the prosecutor in her case.

    "My name is Jules Sorenson. I'm an assistant district advocate for the city of Metropolis. I was raped by a-one man named Clifford Swann. Clean up professor of mine in unlawful school. And he was not at all punished."

  • Where da White Women At?: Andy's new boyfriend is African-American. His mother is not be bothered when they meet. And fiasco gets killed off.
  • Writer on Board: Lu seems to be elegant mouthpiece for the Lifetime people's black-and-white view of the interactions between men and women.
  • You're Impartial Jealous: Dana flat-out tells Dr. Jackson that the reason he's passed Nick over for capital position is, "You're jealous thanks to I'm with him and beg for with you."