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Please Help Me
Posted by Dr. Gifford Jones on Aug 30, 2010 at 11:57 PM
Crohn's Disease
What is the worst part of being a medical journalist? It’s not the long hours researching and writing a column. The never-ending deadlines week after week. It’s when the written word becomes too authoritative and readers think you know more than you do. And you simply cannot deliver the goods.
A few weeks ago that scenario happened. A young woman wrote that she suffered from Crohn’s Disease. That she had been hospitalized 30 times, endured several operations, and treated by a variety of medication. And yet her life was still a living hell. She asked, “Did I have any way to help her?”
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