Six physicians with inflammatory bowel disease.
This essay tells the stories of six physicians with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) to emphasize how important denial and control become when a physician is a patient. Guilt at the supposed psychosomatic "origin" of IBD suggests that we as physicians should never blame our patients for getting sick.
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Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510.
D001294:Attitude to Health; D003717:Denial, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006167:Guilt; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D015212:Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000523:psychology* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology*; D011241:Prednisone / Q000009:adverse effects
D011241:Prednisone