The treatment of the "untreatable" patient-revisited.
The limits of medicine have not yet been reached. Numerous human illnesses initially thought to be incurable are reversible under unique and unpredictable individual circumstances. This paper, and the preceding companion publication, describes instances of the successful treatment of patients previously labeled as untreatable, including instances of severe ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.
Kirsner
Joseph B
JB
Section of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, USA. gpence@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu
D003093:Colitis, Ulcerative / Q000628:therapy; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000628:therapy; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005767:Gastrointestinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D018447:Medical Futility; D016896:Treatment Outcome