I think there are a lot of different reactions to Crohn’s disease. In fact I think there are as many different reactions to the disease as there are people with the disease. Modern medicine however treats crohn’s disease in one basic way. Not always the same medicine but pretty much the same kind of drug, an immunosuppressant drug to attack and lower the immune system throughout the entire body.
What would modern medicine do if they had to look at all illness on a person to person reaction to their health problem? Maybe that would be too tough of a job to look at everyone with a disease differently and then prescribe different actions for each person. What would happen if a medical doctor had to actually spend time getting to know a patient before deciding how to treat them? Medical school would change how they teach, hospitals would change how they take care of patients, and the sick would learn to make better sense of their health problems and treatments since it would be geared just for them. Imagine if a doctor sat you down and together you worked out a plan to get control of your health again. People would have no choice but to get more involved in what they do to heal and then would also have a better understanding how not to let themselves let the problem return.
Friday, February 22, 2008
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