Cronhs Blog

  Legal and Ethical Concerns      When a patient is being taken care of their physicians can often take on responsibilities beyond their medical care. (Tremaine & Camilleri, 2007) They serve as the patients advocates to nonmedical entities and individuals, including insurance companies, schools, employers, companions, and family members. These responsibilities taken on by the physician create a complex relationship between the patient and their IBD physician. These responsibilities can create ethical concerns for the physician who could also be in clinical treatment trials for IBD. (Tremaine & Camilleri, 2007) Other ethical issues that could appear would be therapeutic misconception, clinical equipoise, and financial and nonfinancial conflicts of interest. There needs to be boundaries and separation between the patients and physician, especially when it comes to treatment trials. The ethical treatment of patients needs to be number one priority, even if that ...

                    Individuals with Crohn's disease face challenges everyday due to their disability, but they are not the only ones who face challenges. There are also challenges and issues that are faced by their families, especially if the patient is a child with Crohn's disease. There are issues related to the symptoms Crohn's disease patients can have. For example in societal areas, like school and work settings. As well as accommodation for children in the classroom.  Challenges and Solutions One of the biggest challenges individuals with Cronh's disease is regaining normality back. (Jiayin and Yunxian, 2019) Receiving a diagnoses of Crohn's disease can be shocking and hard to take in at first. This is because those with Crohn's disease have to make changes in their life to accommodate the disease as well as be more careful in everyday activities. In other words Regaining normality is referring to  reassessing and r...

      Crohn's Disease is  a inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Inflammation caused by Crohn's disease can involve different areas of the digestive tract in different people, most common is the small intestine. Throughout this blog we will talk about psychological concepts, theories, and models that relate to Crohn's disease. Also being discussed will be how individuals around others with Crohn's disease can help.      Psychological Concepts The psychological concepts that are connected with Crohn's disease are stress, depression, and anxiety of feeling alone. Those with Crohn's face an increase in their stress because of the need to cope with daily threats. (Marini & Stebnicki, 2018) For example not getting to a bathroom in time. They also have to worry about fulfilling familial, social, and vocational roles. (Marini & Stebnicki, 2018)  Depression is higher in patients with Cronh's disease than any other disease. Depression can make yo...

      Mike McCready Mike is a lead guitarist for a band called Pearl Jam, who was diagnosed with Crohn's disease at the age of 21. Mike has always been very open about Crohn's disease because he has not let it stop him from doing what he loves.(Team Challenge, 2022) He has stated that it has not been easy, he has had accidents on stage, has been on numerous medications, coped with the stress of traveling, and much more. Mike has found a foundation that he is a spokesperson for that has helped get through this process as well. The foundation is called Crohn's and Colitis Foundation. Mike also host fundraisers every year for this foundation, an shares his story through the media. Mike's goal is to show others who have this disease that it does not have to prevent you from achieving your dreams. (Team Challenge, 2022)      Self-Concept and Perceptions When Mike was first diagnosed in 1986 he states in a video that it was devastated. He says living wi...