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A Team of IBD Experts To Treats Your Child's Disease
Managing inflammatory bowel disease requires a team of experts working together. At the Center for Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, physicians work alongside psychologists, nutritionists, social workers and other experts to ensure your child receives the best possible treatment for IBD.
Life Uncommon is a video series about children and adolescents suffering from IBD and the professionals who care for them at the Center for Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
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Transcript: A Team of IBD Experts To Treats Your Child's Disease
Narrator: For children with Crohn's Disease and colitis, there is hope. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is leading the country, the world, and the search for treatments and a cure.
Dcotor 1: She actually went for an acute bleed and had a section done.
Doctor 2: She was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease.
Robert N. Baldassano, MD: Continuous drainage?
Maria R. Mascarenhas, MD: When you are part of the IBD Center, you just don't get one physician's knowledge and expertise. You get the collective knowledge and expertise of the center.
Steven M. Altschuler, MD: To really provide state of the art care and to be able to care for patients that really can't be cared for at other places.
Maria R. Mascarenhas, MD: By having a psychologist, by having a dedicated nutritionist. By having a social worker. By having a research coordinator. You need every single member of the team, and that's what we hope to achieve with the IBD Center.
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