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LIfe Uncommon: Inflammatory Bowel Disease — A Child's Wish for the Future

Stephanie: I really want to be a singer.

Child 1: I want to be a professional golfer and stuff.

Child 2: Go to culinary school, become a chef, and open my own restaurant.

Robert N. Baldassano, MD: This disease is presenting itself at almost an astronomical rate.

Child 3: I play piano and flute, and I'm really interested in that. I was thinking about maybe going to Juilliard.

Aimee E. Christian, PhD: Okay. You know, you have been diagnosed with this disease. This is what we're going to do, and in six months you will be fine. It's not like that.

Child 4: Maybe I would want to do like animal experiments in space.

Child 5: I want to go to med school.

Steven M. Altschuler, MD: We have seen a dramatic rise in the number of patients who require care for that condition.

Child 6: When I grow up I want to go to a college and be a surgeon.

Child 7: I actually--I want to be a gastroenterologist.

Robert N. Baldassano, MD: It's become the most common chronic disease that we've seen in gastroenterology, and is becoming one of the most common diseases we have seen all of pediatrics.

Child 8: Just to get through school, get a job, and live a normal, happy life.

Music: Don't worry mother it'll be alright
And don't worry sister say your prayers
and sleep tight.
And it'll be fine, lover of mine
It'll be just fine.