This week we talk to Kajal Patel! Kajal is a 3rd year medical student originally diagnosed with UC but when she started to develop fistulas, her diagnosis was changed to Crohn's. We spoke to her about advocacy and a group she co-founded on campus for medical students with chronic illness. We talked about how she copies with everything that comes with IBD and school like setting up a 504 plan when you're an adolescent and registering with your college or university's office of disability services (even if you're in remission.) We discussed developing a sense of self/identity when diagnosed with IBD at a formative age and how she used to think she "was" her diagnosis and we talked to her about choosing GI for her career.
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