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Posted 4/24/2014 9:30 PM (GMT 0)
Another post about a recent TV show referring to CD motivated this post. I wanted to see if we could make a list of TV shows (specific episodes) or movies where someone has Crohn's Disease. I thought it'd be interesting to watch those and see how accurate they are. Lol, it might be therapeutic or it may just tick me off, but I thought it'd be fun.

Anyway, I know I've seen a few posts here and there about one episode of some show (like House or something), but I thought we could make a list here.
Posted 4/26/2014 10:19 AM (GMT 0)
seems like the list is short and that there is not much general publicity or knowledge. What a surpise
Posted 4/28/2014 1:36 PM (GMT 0)
Here's a link to the plot of the House episode featuring a patient with Crohn's. It was an interesting episode because it featured hookworms as an (unknown) treatment that, when removed, created problems in the patient.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teamwork_(House)
Posted 4/28/2014 2:51 PM (GMT 0)
The problem I had with this House episode was that it didn't really include the real issues someone has with Crohns.
Posted 4/28/2014 4:09 PM (GMT 0)
I haven't seen much about CD/IBD in general when it comes to shows or in a single movie that I've seen...to be honest, I don't think anyone that doesn't have IBD gets what it's really about. When it comes to IBD, there's really no words to describe the horror of having it IMO.
Posted 4/28/2014 5:06 PM (GMT 0)
Private Practice, Season 1 Episode 4
The doctors have four hour to diagnose a patient, before she has to go back to the mental institution, and it turns out, she's not crazy, she has Crohn's :
http://www.buddytv.com/articles/private-practice/private-practice-episode-14-in-12605.aspx

Extra unbelievable points because patient has had active, untreated Crohn's for the duration of her pregnancy, and the doctors tell her she and the baby are both fine.
Posted 4/28/2014 8:20 PM (GMT 0)
In another thread, someone mentioned "The Doctors."

http://www.thedoctorstv.com/videolib/init/1698
Posted 4/28/2014 8:57 PM (GMT 0)
Holby City, a dire medical drama-cum-soap opera set in a fictional NHS hospital, features Crohn's patients from time to time. (Its sister programme, Casualty, is set in the ER department of the same fictional hospital.) The Crohn's patients are ostensibly in to have surgery, but, like every other patient in Holby City, in reality serve as personal growth vehicles to doctors with chaotic personal lives who have nothing better to do with their time than visit their patient every 5 minutes and spill the beans.

It wasn't actually a Crohn's patient which featured in the episode which most wound me up, however: that dubious honour goes to a newly-diagnosed UC patient on the verge of having a colectomy. It was an absolute calamity of an episode which should never have been aired, it was that bad. I even made a thread about it, I was so cranked:
www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=17&m=2788233

We've a long way to go before the reality of bowel disorders are shown on TV, and I don't think it will ever happen. Nobody wants to see that $h1t, literally.
Posted 4/29/2014 8:10 PM (GMT 0)
I recall a mention on some show where the patient was given Asacol with it supposedly taking total care of the problem. Having been on Asacol for years, I thought, yeah, right. I just don't remember the show.

Most likely we're going to be the literal butt of some joke if it shows up in a movie/show.

My daughter has debilitating asthma/allergies; she almost can't leave our home. And asthma is portrayed as a joke in so many shows/movies with usually a child or whimpy looking adult frequently sucking on an inhaler like it's a pacifier. That really angers me. People die from asthma. It's ruined her life. There's nothing funny about it.

Sorry for the extra rant.
Posted 4/30/2014 4:08 PM (GMT 0)
JaSanne,
I agree. There was a really unsettling episode of Raising Hope a couple seasons ago that involve a run to "raise awareness" for ABS ("angry bowel syndrome") that included a number of really unsettling jokes about colonoscopies, etc. I think I've managed to block most of it now, but I remember contemplating whether writing the network/show a letter was worth my time.
Posted 5/1/2014 1:06 AM (GMT 0)
Too funny... I just finished reading it when Crohn's was mentioned on Modern Family... Episode is called "Sleeper." Aired 4/30/14. Didn't say much, just claims that having Crohn's would help a student to get a scholarship...
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