dr. sarah woodman, a psychiatrist to specializes in treating patients with chronic pain as well as dr. gerald right, an internist down the road at beth israel who has done a lot of research and writing of the early aids movement. so of the share cornwell is a 20 year-old woman living with crones disease. when she first began her diagnostic journey, she was a middle school students to my pain. she underwent a variety of tests for endoscopy is to perry and follow as x-rays hopeful that each step with bernard closer to an answer. when the test and consultations initiated her while the test -- while the tests and consultations initiator into the world the patient had, they also signaled the start of an unfortunate but all too common cycle. dealing with the dismissal of her persistence system -- symptoms. she was told she had reflexed disease, when their problems continued, so the tension. as the years went on, dismissal took on a more problematic and, as a physical symptoms were attributed to her emotional problems. at the time my parents and our told my symptoms were caused by stress. i h