VIDEO: Benefits of wider awareness of ulcerative colitis

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Wider benefit of ulcerative colitis certainly benefits patients. I think it, not only those patients that are having symptoms get them probably diagnosed earlier and therefore treated earlier, but for patients with ulcerative colitis or Crohn's helps to not really stigmatize the disease that makes it okay to talk about abdominal pain and pooping and gas. Not to normalize it, but to make it okay for them to talk about with others, with friends, certainly with their physicians. And from a physician perspective, I think it's good to have information out there. I think the more patients read about ulcerative colitis, the more they read about the medication therapies, the better they are at sort of a shared decision-making. Okay. Here's what I'm thinking. What are you thinking? And it brings all of the thoughts forward so they can be discussed before putting somebody on a medication.