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Michael D. Brown, MD

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Specialty:	Gastroenterology Internal Medicine
Board Certification:	Gastroenterology Internal Medicine
Faculty Rank:	Professor
Medical or Graduate Education:	University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago
Residency:	Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center - Internal Medicine
Fellowship:	Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center - Gastroenterology
	University of Chicago Medical Center - Gastroenterology
Clinical Expertise:	Argon plasma coagulation Barrett's esophagus Colonoscopy Endoscopy Esophagogastroduodenoscopy Functional bowel disease Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) Irritable bowel syndrome Peptic ulcers
Research Interests:	Treatments for functional bowel disease Gastroesophageal reflux disease Functional constipation Endoscopic training/simulation

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Below is a list of scientific publications for which this practitioner was either the primary author or a contributor. Citations come from PubMed, a database of biomedical literature, life science journals and online books. PubMed is a service of the US Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. Click on the title of the cited work for more information (this will take you directly to PubMed.gov). Listings go back five years.

Inpatient capsule endoscopy leads to frequent incomplete small bowel examinations.
Yazici C, Losurdo J, Brown MD, Oosterveen S, Rahimi R, Keshavarzian A, Bozorgnia L, Mutlu E.
World J Gastroenterol. 2012
2012 Sep 28
18(36):5051-7. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v18.i36.5051.
Patient acceptance, convenience, and efficacy of single-dose versus split-dose colonoscopy bowel preparation.
Khan MA, Piotrowski Z, Brown MD.
J Clin Gastroenterol.
2010 Apr
44(4):310-1

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The big thing on my part is education. It’s explaining things that other physicians have not had the time to do. Education takes time. It’s not an efficient process. And when you’ve had all the tests done and they’re all negative. And you’ve been given a diagnosis of a functional bowel disease, like irritable bowel syndrome and then just told to live with it or deal with it, it’s very difficult for patients, particularly since there’s no diagnostic test that shows you have that. You have to buy into that diagnosis based on the physicians statement of such. And without any background, it’s a black box and patients don’t understand it. So to me it’s all about education, making sure they understand why they have symptoms, where those symptoms come from, and once patients sort of own the disease and understand it, I find that then they’re more willing to work with it, the symptoms aren’t as scary, they’re not as effecting of their quality of life. I think they understand then how the medications might work. Some medications that don’t work so well when you don’t understand the disease state, do work a little better when you do. So it’s all about communication. It’s about education. It’s about self-management. It’s about collaboration. I’m not an authoritative-type physician. I don’t dictate care. It really has to be a collaboration with me.