Why isn IC being covered in many medical schools?
If you’re like most IC patients, you’ve met more than just a few medical professionals who have absolutely no clue what interstitial cystitis is. From nurses in recovery rooms who urge patients to drink orange juice (yes even after a hydrodistention which confirms IC) to emergency room personnel who have no idea how to treat patients who have arrived in a severe IC flare, it’s crystal clear that something is wrong. There is a void in medical knowledge at the community and clinic level. Matthew Hazard MSIV, a medical student at the Indiana University School of Medicine, has a unique perspective. He took a year off before entering medical school to get married and, ironically, ended up studying IC in-depth while working with various researchers. Thus, he had the chance to learn about IC from the ground up with great clinicians and researchers. Yet, as he proceeded through medical school he was stunned to see that IC was “barely mentioned.” It made him question the quality of his medical
