Sep 18, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min · 13 segments
In this special crossover episode, Tuesday Night IBS co-founder Jeffrey Roberts, MSEd, BSc, is joined by William D. Chey, MD, Lin Chang, MD, Kate Scarlata, MPH, RDN, LDN, and Amanda Lynett, MS, RDN…
Lin ChangGuest
Kate ScarlataGuest
Amanda LynettGuestSameer K. BerryHost
They just may not understand what it is completely, but at least they recognize that it is a condition that is common and they usually know somebody that has it.
We definitely didn't have as much science to support the term disorders with gut-brain interaction and the multifactorial disorder.
And that really got on the map in 2016 with Room 4, where the title, that collection, that name of a collection of disorders, where it defined it as being symptoms that are associated with at least one of the following mechanisms, which you laid out.
And I remember my patients would go to the pharmacist and they would say, but that's for depression or that's for anxiety.
So, you know, we always have that conversation, but that doesn't happen at all anymore.
But there's just a greater understanding that you can use different types of treatments for different types of disorders.
You know, to that point, so I went to Emory Medical School from 1982 to 1986, and I did my internal medicine residency at Emory from 1986 to 1989.
And for those of you that don't know, Emory's main teaching hospital is Grady Memorial Hospital, which is a very famous old city hospital.
You know, people talk about like at University of Michigan, you see Rare presentations of rare disease, you know, and at Grady Hospital, you see rare presentations of common disease, you know, TB, COPD, AIDS, you name it.
And every possible color, texture you could imagine you would see within that training experience.
But one thing that I never learned about in my four years of medical school or three years of residency was irritable bowel syndrome.
They just may not understand what it is completely, but at least they recognize that it is a condition that is common and they usually know somebody that has it.
We definitely didn't have as much science to support the term disorders with gut-brain interaction and the multifactorial disorder.
And that really got on the map in 2016 with Room 4, where the title, that collection, that name of a collection of disorders, where it defined it as being symptoms that are associated with at least one of the following mechanisms, which you laid out.
And I remember my patients would go to the pharmacist and they would say, but that's for depression or that's for anxiety.
So, you know, we always have that conversation, but that doesn't happen at all anymore.
But there's just a greater understanding that you can use different types of treatments for different types of disorders.
You know, to that point, so I went to Emory Medical School from 1982 to 1986, and I did my internal medicine residency at Emory from 1986 to 1989.
And for those of you that don't know, Emory's main teaching hospital is Grady Memorial Hospital, which is a very famous old city hospital.
You know, people talk about like at University of Michigan, you see Rare presentations of rare disease, you know, and at Grady Hospital, you see rare presentations of common disease, you know, TB, COPD, AIDS, you name it.
And every possible color, texture you could imagine you would see within that training experience.
But one thing that I never learned about in my four years of medical school or three years of residency was irritable bowel syndrome.
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