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Lin Chang, MD: Hello. I'm Dr Lin Chang. Welcome to Medscape's InDiscussion series on irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Today we'll be discussing overlapping conditions with IBS with Dr Magnus Simrén. Dr Simrén is a professor of gastroenterology at the Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, at the University of Gothenburg. Welcome to InDiscussion, Magnus. It's so great to have you join us today. You're so knowledgeable in the field and one of the leaders in our field. I first want to start off by asking you, how did you become interested in IBS?
Magnus Simrén, MD, PhD:First of all, thank you for having me on the discussion. It is a pleasure to discuss this with you, Lin. Why did I become interested in IBS? It's a bit of a coincidence, actually. I started off as internal medicine doctor, and then I decided that I wanted to be a gastroenterologist and started doing research. By coincidence, they asked me to start a project on IBS, and there it was — that's how it started.
