Julie Doyle first began experiencing symptoms of Crohn’s disease on a family trip to the Statue of Liberty when she was 14 years old. Twenty-five years, four surgeries and innumerable failed treatments later, she was—as she puts it—functionally cured.
Ms. Doyle and her doctors initially believed she had some kind of flu. “My mom thought I got sick from the Statue of Liberty, because the bathrooms there were really bad,” she said. She didn’t receive a definite