<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Maybe somebody can set me straight. I attended a Celiac Support Group luncheon where the whole emphasis was on Celiac Services. Nutritionists, food vendors, special recipes. We were told that Society has no responsibility to have us fit into communities. If we go to the hospital, we should pack our own food that we have made up from special food-products.Don't expect manufacturers to plainly break down "mystery" ingredients on their labels. If you don't know, don't buy it!. Only order certain foods at a restaurant. If you want other accompaniements, carry them from home. Of course, you don't get a discount on the bill for carrying your own! We have a responsibility to help specialty stores make a profit on our ailment. It is up to us to make up education kits to impart knowledge on Celias/Sprue to gastroenterologists, registered dieticians and other health professionals. Then, apparently, they can charge us a fee for telling us to go home and care for ourselves. Hospitals cannot be expected to check our food. There are other patients more worthy of their attention. Besides, the kitchens are too contaminated to fix celiac food properly. Doesn't this same contamination affect the O.K. foods they serve? I guess our Support Groups will never make any progress in helping Celiacs to feel like real people. I stated that I thought taking and toting and never expecting any concessions from society in general, was setting our cause back. Our Nutritionist Advisor told me we could argue all day, but, it was better to face "reality". What is reality? Aren't we supposed to try to evince change? This makes us all seem like craven cowards. Why should there be wheelchair ramps? Can't the wheelchair people just stay home and not bother others? Doesn't sound nice, does it? Yet people expect celiacs to either stay home or do their own arrangements, for travel, recreation, etc. Of course, nobody ever died of Celiac-Sprue! When a Celiac gets critical from celiac-associated conditions, the diagnosis is changed to something else-Lymphoma, whatever. I never spent so much time listening to why I should make sure others profit from my misery, without ever expecting any concessions. C'mon set me straight! AMS What if doctors stopped using sterile technique in the operating room, because some people were less prone to infections than others?