At this point, it would be appropriate for the physician to recommend a treatment plan that takes into account the patients' concerns as well as their cultural requirements. It would not be appropriate to recommend treatments that do not fit the patients' culture. For example, some cultures do not believe in using suppositories. It would therefore be inappropriate to prescribe Canasa®, a rectal suppository, to a patient diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. Rather, it would be more appropriate to initiate an oral mesalamine regimen to improve compliance (Kornbluth & Sachar,