Who needs “T3”? We received a friendly and well-intended comment lately. It illustrated that in today’s Global English, we sometimes have a hard time defining and understanding what “T3” means when a person is talking about T3. Are they talking… Read More ›
Our advocacy
Thyroid Patients Canada: Looking back on 2020, entering 2021
The year 2020 has been a productive year for our organization of thyroid patients and our website, despite the challenges we all faced on a global scale. In this post, HIGHLIGHTS: I’ll briefly mention our organizational milestones of the year…. Read More ›
Healthier thyroid warriors: Our fight is not over.
A fundamental principle energizes any group of thyroid patients to try to improve thyroid therapy: Some thyroid-disabled people have suffered a lot and have won partial victories in their own thyroid therapy. Now that they are on a therapy that… Read More ›
2019 ATA article engages in patient-blaming and doctor-shaming
Some members of the American Thyroid Association (ATA) have achieved a new ethical low. The ATA have published in their official scientific journal, Thyroid, an article by Esfandiari and colleagues (2019) that blames thyroid patients for causing harm to themselves… Read More ›
Want to help? Join a Thyroid Patients Campaign Working Group
Let’s get to work together! How? It’s easy to do on Facebook. Not on Facebook? Currently we’re only set up for group interaction on Facebook, sorry. That’s where we were “born” and where we are most active. But please don’t… Read More ›
Evidence-based thyroid advocacy
My previous post talked about “evidence-based thyroid therapy.” Sometimes, thyroid therapy goes terribly wrong, despite the efforts of doctors and patients, and I tell my experience and hopes in this post. Failures are not just individual. In thyroid therapy, there… Read More ›
Evidence-based thyroid therapy
“Evidence-based medicine.” That term means different things to different people. It is a worthwhile goal. However, it’s often a weasel word medical people use to gain power and status over each other and to bully patients into submission. “I’m more… Read More ›
Letter on diagnosis published on British Medical Journal website
Today, the British Medical Journal’s website published my “rapid response” letter: How can truly hypothyroid patients be accurately diagnosed within the enlarged subclinical category? Link to full text: https://www.bmj.com/content/365/bmj.l2006/rr-6 It is a response to the new guidelines for subclinical hypothyroidism:… Read More ›