About Us
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Featuring our Thyroid Support Group moderators
In Thyroid Patients Canada, our growing organization features two Facebook groups. Learn more about our two groups at our new set of Group pages before asking to join. In today’s post, I’d like to talk about the qualifications and diversity of our team of group moderators. One team of peer patient leaders currently moderates both…
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Thyroid peer support: Reasoning carefully
This post provides a tutorial for thyroid patients who offer peer advice, educate each other, and analyze their own and each other’s health data. How can we engage in “evidence-based” reasoning to avoid leading each other astray? Our Thyroid Patients Canada peer-led private support group, recently launched in April 2020, is built on three basic…
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Thyroid peer support: Sharing wisely and seeking evidence
We recently began a new support group on Facebook called “Thyroid Patients Canada Support.” It’s a private, patients-only group, with international members, peer-led by thyroid patients. As a patient, if you’d like to join, you must answer 2 questions and permit us to view your Facebook profile (make it temporarily public). In this post, I’d…
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Welcome to our new Support Group
Patient-led online peer support is a lifeline for many thyroid patients, providing information and shared experience in a conversational, individualized, and timely manner. We as thyroid patient peer-leaders have decided to establish a new private Thyroid Patients Canada Support group on Facebook. Please learn more and click to join below. Welcome overview slideshow We know…
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Thyroid Patients Canada becomes nonprofit corporation
On February 11, 2020, Thyroid Patients Canada officially became a nonprofit corporation. It’s the first step toward becoming an official registered charity. Three of us patient peer-leaders put together the paperwork — Tania, Mona and Alexa. There’s a team of about 12-16 members on our Advisory Group, but like any organization, not everyone’s capable of…