About Us
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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 is better than before, even if it might be far from perfect yet, they can…
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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 by making requests of doctors for tests and therapies. They titled their paper “Patient Requests…
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Caution: Doctors perform T3-ectomies without our consent
We all know a “thyroidectomy” is the surgical removal of a thyroid gland. Nobody removes a vital gland without a patient’s informed consent. If your medical system and doctor are ethical, you as a patient have the opportunity to weigh the risks and benefits of the procedure and give signed consent. We need to consider…
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Our new name: Thyroid Patients Canada
Our new name is “Thyroid Patients Canada.” We’re on the path to becoming a registered federal non-profit charitable organization. Our website will still be Thyroidpatients.ca. I will be updating our materials to reflect our new name. This is exciting! I’ll share other milestones as we go through the process. If you’d like to help our…
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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 run away! If you can’t or won’t join Facebook but still want to help using…