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• Digby Thyroid Clinic patients plan a meeting to be held May 9th

  Dr. Ron Matsusaki’s patients have set up a meeting on May 9th to plan the next steps forward for approximately 350 patients affected by “forced patient abandonment” from the Digby Thyroid Clinic’s closure. This is the announcement shared on our Thyroidpatients.ca Public Group on Facebook today by Rob Fadelle, one of his patients. See our…

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  May 2, 2019

  Doctors, Patients’ stories

• Gisele’s thyroid therapy journey

  This guest post is authored by Gisele Gautreau, a Canadian thyroid patient who has given us permission to share her image and story. Gisele: For those questioning the plight of thyroid patients in this country, the following is my story: I’m in New Brunswick, and I was diagnosed with a thyroid autoimmune disease called Hashimoto’s…

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  April 30, 2019

  Doctors, NDT / Desiccated thyroid, Patients’ stories, T4-monotherapy, Therapy guidelines

• Part 3: Meet our campaign’s main writer: her hopes

  See Part 1 where I introduce my background as a thyroid patient See Part 2 where I talk about my research and advocacy What are your hopes for the future of Thyroid Patients Canada? Updated January 2022 See “Thyroid Patients Canada becomes nonprofit corporation” Above, all, I hope our campaign will become more effective at…

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  April 24, 2019

  Our team

• Part 2: Meet our campaign’s main writer, advocate and researcher

  In part 1 of this series, I explained who I am as a thyroid patient. Here I introduce myself as the campaign’s researcher and as a thyroid patient advocate. Updated: January 2022 What kind of research do you do? That’s a complicated question. I play several research roles in my life. I’m a communications scholar…

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  April 24, 2019

  Our team

• Meet our campaign’s main writer, Tania Sona Smith

  I’ve decided it’s finally time to put a human face and name behind our campaign so that media can contact us and know who to talk to. Our campaign has experienced significant growth since we started in July 2018. I’ve made 79 blog posts on thyroidpatients.ca and this is my 80th. We also have 25…

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  April 24, 2019

  Our advocacy, Our team