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Christmas 2020: Hope and cheer for thyroid patients
It’s been quite a year, so we send you good cheer. This season may be a socially-distanced experience for many of you, but still, you are not alone. We’re stronger together. We’re going to keep advancing thyroid science & policy, because our thyroid health outcomes matter. What are “thyroid” health outcomes? Heart & cardiovascular health…
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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…