There’s no surprise that patients and doctors would disagree about the incidence rate of hypothyroid symptoms in a given patient. “We have an average of 7.2 symptoms per patient” says the cohort of 262 patients. “No, you have an average… Read More ›
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Thyroid patient blaming and shaming, part 3: Advocacy and Science
In this Part 3, I continue my rebuttal of a research article that blames thyroid patients for causing harm to themselves by making requests of doctors for tests and therapies.
In this post, I explain the good signs that thyroid patients’ self-advocacy is sometimes effective and is making a difference.
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 ›
2012 ATA thyroid guidelines ask for clinicians’ independent judgment
In recent years, Canadian and other international thyroid guidelines have enacted local policies that restrict thyroid therapy and testing, often citing the American Thyroid Association (ATA) & American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists’ (AACE) guidelines in 2012. What most “guideline policers”… Read More ›
2014 ATA therapy guidelines: 5. Research
This post continues my series of paraphrases of Jonklaas et al’s 2014 guidelines that I left unfinished weeks ago. Here I provide paraphrases and quotations of what they set forth for the “ethics” of research in thyroid therapy in Section… Read More ›
2014 ATA Therapy guidelines: 4. Using Synthetic T3
This post continues my paraphrase of Jonklaas et al’s 2014 “Guidelines for the Treatment of Hypothyroidism: Prepared by the American Thyroid Association Task Force on Thyroid Hormone Replacement.” As I’ve explained in my previous post, I’ve decided not to let… Read More ›
2014 ATA Therapy guidelines: 3. Desiccated thyroid
If we want to disagree with the American Thyroid Association’s prejudice against animal sources of thyroid hormone, we should to at least prove we’re trying to listen to them. Then we should fairly point out what they didn’t say, what truths… Read More ›
2014 ATA Thyroid therapy guidelines: 2. Ethics
Here I move on to part 2 of my summary of ATA thyroid therapy guidelines, where they try to defend the ethics their own stance (Jonklaas et al, 2014). Their self-righteous, defensive and arrogant reply to question 11 deserves its… Read More ›