Doctors
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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” fail to notice is that the 2012 ATA-AACE’s guidelines begin with a disclaimer against their…
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Thank you, good thyroid doctors!
Today is Canadian Thanksgiving Day. Today all thyroid patients in Canada and all over the world can reflect with gratitude toward all our good thyroid doctors past and present. To guide reflection and thanks, I’d like to outline 10 of the important things good thyroid doctors know and do. We all know there is no…
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Thyroid science naivety and quackery: Definitions
It’s worth a minute or two to consider what causes and promotes medical naivety and quackery and what could remove it. DEFINING NAIVETY “Naivety” (also spelled naïvety and naiveté) is defined by Oxford dictionary as “Lack of experience, wisdom, or judgement.” Being naive means you are simply unaware of basic knowledge, likely because you’ve never…