Health care system
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Thyroid pharmaceutical prejudice: How it works
By Tania S. Smith. Updated May 8, 2019 “Thyroid pharmaceutical prejudice” is simply a bias against one thyroid hormone pharmaceutical type in favor of another. Prejudice claims that a particular thyroid medication is intrinsically unsafe or ineffective, for all patients under almost all circumstances. It’s a type of “sweeping generalization” fallacy. The main aim of…
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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…
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Dr. Ron Matsusaki’s license to treat thyroid suspended April 17, 2019
One of Canada’s best thyroid doctors, Dr. Ron Matsusaki in Nova Scotia, has had his license to prescribe and treat thyroid suspended. His thyroid clinic in Digby has been under review for the past month, and the decision was announced on the clinic’s Facebook group April 17, 2019.(1) Let’s do everything we can to speak…