Clinical guidelines are supposed to promote patient health and encourage evidence-based medicine and physician discernment, but thyroid guidelines aim to restrict testing, restrict medication, and prevent any change in therapy practices. Indeed, the enforcement of restrictions appears to be the main purpose of local and international thyroid therapy guidelines today. These thyroid therapy guidelines, and … Continue reading How thyroid guidelines are being used to punish doctors
PRESS RELEASE: "Society for Endocrinology & British Thyroid Association issue statement against new treatment recommendations for subclinical hypothyroidism" On May 24th, my "rapid response letter" was published on the British Medical Journal website. I was responding to newly published recommendations: https://www.bmj.com/content/365/bmj.l2006/rr-6 On May 29th, Several points in this joint statement by the SfE & BTA … Continue reading British endocrinologists agree with Canadian thyroid patient
Today, the British Medical Journal's website published my "rapid response" letter: How can truly hypothyroid patients be accurately diagnosed within the enlarged subclinical category? Link to full text: https://www.bmj.com/content/365/bmj.l2006/rr-6 It is a response to the new guidelines for subclinical hypothyroidism: Bekkering, G. E., Agoritsas, T., Lytvyn, L., Heen, A. F., Feller, M., Moutzouri, E., … … Continue reading Letter on diagnosis published on British Medical Journal website
I really DON'T want to be gloomy all the time. I DO believe there is hope for positive change in thyroid therapy today. But now and then we have to consider "what is the worst that could happen?" I want to show you where we are now, where we could all be headed if we … Continue reading Pharmaceutical prejudice can lead to a thyroid therapy dystopia
The UK is torturing its most vulnerable hypothyroid patients who need T3 in therapy. The medical profession is throwing away more than a century of safe, effective clinical use of T3 all over the globe. Nobody is caring enough to take the time to read the recent scientific research on the importance of maintaining upper-mid … Continue reading Shame on the UK for torturing thyroid patients who need T3
