Thyroid Testing
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Biochemical bigotry: Enforcing normalized thyroid lab results
Valentine’s day is a good day to attempt to promote kindness and tolerance toward people suffering from a rather invisible health condition. Thyroid disease. What better day than today to identify and attempt to remove a medical attitude that is a barrier to effective thyroid therapy … “biochemical bigotry”? Most doctors take for granted that…
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Survey: Canadian Thyroid Testing Tips & Challenges
We’re trying a new strategy to crowdsource data on Canadian thyroid patients’ access to thyroid laboratory testing. For a limited time, we are test-driving an anonymous survey with a real-time report that displays up to date statistics and results. Take the survey Here’s the link to the Canadian Thyroid Testing Tips & Challenges survey page.…
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Relational Stability, Part 2: Normality of TSH and thyroid hormones
Does the statistically-defined “normal” TSH reference range for the healthy population describe the TSH range for a healthy individual? Does having a TSH within the normal laboratory range always mean you, as an individual are biologically euthyroid? Does falling outside statistical TSH normality really mean that you are hypothyroid or thyrotoxic? This is part 2…
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In 1981, Canadian physicians argued T3 was the best test in thyroid therapy
Canadians can take pride in their historical defense of T3 testing in thyroid therapy. Our job defending the T3 test today is to remind people of what has changed since then in thyroid testing, and what is still the same. In 1981, Min Min Wong and Robert Volpé, MD published an article in the Canadian…
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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 by making requests of doctors for tests and therapies. They titled their paper “Patient Requests…