Therapy paradigms
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Asleep at the wheel of thyroid therapy
Who is really sleeping a lot, and yet sleeping poorly? Sure, the hypothyroid patient. But someone else is sleeping too. Our Canadian medical system and the majority of our doctors who dismiss treated patients’ symptoms and thyroid-related disorders whenever TSH is normal. Sleeping at the wheel. Where are we headed? Why are you nickel and…
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College of Physicians attacks Digby Thyroid Clinic. Fight back.
HELP NEEDED: Sound the trumpets! Advance the army! (UPDATED post as of March 9) Yet another criticism has been launched by authorites (whom we cannot name at present) against the Thyroid clinic in Digby Nova Scotia, set up and run by hospital emergency physician Dr. Ron Matsusaki. It has caused the clinic to temporarily close,…
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Biondi and Wartofsky’s 2014 dismissal of desiccated thyroid
Bernadette Biondi and Leonard Wartofsky’s article in 2014 titled “Treatment with Thyroid Hormone” summarily dismisses the use of desiccated thyroid medication in thyroid therapy. Tracing the logic of their dismissal back to their citation, a 1980 research article, reveals a fallacious chain of argument based on a very thin foundation. This pathway of reasoning promotes…
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Choosing Wisely chooses not to hear thyroid patient’s research presentation
Our thyroid patient campaign’s researcher submitted a proposal to speak at the Choosing Wisely national conference in Montreal in May 2019. A second thyroid patient was willing to fund the researcher’s trip from Western Canada. A third thyroid patient put the researcher in contact with a thyroid doctor who was willing to support such educational…
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TSH silences thyroid patients
We hypothyroid patients on thyroid therapy have an argument to make about one of the secretions of the pituitary gland, the TSH. But you won’t let us speak. You have put the TSH in charge of monitoring our thyroid hormone medication dosage, and you won’t let any other measure, any other evidence, no matter how…