Dr Skinner? Anyone come across him?

[Thyroiditis86]

telegraph.co.uk/news/health... Has anyone read this or come across the late Dr Skinner? What do you think of his methods of prescribing thyroid medication to people who fall within normal range?

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

Dr S was a very lovely and clever man, much loved by many members who he helped get well. A very sad loss to the thyroid community, irreplaceable. He understood hypothyroidism like no-one else within the NHS which is why they hounded him relentlessly. Some people think that the stress of the numerous GMC hearings he was subjected to caused his stroke which killed him.

[Thyroiditis86]

That's terrible. It always happens to pioneers look at Willhelm Reich. Are there any Drs like him that don't just rely on numbers on a screen?

[SeasideSusie Remembering in reply to Thyroiditis86]

Are there any Drs like him that don't just rely on numbers on a screen?

Within the NHS? Basically they daren't!

Dr Peatfield is of the same mould as Dr Skinner, however he has lightened his workload somewhat due to ill health and advancing years. He can no longer prescribe (he gave up his licence because he wouldn't toe the NHS line) but sees patients at his clinic in Crawley and will advise and tell you what tests to do and where to source the 'supplements' he suggests.

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Without being British, I get the impression these two doctors are much like Dr. Hertoghe in Belgium...he and his sister are the fourth generation of doctors prescribing natural hormones and not always sticking to official guidelines.

I imagine it must be very difficult to constantly go against the establishment...although the climate in Belgium admittedly seems more tolerant than in many other countries. NDT for instance is legal in Belgium, prescribed by most if not all Hertoghe doctors (trained by him), and carried by several pharmacies that also carry other natural/bio-identical hormones prescribed by those doctors.

I am very grateful doctors like this exist, especially since many of them seem to constantly have to fight their own country's authorities, to the point sometimes of having to give up their licence to practise medicine to follow their own conviction...

Most of the drugs prescribed by Hertoghe doctors are covered by the Belgian NHS, with NDT and human growth hormone being the most noticeable exceptions.

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PS. Belgium seems to be one of the few countries in Europe where NDT is legal...as a prescription drug only. But there are quite a few pharmacies carrying it, and enough so called Hertoghe doctors to keep the waiting list rather short...provided you live close enough and don't have to spend a fortune getting there, of course.