Some uplifting thoughts

[diogenes]

Tania Smith's (Canadian Thyroid Advocacy) latest blog gives some encouragement that patients challenging doctors' current position may slowly be gaining traction. - Thyroid patient blaming and shaming, part 3: Advocacy and Science

[stiltzski]

Interesting. Here is a link to the blog:

thyroidpatients.ca/2019/12/...

[shaws in reply to stiltzski]

Thanks for link and I liked this excerpt:-

"Are you reading thyroid science carefully?

You should be ashamed of yourselves. Thyroid patients who know the science can easily catch you with your pants down when you cite things you really don’t read.

It should be embarrassing when a citation directly contradicts the statements you think you’re making. These things should be caught during the peer-review process in the journal, so it reflects badly on your journal editors as well.

First of all, you’ve misread a key thyroid science article co-authored by Antonio Bianco (Gereben et al, 2015)

In the dialogue above, your words are in italics and I gave the citation you used.

A normal TSH clearly proves that their medication is working, because levothyroxine monotherapy maintains an adequate level of serum T4, and the iodothyronine deiodinases provide physiologic regulation of T3 availability. I think the recent article by Gereben et al, 2015 probably confirms that further, but I haven’t read it carefully yet, to be honest.

It is painfully obvious you have not read the article you cited after your claim. The citation proves the exact opposite"

[humanbean]

I read all three parts of Dr Smith's blog and they were amazing.

I hope some doctors will read them and grasp what she is saying, but I don't have high hopes.

I get the impression that endocrinologists are some of the worst doctors on the planet in terms of caring about their patients' quality of life and actually being good at their jobs.

They appear to have a reputation (wholly undeserved, in my opinion) of being the "scientists" of the medical profession. With such a reputation to uphold I don't expect to see any humility any time soon.

[TSH110 in reply to humanbean]

Pseudo scientists would be a perfect descriptor 😉

[TSH110]

She does not mince her words all three parts are an exhilarating read. I am looking forward to the tide of research washing away their TSH house which is built on nothing more than sand, to use a biblical analogy.

[silverfox7]

Thank you for your valuable research and keeping us in the loop!