Personalized Approach to Thyroid Disorders

[helvella]

Members have often expressed surprise at the gulf between endocrinologists and patients. So I was initially very pleased to see this paper.

Then I looked at the dates - when published and when held. And realised that they must live on a different planet.

(Date of this post: 15 February 2020.)

American Thyroid Association® Satellite Symposium: Personalized Approach to Thyroid Disorders

Dr. Laura Boucai

and

Dr. Francesco S Celi

Published Online: 14 Feb 2020 doi.org/10.1089/thy.2020.0087

Abstract

The highlights of the American Thyroid Association® Satellite Symposium: Personalized Approach to Thyroid Disorders held on Friday, March 27, 2020, 1:00 PM – 5:30 PM at the Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, California are described below.

liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

[greygoose]

lol

[grauntieannie in reply to greygoose]

:)))

[Sybilla14]

The title ‘PERSONALIZED Approach to Thyroid Disorders’ by itself sounds like a hoax!

[Goldengirl01]

Maybe that’s where our endo’s And Dr’s are, on that same planet 🤔🥴

[humanbean]

For anyone who wants to read more this link is available :

sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/...

but I can promise you - it isn't exciting!

And I'm completely baffled about whether this symposium has already happened, or whether the link above is advance notice or whether the highlights of the symposium will be available from March 27, 2020.

[helvella in reply to humanbean]

My take is that they have prepared a place for the document to go, even to the extent of publishing it, but a) the event has not yet taken place; b) when the event does take place, they will take weeks or months to prepare the reports; c) it all looks completely silly.

I suppose they might be using the documents prepared and submitted by those presenting papers/seminars/lectures, rather than reports of the actual event, in which case they might want it ready for the event itself. But I don't see why they feel the need to write it in some bizarre future historical wording.

[Treepie in reply to helvella]

Reminds me of a colleague who used to write minutes of meetings before the meeting.

[Hidden in reply to Treepie]

Yes. I've belonged to sports committee long ago,where the chairman and secretary (husband and wife) used to go home and write their own version........on reading the minutes we wondered if we'd been at the same meeting !!

[catrich in reply to humanbean]

Advance notice of a symposium. The 'article' is simply the outline of the programme. Future tense looks perfectly logical to me, given that it's next month.

[Hidden]

So time travel IS possible!!!!

[Hidden]

Or is it because Einstein was right and, on a planet far far away, time goes that much faster.

[BadHare in reply to Hidden]

Isn’t that Clanger planet? The endocrinologists I‘ve come across are somewhere less amusing.

[Hidden in reply to BadHare]

I used to love the Clangers!

[BadHare in reply to Hidden]

I still do, especially the froglets & Soupdragons!

I've bought a Clanger planet & toys for my friend's grandchildren.

[helvella in reply to BadHare]

My step-father taught Peter Firmin sculpture...

[BadHare in reply to helvella]

Wow, that's impressive!!!

[Hidden in reply to BadHare]

I was grown up when the Clangers began!

[TSH110]

Well Dr Anne Cappola gets great reviews here for her personalised approach:

google.co.uk/amp/s/www.rate...

Pity she cannot be kept on that planet and well away from people with thyroid disorders! One advantage of that planet if times goes faster is that their stranglehold on treatment would be soon over!

[vocalEK]

The link posted by human bean talks about ranges based on BMI. Seems to me that's a chicken and egg problem. Being hypothyroid tends to give the patient a higher BMI, so they will take the higher TSH of those patients and call that normal!

[vocalEK]

Wouldn't those panel discussions be more interesting if they had invited representatives from patient groups to be on the panel(s)?