Internasjonalt Tyreoideasymposium "The Anthony Weetman Affair"

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Sitert fra Invitasjonen til Internasjonalt Tyreoideasymposium Gardemoen 29 november 2012:

"Vi har fått i uppdrag (av Novo Nordisk Fonden/red.) å dele ut årets Jacobeuspris til en framragende internasjonal forsker innen endokrinologi. Prisen går til prof. Anthony Weetman fra Sheffield UK. Han har gjennom en årrekke bidratt med ny og vigtig kunnskap om autoimmunitet og endokrinologiske sykdommer også tyreoideasykdommer."

Translated: "We have got the task (from The Novo Nordisk Foundation / red.) to handover The H. C. Jacobaeus Lecture Prize 2012 to a brilliant international researcher in endocrinology. Award goes to Professor Anthony Weetman from Sheffield UK. He has for many years contributed with new, important knowledge on autoimmunity and endocrine diseases, also thyroid diseases."

Anthony Weetman? "Framragende internasjonal forsker innen endokrinologi" ? Snarere en psykiatriserende endokrinolog er han!

Han, som sagde: "Nothing seems more straightforward than treatment of hypothyroidism..." ?

In a stunning display of medical condescension, endocrinologist AP "Tony" Weetman, Dean of the Medical School at the University of Sheffield in the UK, has written a derogatory, anti-patient editorial on thyroid disease, titled "Whose Thyroid Hormone Replacement is it Anyway?" It's a frightening view into the mind of many of today's endocrinologists, and the tired dogma that guides how they practice, but it's a must-read for any informed patient. It's available online at Medscape (free login required), and published in this month's issue of the journal "Clinical Endocrinology".

It's All In Your Head

In his editorial, Weetman states that patients who have "normal thyroid function tests" but insist they should be treated for multiple thyroid symptoms actually have "somatoform disorders." Sounds very medical and official, right? But make no mistake..."somatoform disorders" is medicalspeak for hypochondria. That's right. Weetman is saying is that if your tests are normal -- and apparently, even if you have a host of thyroid symptoms, a family history, and a goiter the size of a melon -- the diagnosis is simple and straightforward: you have a psychiatric condition. Yes, it's all in your head.

Why is it so easy to write you off as a mental health problem? Because "nothing seems more straightforward than treatment of hypothyroidism," says Weetman. According to Weetman, "we have robust assays to diagnose the condition and an effective replacement in the form of synthetic thyroxine." Les mer... Read more... (Whose Health is It Anyway, Tony?)

Mer om denne årets prismottaker Anthony Weetman Tyreoideagruppen er vert for:

AP Tony Weetman's Controversy over Thyroid Disease as Mental Illness

Dette sier alt om hva Tyreoideagruppen driver med... "It's All In Your Head" sier æresgjesten fra UK, professor Anthony Weetman, til hypothyreosepasienter.