On the Forums
Over at the main Thyroid Forum, patients are generally not impressed with Weetman. Rob writes:We that have suffered and continue to suffer have more of an understanding than this excuse for an expert could ever have, given his inability to see the facts staring him in the face. To imagine you have all the answers and to refuse to shift is not a trait I admire.Leslie writes:
I'm often confused about the politics of medicine. On one hand they want us to be aware of preventive healthcare but on the other hand, they want to keep patients sick...Mama3043 writes:
I cannot even begin to describe the frustration/anger I feel inside after reading this. I am at the end of my rope with doctors like this. This is precisely the wall that I have been hitting since getting diagnosed.JMPettyWed writes:
...This arrogant "doctor" just angers me so much because it makes me remember everything I had to do just to find a doc that would listen to me. This man is not a real doctor. So what if he has the education and the license. A REAL doctor truly cares about the health and well-being about their patients. Whatever happened to the Hippocratic Oath? It's lip service now for the most part...I say prepare the firing squad b/c this doc is part of the problem with our healthcare worldwide.Julia writes:
We all know what it felt to be normal - and we know it's not normal now...It's enough to send any "normal" person over the edge, let alone one who is suffering....This guy is just trying to shift the focus off his inadequacies.Rbrtplnt34 writes:
I think he always dreamed of being an endocrinologist when he fell asleep in med school.Showeme
I'm certainly glad this quack is in the UK and not the US. He is a professor for crying out loud, a researcher and a lecturer at a medical school. How many female thyroid patients has he ever treated?? None probably because its all in our heads. I'm thinking he is the mental case...And over at the UK Forums, more concern.
Jim writes:
It's tragic that someone like Weetman who has carried out extensive research into thyroid disorders should then fail at the first hurdle, he starts with the blood test instead of the patient. This philosophy assumes the theory is correct regardless of observation.Before jumping on his "functional somatoform" hobby horse he quotes some alternative views in isolation and then uses them to oppose non-reliance on blood tests. There's a learning point here, we have to be careful of how we put forward our case, not exaggerate and indeed state our case in such a way that it cannot (deliberately) be mis-interpreted. We are fighting a political battle, not just a scientific one.
On the whole I think this paper is good news! Its aloof and arrogant style detracts from the points he's making. I don't think it will impress many of the doctors who may read it.
