Top Ten Thyroid Stories of 2006
By Mary Shomon, About.com Guide
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A.P. "Tony" Weetman is a British endocrinologist who has, in one short editorial, titled "Whose Thyroid Hormone Replacement Is It Anyway?" summarized everything that is wrong with today's endocrinologists. Weetman arrogantly proclaims in the March 2006 issue of Clinical Endocrinology that patients with thyroid symptoms who insist they have a thyroid condition despite so-called "normal" test results are mentally ill. What's the story?
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