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Can medical practice, with existing counterexamples and without scientific basis, dictate the abuse of patients?
Customary practice and prudent patient consent criteria are substantially different in the diagnosis and treatment of the mimics of hypothyroidism (maladies with the same symptoms but having different causes). Consequently, patients within this niche of healthcare are dissatisfied with customary practice because it ignores these mimics.

Royal College of Physicians: "Thyroxine ONLY treatment for primary hypothyroidism

Dr Gordon Skinner responds to the RCP statement

Coralie Phillips and Donna Roach write letter to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding natural desiccated thyroid treatment

IMPORTANT READING Dear Doctor….A Serious Appeal to the RCP et al

IMPORTANT READING Individual letters and messages sent to the RCP regarding their thyroxine-only statement

International Hormone Society President Dr Thierry Hertoghe officially responds to the RCP

Dr Thierry Hertoghe's references against RCP statement

Stability, effectiveness, and safety of desiccated thyroid vs thyroxine: A rebuttal to the British Thyroid Association by Dr John C Lowe, Director of Research, Fibromyalgia Research Association

An Examination of “The Diagnosis and Management of Primary Hypothyroidism” and other Hypothyroidism Practice Guideline

NEW TPA-UK rebuttal to the RCP thyroxine-only statement

Royal College of Physicians: "Thyroxine ONLY treatment for primary hypothyroidism"

RCP statement poses SERIOUS healthcare problems for patients

Hypothyroidism Mimics Require Consideration by Eric Pritchard, M.Sc. with TPA-UK letter to BTA
She wakes tired. Struggles to get up. Dresses slowly. Now exhausted, she falls back into bed. Once again she will have an after-nap breakfast. She wakes for her doctor’s appointment. Once again, he claims her tests were normal. Once again she claims she is sick. Once again, he writes the same old prescription, saying that she is really suffering from functional somatoform disorders. Once again, she is reduced to tears. “Why again? Must I suffer more? Why can’t you help me?” Is the diagnosis and treatment of hypothyroidism trivial? Or, is it more complex, even mysterious?

Evidence-based Medicine Leads to Mediation of Symptoms of Mimics of Hypothyroidism by Eric K. Pritchard, M.Sc.
Evidence Based Medicine is a modern, scientific alternative to the eminence based medicine. Currently, eminence based medicine is ignoring the mimics of hypothyroidism. Consequently, those patients are seemingly doomed to a life of chronic suffering with the symptoms of hypothyroidism, constant exhaustion, hypo-metabolism, hyper-cholesterolemia, deformity by myxedema, droopy eye lids, weight gain, etc. Furthermore, these patients are doomed to a life shorted by their greater susceptibility to life’s great killers, diabetes and heart disease.

TPA-UK Hypothyroid Patient results published
In this survey of 1500 hypothyroid patients, which was undertaken in 2005-6, the dissatisfaction of many patients is highlighted. Of all respondents, 93.8% (n=1407) had not been told of medicines other than L-thyroxine by their medical practitioner. 38.8% (n=768) felt they had “not been dealt with very well” or “not very well at all” by their doctor whilst seeking a diagnosis of their symptoms; 233 (15.5%) had given up paid employment; 300 (20%) had taken time off work as a result of thyroid illness; 500 (33.3%) felt their close relationships had been affected by thyroid illness and 632 (42.1%) had stopped or altered their exercise routines as a result of their symptoms. When asked of those patients undergoing L-thyroxine therapy, “Do you feel that you have fully regained your optimal state of health?”, 1176 (78.4%) Answered “No”.

The Linguistic Etiologies of Thyroxine-resistant Hypothyroidism
by Eric K. Pritchard
The thyroxine resistant victims of hypothyroidism are not suffering because there is no treatment available—the Food and Drug Administration approved and indicated them long ago. These victims are suffering because the proper treatments are not considered—linguistic etiologies keep the science of “exo-endocrine” (outside of the endocrine system) hypothyroidism beyond the reach of the practicing physician with the confusion of “overinclusion” (identical treatment of two classes that burdens one excessively). The linguistic etiologies must be eliminated.