http://askdrcliff.com/archives/883 Cliff's writings, office updates, news, and more. Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:38:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://askdrcliff.com/archives/883/comment-page-1#comment-335 Eric Pritchard Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:16:39 +0000 http://askdrcliff.com/?p=883#comment-335 The masters of endocrinology definitely have the Semmelweis reflex when they encounter the concepts of mimics of hypothyroidism. These masters, experts in their field, believe that one post thyroid function never fails and the other, if they acknowledge its existence, can not be treated. Consequently, they do not attempt to do anything for the patients who have continuing symptoms of hypothyroidism. Instead of acknowledging real science, they have produced scapegoats of "nonspecific symptoms" and "functional somatoform disorders." So either medicine is not suffiently advanced to treat the patient or the suffering is all in the patients mind. Neither is correct, but that is their story and they are sticking to it. We are shocked that Semmelweis had to fight against "bad humors in the air" with only empirical data. Now we should be doubly shocked as the masters of endocrinology reiterate junk science in the face of their counterexamples - patients who have suffered under their prescriptions but have regained active healthy lives under their proscriptions. The masters of endocrinology definitely have the Semmelweis reflex when they encounter the concepts of mimics of hypothyroidism. These masters, experts in their field, believe that one post thyroid function never fails and the other, if they acknowledge its existence, can not be treated. Consequently, they do not attempt to do anything for the patients who have continuing symptoms of hypothyroidism. Instead of acknowledging real science, they have produced scapegoats of “nonspecific symptoms” and “functional somatoform disorders.” So either medicine is not suffiently advanced to treat the patient or the suffering is all in the patients mind. Neither is correct, but that is their story and they are sticking to it. We are shocked that Semmelweis had to fight against “bad humors in the air” with only empirical data. Now we should be doubly shocked as the masters of endocrinology reiterate junk science in the face of their counterexamples – patients who have suffered under their prescriptions but have regained active healthy lives under their proscriptions.

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