Renegade Endocrinologist: A Serial Memoir Exclusive to Thyroid.com’s Blog. How a series of unconnected events formed my life, and my life’s work as a clinical thyroidologist. Excerpts: Chapter One: How my way of overcrowded schools...
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Thyroid Center of Santa Monica Named Top 40 Thyroid Blog Hi Dr.Guttler, My name is Anuj Agarwal. I’m Founder of Feedspot. I would like to personally congratulate you as your blog Thyroid Center of Santa Monica has been selected by our...
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Twenty years is a long time in any profession. It is light-years in length with the explosion of the Internet and how it has affected information flow and the medical field, among many others. When we started Thyroid.com 20 years ago, our best...
More infoTHE THYROIDOLOGISTS BLOG: SEE WHAT A THYROID EXPERT WITH CREDENTIALS HAS TO SAY The Thyroid Doctor’s log after seeing his patients. I am a rare bird. I am one of the few physicians to practice clinical thyroidology only for 35 years. I am...
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Twenty Years And Going Stronger than Ever: Thyroid.com In 1996 who knew what was going to happen to medicine, and to the increasing power of an old military project called the internet. A former student’s husband suggested I get a website...
More infoFriday, December 31, 2004 His Thyroid Cancer didn’t take up Radioiodine. Was this a true test, or hidden contamination by unknown iodine intake? 41 year old male had a well differentiated papillary thyroid cancer removed and was in the...
More infoHMO Refuses Patient’s Request for A Thyroid Surgeon. Also Does Not Biopsy the Nodule Before Surgery. Posted by Richard B. Guttler M.D., F.A.C.E, ECNU at 1:13 PM No comments: Links to this post Wednesday, October 05, 2005 Very Prolonged...
More infoWednesday, November 22, 2006 Holistic Therapy for Graves’ Disease: An 8 Year Therapy Plan that Failed, or How to Stroke Out or Die When There is Conventional Medical Therapy 49 Y/O male ex- chirpractor, first sought medical care 8 years...
More infoTuesday, November 04, 2008 Thyroid Cancer: A Lesson in What Can Go Wrong with Multiple Unnecessary Surgeries 39 Y/O female has a lump found below her right ear. First problem. A excision biopsy was done by an ENT without any ultrasound, or fine...
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The thyroid function is regulated by the TSH. That is produced by the pituitary. TSH is under the control of TRH produced by the hypothalamus. Thyroid hormone secretion is under control by a negative feedback loop system. T4, and T3 feed back on...
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Most thyroid nodules are not cancer – 3-5 out of 100 nodules Here is a detailed list of the causes of thyroid nodules. 1. Benign, Colloid goiter nodule, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, Follicular Adenoma, Hurthle cell adenoma, Thyroglossal...
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Do not let your primary physician do routine ultrasound of your thyroid just because he has a portable unit like above, or has a sonographer doing studies on patients that need to be studied. Just say no to routine screening for thyroid nodules...
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