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Dr. Guttler's Newsletter November 12, 2003 Hello to all my subscribers, The first big news is the home page has reached 25 million hits a year. We continue to build audience, and increase services available to our readers. The newsletter readers are now 10,000 strong. We are launching a new service this week. Several years ago with an educational grant from a large drug company, I answered email questions from thyroid patients, and worried relatives. The response was so overwhelming, that after two years I burned out, and discontinued that free service to the public. Four years later, we tried to get funding, but the world changes. Now the grant money is tied to a review of each and every email answer I would send. Fear of legal action against their massive corporations makes this service impossible now. I went to non-profit groups such as Thyroid Cancer (thyca.com) and offered the service, that would be funded by unrestricted grant. They also would want a legal review of all my answers. That is not possible to have answer reviewed by the house legal eagle. Even the non-profit organization is afraid of suits.
Well, the only recourse is to have the patients pay a small fee to ask me their thyroid related questions. Thus, beginning next week, The "Ask The Thyroid Doctor" service will be added to The Thyroid Home Page. A 200 word or less questions can be asked, after using PayPal to collect the fee over a secure site. This will allow the questioner's credit card information to remain secret from me. We also offer a check method of payment. However, the answer would not be sent until the check cleared the bank. I am excited about this service. It can help patients find thyroid experts near them, and find real thyroid surgeons that have very, very low complication rates, doing 50-150 thyroidectomies a year.It will help patients stay away from so called "experts" without credentials. Please do not use the other email site on the home page for medical questions.They will not be answered. The other email site is for patients, appointments, and other logistical reasons. Check out the New Service website on my site: http://www.thyroid.com/askdoctor.html It will be active the week of November 18 th. TSH Big News TSH Normal Range Change 0.5-2.5 TSH The TSH test run by your local hospital, or doctor's lab has a normal range that is outdated. The upper part of the range has been around 4-5 for years. Recent studies show that the range was falsely high due to contamination of that area from 2.5- 4 by subclincal hypothyriod patients that had thyroid antibodies They did not measure antibodies in normal controls or used tests that were only 70% positive. The new Normal Range is 0.5-2.5. That means many of you who were told you were normal when your TSH was 3.0 may have Autoimmune thyroid disease with early thyroid failure. Dr. Richard Guttler Call 800-408-4909 for consultation, billing, and details. Yours truly, and goodbye, Richard Guttler M.D., F.A.C.E. "You are the thyroid patients....... Thyroid Disease Opinions from the desk of The Thyroid Home Page does not receive any outside funding of any sort, and especially none from Abbott, (Synthroid), Jones, (Levoxyl) or any other thyroid drug companies. (Unithroid, Levothyroid, or Armour). No other top ten thyroid web site can make that claim. |
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