Dear Mary Shomon,

Thank you for your kind comments about my being consistent. I have taken care of only thyroid patients for 30 years. It has taught me that chasing patient's symptoms, is a fruitless, and dangerous undertaking if they have 100% normal T4, T3 and TSH, by the best thyroid methods today.

Well, reporter Mary, you would be fired by any self respecting newspaper, if you plugged your book and wrote articles about your sponsors.

Your motto should be We're patients.... not lab values, we want our doctors to ignore 50 years of research, and treat us like they did in the 1940's, when therapy was based on symptoms, not facts.

How can someone like you, with no background in thyroid disease put out such bad advice in the name of a thyroid advocate? Your e-mail fans were the most uneducated thyroid patients, I have ever run across in the 7 years on the web answering questions. The e-mails convinced me that you were filling them with half truths, and out right falsehoods. There should be a big Pop Up prior to all your ads on your website that states,

Well, reporter Mary, you would be fired by any self respecting newspaper, if you plugged your book and and wrote articles about your sponsers.

Your motto should be We're patients.... not lab values, we want our doctors to ignore 50 years of research, and treat us like they did in the 1940's, when therapy was based on symptoms, not facts.

How can someone like you, with no background in thyroid disease put out such bad advice in the name of a thyroid advocate? Your email fans were the most uneducated thyroid patients, I have ever run across in the 7 years on the web answering questions. The emails convinced me that you were filling them with half truths, and out right falsehoods. There should be a big Pop Up prior to all your ads on your website that states,

I also believe that thyroid patients deserve to be told the truth about their disease. Thyroid patients deserve the facts, and nothing less.

Your website is an alternative health site, not a thyroid health site. You need to drop the thyroid advocate label, and replace it corporation pitch woman.

In conclusion, I would not have cared about you and your site, if you were not a top 10 thyroid site. Many patients may be fooled by your self serving "advocate role", and needed to be warned. Usually, however, they are turned off by your heavy handed attack on doctors, and the obvious
commercial goals of your BIG Corporation bosses, at about.com.

Yours truly, and goodbye,

Dr. Richard Guttler
Thyroidologist