Re: Answer to Sheila - Fight

[Guest guest]

Dear Lou and All,

Sheila and I have been working on the lack of appropriate diagnostics and

therapy for the symptoms of hypothyroidism for six or seven years now. I

concentrated on the relevant medicine and law while Sheila worked on medicine,

keeping up the TPA website, and this forum. We have tried and tried to get

endocrinology and medicine to check this out with an open mind. We have

approached government agencies in the US and the UK without any luck. (Much of

the correspondence is on the TPA website.)

There is a basic reason for no luck. Our governments have made a horrible deal

with organized medicine. We, the people, will not interfere with medical

practice. We will do what they say and pay what they want. We surrendered of

our medical sovereignty to organized medicine and their philosphy of life. This

was necessary to create the NHS and was sold to the legislatures everywhere as a

wise and appropriate measure for our health and welfare. What our governments

did not count upon were human frailties like greed and ego. They were sold the

belief that all doctors were perfect and altruistic.

The letter that the RCP sent to Sheila is a shorter version of the letter that I

got from the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) years ago.

That letter thanked me for my interest, but claimed they were the experts. I

rewrote my letter to the AACE in a more conversational style. It was published

by a peer-reviewed medical journal and is on the TPA site as well. This paper

proved that if the critical terms in the AACE guideline were defined uniquely

and the text maintained logical consistency, then we would not have folks

suffering unnecessarily. This did not matter. It has not mattered. Nothing

has changed over the past years. Since we have given up our medical

sovereignty, government has had either no response or negative responses.

Around the time that I began this fight, I learned of the transfat issue. Dr.

Enig spent the bulk of her adult life fighting for a ban on transfats

because they are empty calories that simply make us fat. Transfats are stored

in our bodies as fat, but then are quite difficult to metabolize. So we just

eat more and get fatter. My uncle got involved with this some years ago when

Tommy was Secretary of Health and Human Services. In a fairly short

time through some fortuitous connections, my uncle and the Attorney General from

Oklahoma visted the Secretary with a letter against the consumption of transfats

signed by a dozen states attorney generals. The line of attack was through a

labeling law which transfats manufacturers were ignoring. Because they had to

be labeled, and since manufacturers were approched with potential of legal

action, manfacturers began eliminating these fats, which were chemically not

really necessary anyway.

Similarly our line of attack is through valid and informed consent requirements.

We are not getting the necessary and available information to give such consent.

As a consequence, many people, mostly women, are not relieved of their symptoms

of hypothyroidism. They are not relieved of their symptoms because medicine

ignores the bodily functions, which when deficient, mimic deficient secretion by

the thyroid gland -- hypothyroidism. These functions, their deficiencies, and

their mitigations have been known to medical science for decades. Per medical

ethics, medical practice, consequently, knew this or should have known this as

well.

From my uncle's experience, from my experience with US medical authorities and

government, and from our experience with UK medical authorities and government,

I can honestly say that we have made every possible effort to get relief for the

millions who are suffering in the US and the UK. We see no value in continuing

the academic, nice and respectful approach.

The RCP has effectively given us the two-fingered salute and cut off

discussions. And I have effectively received a significant number of

single-fingered gestures. There is only two ways to proceed. Suffer or Fight.

We need to fight for mitigation of our suffering.

After Dunkirk, Hitler was poised on the French coast contemplating the invasion

of England. Churchill spoke to his countrymen and to free people everywhere

that England would fight on the beaches and throughout England and never give

up. This is our legacy. It should become our spirit.

What we have to realize is just who our enemy is. As we have seen after that

war, our fight was really not with the German soldiers, but with the Nazi

leadership, with Hitler himself. The German soldiers were merely the

instruments of Hitler's evil. Similarly, our fight is not with our practicing

physicians because they, like the German soldiers, are only following the

dictates from their superiors in the General Medical Council, the British

Thyroid Association, the Royal College of Physicians, the American Association

of Clinical Endocrinologists, the American Thyroid Associations, and numerous

other similar professional associations. These are powerful organizations which

the government, even Her Majesty, are loathe to combat. Consequently, we must

organize and do it ourselves.

It is time for sacrifice just has our parents and grandparents did in the fight

for their lives and freedom during WWII and the following cold war. It will

take sacrifice, just has Sheila and I have sacrificed for several years now. We

have explored the peaceful approaches with thousands of hours of work each. The

peaceful solutions are not there.

Professor Weetman demands that your hormone replacement is not yours but

medicine's. The RCP has punctuated this effectively with a writen version of

the two-finger salute. Now it is time for you to decide just whose hormone

replacement is it -- yours or theirs.

IT is well past time to fight, fight, fight for our autonomy, health and

welfare. Volunteer. Send money. Write letters to the media. Tell your story

of medical abuse. Demand your Human Rights ! ! !

And fight for a better day,

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> Instead of us writing to this Catharine , why don't we all start writing

to Ian Gilmore himself. Perhaps he will take the issue seriously if he starts

having to read the correspondence himself.

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> His email address is on the internet.

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> Lou xx

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