Keeping Doctors Current: Dr. Richard Birtwhistle and New Guidelines against Thyroid Dysfunction Screening

November 25, 2019 00:26:14
Keeping Doctors Current: Dr. Richard Birtwhistle and New Guidelines against Thyroid Dysfunction Screening
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Keeping Doctors Current: Dr. Richard Birtwhistle and New Guidelines against Thyroid Dysfunction Screening

Nov 25 2019 | 00:26:14

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Show Notes

Dr. Richard Birtwhistle, Emeritus professor of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences at Queen’s University and Chair of the Task Force Thyroid Dysfunction working group joins us in studio. Dr. Birtwhistle talks about thyroid dysfunction, the work his task force has done developing new guidelines against thyroid dysfunction testing, the impacts of testing, and the importance in guideline development in ensuring medical practitioners stay current in medicine.

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