McCall McPhersonFounder, Modern Thyroid Clinic.

Hitting My Breaking Point: A Clinician's Patient Perspective

4 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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First-person account by McCall McPherson describing an adversarial clinical encounter over thyroid medication dosing—being told their TSH was “too low” and to reduce medication—followed by an emotional breakdown and fear of losing function and employment. They eventually found an integrative medicine physician who treated thyroid conditions, noting limited access to such care then and now.

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Who are we working for here? Who are clinicians working for our patients or insurance companies because we are tripping over dollars to save pennies, literally and metaphorically. So refused. And in fact, he came back and said, you know what? Actually, it looks like you are over medicated. Your TSH is too low. I need to reduce your medication. And I literally broke down in his office, and I was like, you cannot take anything else away from me. I will. I will lose my job. Like, I will not be able to function in society if I get any worse than I am right now. At that point, I found an integrative medicine physician who dealt with thyroid conditions. Back then, honestly, he was one of the only people. This was before there was access, and there's still not access today.