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Why is Sara Rosenthal Attacking Thyroid Patient Advocacy…And Thyroid Patients?

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Why is Sara Rosenthal Attacking Thyroid Patient Advocacy…And Thyroid Patients?

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Why is Sara Rosenthal Attacking Thyroid Patient Advocacy…And Thyroid Patients? Tuesday September 5, 2006 #spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) Sara Rosenthal is stirring things up with a controversial article in an unlikely place: The Journal of Nuclear Medical Technology. Readers have been writing to me all week to complain about the article, titled “Patient Misconceptions and Ethical Challenges in Radioactive Iodine Scanning and Therapy.” In the article, Rosenthal, a thyroid cancer survivor and writer, claims that the thyroid information patients get online and in books furthers “misinformation” about radioactive iodine (RAI) scanning and treatment. One reader wrote to say that “It’s a pretty disgusting article” and described Rosenthal as having “too much starch in her white coat.” Another reader, Stephanie, wrote that she resented “the references to the patient as being unable to u