Save Your Thyroid with Jennifer Holkem · Episode 122As thyroid radiofrequency ablation grows rapidly in the United States, one question is becoming increasingly urgent for patients trying to navigate their options:How do you actually kn…
Save Your Thyroid with Jennifer Holkem · Episode 121When Dr. Eren Berber tells you that robotic thyroid surgery isn't always the better choice, it carries a different weight than when someone else says it.He was one of the first surgeon…
Redefining the Indeterminate Diagnosis: Chelsie Paulson’s Fight to Save Her ThyroidFor many thyroid patients, a biopsy result is supposed to be the finish line of their anxiety. You endure the needle, you wait for the pathology report, and y…
When Emily Saska went in for imaging on a "weird back thing" at age 37, she wasn’t expecting to be pulled off the ceiling by a radiologist. She was a healthy, fit lawyer and a busy mom of two. But the scan had picked up something unrelated: a …
Building a New Home for Thyroid Preservation: Dr. Ian Orozco’s Leap into Private PracticeFor decades, the journey of a thyroid patient felt like a conveyor belt. You discover a nodule, you endure the anxiety of a biopsy, and if that lump is …
From the Operating Room to the Office: How One Surgeon is Bringing Non-Surgical Thyroid Care to the BayouWhen a patient is told they have a thyroid nodule, the immediate reaction is almost universally the same: panic. The mind instantly races to t…
When Anne Moeller first noticed the lump on her neck back in 2018, she did what most of us do — she covered it up and hoped for the best. A scarf here, a well-angled photograph there. For years, her multinodular goiter was more of an inconveni…
Imagine sitting in an exam room and being told your thyroid has to come out.Maybe your nodule has grown too large. Maybe it’s toxic, overproducing hormones and wreaking havoc on your body. Or maybe, like so many patients, you’ve be…
Thyroid Nodule Ablation: Why This Paradigm Shift is Here to Stay (NASIT 2026)In 2019, when it became apparent that I had to do something about my thyroid nodules, the medical landscape looked very different than it does today. Finding a doctor to …
In 2016, a routine medical checkup revealed a growth on Tosin’s thyroid. Like many patients with an asymptomatic multinodular goiter, his initial strategy was simply to monitor it. He felt fine, and the idea of removing his thyroid—and c…
When I first heard Morley Robbins on a podcast, I’ll be honest: I was offended. I’ve been in the thyroid advocacy space going on seven years, and I thought I had a solid handle on the science. But as I listened to Morley make statements …
Beyond the Scalpel: How Pressure-Enabled Embolization is Shrinking Massive GoitersFor years, patients facing the diagnosis of a massive, compressive goiter were given a single, terrifying path forward.When a thyroid grows so large that it dives …
