Join the Mission to Transform Thyroid Care

A Patient-Led Social Enterprise

We are a for-profit, patient-led initiative and a 2024 Comcast RISE Grant winner due to our social impact focus. Your financial contribution is not tax-deductible, but every dollar goes directly toward expanding education and outreach efforts which gives us more leverage in demonstrating public investment as we involve patients more in our ecosystem approach in improving healthcare. We believe that patients should be at the top of the hierarchy in guiding what kind of care we find valuable.

For far too long, physicians have focused on what paid out more from insurance companies or dismissed conditions that impacted women more–such as thyroid disorders or spinal CSF leaks. We have even had attending physicians (teachers at prestigious university hospitals) tell us how they allowed residents to avoid learning the basics of key, research-based procedures that would improve women’s health simply to focus on the latest gadget because they thought it was “cool” or a more expensive but inherently ineffective treatment. We have also encountered physicians mocking our review of case studies and patient anecdotes on social media, reviewing the greater risks of certain procedures by race, as the physicians were dismissing factors that did not pertain to Caucasian males. It’s time for the patients to take back the power.