The Thyroid Exam (Stanford Medicine 25) 

This doctor is amazing at explaining physical exams. 10/10

This teacher is just amazing.

I was never the best of thyroid examiners. So, of course, the patient assigned to me for the final practical exam. in internal medicine was a deaf woman with a small, solitary nodule in the left lobe of her thyroid gland. Luckily (yes, "luckily" is the appropriate word) I found it!

The patient looks like he wanted to laugh lol.

You are a wonderful doctor and a wonderful teacher, Dr. Verghese

Best demo I've seen of this exam. Thanks!

Exactly what I needed for thyroid assessment! Thank you!

I went for an exam & the doctor decided to examine my thyroid. She told me to take off my T-shirt and tilt my head back and raise my chest to the ceiling by arching my back (exactly like the Fish Pose in yoga). Then she quickly JAMMED her pointer & middle fingers into that space between my clavical and she kept pressing deeper & harder & i told her she was hurting me & she jammed in even harder. After she did that, I had severe pain in that area. I could barely swallow for 6 months!!! and it gave me laryngitis for a year!!! I had so much trouble swallowing& talking now, that I had to get Physical Therapy for it because of the non-stop pressure on my throat, and I kept swallowing air and getting painful hiccups that sounded like a wild beast rather than a human hiccup. It was one of the worst things that ever happened to me in my life!! It has been 6 YEARS since she did that to me and I STILL have the same horrible symptoms; and I cannot even wear a light chain or necklace, a turtle neck sweater, or even a scarf around my neck, without it disrupting my ability to swallow, causing pressure pain, and causing these beastly Hiccups that terrify anyone i'm around. ??Have you ever heard of an exam like this?? WHAT did she do to me?? I believe she severely violated me. Shouldn't this have healed after 6 years???!!! WHAT did she do to my healthy thyroid, trachea, esophagus, and my total throat area mechanics? I am still beyond devastated and the worst part is that there was absolutely NOTHING wrong with my thyroid to even merit this so-called exam! Thank you so much for explaining this. Please advise me.

This was quite concise and thorough. Thank you!

Excellent explanation and approach

Very helpful video

How great he is

great video doc

Thank u so much❤❤❤❤❤❤

Wonderful

thanks Doc

I’m red in the face watching this

Dr. Abraham Verghese?

I've had sweaty palms ever since elementary, or... as young as I could remember. I am 22 now. This means I've had hyperthyroid FOR OVER 15+ YEARS! Oh yeah I also have many symptoms of it.. haha

The sle lupus caused me to lose both thyroid glands when it attacked them, I take thyroid meds for life now, it was awful when it attacked them I almost died it caused my glands to grow fast they were big almost two baseballs and they gave off an bad stink odor.

amazing👌

Can we add testing for exophthalmos also?

Loved it

They don't do this at any doctors I've had.

Thanku

I take 50mg thyroxine medicine when my tsh level 6.85. Now my tsh level is 0.05. What power medicine to take?

What examine to do in retrosternal thyroid?

"as if i am going to choke the patient" the patient: 👀

What if i can't feel my Thyroid bone cause i feel it damaged and needs repair if still possible. I used to feel it until recently that it got damaged by somemany random things i did. Now i just want to know if it could still get repaired back to normal please. I can't even sing nor talk best

can thyroid cancer comes with out giving any big sign of the neck? please answer I am scared

I have a small firm/hard not very movable lump the size of an uncooked rice on the left side near the middle/tip of the thyroid cartilage slightly lower than the actual Adam’s apple (where it points out the most). Nothing on my right side....also a swollen thyroid especially the left thyroid? Anything to worry about?

why the sweating hands and tremor ?

What does it means if there's a fine tremor???

Throat soiling but my blood is clear there is no problem in my blood wats reason???

i dont have a thyroid at all and this was wierd because i just felt my trachea from chin to collarbone lmao

Cute patient!!! =)

hi DR i am ayan from kenya i need your fcbook plz thnx