Doctor Thyroid

This episode is recorded from Boston at the World Congress on Thyroid Cancer, where thyroid doctors and researchers gathered to share the latest medical research and medical improvements related to thyroid disease.  Dr. Özer Makay is an expert in nerve monitoring during thyroid surgery, and has been a guest faculty member in South Korea, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and Bulgaria.  He has received 17 awards and honors for his scientific studies.  He has authored a 300-page book on nerve monitoring during thyroid surgery.  This episode covers the following topics: Protecting the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) and superior laryngeal nerve during thyroid surgery. Outcomes of damaging these nerves during surgery include no voice, hoarseness, shortness of breath, problem with drinking water or aspiration, impaired physical exertion with something as simple as climbing a flight of stairs. Why some centers have a higher occurrence of damage during thyroid surgery and include an error rate as hig