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Friday, 3 July 2009
Awareness In The UK VS The US: This Needs To Be Changed
21:28 | Posted by
Louise Sopher
Note: This is a response to the previous entry where I listed some useful videos to look at relating to the thyroid and the endocrine system.
Here's a funny thing...
Have you noticed that most of the videos below are from the US? From news reports to study guides - doesn't it make you think?
When have you ever seen a news report in the UK, saying "could it be your thyroid?"
When have you ever had a whole section in your science exam at school on the endocrine system and specifically the thyroid?
Please, correct me if I am wrong, but it seems that we, in the UK, really overlook the existence of the thyroid. This needs to be changed. Yes, the US is of course a bigger place, and yes, this does mean that there is a much higher percentage of people with thyroid disease in the US when compared with the UK. But this is no excuse for our nationwide ignoring of the thyroid.
A simple search on the BBC's website shows that Radio 4 does refer to the thyroid, and that there was an article dated 1997 - in reference to the Chernobyl incident - where thyroid cancer was mentioned in some detail. See the article here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1997/chernobyl/32655.stm
Radio 4? Let me ask you, does Radio 4 target the general population? No.
Does radio output a message as clearly to a modern audience as television? No.
Would a simple, even a short, news report on the evening, or even daytime, television news, be more informative and more effective than the feeble attempt that is currently produced?
Yes.
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