Host: Beverly Hashimoto, MD

Guest: Jonn Cronan, MD, FACR

Thanks to extremely sensitive ultrasound technology, thyroid nodules are being detected and treated at unprecedented rates. Host Dr. Beverly Hashimoto welcomes Dr. John Cronan, professor of diagnostic imaging at the Brown University School of Medicine and chairman of the diagnostic imaging department at Rhode Island Hospital, to discuss the phenomenon of over-treatment of thyroid nodules. Is this pattern of care helping or harming our patients?