The thyroidologist will frankly tell you if he thinks the surgery is needed, and if so, if the surgeon is qualified to offer low risk care. He will recommend a thyroid surgeon. Remember thyroid surgery for nodules is not an emergency. You have time to make sure you are doing the right thing, and with the best qualified thyroid surgeon. When you are told you have thyroid cancer.
Most people think an oncologist is the right physician to see.
Well, that is wrong. Thyroid cancer is a thyroid hormone cancer and is best treated by a thyroidologist. There is none of the drugs used by oncologists, that have any use in treating thyroid cancer. Also external Radiation therapy is not useful in most cases. The nuclear medicine physician, unless he has special training in thyroidology, which is rare these days, is not the best physician to captain your thyroid cancer team.