I am very out of breath and went to Mayo Rochester fall of 2011. Many tests were run, heart, blood, xrays, etc. I am obese. I brohgut other tests from local doctors. I was sent for thoracic surgery for enlarged lymph nodes in my chest area. The only diagnoses was inflammation. There was no follow up by the doctor, no confirmation or results of the TB test. I was hung out to dry and I believe it was because I am obese. Just last week my local dermatologist who is treating an autoimmune problem, heard about my inflammation problem. He is from the Mayo Clinic. He wanted to know what Mayo was doing about the breathing problem. He looked at their records and saw blood tests that weren’t run for sarcoidosis and told me to go to a pulmonary dr. At Mayo Rochester last fall, after my surgery and tests, Dr. Graves suggested I cancel my pulmonary appointment as he thought they would not find anything further than being obese. My spirometry was good. I agreed and cancelled the appointment. When I came home from the dermatologist last week, I cried because a doctor actually cared!!! Now I don’t know if I should return to pulmonary at Mayo Rochester or make a local appointment in Minneapolis. I know I will NOT see Dr. Graves again. I understand from an infectious disease doctor elsewhere when a patient is out of breath, the first thing they do is run blood tests for fungus. Before surgery,I asked Dr. Graves if he had run fungus blood tests and his reply was that there wasn’t any need to. What if the surgery would have found a fungus? I had three months of neurophathy from the surgery and it might have been unnecessary!!!! My chest scan recently still shows enlarged lymph glands and my breathing is getting worse.I have previously had major surgeries and cancer diagnoses at Mayo Rochester and a lumbar fusion at Mayo Scottsdale, all with great doctors and results. However, before back surgery, Mayo Rochester sent me to the pain clinic. They gave me exercises which made my back worse. I called and wanted to get an appointment to return sooner than three weeks. I was told, We are not an emergency clinic. Come back when you are supposed to. I am so happy with the fusion at Scottsdale with Dr. Patel.
Articles like these put the consumer in the driver seat-very important.
After visiting an emcngerey room at a major Southern California hospital, with my 94 year old mother who was experiencing symptoms of a blood clot in her leg, and waiting about 7 hours, I became aware of the truly serious crisis in the health care delivery system in this nation. Had I known that this long wait was customary I would have searched for an urgent care facility first. Americans have become confused about where to go for care when their doctor is not available. It’s a problem of the insured bumping up against the uninsured who flock to emcngerey rooms for their medical needs. Obviously our nation’s leaders need to stop bickering and settle on comprehensive health care reform. Confusion anid uncertainty does not breed confidence.
This won’t help at Mall of America but since you asked my sister in law wants to know what her kids’ trslanocated chromosomes mean (judging by her baby daddy/my brother, I’d say it means you can grow up to be a healthy mensch and a great dad). I want to know if my cancer will recur and if so, when and at what stage. My Dad wants to know how being newly MRSA colonized affects his life. My OTHER brother wants to know if depression will undermine his marriage before SSRI sexual side effects will.
Health insurance rerofm. I can commit to wellness and prevention but the stress of the take over of health care by the insurance industry is bringing Anericans down quickly. I’m an RN and we can have all the state of the art facilities but less and less Americans have access. And, of course, those folks have no voice.
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I am very out of breath and went to Mayo Rochester fall of 2011. Many tests were run, heart, blood, xrays, etc. I am obese. I brohgut other tests from local doctors. I was sent for thoracic surgery for enlarged lymph nodes in my chest area. The only diagnoses was inflammation. There was no follow up by the doctor, no confirmation or results of the TB test. I was hung out to dry and I believe it was because I am obese. Just last week my local dermatologist who is treating an autoimmune problem, heard about my inflammation problem. He is from the Mayo Clinic. He wanted to know what Mayo was doing about the breathing problem. He looked at their records and saw blood tests that weren’t run for sarcoidosis and told me to go to a pulmonary dr. At Mayo Rochester last fall, after my surgery and tests, Dr. Graves suggested I cancel my pulmonary appointment as he thought they would not find anything further than being obese. My spirometry was good. I agreed and cancelled the appointment. When I came home from the dermatologist last week, I cried because a doctor actually cared!!! Now I don’t know if I should return to pulmonary at Mayo Rochester or make a local appointment in Minneapolis. I know I will NOT see Dr. Graves again. I understand from an infectious disease doctor elsewhere when a patient is out of breath, the first thing they do is run blood tests for fungus. Before surgery,I asked Dr. Graves if he had run fungus blood tests and his reply was that there wasn’t any need to. What if the surgery would have found a fungus? I had three months of neurophathy from the surgery and it might have been unnecessary!!!! My chest scan recently still shows enlarged lymph glands and my breathing is getting worse.I have previously had major surgeries and cancer diagnoses at Mayo Rochester and a lumbar fusion at Mayo Scottsdale, all with great doctors and results. However, before back surgery, Mayo Rochester sent me to the pain clinic. They gave me exercises which made my back worse. I called and wanted to get an appointment to return sooner than three weeks. I was told, We are not an emergency clinic. Come back when you are supposed to. I am so happy with the fusion at Scottsdale with Dr. Patel.
Articles like these put the consumer in the driver seat-very important.
After visiting an emcngerey room at a major Southern California hospital, with my 94 year old mother who was experiencing symptoms of a blood clot in her leg, and waiting about 7 hours, I became aware of the truly serious crisis in the health care delivery system in this nation. Had I known that this long wait was customary I would have searched for an urgent care facility first. Americans have become confused about where to go for care when their doctor is not available. It’s a problem of the insured bumping up against the uninsured who flock to emcngerey rooms for their medical needs. Obviously our nation’s leaders need to stop bickering and settle on comprehensive health care reform. Confusion anid uncertainty does not breed confidence.
This won’t help at Mall of America but since you asked my sister in law wants to know what her kids’ trslanocated chromosomes mean (judging by her baby daddy/my brother, I’d say it means you can grow up to be a healthy mensch and a great dad). I want to know if my cancer will recur and if so, when and at what stage. My Dad wants to know how being newly MRSA colonized affects his life. My OTHER brother wants to know if depression will undermine his marriage before SSRI sexual side effects will.
Health insurance rerofm. I can commit to wellness and prevention but the stress of the take over of health care by the insurance industry is bringing Anericans down quickly. I’m an RN and we can have all the state of the art facilities but less and less Americans have access. And, of course, those folks have no voice.