Neurology Patient Stories

Despite the fact that I have been a Mayo Clinic employee for almost 19 years, and have worked for over five of those years with ...

This submission came via email from P.J. Stietz, a Mayo Clinic employee: My husband and I just recently marked the sixth anniversary of the accident that paralyzed him. It was Mayo that came to his rescue, patched him up and got him ready to face the world again. We owe a great debt to the clinic. Not only did they provide superior care, but he was uninsured at the time and Mayo covered the majority of his hospital bill. Now that you have the Sharing Mayo Clinic blog, I thought it would be a wonderful way to share what Mayo has meant to us and to say "thanks." I hope you'll consider posting it. We're happy to be able to share P.J.'s submission, with Dan's consent:

Earlier this week, CBS Evening News featured the story of Mayo Clinic patient Dillon Papier and his family. Six-year-old Dillon has Niemann-Pick disease type C, ...

Sometimes the doors just aren’t big enough. That was the case with this 6-ton magnet that was ...

Mayo Clinic investigators have found that measuring blood levels of amyloid, an insoluble protein, can help predict who is ...

Mayo Clinic uses technology to connect patients with home, family and friends A group of high school guys trading stories, laughing and joking is nothing out of the ordinary. Tyler Olson, a 17-year-old junior at Lake Mills High School in Iowa, is usually right in the middle of such gatherings. But on Sept. 5, 2008, everything changed for Tyler. That evening, during the first play of a varsity football game, a tackle went wrong and landed him in the hospital with a spinal cord injury. The severity of Tyler’s condition required a transfer to Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester, Minn. And although there’s only about 80 miles between Lake Mills and Rochester, the confinement of a hospital room can make the two towns seem a world apart.