Mayo Clinic today announced the launch of its culture blog, Sharing Mayo Clinic, which provides an online site for patients and employees to share their stories about what makes Mayo Clinic unique.
“Mayo Clinic’s reputation has been built by patients sharing their personal Mayo stories with family members and friends,” says Lee Aase, Mayo Clinic’s manager of social media and syndication. “Many patients share their Mayo experiences with others when they go home. Sharing Mayo Clinic offers a place for this worldwide community of patients and providers to gather and tell their stories.”
“Patient feature stories are among the most popular pages on our MayoClinic.org Web site,” says Thoralf Sundt, M.D., a Mayo Clinic cardiovascular surgeon. “This new blog will enable many more patients and their families to share their Mayo Clinic experience in their own words. In turn, we at Mayo Clinic look forward to learning how to preserve those services that are of most value, how we might improve those that can be strengthened, and enhance the health care experience for all of our patients in the future.”
Sharing Mayo Clinic builds on Mayo Clinic’s existing social media intiatives, including this news blog, as well as:
- Mayo Clinic YouTube Channel
- Mayo Clinic Facebook page
- Mayo Clinic podcast blog
- MayoClinic.com consumer blogs and podcasts
Below is a link to a YouTube interview with Lee Aase describing the new blog.
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I’ve been to the Mayo clinic as well as my daughter. We came with hope and trust and that was very quickly eroded. I know that you have helped thousands hundred’s of thousands but one group of poeple you have failed and I know you know who we are. I ask that in this year of CHANGE that you rethink your position and change for the sake of empathy and help us to regain our dignity. Restore the trust that once was. Your Canadain nieghbor.
I have received surgery and many checkups at Mayos. Overall i have been happy with the care i received. Not even Mayo Clinic is perfect and i advise all patients to stay on top of their own treatment. Don’t be afraid to complain or offer your own opinion.
I have a friend who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at the age of 24. She went through chemo and radiation (it seems that her chemo treatment was forever). She eventually got better, after 2 years, however, about 4 months ago she begain to feel ill after eating, she could not hold anything down. She also developed painfully sore feet. As a result of not being able to keep food down, she lost a tremendous amount of weight. It was found that she had a blockage in her upper intestines and her oncologist and surgeon decided to that she needed to have an operation. Of course, before the operation she had to go through some tests and during the testing stage the surgeon noted that her liver enzymes were quite off. About two days later her surgeon and her oncologist informed both my friend and her mother that there was nothing more they could do and that she needed to fill out paperwork for hospice. My friend is only 27 with two small children and we are all quite shocked and saddened. Have you ever heard of pancreatic cancer affecting someone so young? (By the way, she found out that she had pancreatic cancer after a long bout with stomach pain, she thought it was possibly caused by ovarian cysts, so she waited a while before seeing her doctor.)
Ive always heard mayo was the best,but they misdiagnost me twice and am still in great pain everyday.Had three hurnias repaired in stomach in 1987 and mayo was giving me injections for scar tissue.Wanted them to go in and see what was wrong.Surgen said no.Finaly found a good surgen and he found broken wires.The second time i was sick to my stomach after falling off a big ball.Mayo checked my galbladder said its ok.New surgen had to take galbladder out. It was brused and daseasd
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