Monthly Archives: January 2011

A Healthy Match at Mall of America

January 31st, 2011 - 2:46 pm

If you’ve been shopping at Mall of America the past few months, you may have seen the “Healthy Match” game from Mayo Clinic — interactive health information spanning the façade of a storefront on the first level next to Bloomingdale’s. … Continue reading →

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Guided Video Tours of Mayo Clinic

January 28th, 2011 - 7:00 am

Mayo Clinic’s new Center for Social Media has produced a Patient Video Guide series to help new patients and their families better know what to expect when they arrive and to make the most of their visit. Each year more … Continue reading →

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Mayo and the Telephone

January 24th, 2011 - 8:00 am

Mayo has been committed to using the latest communication technology in service to patients since the earliest days of practice. According to family tradition, young Charlie Mayo – 14 years old at the time – set up the first telephone link … Continue reading →

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Sister Generose & Intern Jena Rose

January 21st, 2011 - 9:00 am

I was 9 years old and had arrived in Rochester for a minor, surgical procedure. While navigating our way around Saint Marys Hospital, my family and I ran across several portraits of the Sisters of St. Francis hanging in the … Continue reading →

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Mayo: My Best Hope for Treating My Rare Cancer

January 20th, 2011 - 1:30 pm

Mayo Clinic had already been a source of invaluable consultations for my long-time autoimmune Sjogren’s Syndrome and for genetic counseling to ascertain potential genetic predisposition for the autoimmune conditions, cardiomyopathy and cancer that populated my family tree. But late in … Continue reading →

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"New Year, New Skin, New Leg"

January 19th, 2011 - 9:56 am

When Brenda M. woke up with flu-like symptoms in August 2007, she had no idea just how grave her condition was. Later in the day she noticed discoloration and severe pain in her right leg. By that afternoon, Brenda entered … Continue reading →

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C.A.N. Do Anything

January 13th, 2011 - 11:56 am

On October 16, 2010, Chris Norton, a freshman at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, was playing in a varsity football game when a special teams play left him with a fractured neck and compressed spinal cord. The incident resulted in … Continue reading →

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What would Dr. Will and Dr. Charlie Tweet?

January 3rd, 2011 - 10:00 am

When we were discussing creation of the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media last year, our Mayo Clinic chief administrative officer, Shirley Weis, said something that struck a chord with me. We had been talking about some of the ways our … Continue reading →

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