Tag Archives: Patient Stories

Breast Cancer Treatment: It’s a Project and You are the Project Manager

October 14th, 2011 - 8:00 am

Written by Karen Brown, Ph.D., Professor of Operations and Project Management, Thunderbird School of Global Management Anyone facing or experiencing cancer treatment can relate to the idea that it’s a project: a set of coordinated activities aimed at a goal. … Continue reading →

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Mayo Clinic breast cancer survivors/employees take to the water to spread breast cancer awareness

March 22nd, 2011 - 1:31 pm

Toni Kay Mangskau makes a living helping patients from around the world learn about the latest cancer research.                                                   Mangskau, 45, a clinical trials referral coordinator at Mayo Clinic’s Cancer Education Center in Rochester, Minn., never imagined she would one day … Continue reading →

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Hayley Lairmore’s Mayo Clinic Journey

July 13th, 2010 - 7:47 am

I first heard about Hayley Lairmore through a comment card her mom, Christine, sent to Mayo Clinic after their visit to Rochester last December. It was an amazing story of how Hayley had been throwing up an average of 10 … Continue reading →

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Living the Dream – Part 4

September 25th, 2009 - 6:00 am

Darrin Nelson of Rochester, NY, wrote this blog entry on Sept. 1, 2009, the day after he was released from Mayo Clinic – St. Marys Hospital following minimally invasive heart surgery to repair his mitral valve. This is the final … Continue reading →

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Living the Dream – Part 3

September 23rd, 2009 - 6:00 am

Darrin Nelson of Rochester, NY, wrote this blog entry on Sept. 1, 2009, the day after he was released from Mayo Clinic – St. Marys Hospital following minimally invasive heart surgery to repair his mitral valve. This is the third … Continue reading →

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Living the Dream – Part 2

September 21st, 2009 - 6:00 am

Darrin Nelson of Rochester, NY, wrote this blog entry on Sept. 1, 2009, the day after he was released from Mayo Clinic – St. Marys Hospital following minimally invasive heart surgery to repair his mitral valve. This is the second … Continue reading →

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Living the Dream – Part 1

September 18th, 2009 - 6:00 am

Darrin Nelson of Rochester, NY, wrote this blog entry on Sept. 1, 2009, the day after he was released from Mayo Clinic – St. Marys Hospital following minimally invasive heart surgery to repair his mitral valve. This is the first … Continue reading →

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Becoming an Employee after 35 Years as a Mayo Patient

September 10th, 2009 - 6:00 am

Linda Rockey’s first experience at Mayo Clinic was in 1971, when her grandmother insisted that she come to Mayo Clinic for treatment of her worsening Crohn’s disease. “It was a week that just changed my life,” she says. Thirty years … Continue reading →

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Mayo Clinic Has Given Me Back My Life

September 3rd, 2009 - 6:00 am

Hello, my name is Charles Drysdale. I would like to share my story about how Mayo Clinic has given me back my life. My story begins in late 2005. During my regular checkup my primary care physician discovered that my … Continue reading →

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Carol’s Story: Hepatitis C and Liver Cancer

August 20th, 2009 - 6:00 am

This article was submitted by Scott Van Dyke, Carol’s husband and caregiver Carol Van Dyke entered Mayo Clinic in June 2002 to discuss treatments for her Hepatitis C which had caused stage 4 cirrhosis of the liver. She had a … Continue reading →

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