Patient Stories

A few months ago, Sharon Stroehl was coming up on a milestone birthday. And she wasn't too happy about it. "I was having a hard[...]

By In the Loop • April 27, 2017

It was "Superhero Day" in the proton beam treatment area at Mayo Clinic Hospital in Arizona, and 6-year-old Iram Sobarzo had been ready for almost[...]

By In the Loop • April 25, 2017

On Dec. 1, 2015, Miranda Mead learned that the back pain she'd attributed to a fall was actually a tumor. She was diagnosed with Ewing's[...]

By In the Loop • April 20, 2017

Two summers ago, Henry Brown began experiencing unexplained pain in his right arm. His parents took him to see numerous doctors in his home state[...]

By In the Loop • April 20, 2017

In the mountains of Guatemala, in a small Mayan village called Xepatan, is a house. A newly constructed house that sits in stark contrast to[...]

By In the Loop • April 13, 2017

Lisa Gifford is a mother. She's also a pediatric nurse. So she knew something wasn't right with her youngest son, Hunter. "He was having trouble[...]

By In the Loop • April 11, 2017

Nine years ago, during a "dream family vacation" at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, 9-year-old Katharine Rhoten (or "Katie," as she likes to be[...]

By In the Loop • March 30, 2017

By any measure, 2016 was a big year for tennis pro Madison Keys. The 22-year-old cracked the Women's Tennis Association top 10, the first American[...]

By In the Loop • March 30, 2017

Conventional wisdom says Kim Shobe should not be alive right now. One of Mayo Clinic's early lung transplant patients, Kim received a single-lung transplant in[...]

By In the Loop • March 28, 2017

Social media can bring out the worst in people. But it can also bring out the best, as it did last week when it helped[...]

By In the Loop • March 28, 2017