Patient Stories

On the heels of being named a Visiting Professor at Mayo Clinic, everyone’s favorite ePatient, Dave deBronkart added another feather to his patient advocacy cap[...]

When R.J. Trocke-Fowler had to write about a personal hero for a class assignment, he didn’t need to look far for inspiration. He wrote about[...]

Jennifer Giesen was just 13 years old when she’d had enough of obsessive compulsive disorder. It had made her young life such a torment that[...]

Greg Widseth tells the Minneapolis Star Tribune that the last thing he remembers is smiling at someone while leaving his son's basketball practice last March.[...]

By all accounts, and his parents' admission, 10-year-old Cash Owens probably shouldn't be alive today. "Twelve hours after he was born, he started vomiting neon[...]

When we think about recovering from a serious illness, we tend to think about things like rest and recuperation, medication regimens, dietary changes, support from[...]

Getting your black belt in karate is a big milestone. For Ty Wiberg, age 13, of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, reaching that goal with his mom[...]

When 3-year-old Ellis Paulson visits the Patients’ Library on the Saint Marys campus, it’s difficult to determine who has the bigger smile, Ellis or librarian[...]

It’s a story about science, technology, medical innovation, patient care and collaboration. But perhaps none of those captured the hearts and eyeballs of people around[...]

The Birkebeiner cross-country ski race in Hayward, Wisconsin, is one that Kurt “Charlie” Steil has skied many times (24, in fact). He even finished in[...]