Patient Stories

Roger Heil doesn’t remember this past Valentine’s Day. Now before you roll your eyes, you should know that Heil, who works at Mayo and who[...]

The surgery was supposed to be routine. As routine as an open-heart surgery can be. But shortly after surgeons operated on 17-year-old TJ Denham to[...]

It’s that time of year again when our winter dietary transgressions come back to haunt us: swimsuit season. But beyond the obvious cosmetic concerns, an[...]

For the first 29 years of his life, Mark Chrudimsky hardly had a care in the world. Then, on Valentine’s Day in 2004, he suffered[...]

There are many things that set the care patients receive at Mayo Clinic apart from the rest. But perhaps none is more meaningful than when[...]

Everyone loves a happy ending. And, we figure, a good follow-up. So we were happy to see a recent story on Paulie Hynek, produced as[...]

Of all the bells and whistles that one can find on tablets these days, "premature-birth assistant" probably isn't the first one to come to mind.[...]

The heart attack came when Doug DeMarce was just 62 years old. "It got my attention in a hurry," the Mankato, Minnesota, resident recently told[...]

One thing was clear in the days after Chris Norton was injured during a football game in 2010, fracturing his neck and compressing his spinal[...]

In April, Sally Jacobson of Grand Forks, N.D., celebrated a very special birthday … for her liver. The Grand Forks Herald reports that Jacobson's liver[...]