Staff Stories

Each year, In the Loop, like many of the world’s great news organizations, looks back and shares some favorite stories of the year gone by. It’s[...]

One year ago, Dennis Manning, M.D., and a cadre of musically inclined colleagues at Mayo Clinic's Rochester campus, were preparing for a special program in[...]

Two years ago, Jakob Erickson says his world and his dreams were much smaller. Jakob, then a junior in high school, spent most of his[...]

When retired Master Sergeant Guy Rex decided to re-enlist in the U.S. Army in 1996, he was given his choice of where he'd like that[...]

Jeff Daehn's job title at Mayo Clinic is, as he puts it, "pretty unique." As Mayo's resident carillonneur, Daehn is only the third person to[...]

In May, Amber Kohnhorst fell 100 feet off a cliff while hiking in Arizona. She was convinced, for a time, that she would die alone[...]

Two days before Thanksgiving, Danielle Teal received a phone call. A friend, in a somewhat excited tone, had called to say that he’d just bought[...]

Lou Tasler wanted to give her daughter, Sue Mc Farland, a gift to celebrate a recent successful surgery to remove a benign brain tumor. Doctors[...]

While attending medical school in India, Amit Sood, M.D., saw firsthand the effects poverty, malnutrition and disease had on his patients. He also witnessed the[...]

It's the time of year we tend to think about gifts and candy, and gifts of candy. A Mayo patient had something a little different[...]