Mayo Clinic Health System

  After their youngest child, Jackson, was born, Tyler and Stacy Thiede received a congratulatory card in the mail from the hospital staff who helped[...]

By In the Loop • January 5, 2016

Robert Key, M.D., and his brother Tim were fishing on Caribou Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness shortly after sunrise on Sept. 21,[...]

By In the Loop • November 3, 2015

After finishing college and medical school in his native Ohio, and five years of residency in Chicago, Laurence Nace, M.D., could have gone in a[...]

By In the Loop • October 20, 2015

It happened so fast. Mackenzie "Mick" Caron was driving a friend home from a hockey game back in January, when he lost control of his[...]

By In the Loop • September 10, 2015

Before she fell into drug addiction 20 years ago, Jayne Stout loved to sing. "I was a wedding and funeral singer," she says. "I did[...]

By In the Loop • September 1, 2015

Most of us don’t necessarily look forward to trips to a hospital or clinic to have our blood tested. But that's life for 43-year-old Jason[...]

By In the Loop • August 20, 2015

He's not Tom Hanks. And he's certainly not stranded on a deserted island. But like Hanks’ character in the movie, “Cast Away,” Steve Hofstede does[...]

By In the Loop • July 30, 2015

Carlee Jo Vonderheid had her first surgery when she was eight months old. That procedure, while successful in removing an extra toe from each foot,[...]

By In the Loop • July 21, 2015

Think you can pat your head and rub your stomach at the same time? (Go ahead. We’ll wait.) How about text and drive at the[...]

By In the Loop • July 14, 2015

The idea first took shape on a napkin. Joel Gordon, M.D., a Family Medicine physician at Mayo Clinic Health System in Mankato, had been troubled[...]

By In the Loop • July 9, 2015