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What to expect and chances of getting in?
Visiting Mayo Clinic | Last Active: Dec 22, 2024 | Replies (41)Comment receiving replies
I'd like to provide this general information for others asking similar questions about the appointment process at Mayo Clinic.
When you submit an appointment request online here http://mayocl.in/1mtmR63, you will receive a call within 3 business days to set up a time to talk with an appointment coordinator. You or your doctor will be given instructions on how to submit relevant medical records, test results, imaging studies, etc.
Mayo Clinic doctors review records sent by you, the patient, or the referring physician carefully in order to tailor each patient's visit to the right tests needed and to avoid performing unnecessary tests. This also helps ensure the patient is scheduled with a physician who has the expertise best matched to their needs and condition. Naturally, this attention to detail takes time, but in the end, this optimizes the visit when you come to Mayo Clinic.
Because each request is specific to each patient, the time to hear back will differ from person to person. As others have mentioned, you can always call the appointment office to check on the status of the referral.
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I've sent identical self-referrals twice over the last 6 or so weeks, and have yet to hear anything at all.
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This was not my experience. Last week I self-referred for my essential tremors.
I was seen by 3 movement specialists (2 in GA my previous state, and now in FL).
I received a call ~2 days after I sent in my referral. No appointments - even into 2025 - schedule isn’t open that far up. Could not put me on waiting list either.
I’ve failed every med I’ve been put on. Am in process of getting the TAPS device by Cala.
Saw the Neuro yesterday. He is such a waste of space. As a nurse practitioner, I read the current journals and google current thoughts on meds when refractory to the established ones.
He never knows what I’m talking about, and has never touched me - to do strength measurements etc.
I brought a ‘cm’ ruler as he didn’t have one. Thank God I read where and how to measure my wrist, as he had no idea.
Ironically one of the docs in his office has her name come up when on the Cala site, looking for docs. Told him this. He couldn’t care less.
We just went up on my useless Propranolol. He referred me to a neurosurgeon ~3 mo ago at my last visit. He had a ‘tude yesterday, ‘why didn’t I see the neurosurgeon’. A first, I would NEVER go to a doc he referred me to for brain surgery - not down here in east coast FL, B. When I looked him up - quite a few lawsuits with verdicts! That’s a hard no in my book!
He knows I’m a traveling nurse practitioner, so I was out of town. “Oh, ok, call him again”. Yeah, no.
I guess at this point, Mayo is not the only hospital on earth. I’ve been to Emory, and am looking at UFL.