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First Appointment at Mayo Clinic in Arizona
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@themurfs Ty so much for your reply! Truly appreciate the recomendation. Did you meet with Dr Cheney at your initial visit or was he identified post your initial visit. I am assuming you met Cheney and any other doctors in person vs tele-health session?
As I navigate Mayo, want to help ensure that I'm approaching the initial visit to meet with the doctors that I may end up working with vs. meeting with one of them and then being assigned a different doctor. Given the importance of the initial meeting I'd prefer to have the group of doctors who are likely to participate in the treatment id'd up front.
Hope this makes sense.
As I research further, I may come back with addl q's so I appreciate very much your willingness to help answer q's that come up.
Cheers
Sergio
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This makes complete sense! My husband took a long time making a decision of which route he wanted to go. Either surgery or radiation. We live in Oregon so our first connection was with his urologist here. We met with a radiology oncologist, but we weren’t impressed at all. That was here in Oregon. We decided to look into other facilities and we were led to MAYO for lots of different reasons but one was insurance. That’s a whole other story. Anyway, our initial visit was via a teleconference with Dr. Cheney. He is a urologist and surgeon. My husband was disappointed at first because he was not looking at surgery very seriously. He was aiming to go the route of radiology. But because we live in Oregon, if I’m understanding this correctly, we had to initially see somebody that was licensed in Oregon. That’s why we were scheduled with Dr. Cheney for our initial consultation even though my husband was leaning towards radiation. We did travel to Arizona for a consultation with the radiologist there. I’m sorry I can’t remember his name. He was very good, but my husband was hoping for a different protocol than what we had received here in Oregon, and after this being our third consultation with a radiologist, he realized that all of them pretty much suggested the same protocol. His biggest reluctance with radiology was the hormone deprivation which he wanted to avoid, but all three different radiologist agreed that he should do the hormone deprivation. With that being said, he started looking at surgery as a more viable option. So we reached out to Dr. Cheney again to talk to him more about surgery, and finally this is the route my husband chose. So to make a long story short, the urologist/surgeon we had our initial consultation with because he was licensed in Oregon as well, ended up being the surgeon who performed the RALP. We don’t believe in coincidences. We truly believe God directed us, even though we didn’t see it at first. Dr. Cheney was amazing and we felt very confident in his ability. He made us feel very much at ease and we are grateful he was our first encounter at Mayo. I hope all this makes sense and please, reach out with any other questions you may have! I believe my husband would be willing to talk with you as well, if that is of interest. We were able to talk with others who had walked this road before us and I feel like it was very helpful in easing our minds about things. Blessings!