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Transplants | Last Active: Oct 6, 2018 | Replies (57)

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@gingerw @rosemarya @contentandwell we watched it too. It was a great show and we learned so much. Mayo is truly a special place.
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@rosemarya @jodeej @gingerw I watched part of it while I was on my recumbent bike, recorded the rest. It was excellent, but I had a problem because I rely heavily on closed captioning when I watch TV and the closed captioning was the worst I have ever seen. It would start out and then when it should have continued it would leave me hanging until the next section. There were huge gaps. It's not my ability to hear sounds, it's that the comprehension gets muddled, so I was able to get some parts without having CC but not others.

I had no idea that it started as a Catholic hospital. Is there still a Catholic affiliation? I guess I should have realized that since part of it is St. Mary's Hospital, but my daughter almost went to St. Mary's Honors College in Maryland, and that's a state school, simply in St. Mary's county.

The Mayo family was amazing. My grandfather who was a doctor in Boston was similar to that, he actually started a charitable society. I think some of Mayo's practices have been adopted by other hospitals, like the doctors conferring with multiple departments. When I was in MGH pre-transplant with extremely low hematocrit and hemoglobin there would be a whole team of doctors who came in. If any of you ever watched the TV show, House, it was about a doctor who was a great diagnostician and had a team he worked with. I felt like I was on House when this troupe came in each day.
JK