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Non-Mayo Pulmonologist Recommendation
Lung Health | Last Active: May 19, 2022 | Replies (12)Comment receiving replies
My experience with Mayo Clinic is that it depends on the health issue. Issues requiring ordinary follow-up are encouraged to be done locally while complex health conditions utilizing Mayo expertise are followed by Mayo. Mayo Clinic is a research institution and teaching hospital. If they did routine follow-up, they would not have the ability to see as many patients. They see patients from many faraway places, so local follow-up is the norm I expect
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@vic83 The only reason that I'm questioning the apparent lack of continuing care by the Pulmonology Department is that I'm being followed by every other department at Mayo Clinic (Jacksonville) for every other chronic health condition that I have (Neurology, Cardiology, Ophthalmology, Gastroenterology, Urology, Sleep Medicine, and others).
Also, I live in Jacksonville so Mayo Clinic (Jacksonville) is my local health care provider.
Finally, with all of my chronic conditions, complicated by the facts that (1) I'm getting close to 70 years old, and (2) I've had Bariatric surgery which causes me to metabolize food, beverages, vitamins, minerals, and medication differently, I'm a complicated medical case so I need to be followed by specialists in an integrated system where the various departments talk to each other and all have complete access to my voluminous medical records. If anything, with the complexity of my situation I'm a perfect case to be cared for at a teaching hospital. I'm what you would call a "head scratcher", someone who's hard to treat because of all of the interrelated health conditions.
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