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Is Mayo in Jacksonville as good as UT or Natl Jewish Health for NTM?

MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Aug 29, 2023 | Replies (21)
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Which specialist in Atlanta are you seeing?
I am very seriously considering either NJH or UT and it may come down to which I can get into faster!
Denver isn’t the preferred location for me at all! I hate the cold and altitude but I want the best I can do for myself within this most precarious situation.
I’m still looking into UT I have not been able to find many reviews on experience there only from the kind person here who shared hers. I too will be driving but ultimately it’s about feeling completely confident in the choice for my best possible outcome with this. Do you feel you would have felt that same level of confidence with the care and treatment from what you’ve learned going to UT?

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kwi | @kwi | Aug 29, 2023

Most of the info I have about UT is from this site, however if you watch webinars, you will see that some of the doctors and research are listed as coming from UT in Tyler. Also Dr. Griffith who is now at NJH was at Tyler, if I remember correctly from reading his bio on the NJH webpage.
Dr. Swenson is the doctor in Atlanta. He is a pulmonologist and specializes in bronchiectasis and NTM. He was on the recommended physician page on one of the NTM websites. The only one in the Atlanta area. There are people who go to MUSC which I think is Medical University of South Carolina and have been happy with treatment there. But my first hand knowledge is one visit to NJH and one visit to Atlanta. My second visit to Atlanta is next month.
I’m not a cold weather person and survived a Dec visit to Denver but any future visits will not be in the winter if I can help it.
MAC is slow growing so you could request a visit late spring or early summer. It was 14 months after my diagnosis by time I went there.

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