Thank you so much for all your encouragement, advice and information. I will follow your links. I must say though, that I have gone to the Mayo website, and I did use the "request an appointment" under a Dr who I thought could be right for me, but it got me nowhere. After I completed the info and submitted, I received a call back and that is where I encountered the problem with the "self-referral". I have encountered this before with Mayo. They speak of "self-referral", but I got one scheduler to even admit that there is not "self-referral" if you are already a Mayo patient. It has now been a month since I contacted my Neurologist [who the schedulers say I must go through] for a referral and another specific test, and I am still waiting! Discouraged? Oh yes, I am discouraged! And, they have worn me down. Just like all the other Drs, clinics and hospitals I have gone to. I am too old for all of this! I just can't take it anymore.
P