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Desperate, want to see the Mayo Clinic, but skeptical
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Welcome, @scornwell. The Mayo Clinic model of care is an integrated medical practice, where the center of everything is patient and their needs. When you request an appointment at Mayo Clinic (you can self refer), you will first visit with a physician and team in the department most relevant to your main concern. That physician becomes your main advocate, so to speak, and orders tests, appointments, etc as required with a team of multi-disciplinary experts, different specialties, as required by your diagnosis or investigation of a diagnosis.
You may wish to read the patient experiences shared in these related discussions:
- Evaluating Care Models at Top Hospitals to Fit an Individual Patient
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/evaluating-care-models-at-top-hospital-to-fit-an-individual-patient/
- Need Patients' Experience with Mayo Clinic. Is it worth it?
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/need-patients-experience-with-mayo-clinic-is-it-worth-it/
Do you have a diagnosis? Do you want to know more about Mayo Clinic Urology? Or are you thinking you need to start with a different department?
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Hello. How do I self-refer? Also, do I need to choose a specialty, or can that be determined for me based on information I submit. As I mentioned above, my diagnoses for now I believe would be "Pelvic Floor Dysfunction" probably, or if I go with my most recent PT, they used the ICD code "R10.2 Pelvic and perineal pain". I also have pain that radiates down my leg from the perineal area and goes all the way into my big toe... so I wonder if the problem is possibly more general than that. Spinal, some other musculoskeletal or neurological? I don't know, which is why I'm unsure if I should go straight to Urology again at Mayo or not.
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I've been told "Pelvic Floor Dysfunction" probably? My most recent PT used the ICD code "R10.2 Pelvic and perineal pain". I have pain in and around my genitals (sorry to be graphic). Also it goes down my inner thigh, and seems to have some effect on my foot (not much pain with the foot, just a cold ache and foot cramping). My PT gave a very detailed intake which outlines a lot of tightness in my pelvic floor an elsewhere. I don't know if I need to see Urology, I really don't know if another Department would be more appropriate or not.
edit: oh yes, "Chronic Pelvic Pain" has been thrown out there as well in one of my visits