Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic is a great online guide to any questions about your health. They have trustworthy information and the money that is donated goes to great uses of research and helping others.

Their website states: “At Mayo Clinic, every aspect of your care is coordinated and teams of experts work together to provide exactly the care you need. What might take months elsewhere can often be done in days here.“ Should say, “If you get in, you’ll probably only see one doctor who will examine you and test you the same way you have been examined and tested by the doctors who referred you to Mayo. Then when, as with previous doctors, standard examination and testing don’t reveal the exact cause(s) of your disabling chronic pain and other symptoms, they’ll stop looking! Oh, and be sure you have plenty of money and the best insurance because money precedes “healthcare” at The Mayo Clinic.

They do a lot of great things for a lot of sick people, but it's so difficult for the average person to get in to see a doctor. The wait is usually so long that someone has to go somewhere else. The employees seem to be overworked so they don't have time to want to help someone find the information they need to help find the right doctor.

They won’t see me- I told her it was life and death. She said “I don’t know what to tell you, see a local doctor”. And this is after I told her I’ve seen 5, including specialists. When you submit and get denied for lack of availability, they don’t let you request again for 6 months. My question was “so people who are very sick request appointments, get denied, and have to suffer for another 6 months?” Her response? “Yeah, basically” I am incredibly unimpressed at how little they care for the health of people reaching out who can’t live their lives because of health problems. No one there cares about anything except the money they get from filling the 12 week schedule. No waitlist, no help, no compassion, no actual healing for those who may actually be dying. Literally: screw this place. I don’t care if they have the best doctors, they are awful to potential patients. The ones scheduled and paying….that’s another story. Healthcare is supposed to be there to fix the ill. They are not.

I moved to Minnesota (MN) to go to Mayo for a rare form of blood cancer. Where I'd lived, the doctors didn't know how to help me. During the shutdown in March 2020, Mayo abandoned me and all their patients even though the MN governor said that the chronically and severely ill were to still get care (the other health systems in MN didn't do like Mayo). When Mayo reopened, I was told they wouldn't give me the care they'd promised and I would die as a result. Mayo has a reputation among the locals (laymen, doctors outside of Mayo, and gov't officials alike) as only caring about profit. Because they shutdown totally and "had to" take care of poor people with Covid-19, they lost a lot of profit for 2020. My insurance didn't pay well, so they decided to let me die. When I complained, Mayo retaliated by permanently banning me from their clinic. So I complained to the state and was told by the MN Dept. of Health (MDH) that Mayo's actions were "morally wrong," but legal under MN law. They can abandon patients, neglect patients even if they hurt or kill them, and ban patients permanently. I was told by MDH that Mayo was known for turning away patients and neglecting them; especially if they had gov't insurance like Medicare. When I talked to the Office of the Commissioner of the MN Dept. of Human Services, they told me Mayo is known for arbitrarily banning patients. No one I've met in the last 11 months in MN likes Mayo and I don't blame them. I moved over 2,000 miles and spent money I didn't have for nothing. Stay away from Mayo unless you want to waste your time and money and risk death from neglect. They're horrible. Their ethics really are in the toilet (as doctors outside the Mayo health system have told me).

This complaint is about the Mayo Clinic in Rice Lake, WI I have a cyst on my back that has gotten infected. I made an appointment in early August to have it removed by Dr T B. Within 30 minutes of the appointment, while I was driving to Rice Lake from Spooner, a nurse called to say that the Dr could not make the appointment. I was mad but I rescheduled for 8/22, the next time the Dr was in Rice Lake. I drove again to Rice Lake and within 40 minutes of the appointment a nurse called again to say the Dr was unavailable. I asked to speak with an administrator. I was handed off to a nurse named Brianna who was not an administrator. Immediately she tried to talk over me and tell me that sometimes Dr's are called to emergencies. The conversation started to get heated as I realized nothing was going to me done about my issue. She exhibited a bad attitude throughout. I am still looking for someone who can actually make an informed decision about what to do for wasting so much of my time.

Mayo Clinic will deny you without telling you, refuse to give a reason, and then lie about it. They had the wrong department review our case on multiple occasions and then tried to claim they had communicated with us. They were caught being dishonest several times, including when they would get back to us, previous communication, and records from primary cares. They also admitted they were too lazy to read through our doctor's records and just denied us instead. Of course that was after first trying to deny they had received said records in the first place. They are greedy liars.

My sister was admitted to Mayo Clinic and unfortunately the doctor that saw her didn't have the best bedside manner. The doctor also said that they couldn't do anything that would be of great help to her and that she was crazy, even though it was very visible something was physically wrong with her.