I second Mayo. We are traveling from NJ to Arizona to the Mayo Clinic there for Pectus (chest deformity) surgery for my daughter. Took several months to get all her testing done thru Children’s hospital of Philadelphia; Mayo needed to repeat three of the tests so they just scheduled them in the day before we saw the doctor. BamBam. The surgeon at CHoP said he can’t fix her, it’s mostly cosmetic, it still might look weird. A radiologist said only minor cardiac compression.
At Mayo, the did an echo sitting UP, which I’d never seen before. They let me watch as they had
my daughter bend forward…and the entire right ventricle of her heart pinched shut. They told me what they do differently to allow them to fix that particular type of defect, and I felt like they had all the time in the world to talk to us. The difference is really amazing.