Testimonials
We consider it a great honor to serve as a personal health advocate for those going through medical issues, and over the years we have been fortunate to have helped tens of thousands of people.
A Growing Tumor Can't Wait
In January 2023, everyone in Adrina Hines' family was sick. By February everyone was feeling healthy, except her youngest son Jaxson. The pediatrician suspected Jaxson had pneumonia and ordered a chest x-ray.
The x-ray did reveal pneumonia, but it also revealed something else. Some mothers might freak out when hearing their three-year-old's imaging showed "something else". Adrina kept her cool, working in an administrative role in healthcare she thought it might be a calcification or kidney stones. But an ultrasound showed a one-centimeter mass in Jaxson's liver. That's when Adrina started to worry.
Fast Access
A couple of years ago, Jerry McDaniel was having back problems and went for a CAT scan. He was friends with the radiologist who said, "Your back is fine but you have got something else going on. Come here, I'll show you." They went into his office and the radiologist pointed to an area on the screen. "There's something in your diaphragm that shouldn't be there you should see a cardiologist."
Keep reading to learn what happened to Jerry after that appointment.
Another Lump, A Second Opinion
It was every woman’s worst nightmare-times two. Gina Santel thought she was done with breast cancer. She’d made an aggressive treatment choice: a double mastectomy. She thought it was all behind her, and her doctors agreed. “There’s less than a three percent chance of that happening again,” her oncologist told her.
Then, Gina found a lump.
Three for Three
My name is Rich Kerschen. My family and I have been blessed with good health over the years. Three times in my life I’ve needed access to specialty care—and all three times Healthnetwork came through. I’ve known about Healthnetwork for years, first through YPO and now through my Legatus membership. I hate to imagine where we’d all be today if not for the connections they’ve made possible.
Taking It Up a Level
Ding-dong! Mike Espeset waited in the December cold for someone to answer the front door. As the president of Story Construction in Iowa, Mike has a tradition of giving Christmas hams to the company’s 130-ish employees. This year, one of his project managers, Shane Geiselhart, had been suffering with back problems and working from home. Mike saw Shane regularly on Zoom meetings, but it had been a while since he had visited him at home, so he decided to drop off the ham in person and check in on Shane.
The Best Care, Fast
What is a woman like that doing in a town like this? The more Doug Mayer looked at Sarah Cizmas’s profile on match.com, the more curious he became. He remembers thinking, “Here’s this woman—she’s traveled a lot, she’s well-read, she’s gorgeous, she’s a financial advisor at a respected firm—and she was living in this tiny stop-over island in the middle of the ocean in the Florida Keys.” He had to meet her.
Was My Hearing Lost Forever?
The patter of raindrops on the windshield, the rhythmic sound of an office ceiling fan, family voices at the dinner table— the sounds that filled Tak Sato’s daily life disappeared one day. Plunged into silence, Tak found his usual glass-half-full attitude put to the test.
Fantastic Relationships for the Win
As a former NFL player, Luis Castillo is very familiar with surgery. He’s had at least 15 of them—mostly orthopedic, some of them major. So when his local physician, a well-known Ear, Nose and Throat doctor in San Diego, told him he needed a quick outpatient surgery to remove a polyp on his vocal cord, it seemed like no big deal.