Mike

Oct 17, 2025

Mayo Clinic Killed My Father

Per my father’s Death Certificate and Mayo's Clinical Notes of each of the 4 Mayo doctors (Boniface, Mayo, Brumble and Roy) who treated my father after the June 14, 2021 biopsy performed by Dr. Massimo Raimondo, it was Raimondo's errant biopsy that caused my father’s death. Raimondo performed what should have been a very routine Endoscopy Ultrasound and biopsy of a small mass near my father’s pancreas they were 95% certain non-cancerous. Raimondo "accidentally" biopsied his repaired aortic aneurysm which caused bacteria to enter his bloodstream that quickly turned into sepsis and after 3 weeks of unbearable pain and gradual, horrifying deterioration and loss of all bodily functions and use of extremities, he passed away in a hospice on July 12, 2021. The errant biopsy was the fatal failure by Mayo staff, it was not the only one. Here are the top 3 of many: 1) Unconscionable communications - the first communication to my father and his wife of 67 years one day after ER admittance on June 20, 2021 following the errant biopsy was not a diagnosis nor treatment plan from his doctors, it was Mayo’s hospice group requesting which hospice center my father should be sent to. The next day Dr. Mayo says that communication was premature, then over the next few days - Dr. Brumble tells the family the plan is to discharge my father tomorrow to hospice, then Dr. Mayo indicates the possibility of home care with antibiotics, then Dr. Roy says he can be discharged home 7-14 days after a clear blood culture to take antibiotics at home, then a nurse practitioner says the plan is to discharge him tomorrow for hospice, then Dr. Roy again says he can be discharged home 7-14 days after a clear blood culture, then beginning on June 29, no communication of any kind from the doctors that were treating him and the family is left with the unspoken realization Mayo has abandoned Leslie and must make hospice arrangements. 2) Inhumane pain management - my father was forced to endure multiple episodes daily that would last up to 4 hours of intolerable level 10 pain with elevated fever, heart rate and uncontrollable shaking. It took 30-45 minutes before any pain medication was administered due to their archaic and inhumane 6-step internal procedure to slow-walk its way through 4 different staff members. My father could feel the episode coming on and we would beg the Mayo staff to start the process or be prepared to - to no avail. 3) Abandonment - the 3 doctors responsible for his care (Mayo, Brumble and Roy) completely abandoned him after week 1 of 2 he spent in Mayo he** - not 1 of the 3 Mayo doctors made a single visit to see my father or speak to his family the 2nd week after daily visits 1st week as they were certain his death was imminent and they wanted to distant themselves from a dying man. During his 1st week at Mayo, a senior nurse asked my father if he wanted to continue treatment (living). After an immediate yes, she asked again if he was sure. Unconscionable!! A Kepro (the outsourced quality of care investigative company for Medicare) review by 2 medical experts concluded Mayo’s quality of care for my father’s pain management “did not meet all applicable professionally recognized standards of health care”. As a result, Mayo was required to enroll in Kepro’s Quality Innovation Network Quality Improvement Organization to educate Mayo’s staff in pain management proper drug choice, dosages, frequency and timeliness of drug administration, method of administration, etc. This was akin to sending this supposedly esteemed clinical staff to take an equivalent of a college level 101 class in pain treatment. The Dept of Health Investigative Unit conducted an investigation into Raimondo's errant biopsy and referred findings to the Prosecution Unit. Prosecution investigation did not dispute Raimondo’s errant biopsy killed my father but no evidence of procedure not followed - "Accidents happen."