Much ado about Mayo

Well, this past Tuesday, we went to the much awaited, much proclaimed Mayo clinic appt.  To begin the wonderful adventure, we were unclear as to which campus the appt was at.  We drove all over Phoenix and Scottsdale to find the right building.  I guess luckily, they schedule your arrival time to be an hour before the appt time, which we figure is because EVERYONE drives back and forth between the two campuses with no idea where they are supposed to be.  Anyways, I have to say that I'm really not that impressed.  This is the second time that I've seen a Mayo clinic doctor and I think that they are highly overrated.  The endocrinologist that we saw knew the bare bones of MEN 1 - meanwhile my hematologist can list off the top of his head what the condition entails and also what conditions are found to be very common with it.  It was so apparent that this guy had no idea what he was talking about.  One thing we are concerned with is that I have a small thyroid nodule and aggressive thyroid cancer is found often with people with MEN 1.  When we attempted to discuss this with him, he promptly told us that the nodule was too small to be cancer.  WHAT?!?!  I think that cancer starts somewhere and in a small size...  Umm yeah.  So after being totally wowed about how much this doctor knows absolutely nothing and is highly overrated, we sat around for half and hour waiting for the magical Mayo schedulers to schedule the labs, CT and follow up appt that I need, only to be told that my insurance will take a couple of days to pre-auth the stuff.  What a fabulous waste of time.  I completely believe that Maricopa County doctors are so much better and hopefully, we'll find a good endocrinologist who will have the skills to deal with MEN 1 and all it's glory there instead.  I don't really feel like going back to the Mayo clinic, I guess it was too much to hope that we would be seeing answers and not ridiculously incompetent doctors.