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Massachusetts General Hospital Second Opinion Service

Clínica Universidad de los Andes has partnered with Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University's first clinical hospital, which is consistently ranked among the best hospitals in the United States.

The multidisciplinary teams at Massachusetts General Hospital are recognized worldwide for their innovations in cancer, digestive disorders, neuroscience, heart disease, orthopedics, transplants, urology, and trauma. In pediatric care, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children offers everything from primary care to cutting-edge treatments for complex and rare disorders.

Contact information (Hours and others)

To access this service or obtain more information, please write to segundaopinion@clinicauandes.cl
For more information on Massachusetts General Hospital please visit: http://www.massgeneral.org/

Without having to actually travel to Boston and incur in the expenses that this may imply, patients can request their medical history to be reviewed by experts from this prestigious US hospital.
Direct access to Massachusetts General Hospital’s cutting-edge medical progresses, best practices, critical research, and new treatments.

Patients from all over Chile who request this service through our Clinic.
Patients and relatives of patients with complex diagnoses.
Patients who want a second opinion before deciding on a treatment.
Patients who want to participate in clinical trials.
Difficult cases of rare occurrence in Chile.

You can directly request the service to your attending physician at Clínica Universidad de los Andes. Another alternative, available for those who have not been treated at our Clinic, is to write to segundaopinion@clinicauandes.cl, describing your case.
You will be contacted to schedule an appointment with one of our specialist doctors, who will request your background information to prepare your clinical file.
The file will be translated and sent to Massachusetts General Hospital in the United States.
A Massachusetts General Hospital specialist will evaluate the case and send their recommendation to Chile.
The doctor from Clínica Universidad de los Andes will meet with the patient to explain the report received from the United States and assist in any questions or concerns that the patient and family members may have.