Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by William J. Mayo

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American scientist William J. Mayo.
Last updated on November 24, 2024.
William J. Mayo

William James Mayo was a physician and surgeon in the United States and one of the seven founders of the Mayo Clinic. He and his brother, Charles Horace Mayo, both joined their father's private medical practice in Rochester, Minnesota, US, after graduating from medical school in the 1880s. In 1919, that practice became the not-for-profit Mayo Clinic.

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician. — © William J. Mayo
The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.
A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.
Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.
Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.
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