Charles Horace Mayo Quotes
The definition of a specialist as one who ‘knows more and more about less and less’ is good and true.
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Birth: | 19th July, 1865 |
Death: | 26th May, 1939 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Physician |
Charles Horace Mayo was born in Rochester, Minnesota. He was an American physician and was one of the founders of the Mayo Clinic. He graduated from the medical school of Northwestern University in 1888 and joined his father, William Worrall Mayo, and older brother, William James Mayo, in their private medical practice in Rochester, Minnesota. The Mayo Clinic came to be regarded as one of the foremost medical treatment and research institutions in the world. Within Mayo's lifetime it registered one million patients. The United States Postal Service released a stamp on September 11, 1964 depicting Charles Horace Mayo and his brother.
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