Creative Quotations from . . .
William James Mayo
(1861-1939) born on
Jun 29
US surgeon. "He is best known as the founder of the Mayo Clinic, 1915."
 
   
F
Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

R
A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.
A
The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger.
N
"Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice."
K
"The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "In "Macmillan Dictionary of Quotations," by John Daintith, 1989."
R: "Also attributed to Nicholas Butler; in "Macmillan Dictionary of Quotations," by John Daintith, 1989."
A: ""Journal-Lancet," 35:339, 1915."
N: "In "Quotable Business," ed. Louis E. Boone, 1992."
K: ""National Education Association: Proceedings and Addresses," 66:163, 1928."



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