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. ↗

— William J. Mayo

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A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less. ↗

— William J. Mayo

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Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists. ↗

— William J. Mayo

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Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice. ↗

— William J. Mayo

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