Quotes from William James Mayo

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today do not cloud the horizon of tomorrow, but act as a spur to greater effort.

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

Unfortunately, only a small number of patients with peptic ulcer are financially able to make a pet of an ulcer.

Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts.