William James Mayo Quotes

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

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.

Experience hobbles progress and leads to abandonment of difficult problems; it encourages the initiated to walk on the shady side of the street in the direction of experiences that have been pleasant. Youth without experience attacks the unsolved problems which maturer age with experience avoids, and from the labors of youth comes progress. Youth has dreams and visions, and will not be denied.

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.

The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger.