The Mayo Clinic

Abstract: 3 pages in length. The Mayo Clinic virtually revolutionized the manner by which people were administered medical care. Started in the late 1800s by a father and his two sons with an approach that "two heads are better than one and five are even better" (Anonymous, 2003), one of the many primary focal points was to "encouraged a continual search for better ways of diagnosis and treatment" (Anonymous, 2003). People came from far and wide to benefit from the Mayos' "ability to find answers to their problems" (Anonymous, 2003). More than a century and six million patients later, the Mayo Clinic is renown as one of the most influential and well respected of all medical institutions and is consistently on the list of America's best hospitals. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

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Catagory: Disease, Treatment, & Epidemiology

Subcatagory: Medicine, Medical Issues, & Pharmacy

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