William James Mayo

“The first duty of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.”

“The best interest of the patient is the only interest to be considered.”

“The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn.”

“Individualism in medicine is gone, never to return.”

“No man is big enough to be independent of others.”

“The keynote of progress is the end of contentment.”

“The safest thing for a patient is to be in the hands of a man engaged in teaching medicine.”

“Experience is the great teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.”

“The aim of education is to know not only what is, but what ought to be.”

“The secret of quality is love.”

“A man who is not a gentleman at heart is not a gentleman in fact, and no professional training can make him one.”

“One of the chief triumphs of modern surgery is that it has rendered operations safer, but it has not been able to make them less terrible.”