Charles H. Mayo Quotes

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The definition of a specialist as one who 'knows more and more about less and less' is good and true.

Charles H. Mayo
Examination must be within reason for the sick, or nearsick, and its extent will be based on the judgment and experience of the physician.

Charles H. Mayo
The scientist is not content to stop at the obvious.

Charles H. Mayo
A crowned tooth is not a "crown of glory" and may cover a multitude of germs.

Charles H. Mayo
As a profession [physician] we are probably less acute in our general observation than was the practitioner of the old school.

Charles H. Mayo
While there are several chronic diseases more destructive to life than cancer none is more feared.

Charles H. Mayo
While medicine is a science, in many particulars it cannot be exact, so baffling are the varying results of varying conditions human life.

Charles H. Mayo
It would seem that the study of medicine does not always contribute to broadmindedness, as men who choose medicine as a profession are apt to lose rather than gain breadth of perception. It could be said rather that medicine develops individualism.

Charles H. Mayo
The true physician will never be satisfied just to pass his therapeutic wares over a counter.

Charles H. Mayo
The philosophic view of bacteria is to consider them necessary to life as the minute chemists of the air, waste, and the soil.

Charles H. Mayo
Medicine can be used only as people are educated to its accomplishments.

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Disease at times creates experiments that physiology completely fails to duplicate, and the wise physiologist can obtain clues to the resolution of many problems by studying the sick.

Charles H. Mayo
The trained nurse has given nursing the human, or shall we say, the divine touch, and made the hospital desirable for patients with serious ailments regardless of their home advantages.

Charles H. Mayo