The classic biography of a family of physicians and the medical

center that bears their name ...

This book has been acclaimed as the authoritative biography of Dr. William Worrall Mayo and his physician sons since it first was published in 1941.

During her years of research, Helen Clapesattle interviewed members of the Mayo family and people who knew our founders well – their friends and relatives, neighbors and colleagues. The Doctors Mayo presents the Mayo physicians in the totality of their lives and careers, as medicine evolved from hopeful guesswork to an exact science.

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