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...young, sweat-soaked U.S. Peace Corpsmen emerged from the African rain forest to find a neat, white clinic in a straw-hut village - and a warm Willkommen from a couple of young German doctors, themselves members of a peace corps. If it has not happened already, such an encounter is bound to occur sooner or later. Struck by the success of the U.S. program, no fewer than 22 nations are beginning to field Peace Corps of their...
...last analysis, each man must make his own accommodation to death. Almost universal is the sentiment of Dr. Charles W. Mayo, recently retired from active surgery at the Mayo Clinic: "I hope that when I die, it will be quick. But if there is some delay, then I hope I'll have somebody I love with me-somebody to hold my hand...
...Mayos opened the first building that was formally designated the Mayo Clinic. They were then treating 30,000 patients a year. Now the clinic handles 220,000. It is the place where Lou Gehrig went when other doctors had given up. (Mayo's confirmed the hopeless diagnosis.) It is the place where Lyndon Baines Johnson had one kidney stone removed by manipulation and another by surgery. It is the place to which Clara Bow, the "It" girl of the '20s, went when she was failing in the '40s, and to which Prince Feisal, now Premier of Saudi...
...patients wait their turn for X ray or blood test, but once that turn comes, the individual is all-important. Each patient, no matter whether he arrived on his own or was sent by his doctor, is assigned a single "personal physician" out of the 120 internists at the clinic. The internist sees his patient briefly at first; then a medical history is taken by a "fellow"-a young M.D. who has finished his internship and is serving a residency at Mayo...
...Bonus for Trust. The clinic is sometimes criticized on the grounds that it practices only what is already known in medicine and adds little to the sum of knowledge through research. This is partly true, because Mayo's formerly saw its primary function as the application of research to practice. Today it is making a concerted effort to step up research. There are complaints, too, that fees are high. But the truth is that they run about the same as in any good medical center for the same services. All the doctors are on salary, and they would...