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William Worrall Mayo

American physician
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William Worrall Mayo.
William Worrall Mayo.

William Worrall Mayo was an American physician who, along with his sons William J. and Charles H. Mayo, established the renowned Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1845, Mayo studied medicine and developed an extensive surgical practice in Rochester. Following a tornado disaster, he, his sons, and the Sisters of St. Francis planned and built St. Mary's Hospital, which opened in 1889. Upon William Worrall Mayo's retirement, his sons continued the work, eventually developing the cooperative group clinic that became the Mayo Clinic.12

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