Mayo Clinic (St Mary's etc)
In England all roads lead to London but in Rochester all subways lead
to the Clinic. From the Clinic I went to St Mary's Hospital
by jitney [small bus or van].
This is the largest surgical hospital in the world under one roof. You
can imagine the size of the place when there are fourteen operating theatres
in it. They are all fitted with a gallery for onlookers and the largest
of these theatres has a gallery built of marble leading up from the main
floor and operating table, that will hold 240 people. One doctor alone
in this hospital did 20 goitre operations in one day. I forgot to say
this big operating theatre cost $60,000.
St Mary's is run by Catholic sisters and it is here the Mayos do all
their own operations. In fact they refuse to operate elsewhere. They are
Protestants but when they first commenced practice in this place these
Sisters helped him so much they stick to the sisters now.
Then there is Worrell Hospital where a lot of the X ray work is done
and also the contagious diseases are kept. 9,000 cases in one month of
one disease alone.
These are only a few of the hospitals that keep this place of 5,000 inhabitants
alive. There are also the Curie, Samaritan, Zumbro and many others.
In fact the town is full of hospitals drug stores (as they call chemists
shops) and undertakers not forgetting hotels.
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