About Mayo Clinic

More than 2,900 physicians and scientists and 47,000 medical support staff work together as part of the Mayo system that encourages collaboration to meet the needs of patients. Mayo physicians share information through a unified, electronic medical record and regularly call upon the expertise of their colleagues to thoroughly understand patients' conditions and best meet the needs of each patient. In addition, Mayo physicians are paid by salary, not by how many patients they see or tests they order — enabling them to focus on one priority: the needs of each patient.

At Mayo Clinic, the needs of the patient always come first. Mayo Clinic recognizes that patients seeking medical care far from home have unique needs. Mayo Clinic provides a range of services to help make international patients as comfortable as possible, including interpreters in more than 30 languages, an International Services Center to assist patients throughout their visit, and translated written materials to help explain many medical conditions.

From the beginning, Mayo Clinic has been dedicated to meeting the health care needs of all patients, regardless of their geographic location. Dr. Will Mayo and Dr. Charlie Mayo, the founders of Mayo Clinic, traveled throughout the United States and around the world to share their surgical expertise and learn new techniques from other surgeons. Mayo Clinic physicians continue this tradition today, freely sharing their medical knowledge with colleagues at medical conferences, through visiting professorships and in published papers.