Why Choose Mayo Clinic

For more than a century, millions of people from all walks of life have found answers at Mayo Clinic. Here are some of the reasons why half a million people each year choose Mayo Clinic for their medical care.

Top doctors
At Mayo Clinic, we assemble a team of medical experts who take the time to listen and thoroughly understand your health issues and concerns. Our doctors are carefully chosen based on their educational background, their medical skills, and their ability to work together. Because of the large volume of patients who come to Mayo for care, our doctors quickly gain extensive experience in treating every kind of illness. Many become international experts. The Mayo system supports doctors by making it easy for them to work together and by providing the best personnel, facilities and technology to help them deliver the best care to every patient every day.

When the patient meets with the physician, the examination is unhurried. Physicians at Mayo receive a fixed salary. Their pay is not based on quantity of procedures or number of patients seen. Rather, physicians spend the time they deem necessary to provide quality patient care.

New treatments
A part of Mayo's mission is to continually look for new and better ways of doing things. Mayo patients are frequently among the first to benefit from new ideas pioneered by Mayo doctors and researchers. The emphasis on learning is what makes Mayo one of the leading centers for educating other doctors.

Reputation
Mayo has earned a reputation for solving hard-to-solve medical problems based on more than 100 years of results. This is affirmed by the fact that more than 70 percent of Mayo's patients have been seen at Mayo before.

Many viewpoints
Mayo's system is built on working together: encouraging doctors to freely consult with each other about patients (which is why Mayo doctors are called "consultants"). Patients do not get just one opinion at Mayo; they get multiple opinions. The principle at Mayo is two heads are better than one and five are even better.

One-stop care
Virtually all medical services a patient might need — doctor visits, testing, surgery, hospital care — are available "under one roof" at Mayo Clinic. The scheduling of these services is done in a coordinated and efficient way, so that what might take months to accomplish in a community setting can be done in a matter of days at Mayo.