Tag: University of Michigan Medical School
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Dr. Will and Dr. Charlie: William James Mayo (1861–1938) and Charles Horace Mayo (1865–1939)
John RaffenspergerFort Meyers, Florida, United States The father of the Mayo brothers, William Worall Mayo, was born in a village near Manchester, England, in 1819. His father died when he was seven years old, but his mother managed to have him tutored in Latin and Greek, and later he took private lessons with James Dalton, a…
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The boys’ club
Laura HirshbeinMichigan, Ann Arbor, United States In 1914, a group of fraternity men from the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, decided they needed more influence at the school. One of the students had an uncle on the faculty, and with his connections these men founded the Galens Honorary Medical Society, an…