The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-06-09

thing in the way of examina-
tions or treatment. This rule
is absolute.
Money Isn't All
Zone thing that one feels pre-
eminently in Rochester," wrote
DR.. Wilfred T. Grenfell, the Lab
rador doctor, in the Outlook, ''is
the absence of the money spirit.
For instance, here is a type of
story told me on the spot. A
patient after a most successful
operation was asked if he could
afford to pay. He replied in the
affirmative.
What is the source of your
income
az have mortgaged my farm
to raise the money!
"The check was accepted and
the good faith thereby proved.
But on returning home the man
received a letter which, like the
sacks of Joseph's brothers, con-
tanned not only the returned
check but one of a similar
amount as "a trifiing help to-
ward the losses that had accrued
to him and his family through
his unfortunate Illness"
Wealth, fame, social position
make no difference in Roches-
ter. The man without a dollar
gets the same treatment as the
man with a million. The door
of hope has never been shut in
a mans face because he could
not pay. The Mayos' thought
fulness for their patients, first,
last and always, is accentuated
by such simple facts as that the
cabman can charge only Is cents
to drive you to your hotel or to
the hospital; that the very
strictest economy in treatment
is studied, so much so that by
improved methods even the use
of bandages is almost elimina-
ted, and with it unnecessary
laundry expenses are saved.
DR.. George Wiley Broome pub
lished book on Rochester and
the Mayo Clinic" last year. It
is said that the Mayos adhere
so rigidly to the strictest inter-
probation of medical ethics that
they permit nothing to be writ
ten about them without an earn
est protest. They are not sur
geons of a new school, but are
conservative to a fault. DR..
Broome spent some time at the
Mayo institution, studying the
surgical methods in the clinic,
talking with the Mayos and es-
pecially noting the character of
patients who visit the town.
The Last Hope
''To walk up and down the
main street, particularly in the
vicinity of the Mayo Offices, any
afternoon" he wrote, Ito look
into the faces of the people slow
ly passing to and fro or gath
cred about in the Offices, one is
inclined to realize that a vast
majority of the strangers at Ro-
chester belong to the ailing class,
and are there for the purpose of
seeking relief. Here it is that
the patients gather, scores of
them, every afternoon.
"A certain anxiety is pictured
on each face, and the counte.
nances depict the results Of suf.
fering from some mental or ply.
steal arrangement. Some OF
them, enfeebled by age and 9th.
erinirmities, are seen totterine
toward the offices leaning heav.
lily upon the arm of a son, 9
daughter or attendant. Some
are unable to rise from the roll.
er chairs in which they are be.
ing wheeled along to their last
hope. The astonishingly large
number of about 1000 persons
passed through the Mayo offices
in the one month of August.
Some, possibly most, of these
heretofore hopeless and unhap
py people return home after re
ceiving treatment at st. Mary.
Hospital in much better health
than they were in when they