page_title: Charles Horace Mayo
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Horace Mayo / Career
context_page_description: Charles Horace Mayo was an American medical practitioner and was one of the founders of the Mayo Clinic along with his brother, William James Mayo, Augustus Stinchfield, Christopher Graham, E. Star Judd, Henry Stanley Plummer, Melvin Millet, and Donald Balfour.
context_section_description: Charles graduated from the medical school of Northwestern University in 1888 and joined his father, William Worrall Mayo, and older brother, William James Mayo, in their private medical practice in Rochester, Minnesota.
  The Mayos' first partner was Augustus Stinchfield, who was hired by William Worrall Mayo. Once in place as a partner in the private practice, W. W. Mayo retired at age 73. The private practice became the not-for-profit Mayo Clinic in 1919.  At that point, the remaining partners went on salary, and the Mayo Properties Association was established. The world's first "integrated group practice" was established by the seven partners and staff.
  The Mayo Clinic came to be regarded as one of the foremost medical treatment and research institutions in the world.  Within Mayo's lifetime, it registered one million patients.
  The idea of medical specialization was developed by this group of medical pioneers.  A close and enduring relationship between the Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota Medical School developed.  C. H. Mayo specialized in surgery of the thyroid and nervous system.
  He was also responsible for the clinic's ophthalmic patients until 1908. He and early partners insisted on sterile conditions in the operating room, and that was one of many factors that contributed to the medical practice's early surgical successes.
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