Talk:Mayo Clinic

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Why the list of famous patients? I'd prefer to see a list of famous doctors, trainees, or medical students. Evry top 20 hospital could boast of its many famous patients: everyone gets sick...

ehhhh.. Why is there a link to the 'mayo clinic diet' here? It's something which has no connection(bar the obvious one)to the Mayo Clinic. I've deleted it before but it was put back.

Copyrighted source

Ugh, this text appears to have been lifted from a copyrighted source (just a fragment, though).

The above comment is old, from May 27, 2003 —Mulad (talk) 20:28, May 19, 2005 (UTC)

"World renowned"

I suspect that "world renowned" is a bit of an overstatement. "Renowned in the United States" would probably be more accurate. David.Monniaux 11:43, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I disagree. People fly from all over the world just to go to the Mayo Clinic. -- DarkNight 15:47, 2005 Jan 3 (UTC)

True, especially before 9/11 folks were coming from all over, and especially the Mideast.

I agree, world renowned is accurate, in fact the international airport at Rochester existed so that people, particularly from the ME, could fly directly there to get medical care at Mayo. In my personal experience its also recognized by name in many foreign countries, some I didn't expect (India, Pakistan, China, Thailand, Cambodia from my own experience). Gtadoc 18:06, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

They also have a 56-bell carillon in the Plummer bldg.[1][2][3] (This page says 23 but it may simply be decades out of date; there seems to have been an expansion.[4]) The bells were made by Petit & Fritsen [5] and Gillett & Johnston [6]. Kwantus 02:55, 2005 Mar 26 (UTC)

However notable it may be, I find the repeated linkspamming of links to their websites from their dialup proxies User:129.176.151.6 and User:129.176.151.7 completely tacky. These are vandal tactics more commonly associated with non-notable companies trying to increase their pagerank. See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Unblocked myself for a more indepth discussion. --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 19:30, July 11, 2005 (UTC)