Mother Nature, the Doctor, and the Nun: The Handshake That Created Mayo Clinic
SHOW DESCRIPTION: On September 30, 1889, Saint Marys Hospital opened its doors in Rochester, Minnesota, equipped with just 27 beds and an unlikely partnership forged over a prairie handshake. Six years earlier, a catastrophic F4 tornado had devastated the small agricultural town, prompting Catholic educator Mother Alfred Moes and Protestant physician Dr. William Worrall Mayo to unite across deep religious and social divides. At a time when the public feared hospitals as dirty "pest houses" where the sick went to die, this visionary alliance defied local bigotry and financial hardship to…
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