According to Hsu, the Mayo Clinic was founded in the late 1800s by William Worrall Mayo and his sons. Beginning in a small town in the state of Minnesota, after more than a century of careful management the Mayo Clinic is now the best-established, most highly specialized, and largest-scale comprehensive hospital system in the world, with a staff of 45,000 that includes a variety of healthcare specialists and scientists.
許文政表示，梅約醫學中心於 1800 年由梅約父子 3 人創立，從偏遠的美國北部明尼蘇達州羅徹斯特小鎮起家，經過兩百多年的悉心經營，如今已是全球歷史最悠久、專業度最高、規模最大的綜合醫療體系，旗下擁有包括醫護人員與科學家在內的 4 萬 5 千人醫療團隊。