07/15/2025
Where Medicine Meets Meaning 🏛️🔔
At Mayo Clinic’s Plummer Building, every detail speaks to a deeper purpose. Ornate bronze doors, walls lined with diplomas, and a soaring tower crowned with 56 bells—all built around one unshakable idea:
“The needs of the patient come first.”
This wasn’t just a motto. It was the guiding principle behind a bold new model of care—where clinical excellence, education, and research were united under one roof.
Doctors William and Charles Mayo understood that healing goes beyond science. That’s why the carillon was added not just as decoration, but as a tribute “To the American Soldier,” ringing out daily as a symbol of honor, gratitude, and hope.
That spirit still echoes through the halls today—and it’s why I chose to train here, at the Mendelson Advanced Facial Anatomy Course (MAFAC). Because anatomy isn’t just technical—it’s foundational to safe, natural, life-changing results.
As surgeons, our tools may change. But the mission hasn’t.
Precision. Education. Integrity. And always—patients first.
Plummer Building, Mayo Clinic
MAFAC 2025
Healing through anatomy, history, and sound.