About Us

History

Six Founding Physicians
The War Years
Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation
Expanding With the Times
Birth of the Regional System
Marshfield Clinic Education Foundation
Marshfield Clinic Today

Six Founding Physicians

In 1916, six physicians, K.W. Doege, M.D.; William Hipke, M.D.; Victor Mason, M.D.; Walter G. Sexton, M.D.; H.H. Milbee, M.D. and Roy P. Potter, M.D., found themselves practicing in the same community, and chose to join together in group practice. They named the new enterprise not for themselves but for the community in which they lived and served: Marshfield Clinic. From the beginning they thought of themselves as a team - the work, ideas and professional growth of each reinforcing and complementing the others in service to their patients and community.

The group hosted scientific meetings for substantial numbers of other doctors, a tradition that was to endure and further shape the Clinic's character. By 1924, Marshfield Clinic had become a formal part of the University of Wisconsin's first medical preceptor program. The commitment to medical research and education would only increase.