Detroit is the latest metro area vying to become a medical destination. The hope is that its hospital systems can draw patients from outside its region, helping the local economy. In short, Detroit wants to be more like Cleveland. But Cleveland could be tough to copy. Cosgrove comes to Cleveland In 1975, a young cardiologist arrived in Cleveland. I came here in a rented truck with a Vega on the back end because it was too sick to pull, Toby Cosgrove says. Jump ahead 36 years and that newbie with a beater of a car is now CEO of the Cleveland Clinic. Cosgrove presides over a medical empire vastly larger than when he came to town hoping to get better at heart surgery. We were about 140-150 doctors. Weve grown a bit since that time. Were now about 3,000, he says.
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