Epilogue

Healthcare Value: The Intersection of Clinical Expertise and Advanced Technology

On Thursday, July 22, 2009, President Barack Obama arrived for a visit at Cleveland Clinic. The event was significantly different from when his predecessor, George W. Bush, visited in 2005 because President Obama did not address any large crowds while on campus. Instead, he had a brief, focused conversation with Dr. Cosgrove, then–Ohio governor Ted Strickland, and me in a small, private classroom before heading up to the Heart and Vascular Institute’s fourth floor to see a demonstration of robotically assisted, minimally invasive mitral valve repair surgery. There was little fanfare associated with the presidential visit. The Secret Service did its very ...

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