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1921
Photograph of an early electrocardiogram (EKG) machine, 1921.
With the end of the World War I in 1918, George Crile Sr., M.D., Frank E. Bunts, M.D., and William Lower, M.D., returned to the United States, where they set about creating a new kind of hospital. Impressed with the efficiency they observed in military hospitals, where medical and surgical specialties worked as a team to save lives, they used this model as the basis for their new effort. To round out their expertise-they were all surgeons-they recruited John Phillips, M.D., a renowned clinician and expert in internal medicine. The Cleveland Clinic officially opened its doors on February 28, 1921.
Early photo of Dr. Crile, Sr. in World War I in a French military hospital.
The Cleveland Clinic officially opened its doors on February 26, 1921 in a four story building (now known as the T building) with 13 doctors and four clinic nurses.
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1924
The Cleveland Clinic opens its first hospital building.
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