physics

Toby Cosgrove

Toby Cosgrove is a physics topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Toby Cosgrove rather than just read about it. In short: Delos Marshall "Toby" Cosgrove (born 1940) is an American Vietnam War veteran and former heart surgeon. He served as the president and chief executive of the Cleveland Clinic from 2004 until 2017.

Key takeaways

Toby Cosgrove belongs to physics; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Toby Cosgrove to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Toby Cosgrove from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Delos Marshall "Toby" Cosgrove (born 1940) is an American Vietnam War veteran and former heart surgeon. He served as the president and chief executive of the Cleveland Clinic from 2004 until 2017.

Early life Toby Cosgrove was born in 1940 in Watertown, New York and graduated from Williams College, where he majored in history. He received an MD from the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He was an intern at the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Boston Children’s Hospital, and Brook General Hospital in London, U.K.

Career During the Vietnam War, Cosgrove served as a surgeon in the United States Air Force. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for his service. Cosgrove began working at the Cleveland Clinic in 1975. By 1989, he was appointed as the chairman of its Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. He served as its president and chief executive from 2004 to 2017. Cosgrove practiced thoracic surgery until 2006. During the course of his career, he performed over 22,000 procedures. He served as the president of the American Association of Thoracic Surgery in 2000. He is a member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the American College of Surgeons, and the American Heart Association. He also became a member of the Institute of Medicine in 2013. Cosgrove was offered the position of Secretary of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs by President Barack Obama in 2014, but he turned it down. He was interviewed for the same position by president-elect Donald Trump in December 2016. In December 2016, Cosgrove joined a business forum assembled by president-elect Donald Trump to provide strategic and policy advice on economic issues.

Personal life Cosgrove has a wife, Anita. He is dyslexic.

Works Cosgrove, Toby (2014). The Cleveland Clinic Way: Lessons in Excellence From One of the World's Leading Healthcare Organizations. New York: McGraw-Hill Education. ISBN 9780071827249. OCLC 862041447.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Toby Cosgrove

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Toby Cosgrove claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In physics, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Toby Cosgrove before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Toby Cosgrove ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Toby Cosgrove

In research: Toby Cosgrove appears in physics research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Toby Cosgrove in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Toby Cosgrove is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1940 births, American cardiac surgeons, American chief executives in the health care industry, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Toby Cosgrove outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Toby Cosgrove in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Toby Cosgrove means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Toby Cosgrove out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Toby Cosgrove in simple terms?

Delos Marshall "Toby" Cosgrove (born 1940) is an American Vietnam War veteran and former heart surgeon. He served as the president and chief executive of the Cleveland Clinic from 2004 until 2017.

Why does Toby Cosgrove matter?

Because it connects several physics ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Toby Cosgrove?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Toby Cosgrove.