May 2017

In Selling MD Anderson, Successive Presidents Have Lost Track Of The Product

In Selling MD Anderson, Successive Presidents Have Lost Track Of The Product By Leonard Zwelling In her op-ed in the New York Times on Sunday, May 7, Maureen Dowd notes how Steve Jobs of Apple never lost track of the need to make great products, not just sell them. She quotes the great man: “The …

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The Presidential Search

The Presidential Search By Leonard Zwelling http://www.utsystem.edu/news/2017/05/02/ut-md-anderson-presidential-search-advisory-committee-named The Search Advisory Committee for the new president of MD Anderson has been named. Please see link above for official memo. There are no surprises there except for the distinct absence of a medical oncologist on the list. There are two clinicians named at least. I guess we …

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When Confidence Was Replaced With Anxiety At MD Anderson: Getting the Confidence Back

When Confidence Was Replaced With Anxiety At MD Anderson: Getting the Confidence Back By Leonard Zwelling In this particularly germane opinion piece in the New York Times Magazine on Sunday, April 23, Nitsuh Abebe describes our age of anxiety. The term actually dates back to W. H. Auden and a poem of that name from …

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