May 2019

Two Chinese Scientists At Emory Dismissed

Two Chinese Scientists At Emory Dismissed By Leonard Zwelling It is no longer MD Anderson alone that has terminated the employment of faculty members with connections to China. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/05/terminated-emory-researcher-disputes-university-s-allegations https://finance.yahoo.com/news/professors-fired-from-emory-university-for-hiding-grants-from-china-215407630.html In this May 24 article on Science Magazine’s web site, it is reported by Jon Cohen that Li Xiao-Jiang and his wife and laboratory co-director

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No One Wants To Be A Ref Any More And Why Should They?

No One Wants To Be A Ref Any More And Why Should They? By Leonard Zwelling https://www.wsj.com/articles/michael-lewis-makes-boring-stuff-interesting-11558098125?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=3 I am finishing up the seven-part Podcast hosted by author Michael Lewis called Against The Rules. It discusses in a number of areas the decline of the relationship between the refs and those reffed. There is far more

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Order

Order By Leonard Zwelling https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-missing-order-in-american-politics-11557443675 In foreign policy, there is an order to things. You have to decide what the future should look like and then how to get there. During a training session on internal communications, the specialist training the president of MD Anderson, his wife and me that Saturday many years ago conveyed

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Could It Be Done Through The ACA?-A Different Route To Universal Coverage

Could It Be Done Through The ACA?-A Different Route To Universal Coverage By Leonard Zwelling https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1901532 In The New England Journal of Medicine on May 2, Fiedler et al outline a new plan to cover the 9% of the population that is still without health insurance after the ACA was fully implemented. This article is

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For A Good DQ, Everyone Has To Know The Rules

For A Good DQ, Everyone Has To Know The Rules By Leonard Zwelling https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-vs-the-horses-derby-debate-goes-presidential-11557143530 If you watched the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, May 4, you were treated to a once in a century event. The horse that finished first did not win. Maximum Security, a 4 to 1 shot at post time, was the clear

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