April 2020

Disorientation

Disorientation. Reorientation. By Leonard Zwelling          The coronavirus changes everything.          These three articles from The New York Times on April 24 make several important points. Those points not only apply to nations, but also to academic medical institutions.          The first article describes what might be the most successful effort in the world to

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Academic Thinking

You Would Think Academics Would Think Straighter By Leonard Zwelling file:///Users/leonardzwelling/Downloads/mockS5coverpagetemplate_ccell2988.pdf          This is a journal pre-proof of a letter written to Cancer Cell from investigators at MD Anderson’s Department of Radiation Oncology.          It makes an eloquent case that decisions made by the leaders of many academic institutions to shut, shutter, and deep-freeze a

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