Elective Cancer Surgery Is An Oxymoron By Leonard Zwelling In the March 31, 2020 edition of The Houston Chronicle, Marc Boom (CEO of Methodist) and Peter Pisters (president of MD Anderson) penned an op-ed about the roles that hospitals must take in the coronavirus crisis. It was a platitude-laden piece about traditional exercises in …
Fear, Dissonance, Wills, And Perspective By Leonard Zwelling We are in the middle of it right now, and despite what anyone out there says, we really don’t know when it ends or how. We don’t know what it means or what our response to it will mean for future generations. It will be one …
It’s Always About Choices By Leonard Zwelling There are only choices. Those choices have type one (alpha) or type two (beta) errors. The first is an erroneous rejection of the null hypothesis—accepting significance when none exists. A type two error occurs when the null hypothesis is erroneously retained—missing a significance that is present. When …
