When The Leader Is The Message By Leonard Zwelling Donald Trump is really stuck now. After running a hate-filled campaign that appealed to the basest of American instincts and successfully parlaying racist and white superiority rhetoric into an election victory, he cannot now espouse a message of tolerance. And, even if he could, he won’t. […]
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The Eclipse And Climate Change: If You Believe In One, Why Not Believe In The Other? EXTRA: My letter to the Duke Chronicle By Leonard Zwelling The occurrence of a solar eclipse is magical. But what is more magical is that it is not magical at all. It is entirely predictable and explicable, down to
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Has The World Gone Nuts? By Leonard Zwelling This is now a legitimately reasonable question to ask. The President of the United States is going toe-to-toe with a rogue regime in North Korea in a very dangerous game of chicken in which one miscalculation could be very fatal. (I am not really sure if anything
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There Is Much For The MD Anderson Faculty To Consider By Leonard Zwelling Any thoughtful American is deep in thought these days. Everyone is trying to make sense of a world gone mad. Crises are being provoked on the Korean Peninsula simply because a bad actor has done exactly what he and his family have
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Bellicose Language: Never A Good Idea in Diplomacy Or Cancer Care By Leonard Zwelling The current President of the United States has now threatened a third-world nation, North Korea, with “fire and fury.” Such words should never be uttered by the Leader of the Free World. There is no need. That the United States has
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White Nationalism 2.0 In Charlottesville By Leonard Zwelling This one was tough to write. “Bricks and baseball bats” may be what Woody Allen calls for against Nazis, but we have just seen what that yields in Charlottesville and it is not good. Violence is violence and there is no place for it among Americans who
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The Problem With Patient Satisfaction As A Key Metric of Physician Performance By Leonard Zwelling Satisfaction. What is it? Simply stated it’s the absence of desire. It is also very rarely attained by humans. Everybody always wants something more, even if it is just to live another day. If any people should understand this, it
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Wishful Rumors About The Next MD Anderson President By Leonard Zwelling I got an email. A friend was checking in with me about what I had heard with regard to who the finalists are for the MD Anderson presidency. From at least two sources, I have been told that the advisory committee to the search
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The Return Of Civility To MD Anderson By Leonard Zwelling In this editorial in The New York Times on Saturday, July 29, Bret Stephens explains that the beginning of the coarsening of our national discourse that culminated in the recent profanity-laced rants by the now-fired Anthony Scarimucci to The New Yorker began with the permissiveness
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The Importance of A Working Staff By Leonard Zwelling It is apparent by now that President Trump does not have a functioning White House staff. The press secretary is gone. The Chief of Staff is now gone. The new communications director lasted ten days. Many others have left and there are tens of vacancies throughout
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