Leonard Zwelling

Following the Lead of the Secret Service at MD Anderson By Leonard Zwelling          On January 14, the US Secret Service announced the dismissal of four major leaders based on the poor performance of those under their supervision. Incidents including the use of prostitutes by agents in advance of a Presidential trip to South America […]

Say It Ain’t So, Ron: Conflict of Interest 202 By Leonard Zwelling (for Jesse Gelsinger)          All of you fond of Enron and ImClone memorabilia surely remember the Sunday morning in June of 2002 when the Washington Post’s Justin Gillis revealed to the world that 195 patients receiving Erbitux on clinical trials at MD Anderson

What We Learned From the Events in France: The Pen Is Only Mightier Than the Sword When the Pen Has a Gun By Leonard Zwelling          We Americans just love this adage in support of our First Amendment rights. “The pen is mightier than the sword,” initially attributed to Edward Bulwer-Lytton in an 1839 play.

400, (000) Thank you one and all for reading. We have just passed 400 posts and 400,000 page views. Amazing. The new book should be out in a few weeks. Stay tuned. It will cost half as much as Steve Brill’s, be half as long and have funnier stories. And they are all true! LZ

Tone Deaf Presidents By Leonard Zwelling          The news shows are aglow with the apology from the White House for not having sent some sort of meaningful delegation to Paris yesterday. And well they should be.          As I pointed out, the French, despite their occasional arrogance and overwhelming self-importance, have stood by the United States

Where Was Obama? By Leonard Zwelling          The days following November 22, 1963 are both a blur and a slide show of images.          The abandoned limousine with the bloody roses.          The makeshift inauguration of LBJ by Sara Hughes on Air Force One with the now former First Lady looking on.          The veiled

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Joni By Leonard Zwelling (To Dick Cavett)          When you have spent three weeks as an in-patient following abdominal surgery trying desperately with your physicians to balance the relief provided by morphine with its gut stopping side effects, your mind drifts to strange places. Mine did. It hasn’t stopped yet although both the ileus and

Why I Am So Damned Angry-Fixing It-Part 2 By Leonard Zwelling          So I defined the economics of academic health care in America. In short, it sucks. Costs are rising. NIH budgets are shrinking compared with science inflation. Reimbursement for health care is falling. The drug companies are ever tighter with their cash and more

Je Suis Charlie: World War III By Leonard Zwelling          WWI was the war to end all wars. The American use of two atomic bombs to end the Pacific campaign of WWII in 1945 surely would put at end to global conflict. The victory of the West over the Soviet bloc had to mean the