On the Wrong Side of the Scalpel: The Doctor as Patient By Leonard Zwelling Many books and articles have been written by doctors who get sick. They each describe the experience of illness from the other side of the stethoscope. Being on the other side of the scalpel is a bit worse. It really […]
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Bonnie, Bette, Cyndi, Rosanne, and Me: My Intimate Relationships With Four Pop Music Goddesses By Leonard Zwelling Those who know me well know a few invariables about me. I love my wife, would never dream of having a close relationship with another woman, and haven’t since I met her, even in the lonely days
One Reason the Faculty Are Ignored : Leadership Acts Like It Is Acceptable To Do So By Leonard Zwelling http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/opinion/sunday/adam-grant-and-sheryl-sandberg-on-discrimination-at-work.html?ref=opinion&_r=0 In this short op-ed in Sunday’s (Dec 7) NY Times, Adam Grant, a professor at the Wharton School at Penn and Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, write about real research into the nature
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Oh Medicine, My Medicine By Leonard Zwelling (For the late, great Dr. Bruce W. Dixon, a great mentor to hippie interns) http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/24/health/private-oncologists-being-forced-out-leaving-patients-to-face-higher-bills.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3As%2C%7B%221%22%3A%22RI%3A9%22%7D&_r=0 This is one of many articles published of late that addresses the issue of cancer drug costs and prices or reimbursement rates (There’s a difference. The cost is what the doc pays,
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“Brains Were Destroyed, UT Says, But Questions Linger” By Leonard Zwelling This headline above an article by Benjamin Wermund in the City and State section of the Houston Chronicle on December 4, 2014 greeted me with my coffee. I couldn’t make this stuff up. Mr. Wermund reports that author Alex Hannaford discovered during
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Ferguson is Not Gaza: Clarity Not Confusion Through Identifying the Problem By Leonard Zwelling http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/25591/Default.aspx As this article shows, there are those who would equate the violence in response to the police shooting of the unarmed Michael Brown in Ferguson to violence in the Middle East that may be a harbinger of a new
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When the Subject Changed from Land to Religious Ideology in the Former British Mandate of Palestine By Leonard Zwelling For many years, at least since 1948, the conflict in the former British Mandate of Palestine was between two peoples, Jews and Arabs, over land. In 1967, the Jews ratcheted up the stakes by capturing
When the Frozen Turkeys Were in the Grocery Stores Not Waiting Outside Target By Leonard Zwelling I really do understand the American desire to get a great deal. I also really understand how those less fortunate than myself would want to take advantage of a brief period of lower prices on essentials like food
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“Ideals Are Peaceful. History Is Violent.” The Benefit of Quiet Leadership in a Noisy Fury When The Ideal of Fighting Cancer Becomes Making It History (For Raph Pollock) By Leonard Zwelling Leadership in war movies is usually about physical courage. A high-ranking military officer may make a controversial decision that leads to victory or
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Firing Chuck Hagel Is Like Firing Top MD Anderson Administrators: It Won’t Change Anything By Leonard Zwelling American democracy is great for protecting its Presidents from the consequences of their own ineptitude. Nixon lasted for two years after everyone knew he was guilty. Clinton made it the whole way despite lying. George W. did
