During Retirement, You Eat Dessert First By Leonard Zwelling Moonstruck (1987) Rose: I just want you to know no matter what you do, you’re gonna die, just like everybody else. Cosmo Castorini: Thank you, Rose. This is one of my favorite quotes from the film that I believe has the best screenplay ever written. […]
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Monica, Hilary and Me: Will The Chickens Come Home To Roost? By Leonard Zwelling If there was ever a person I thought I would not see on the public stage again, it was Monica Lewinsky. But there she was this week in Philadelphia discussing her new cause celeb, cyber-bullying. She claims to be “patient
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If You’re A Doctor, It Sucks To Be You By Leonard Zwelling I was chatting with a close physician friend recently. We were trading war stories (whining, really, after all we are academics) about the down-grading of our profession from that of a noble calling to that of being the guy or gal behind
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Managing Health Care, Managing Doctors; These Two Things Do Not Go Together But They Should By Leonard Zwelling President Obama has just appointed an Ebola Czar, Ron Klain. Mr. Klain is a highly respected government manager with good relationships in the executive branch and on Capitol Hill. This would seem to make sense. But,
Big Money, Small Money and Really Small Money, But Not Blood Money By Leonard Zwelling On August 26, Stripes, a group of convenience stores headquartered in Corpus Christi, launched a campaign to raise funds for the MD Anderson Children’s Cancer Hospital during September, Childhood Cancer Awareness month. This money came from small donations of
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Texas Contagion: The Spread of ISIS, Ebola and Indifference By Leonard Zwelling There are three threats to the citizens of Texas. Texans share susceptibility to these threats with the rest of America, but in Texas, two of these threats have taken particularly nasty turns. ISIS is the contagious threat that looms for all
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If (When?) Ebola Comes to MD Anderson By Leonard Zwelling At this point it is reasonable to conclude that the United States is not entirely ready to handle an outbreak of a deadly disease like Ebola. And the current cases in Dallas and possibly beyond were not even from a terrorist attack with weaponized
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Fearing For My Children By Leonard Zwelling I do not see any way that my kids can be protected from the world I am going to leave them. No, I am not worried that ISIS will invade Houston although Ebola is possible. I am not even worried about the collapse of medicine, although having
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Ebola, ISIS and Moral Relativism Must Be Resisted-The Gardening Analogy of Thomas L. Friedman By Leonard Zwelling Personally, I find Nancy Snyderman an awful representative of the medical profession. Most of her reports focus on what she thinks or does and not what the experts with whom she is supposed to be an intermediary
Peggy Noonan’s Lessons on Ebola, Leadership and Common Sense By Leonard Zwelling Regular readers of this blog know that I have a great deal of admiration for the Wall Street Journal’s Saturday columnist Peggy Noonan. Ms. Noonan was a former Reagan speechwriter, an obviously conservative voice, but often one of the few voices of
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