Leonard Zwelling

First, What’s the Problem?: Generating a Problem List and SOAPing to the Solution By Leonard Zwelling          Reading the latest reports from Anderson via the Chronicle and various emails that I have received, I continue to be struck by how poorly the cause for the turmoil at Anderson is understood or articulated. It’s really not […]

Judgment By Leonard Zwelling          Once again I found myself flat on my back in Hermann Hospital with a partial bowel obstruction. For those of you who have never had the pleasure, an NG tube, IV fluids and being NPO for a few days can really suck. Fortunately, these rather primitive surgical maneuvers appear to

I Don’t Get What They Don’t Get By Leonard Zwelling          Todd Ackerman’s piece in yesterday’s Chronicle might leave anyone who is not a faculty member at MD Anderson scratching his head. Or better yet asking, “what the heck is going on over there?”          That latter response makes a great deal of sense. I

The Hurt Feelings of the CMO By Leonard Zwelling Important dialogue from the Godfather: Kay Adams: Michael, you never told me you knew Johnny Fontane! Michael: Sure, you want to meet him? Kay Adams: Well, yeah! Sure. Michael: My father helped him with his career. Kay Adams: How did he do that? Michael: …Let’s listen

Why I Am ‘Still Angry’ By (For My Coach K) Leonard Zwelling          Most people who get to know me over time understand that I have very strong opinions about everything and that I am basically angry.          Let’s examine that.          Anger is a manifestation of dissatisfaction. If “satisfaction is the absence of the

If Corporations Are People, And MD Anderson Is A Corporation, Is MD Anderson A Person? If so, Who and Why Would He Behave So Badly?: The Godfather Rationale By Leonard Zwelling          Yes, I know there was a real Monroe Dunaway Anderson. In the title I am referring to the Cancer Center not the cotton

s-CAR-go-T or Send in the Boys to Do a Man’s Work When a Woman Is Involved: One Hundred Million Reasons For The Head of the Division of Pediatrics To Resign By Leonard Zwelling       Obviously, this one is hard to write, but not really.       First, nothing about this surprised me, especially the particularly sudden

How Low Can the Bar Go? By Leonard Zwelling          A rabbi, a priest and an Episcopalian bishop walk into the bar….NO          A clown, a man with a duck on his head and a nun walk into the bar…NO          A midget, a giant and Jimmy Carter walk into the bar…NO          Michael Jackson

Grace, Paul, Marty, Jorma, Jack, and Spencer By Leonard Zwelling (For Boo)          Rarely, there is a moment in time so frozen in memory that it can never melt. One of those moments occurred in April of 1967 in the basement of my ZBT dorm at Duke. The humidity had just crept back into the

A Cut of the Profits Is One Thing, But a Cut of the Charitable Giving…? By Leonard Zwelling          On the front page of the NY Times on February 6 is a story by Nicholas Confessore about Mary Pat Bonner, a woman who raises funds for liberal candidates by funneling money from big donors to