Disproportionate Force By Leonard Zwelling This phrase has been thrown around a lot in the past few weeks. The claim by many, especially in the media and on the left, is that the Israeli government has employed disproportionate force in attacking the Palestinian population of Gaza. There are several reasons they make this claim. […]
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The Whole World Is Watching By Leonard Zwelling The crowd was chanting; a crowd with “marching, charging feet, boy.” This was Chicago, 1968. I was driving back from my first trip west of the Mississippi River where I visited my very wealthy fraternity brother from Beverly Hills. He drove up to San Francisco
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Indicting a Ham Sandwich or a Haircut By Leonard Zwelling On January 31, 1985 on page 3 of the New York Daily News, a story by Marcia Kramer and Frank Lombardi quotes New York Chief Judge Sol Wachtler as saying that “district attorneys now have so much influence on grand juries that…they could get
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Finally, a Truthful Assessment of Cancer Genomics: For Now, Everyone is An N of 1 By Leonard Zwelling Nothing, and I mean nothing, in all of modern science has more infuriated me as a former medical oncologist and former cancer pharmacologist than the horse hockey that I have heard about the power of cancer
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Say. Do. Feel. By Leonard Zwelling I have heard about emails from the MD Anderson leadership. They are quasi-motivational messages asserting concepts like transparency, teamwork and quality as the bedrock of MD Anderson’s excellence. These qualities are also the keys to restoring the admittedly poor morale that even the most rose-spectacled optimist concedes is
The Knick By Leonard Zwelling The Knick is not a new TV show about Walt Frazier. It is instead a new Cinemax series that began last Friday, August 8, about a hospital in New York City at the turn of the century. No not 2000. 1900. Clive Owen plays the Chief of Surgery,
Why It Won’t Be Hillary By Leonard Zwelling I would love to see Hillary Clinton be the next President of the United States, but I don’t think it is going to happen. It has nothing to do with her qualifications for no one is more qualified than she is, but that was true in
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Bibi To Chair Faculty Senate? By Leonard Zwelling Love him or hate him, Prime Minister Netanyahu is not a confused person. Frankly, I have rarely met a confused Israeli. The number one thing I loved about Israel during my two trips in the late 1990’s was the clarity of the thinking of the Israeli
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Knowing When To Walk Away By Leonard Zwelling My professional career is filled with errors. Many people say they have no regrets about decisions they have made in their lives. Not me. I have regretted lots of things I have done and said. Early on, I simply said what I was thinking. This is
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