Leonard Zwelling

The Time Magazine Article and the President’s Response By Len Zwelling                 The Bitter Pill by Steven Brill was an eye-opening article in Time Magazine for some. But what was in this piece should have come as no surprise to anyone at MD Anderson.                 My interpretation of the Brill article is: 1.       Charges for […]

The Hard Task of Representing the Faculty March 4, 2013 By Leonard Zwelling Mia Love is the young (37) mayor of Sarasota Springs, Utah. She is a conservative Republican, African-American, Mormon and an articulate spokesperson for the right. (It’s a great country!).  She appeared on ABC’s This Week on March 3 and had a rather

A Kind of Madness March 3, 2013 By  Leonard Zwelling, MD, MBA In her column in the Wall Street Journal on March 2, Peggy Noonan described a White House that has grown more and more out of touch with reality. She accuses the Obama Administration of overreaching, imperiousness and being overly full of itself. She

MD Anderson: From C-Quester to Sequester                                                                        February 27, 2013                  By Leonard Zwelling                   Most of the members of the MD Anderson faculty are on a journey—personal and professional, individual and collective. Each wants to fulfill his or her goals of producing meaningful work in his or her chosen field be that basic

If You Don’t’ Stand For Something                                                                        February 22, 2013 By Leonard Zwelling                   We all came from somewhere. Although most current Americans were born in the USA, all of us can trace our ancestry back to people who were not except American Indians. Thus, almost all of us or at least our