Len Zwelling

Designer Babies By Leonard Zwelling https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/11/25/health/ap-us-med-genetic-frontiers-gene-edited-babies.html It was bound to occur and it was bound to occur where it did. A Chinese scientist, possibly with American assistance, has altered the genes in human embryos, implanted the fertilized eggs, and the embryos grew up to be twins that were delivered in China. Supposedly (there has been […]

Modern Medicine: Doctoring Today—An Older Patient’s, Older Doctor’s Perspective By Leonard Zwelling https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1806984 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1808736 The contrast could not have been more stark. The issue of The New England Journal of Medicine of November 22 has two editorials that illuminate the problem for the clinicians of today. The first of these is about going beyond Evidence-Based

Even Trump’s Government Admits Climate Change Is Real By Leonard Zwelling At 2 PM on the Friday after Thanksgiving, the federal government released the congressionally mandated report on climate change. To sum it up, we’re in a lot of trouble. If drastic steps are not taken quickly, the United States and its economy will suffer

Is Trump Right On Saudi Arabia? Is MBS Our SOB? By Leonard Zwelling In his statement of November 20, reprinted in the Wall Street Journal the following day, the president made it clear that while he does admit that the leadership of Saudi Arabia might have been involved with the murder and dismemberment of the

Will The Democrats Develop A Health Care Plan For 2020? By Leonard Zwelling In The NY Times of Sunday, November 18, Harold Pollack, a professor at the University of Chicago, wrote a piece about the need for planning on the part of the Democrats if they wish to win the White House in 2020. In

Predicting What Will be Good On Broadway—Impossible By Leonard Zwelling Friday, November 16 in Manhattan and the snow is just starting to melt as the precipitation is supplanted by icy winds and temps in the thirties. This is not perfect weather to walk in the city, but walk we did. The next great shopping waltz

Snow In New York City In November By Leonard Zwelling The BW and I made our annual trip to the Big Apple, mostly to see Bryan Cranston in Network. That’s tomorrow, November 16. Today is our first day in Midtown and it starts to snow. And I don’t mean flurries. This was real stick on

Melania Flexes Her Muscles By Leonard Zwelling No one voted for her. The ex-model naturalized American who is the third wife of the current occupant of the Oval Office has decided to raise her public profile. Apparently, upset with the way her staff was being treated, she is calling for the ouster of Mira Ricardel

Gratitude: Reunion ’18 for MD ’73—The Only Logical Response By Leonard Zwelling It’s a tradition at Duke Medical School. Every five years the flock migrates back to the nest in Durham, North Carolina on the second weekend of November for Medical Alumni Weekend. This year it was my 45th. My turn. In surveying the other

Why A Liberal Can’t Beat Trump By Leonard Zwelling In 2008, when a pretty liberal guy, Barack Obama, ascended to the presidency, we were a different country. America was reeling from the real estate crisis and the bottom having fallen out of the markets taking Lehman Brothers with it. The Republicans in charge of the