Len Zwelling

Medicine could use more common sense

The Right To Try By Leonard Zwelling Let’s start with the obvious. There is no right for a sick person to have access to experimental therapy. There just isn’t. Nor should there be. Clinical trials are an experimental endeavor in which the federal government exerts its regulatory authority to protect the public from unscrupulous people

The One Thousandth Blog By Leonard Zwelling Whether the count is accurate or not, the statistics section on my web page counter is indicating this is number 1000. I am not at all sure of the significance of that, but it does boggle my mind. The blog has had over 1 million two hundred thousand

Technological and Social Media Overreach: The Robo-Rabbi Call By Leonard Zwelling I have been blessed with many great teachers. I have met most of them although some I have met only through books or film or audio recordings. I did go to a retreat with the great Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh many years ago.

Is Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Or The Real Thing? By Leonard Zwelling http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1714229 In the March 15, 2018 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, an editorial describes the consequences of machine learning on the practice of medicine. On the surface, the use of big data to assist in medical decision-making doesn’t seem to

Bad Choices For Leaders: Tillerson and Bolton By Leonard Zwelling One of the best leaders for whom I have ever worked was Dr. Margaret Kripke. Margaret taught me that the best predictor of performance in a new appointee is past performance. If you did your last job well, you might be able to do your

I Am Not As Smart As I Like To Think I Am By Leonard Zwelling Have you ever felt stupid because of decisions that you have made—especially ones involving money? If not, you are a singular sensation. I have been trying, in vain so far, to publicize my last book and get the screen industry

The Real Healthcare Product By Leonard Zwelling What is it that we in medicine really sell? Now don’t be offended by the word sell. Doctors take money for doing stuff. They must be selling something. I know that they are professionals doing a service in what is supposed to be a fiduciary fashion with the

Why Should We Care About Stormy Daniels? By Leonard Zwelling Please let me be the first to say, that the answer to this question escaped me for weeks. It is well known that the President of the United States was and probably is a womanizer. That was clear in the Hollywood Access tape that emerged

The Theranos Fraud By Leonard Zwelling https://www.wsj.com/articles/sec-charges-theranos-and-founder-elizabeth-holmes-with-fraud-1521045648 When I was a research cop, I was often accused of trusting no one. It was true. I didn’t, and with good reason. The conflicts of interest that I discovered upon taking office at Anderson were hair-raising and the violations of human subjects research protocols were common. I