Len Zwelling

EXTRA: Pre-Election Special: The Boomers’ Last Chance To Get It Right By Leonard Zwelling          We’ve had two chances.          Bill Clinton was a pretty successful representative of our best natures as Baby Boomers, but also our worst as Jonathan Mahler points out in today’s NY Times. In the end, he was self-indulgent, self-centered and […]

A Stinky Choice By Leonard Zwelling          Tuesday, November 8 is E–Day and for the first time that I can remember, I will not be in America on Election Day. The BW, Coach K, has a big meeting in Lisbon and I am tagging along carrying her briefcase. I suspect that I will be up

Dry Recruiting Lunches, Dry Seminar Dinners, No Holiday Parties: Bah, Humbug By Leonard Zwelling          The word has come from on high.          No more alcohol is permitted during recruiting and speaker’s dinners. Contingent workers cannot be hired, nor can RFA appointments be made nor promotions sought. Visiting appointments and classified staff hiring is also

The Latest Clinton October Surprise: A Violation of the Hatch Act? By Leonard Zwelling          It seems like poetic justice that Hillary Clinton may be undone by emails, not on her computers, Blackberrys or servers, but on the laptop of Anthony Weiner, a man with the sexual constraints of, say, Bill Clinton when it comes

Where’s Ron-do? By Leonard Zwelling          The video from Big Brother Fontaine said it all. MD Anderson is not making enough money at its core area of expertise—oh, that’s patient care if you were wondering—and it’s spending too much. It is spending so much that Mr. Fontaine is asking everyone at the managerial level to

Choice: Presidents and Health Insurance By Leonard Zwelling          Americans like choice. In cars, breakfast cereal, health plans and presidents. And why the heck not?          When I was a kid, there were three choices of cars—GM, Ford and other. Most people did not choose other except the few who drove Nash Ramblers (Google it).

After DePinho By Leonard Zwelling          Frank Bruni wrote a very perceptive op-ed piece in the Sunday NY Times of October 23. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/23/opinion/sunday/the-medias-moment-of-truth.html?ref=opinion&_r=0          It is about after. Not the Jewish “after” The Jewish After is the equivalent of later. So when Mr. Schwartz is dying in bed and wants only one last wish and

What MD Anderson Can Learn From This Presidential Election And From Its Own Financial Performance By Leonard Zwelling          There are really only two major lessons.          One, if you spend more than you take in, you go into deficit.          Two, if you are nasty to people, they will not like, respect, or follow

Regrets: Treating Animals As Less Than Sentient Beings By Leonard Zwelling          One thing that I dwell upon in my retirement is the regret I have over behaviors I have exhibited and deeds I have done. I have had supervisors who claimed to never having had any regrets. Those people need to think harder. No

Fake Chinese Data In Drug Trials: Let’s Hope It’s Just In China By Leonard Zwelling          A concerned reader sent me this report from Doximity: http://news.doximity.com/entries/4946944?authenticated=false          It describes widespread fraud and data fabrication in the Chinese system of drug approval and regulation as it pertains to Western medicines. The malfeasance may be even worse