Len Zwelling

Blue Cross Opts Out of PPOs: A Concept That Might Help Fix the Damage By Leonard Zwelling http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/medical/article/Loss-of-insurance-plans-could-devastate-cancer-6603232.php          The front page of the Houston Chronicle on Sunday, November 1, describes the fact that cancer patients formerly covered by BC/BS PPO insurance will no longer be welcomed at MD Anderson. This is not a direct […]

JCC Book Fair with your favorite blogger–Nov. 9  6 PM  On November 9th, at 6.00 pm the Jewish Community Center on South Braeswood in Meyerland will be hosting the 4th Local Literati as part of the JCC’s Book Fair I will be one of several local authors presenting their books for consideration, discussion and purchase.

Discerning Good From Evil in New York City?: Ask a Puppet: Hand To God By Leonard Zwelling          Where better than New York City to get clarity as to the nature of good and evil? And how better to learn about it than through art from Cypress, Texas and Berlin.          Tyrone is a sock

Clown Car By Leonard Zwelling          It’s been a great two weeks for the Democratic Presidential front-runner in the pants suit. Hillary had a triumphant debate, then Joe calls it off, and then, without saying all that much insulting, Hillary manages to make the members of the Benghazi Committee look like a bunch of monkeys.

Cold War Lessons For Today By Leonard Zwelling          This weekend the BW and I spent 4 hours or more in the Cold War of the late 1950s and early 1960s. We saw two very different visions of that time, one from Hollywood and one from Germany. Interestingly enough, the more prescient view of today

I Missed the DePinho Symposium, Did You? By Leonard Zwelling       At about 3 PM on Monday afternoon, October 19, I received an email notifying me that there had been a symposium in praise of the achievements of Dr. DePinho that very day in the Duncan Building. The writer sent me the list of speakers

Who Owns MD Anderson? By Leonard Zwelling          Talk about a stupid question! Everyone knows that the State of Texas owns MD Anderson in that MD Anderson is the free-standing cancer center of the UT System and one of two medical divisions of UT in the city of Houston. I do not believe that these

It’s a Damned Shame That It Has Come To This: Holcombe As A Mean Street and Administration as Secret Police in a Game of Faculty Gotcha By Leonard Zwelling          This is going to be a hard one to write because it cuts close to the bone—particularly mine and not my funny bone.          It’s

Three Weddings, No Funeral, But Very Quiet in Yafo By Leonard Zwelling          We are coming to the end of our journey in Israel. The tour of the West Bank, the Golan, Judea and Samaria is behind us as is the conference in Tel Aviv. Endless quantities of hummus have been consumed. When you eat

Restraint Is Hard, Resignation Is Easy By Leonard Zwelling          As we approach the end of another trip to Israel, I am struck that much like the problems facing the US, the ones here seem insurmountable. The cacophony on the ground about what to do with the Palestinians, let alone ISIS, Syria, Iraq, Iran and