Len Zwelling

400, (000) Thank you one and all for reading. We have just passed 400 posts and 400,000 page views. Amazing. The new book should be out in a few weeks. Stay tuned. It will cost half as much as Steve Brill’s, be half as long and have funnier stories. And they are all true! LZ […]

Tone Deaf Presidents By Leonard Zwelling          The news shows are aglow with the apology from the White House for not having sent some sort of meaningful delegation to Paris yesterday. And well they should be.          As I pointed out, the French, despite their occasional arrogance and overwhelming self-importance, have stood by the United States

Where Was Obama? By Leonard Zwelling          The days following November 22, 1963 are both a blur and a slide show of images.          The abandoned limousine with the bloody roses.          The makeshift inauguration of LBJ by Sara Hughes on Air Force One with the now former First Lady looking on.          The veiled

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Joni By Leonard Zwelling (To Dick Cavett)          When you have spent three weeks as an in-patient following abdominal surgery trying desperately with your physicians to balance the relief provided by morphine with its gut stopping side effects, your mind drifts to strange places. Mine did. It hasn’t stopped yet although both the ileus and

Why I Am So Damned Angry-Fixing It-Part 2 By Leonard Zwelling          So I defined the economics of academic health care in America. In short, it sucks. Costs are rising. NIH budgets are shrinking compared with science inflation. Reimbursement for health care is falling. The drug companies are ever tighter with their cash and more

Je Suis Charlie: World War III By Leonard Zwelling          WWI was the war to end all wars. The American use of two atomic bombs to end the Pacific campaign of WWII in 1945 surely would put at end to global conflict. The victory of the West over the Soviet bloc had to mean the

Why I Am So Damned Angry-It’s the Economy, Stupid-Part 1 By Leonard Zwelling          Anyone reading this blog over the last few years would suppose that my disdain for the current leadership of my former employer derives from those individuals’ insensitivity to the needs of my former colleagues and that leadership’s inept way with the

The Dumbest Article I Ever Read in the Wall Street Journal By Leonard Zwelling http://www.wsj.com/articles/eric-metaxas-science-increasingly-makes-the-case-for-god-1419544568          On Christmas Day, just after Santa tiptoed past my room at Memorial-Hermann, I read what may be the dumbest article I have ever read (link attached). It is not dumb, as in stupid, for it is really quite learned.

I Told You So By Leonard Zwelling          Headlines in the Chronicle Saturday morning, starring our own Louise Strong, note the findings of a new Hopkins study in the January 7, 2015 issue of Science that draws a conclusion that I had made myself 40 years ago. For the most part, getting cancer is just