What Would a “Complete Response” to the Results of the MD Anderson Faculty Survey Look Like? By Leonard Zwelling Once again a survey of the faculty of MD Anderson has been completed and the results are in. Once again we learn what we all already knew. Morale is lousy. Attitudes are terrible. People feel […]
The UT System’s Faculty Survey at MD Anderson Matters: Agree, Neutral or Disagree? By Leonard Zwelling Since I am no longer a faculty member, I did not get to respond to the survey circulated by Dr. Greenberg. I have seen the results now and all I can ask is how many more times will
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Choose Those Around You Carefully; You Will Be Judged On Their Competence By Leonard Zwelling I was only 12 when John Kennedy became President, yet everything about his brief time in office is indelibly etched upon my brain. I suspect it is because he was the first President who was my President. It could
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An Open Letter To the Editor of the Cancer Letter By Leonard Zwelling Dear Paul: With all due respect to all of the superior physicians and scientists who commented for the Cancer Letter on October 31, I beg to differ with their assessments. Most of the comments appeared to be broad appeals for additional funding
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Why Newspapers Matter Especially If You Vote And You Should Vote By Leonard Zwelling It is said that you can marry more money in a minute than you can make in a lifetime. Well, you can also buy more influence with an attorney general over a weekend than you can through lobbying an entire
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Bored and A Visitor By Leonard Zwelling October 29 was the annual Board of Visitors (BoV) dinner at the Four Seasons downtown. As most of you know, the BoV is essentially a club with honorific membership that putatively oversees and advises the leadership of MD Anderson, but is, in reality, the boosters club. You
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C-SPAN As Comedy Central; The Sunday Times Describes Hell on Earth By Leonard Zwelling Watching the hearing called by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Friday morning, October 24 was funnier than Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert combined. The members grilled a group of government and health professionals about the Ebola
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During Retirement, You Eat Dessert First By Leonard Zwelling Moonstruck (1987) Rose: I just want you to know no matter what you do, you’re gonna die, just like everybody else. Cosmo Castorini: Thank you, Rose. This is one of my favorite quotes from the film that I believe has the best screenplay ever written.
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Monica, Hilary and Me: Will The Chickens Come Home To Roost? By Leonard Zwelling If there was ever a person I thought I would not see on the public stage again, it was Monica Lewinsky. But there she was this week in Philadelphia discussing her new cause celeb, cyber-bullying. She claims to be “patient
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If You’re A Doctor, It Sucks To Be You By Leonard Zwelling I was chatting with a close physician friend recently. We were trading war stories (whining, really, after all we are academics) about the down-grading of our profession from that of a noble calling to that of being the guy or gal behind
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