Len Zwelling

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

Disquiet-2015 By Leonard Zwelling          This will not be a New Year’s diatribe about all that is wrong with the world. No one near a television or computer screen needs any reminding of the tenuous state of human affairs in so many places on this Earth nor the fact that despite greed, racism, incessant war,

As some of you know. I have been hospitalized for the past three weeks, so I am a little delayed in posting.  Should be OK, now.  LZ Gratitude-2014 By Leonard Zwelling (for Dr. Frank Allen)          One of my most important spiritual teachers gifted me the concept that the only rational response to life was gratitude. I

A Great Christmas Gift: How to Add 20 Yards to Your Drive By Leonard Zwelling (For Dr. Martin Raber)          Golf is a four-letter word. And for good reason. As the late, great Robin Williams describes it’s a truly “f..cked up” game where you try to poke a ball into a gopher hole 18 friggin’

Feckless By Leonard Zwelling          First, a small apology. Some of you know that I have been an in-patient at Hermann after some pretty major surgery on December 9 and am just crawling back to the keyboard.          Second, I have been wanting to write this one for a long, long time and I believe

EMRs May Be An Answer: What Was the Question? By Leonard Zwelling          The term EMR may be rather new. I hadn’t heard it a lot until I got to DC. The electronic medical record was one of the many “innovations” being hawked by the Democrats on Capitol Hill and particularly within the Executive Branch

In the Race for an Elusive Metric of Medical Quality, Are High Hospital Readmission Rates Really Valid Reflections of Poor Quality? By Leonard Zwelling          By now, we all know the mantra. Health care reform means lowering costs, improving access and improving quality. This should not be mistaken for what the ACA is. It is