Len Zwelling

Red Kool Aid Blue Kool Aid: How Partisan Politics and Greed Undermined the Value of ObamaCare by Len Zwelling is now available in Kindle:

The Message, The Messenger and the Mess By Leonard Zwelling          It is reasonable to assume that the message of civility and peaceful civil disobedience did not penetrate fully into the community of Baltimore. But before we are too hasty in our judgment of others, let’s see what this past weekend gave us in messages

Hillary, Enough. Be Gone! By Leonard Zwelling          Personally, I have had enough of crooked Presidents of stuff—corporations, academic institutions, governments. If it is possible to head off another disastrous, ethically compromised Presidency before it gets launched, I am there. And I think we have the opportunity.          While I have been an admirer of

Strategy in Medicine By Leonard Zwelling          Michael Porter of Harvard is generally considered the guru of strategic planning in this country. We studied his theories in business school over 20 years ago and he still has great influence in the business and academic communities. He has also written a book about strategy and value

They Lie By Leonard Zwelling          It took a while to find out what really happened at My Lai on March 16, 1968. We still don’t really know what happened in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963. I suspect there is much about 9/11//01 that we will never know and surely about Edward Snowden, Michael

Sex, Love, Drugs, Money and Power: The Answers to the Question-Why? By Leonard Zwelling        In the many conversations I have had of late about what is happening in MD Anderson’s executive suite, the relationship between those in the suite and the rest of the institution, the behavior of Anderson’s faculty revealed in a Houston

Quality, Quality, All Is Quality By Leonard Zwelling          Obviously, this is a little play on the words in Ecclesiastes 1:2: “Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.” When I was a Duke freshman and had to read both the Old and New Testament (the latter for the first time

When A Mistake Isn’t: Conflict of Interest, Drone Strikes, and Malevolence vs. Incompetence        This morning, April 23, the country is being bombarded with two stories of bad judgment, maybe?        In the first (urls, below), President Obama has admitted that raids (probably drone strikes) in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan meant to

The First Half Million Is the Hardest By Leonard Zwelling        You know this isn’t about the salaries of the MD Anderson executives.  The number is too small!        The blog has just passed 500,000 page views. This is truly remarkable—at least to me and probably to my high school English teachers.        Thank you

“Senator, You’re No Jack Kennedy” by Leonard Zwelling “Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy”….But On the Other Hand You Do Remind of Another President…       The first part of this is a quote from the late, great Texas senator,