Len Zwelling

The Whole World Is Watching By Leonard Zwelling          The crowd was chanting; a crowd with “marching, charging feet, boy.” This was Chicago, 1968.          I was driving back from my first trip west of the Mississippi River where I visited my very wealthy fraternity brother from Beverly Hills. He drove up to San Francisco […]

Indicting a Ham Sandwich or a Haircut By Leonard Zwelling          On January 31, 1985 on page 3 of the New York Daily News, a story by Marcia Kramer and Frank Lombardi quotes New York Chief Judge Sol Wachtler as saying that “district attorneys now have so much influence on grand juries that…they could get

Finally, a Truthful Assessment of Cancer Genomics: For Now, Everyone is An N of 1 By Leonard Zwelling          Nothing, and I mean nothing, in all of modern science has more infuriated me as a former medical oncologist and former cancer pharmacologist than the horse hockey that I have heard about the power of cancer

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Say. Do. Feel. By Leonard Zwelling          I have heard about emails from the MD Anderson leadership. They are quasi-motivational messages asserting concepts like transparency, teamwork and quality as the bedrock of MD Anderson’s excellence. These qualities are also the keys to restoring the admittedly poor morale that even the most rose-spectacled optimist concedes is

The Knick By Leonard Zwelling          The Knick is not a new TV show about Walt Frazier. It is instead a new Cinemax series that began last Friday, August 8, about a hospital in New York City at the turn of the century. No not 2000. 1900.          Clive Owen plays the Chief of Surgery,

Why It Won’t Be Hillary By Leonard Zwelling       I would love to see Hillary Clinton be the next President of the United States, but I don’t think it is going to happen. It has nothing to do with her qualifications for no one is more qualified than she is, but that was true in

Bibi To Chair Faculty Senate? By Leonard Zwelling          Love him or hate him, Prime Minister Netanyahu is not a confused person. Frankly, I have rarely met a confused Israeli. The number one thing I loved about Israel during my two trips in the late 1990’s was the clarity of the thinking of the Israeli

Knowing When To Walk Away By Leonard Zwelling          My professional career is filled with errors. Many people say they have no regrets about decisions they have made in their lives. Not me. I have regretted lots of things I have done and said. Early on, I simply said what I was thinking. This is

To Understand MD Anderson’s Latest Controversy, Understand Watergate By Leonard Zwelling          For people under 40, Watergate is history. For those who are older, it is far more. This week marks the 40th anniversary of that episode’s denouement—the resignation of President Richard Nixon.          Formally, Watergate per se refers to the break-in on June 17,