Len Zwelling

WHY HEALTH CARE HAS TO BE A RIGHT I don’t think I could write a more damning piece than this one in today’s NY Times about for-profit hospital chains and the behaviors they incentivize and reward. No business interests should ever come between a doctor and his or her patients and this business arrangement in […]

Resentment By Leonard Zwelling “Resentment is when you take the poison and wait for the other guy to die”          This is a quote from Carrie Fisher from her one-woman show Wishful Drinking. I was fortunate enough to see it twice for Ms. Fisher is a singular force of Hollywood nature with a pedigree that

A Sad Joke: Did You Hear the One About the 5 White Guys That Walk Into an Executive Suite? By Leonard Zwelling          And you thought it couldn’t get any worse.          The Cancer Letter (January 17, 2014) reports that Dan Fontaine has done exactly what this blog predicted he would do only a few

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/health/patients-costs-skyrocket-specialists-incomes-soar.html?hp&_r=0 If you want to understand the lack of sympathy for doctors that so characterizes the health care reform debate, read this superb piece by Elisabeth Rosenthal from today’s NY Times. You think the government is out of control? So are we and the hospitals at which we work. Keep in mind, once you understand

Res-Hillience By Leonard Zwelling          Whether she runs for President or not, Hillary Clinton is surely the most significant female politician of the past 50, if not 100 years. But, she has had a bad week. The third week of the new year may go down as the week the 2016 Presidential election began because

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We’ll Cross That Bridge When We…oops! We’re There! By Leonard Zwelling          How many times have we seen this movie before?          Must I go through another session of disillusion with Chris Christie as the star in this reprise of “All the Governor’s Men”?  Here was a guy who I was sure would at least

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“Clean It Up” (A Life-Long Lesson in Leadership and Management) By Leonard Zwelling          I have just come from a two-day retreat with the Chiefs of the Service lines at Legacy Community Health, my new work home. As many of you know, Legacy is the largest federally qualified health clinic in Houston. In a real

What’s The Opposite of a Team of Rivals?: When FORDs Become Job One By Leonard Zwelling          Lincoln is considered by most one of the two greatest leaders to be president and the greatest to have occupied the White House given that Washington didn’t live there. Doris Kearns Goodwin has immortalized the term “a team