Where the Hell Is It? By Leonard Zwelling As I write this on March 15, the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 is still missing. It is very hard to understand how, in the era of Facebook, Twitter, Skype, CNN under your bed and gotcha on live TV, humans have misplaced a huge airplane. First thoughts […]
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Pornography and the Four-Letter F Word By Leonard Zwelling That got your attention, I bet! No, I am not going to write about porn, even, as Trekkie Monster points out in Avenue Q, “in volatile market, only stable investment is porn.” A co-ed at my alma mater has now taken the use of
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The Dangers of Multiculturalism By Leonard Zwelling This is not a diatribe against political correctness although I have no love for the PC crowd. The multiculturalism I am talking about here has nothing to with religion, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual preference or country of origin. Rather it’s about institutional culture. I always liked
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INTJ (Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Judgmental): 2% of the People, Most of the MD Anderson Administration By Leonard Zwelling My time at MD Anderson was a roller coaster ride. It started by being beaten into academic unconsciousness while presenting my research at a Leukemia Department seminar for Dr. Frieriech shortly after arriving in 1984. It
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Is the MD Anderson Faculty More Like the Ukraine or the US? By Leonard Zwelling Previously, I have written about the option for civil disobedience on the part of the MD Anderson faculty as a way to gain some purchase with regard to the administration’s tight hold over the institution. My ideas have gone
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Take Shelter By Leonard Zwelling In this 2011 film by Jeff Nichols, Michael Shannon plays a man haunted by visions of a coming storm of Biblical proportions. So worried is he about this pending doom that he builds an elaborate storm shelter and when a storm brews, he and his family take to it.
Strange Bed Fellows By Leonard Zwelling In today’s Houston Chronicle, an opinion piece appeared in the Outlook section by Drs. Kantarjian and Mendelsohn called “Medical advances continue to help in cancer fight”. Here it is: (http://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Kantarjian-Mendelsohn-Medical-advances-continue-5280716.php The piece is a brief stroll through the past 40 years of clinical cancer research and the
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Who’s On First or Is That Hwu? By Leonard Zwelling In what might be the most famous two-man comedy routine of all time, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello describe a baseball team with a very strange line-up starting with the first baseman-Who. Thus it all starts when Costello asks “Who’s on first?” and Abbott
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Learning From Bob’s Focus By Leonard Zwelling A story. One of my medical school friends (let’s call him Bob) has done very well. After a distinguished laboratory career while continuing to practice clinical cardiology, he ascended to the position of Chief of Medicine at an academic center you would recognize by name. In
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Kiev on the Bayou By Leonard Zwelling I follow national politics closely and am considered reasonably knowledgeable on health policy. Foreign policy? Not so much. My limited understanding of the recent events in Kiev, Ukraine are that an elected government pillaged the wealth of the nation. In turn, the populace wanted to become
