Elementary, But It’s the Wrong Watson By Leonard Zwelling I received an email from Houston while in Durham, NC. I was back at Duke for my 40th medical school reunion and thus did not see the article in Friday’s Chronicle reporting on the scheduled news conference at Anderson to announce the new partnership between […]
Words and Deeds and Rolled-Up Newspapers By Leonard Zwelling It’s a little harder to take the temperature of the faculty from the Montrose than it was from South Campus. A lot of that is due to no longer having an MD Anderson email account so I cannot see what the 20th floor is sending
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The Unfulfilled Deal By Leonard Zwelling As many of my readers know, I have been writing a book that compares the dysfunction of which you are all painfully aware, that of a major cancer center in organizational vertigo, and that observable every night since October 1 on the evening news, US lawmakers making fools
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Denying the Upside of Anger By Leonard Zwelling Even my kids say it. I am one angry dude and it all comes through in the blog. And they are not alone. Friends from across the country who read the blog who are unaware of what is happening at Anderson describe my basic posture in
A Film With Real Gravity By Leonard Zwelling Throughout the health care reform debate, those opposed to any changes that would involve a government solution to lowering costs, increasing access or improving quality posited that such solutions would be mistakes because government cannot do anything right. I respectfully disagree and the film I saw
The Crooks Were Higher Up By Leonard Zwelling One of my favorite books is The Big Short, Michael Lewis’ description of the origins of the financial meltdown of 2008 and how a group of really smart guys made a ton of money selling mortgage securities short (betting their value would fall). It is a
Denying The Up Side of Apologies By Leonard Zwelling You gotta love that Paul Goldberg. In the Cancer Letter of September 27 reporting on the recent series of faculty meetings at Anderson with the Chancellor and the local leadership team, his headline reads “DePinho Takes Responsibility, Apologizes for ‘Morale Issues’”. This is
“I’M NOT A CROOK” By Leonard Zwelling Nixon Tells Editors, ‘I’m Not a Crook’ By Carroll Kilpatrick Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, November 18, 1973; Page A01 Orlando, Fla, Nov. 17 — Declaring that “I am not a crook,” President Nixon vigorously defended his record in the Watergate case tonight and said he had
My first blog from the New World of the non-profit sector. More to come if you continue to read. Thanks to all who have and will. A Gruntled Shutdown By Leonard Zwelling One of the major themes of this blog has been the unsettling parallels between events on Capitol Hill and events on Holcombe
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This is the last blog before I start my new work at Legacy Community Health. We will take a week off from blogging and start again in the new month. Hello, I Must Be Going By Leonard Zwelling I couldn’t think of a better title for my last blog as an Anderson faculty member
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