Afraid I Would Die and Afraid I Wouldn’t: Understanding the Concept of a Sunk Cost? By Leonard Zwelling In 1981, on a dare from some pretty famous oncologists—Allen Lichter, Marc Lippman and Robert C. Young—I trained for and ran the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, DC. We galloped as a group from February, through […]
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Confusing Watson, Confusing Me By Leonard Zwelling I was just sent the video of the conference held last Friday, October 18, that demonstrated the Oncology Expert Advisor, the Madison Avenue name for the MD Anderson/IBM Watson collaboration. It’s definitely worth a look. http://www3.mdanderson.org/streams/FullVideoPlayer.cfm?xml=cfg%2FMoon-Shots-IBM-Watson-2013 Without going into the details of the presentation, I came
Reunion, Regrets and Rebirth By Leonard Zwelling The Great Hall at the new Semons Learning Center at Duke was packed. Grand Rounds that morning, the start of Medical Alumni Weekend, was a special one. Dr. Ralph Snyderman, Chancellor Emeritus of the Duke Health System was telling the story of how Robert J. Lefkowitz, his closest
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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
