Len Zwelling

WSJ Letter: The following letter is up on the WSJ site in response to an op-ed published last week: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324077704578360584086516100.html This is a horror story of a pediatric oncologist wrongly convicted of a crime in absentia and then detained when passing through the UAE on his way back to South Africa from a family wedding […]

From Gail Collins’ column in NY Times today about our newly-elected Senator Ted Cruz and his truly juvenile interaction with Senator Diane Feinstein over gun control this week: “If you combine a lack of a sense of humor with an absence of humility and then stir in a cup of self-righteousness, you are definitely not

Debits and Credits                                       March 13, 2012 By Leonard Zwelling           This is really easy.           The first day in my Accounting 101 class in business school they taught us about debits and credits—what comes in (a plus asset) and what goes out (a plus liability). It is considered favorable if the amount that comes in

Let’s Be Prepared                                                             March 11, 2013 By Leonard Zwelling             The email was beamed out over the institutional system. The Faculty Senate was sponsoring yet another Faculty Forum, this one on Clinical Productivity and Institutional Finances. My guess is that what this is really about is trying to get an explanation from the leadership team

The Time Magazine Article and the President’s Response By Len Zwelling                 The Bitter Pill by Steven Brill was an eye-opening article in Time Magazine for some. But what was in this piece should have come as no surprise to anyone at MD Anderson.                 My interpretation of the Brill article is: 1.       Charges for

The Hard Task of Representing the Faculty March 4, 2013 By Leonard Zwelling Mia Love is the young (37) mayor of Sarasota Springs, Utah. She is a conservative Republican, African-American, Mormon and an articulate spokesperson for the right. (It’s a great country!).  She appeared on ABC’s This Week on March 3 and had a rather

A Kind of Madness March 3, 2013 By  Leonard Zwelling, MD, MBA In her column in the Wall Street Journal on March 2, Peggy Noonan described a White House that has grown more and more out of touch with reality. She accuses the Obama Administration of overreaching, imperiousness and being overly full of itself. She

MD Anderson: From C-Quester to Sequester                                                                        February 27, 2013                  By Leonard Zwelling                   Most of the members of the MD Anderson faculty are on a journey—personal and professional, individual and collective. Each wants to fulfill his or her goals of producing meaningful work in his or her chosen field be that basic

If You Don’t’ Stand For Something                                                                        February 22, 2013 By Leonard Zwelling                   We all came from somewhere. Although most current Americans were born in the USA, all of us can trace our ancestry back to people who were not except American Indians. Thus, almost all of us or at least our