Send Jimmy Carter To Iowa, A Third World Country By Leonard Zwelling By the time I post this on Wednesday, February 5, the partial results of the Iowa Democratic Presidential Caucus should be known. As of this writing, Sanders, Warren, Biden, Buttigieg and Klobuchar are all saying they had good nights. (It looks like it’s …
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I Think I Know Why I’m Depressed By Leonard Zwelling It has been gnawing at me for almost two weeks now. As a former clinically depressed patient, why did I feel that awful black dog surround me again. It doesn’t really surround me as much as it seems to emanate from within. But why? Because …
Man’s 4th Best Ho$pital By Leonard Zwelling For internists of a certain age, there is a book more important than any textbook of medicine ever was or will be. The age includes those who trained at academic medical centers in the 1960s and 1970s. The book is The House of God by Samuel Shem (real …
Witnesses And… By Leonard Zwelling The operative word in all politics today is AND. Joe Biden has the most experience and…. Bernie has the most loyal followers and… Elizabeth Warren has a plan for everything and… The GOP will never convict Trump with 67 Senate votes and… It’s what comes next that matters. And no …
Image Manipulation: A Relatively New Form Of Research Misconduct By Leonard Zwelling The wizard men curing breast cancer After blogging for these many years, I have found that I get ideas from many different sources. Admittedly, the news—print and electronic—is the most frequent source of inspiration, but sometimes it is emails from colleagues and readers. This …
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The Senate Is A Collection Of Weasels By Leonard Zwelling The decision time is nearing. The Senate, and more importantly individual senators, will have to decide how they want to be remembered in history. Will they be footnotes and acquiesce to Donald Trump’s demands that he be declared innocent without a real trial or will …
Was The “Favor” Asked Of The Ukrainian President An “Offer He Couldn’t Refuse?” By Leonard Zwelling Every day, as the news leaks out about who President Trump spoke to about Ukraine, Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and Burisma, the narrative appears to be a cross between The Keystone Kops and The Godfather. If Lev Parnas is …
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Trump’s Defense Team: They Play Lawyers On TV And They Are Lawyers. Good Ones! By Leonard Zwelling You have to give the guy credit. Where the rubber meets the road on the blue carpet of the Senate chamber, Mr. Trump will have TV stars defending him not the yahoos who tried to exonerate him unsuccessfully …
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Assessing Trump: Is He Really That Bad? By Leonard Zwelling More than a few erstwhile antagonists of The Donald have become a bit more supportive since his killing of Qassam Suleimani. It is very hard to make any kind of case that killing the terrorist leader was bad for America or, for that matter, the …
Cheating: Is It Part Of The American Culture? By Leonard Zwelling The twenty-four hours from Sunday late afternoon, January 12 to Monday, late afternoon, January 13 may have been the worst day in Houston sports history. On Sunday, the Houston Texans took a 24-point lead into the second quarter of a playoff game in Kansas …
