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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The Peril of Forgetting Step Two By Leonard Zwelling I have written previously about the day-long communications seminar I attended with John and Anne Mendelsohn many years ago. There were many critical lessons presented and some were actually learned that Saturday. The most critical of these occurred during the discussion of internal communication. It …
The Vanishing Center By Leonard Zwelling This is not a blog about basketball—college or professional. I have returned again and again to the striking similarities between the challenges I face at Legacy and the ones I used to face at Anderson and with which those who have succeeded me in the Anderson administration …
Those Unintended Consequences By Leonard Zwelling Another week and another set of problems are unearthed related to our favorite law, the Affordable Care Act. In a hearing before Congress, Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Doug Elmendorf agreed with both the Republican and Democratic positions that bashed and extolled the virtues of the ACA …
