Don’t You Wish You Lived in the Real World? April 10, 2013 Things are handled differently in the real world of corporate oversight boards. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/10/business/how-an-apple-star-lost-his-luster-at-penneys.html?hp&_r=0 Enjoy.
A Funny Thing Happened at the (Faculty) Forum April 5, 2013 By Leonard Zwelling In two words: No Surprises. Everyone played his or her part perfectly. Civility was maintained. The room was only about two-thirds full, but the crowd was attentive and polite. The only small moment of drama was when the issue …
The Shrink Will See You Now April 4, 2013 By Leonard Zwelling Kim Ghatta was a State Department reporter during the four years that Hillary Clinton served this nation as that department’s Secretary. She has just written a new book called The Secretary about that experience. Ms. Ghatta was interviewed by Bob Edwards …
Is the Coming Forum an Approaching Storm or Another Sun Shower? April 1, 2013 By Leonard Zwelling On Thursday afternoon, the faculty has been invited to a special forum by the Faculty Senate. The President and other leaders will be discussing the linked issues of clinical productivity and financial performance with the faculty. This …
Findings of the Administrative Organizational Review Committee By Leonard Zwelling March 27, 2013 How’s that for a title? Well, it’s spring and we need some renewal and rebirth. The Easter bunny is coming on Sunday, the Passover matzos were eaten last night and then there are eggs, admittedly more colorful for the Christians …
A Letter From the Front Lines March 21, 2013 By Leonard Zwelling “One must question the employer-employee relationship of the medical staff and the hospital administration. What will happen to the already fragile balance between quality patient care, the fair treatment of the medical staff and hospital profit? Will your average hospital administrator or …
Thinking Small March 20, 2013 By Leonard Zwelling At the Faculty Senate meeting last evening, a new chair-elect was named. He is Gary Whitman of Diagnostic Imaging. I do not know him myself, but his videotaped address before the voting was extremely polished and well considered. It was highlighted by his simple, succinct message: …
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 …