What’s Normal? By Leonard Zwelling The hardest part of overseas travel for me is the difficulty I have keeping up with events back in the States. English speaking television in many foreign countries is limited to CNN and we all know that’s “fake news.” Not really, but still, having only one news source is never …
The Face Of Cancer In Turkey Is Familiar By Leonard Zwelling It is striking how little it changes. The face of a child with cancer is the same in Turkey as it is in the U.S. Professor Rejin Kebudi, the chief of pediatric oncology at the Istanbul University Oncology Institute, had invited Dr. Kleinerman to …
Istanbul and The Women Of Turkey By Leonard Zwelling This is a city of 20 million people that spans two continents with the Bosporus and three new suspension bridges running between the two sides of the city. There is a tunnel under the water as well. Despite all these routes from Europe to Asia, the …
Only The Tee Shirts Are In English: Antalya, Turkey By Leonard Zwelling The BW (Beautiful Wife) was invited to give a talk at the 20th Annual Turkish Pediatric Oncology meeting in Antalya, Turkey. I tagged along. Antalya is a beautiful resort city that also happens to be the fastest growing one in Turkey. And no …
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The Salaries Of Insurance and Pharma CEOs By Leonard Zwelling http://www.pnhp.org/ceos My colleagues at the Physicians for a National Health Program, the single payer folks, just published this list of the top earners among the executives of the insurance and pharmaceutical industry. Many of these men (yes it’s all men) make in excess of $100-200,000 …
Doctors Need Educations By Leonard Zwelling https://www.wsj.com/articles/english-literature-isnt-brain-surgery-1524524269 In The Wall Street Journal of Tuesday, April 24, Chris Pope and Tim Rice of the Manhattan Institute put forward an idea that would decrease the cost of health care in the United States. Less educated doctors. In the article entitled “English Literature Is Not Brain Surgery,” the …
Beautiful Trauma: P!nk At The Toyota Center By Leonard Zwelling https://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/music/article/Pink-soars-at-first-of-two-Toyota-Center-shows-in-12869594.php The article will give you the details, but when a concert starts with the star swinging from a chandelier twenty feet above the stage and goes up from there, it is definitely something special. P!nk is something special. This was the 2018 version of …
Cos By Leonard Zwelling In 1982, Genie and I were in Las Vegas for a meeting of the American Chemical Society. This was during my cis-platinum days. I was speaking on a program about the drug and the use of platinum-based compounds in the therapy of disease. The American Chemical Society meeting was huge and …
Anti-Semitic Hip Hop In Germany By Leonard Zwelling I suspect that you missed this one. Two German rappers, Farid Bang and Kollegah shared the Echo award, the German equivalent of the Grammys, for best hip hop album (apparently it’s based on sales). These two use Holocaust referrals and anti-Semitic implications in their rhymes. This would …
The Cancer Centers’ War On Truth By Leonard Zwelling https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-the-war-on-cancer-truth-becomes-a-casualty-1524261478 Saturday’s Wall Street Journal contained a lacerating criticism of the manner in which the major cancer centers advertise for patients. Unfortunately, it leads with the MD Anderson ads with the talking heads and the red line. Steve Salerno, the author and a journalism professor, objects …
