The Company You Keep By Leonard Zwelling Most of us have had the experience. We have a new friend. The parents don’t approve or our other friends don’t either. It could be sheer prejudice–racial, religious or sexual orientation. It could be that the new friend is from the wrong church, or wrong school, or …
The Mess Made By Pubescent Boys By Leonard Zwelling http://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-mess-has-become-his-message-1459466943 Peggy, Peggy, Peggy, how prescient can you be? In this perfectly timed opinion piece from the Wall Street Journal on April 2, Peggy Noonan once again shows why she is the premier pundit in all of punditdom. Of course, Ms. Noonan is …
Immersion Day-A Truly Fabulous Idea for Boards and Executive Leaders By Leonard Zwelling In the March 31 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Drs. Richard Bock and Ronald Paulus describe an action they took at the Mission Health system in Ashville, NC to educate their board about what it is doctors actually …
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Hidden in Plain Sight: The MD Anderson “annual report 2015” By Leonard Zwelling It makes fascinating reading, this “annual report” (lower case letters on cover). But I’m like everyone else. First, I look at the pictures. I was shocked at how few of the faculty pictured in the human interest stories were high …
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A Long Slog By Leonard Zwelling http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-defeat-radical-jihadism-1458862004 ISIS is not interested in shared governance. ISIS wants a Caliphate and wants to call all the rest of us who do not adhere to their version of radical Islam heretics and martyrs for a bad cause. This is not a maybe. This is a for …
The Latest Chronicle Nonsense http://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Major-reset-7213593.php “While the last five years under DePinho’s leadership have been mixed, with much disappointment over ethics and spending, in addition to his top-down leadership style, all institutions – particularly those that have enjoyed a large measure of historical success – have employees who question the need to change. Yet change …
MD Anderson Hawai’i By Leonard Zwelling I guess it was bound to happen. MD Anderson has flown across the Pacific to land in the Hawaiian Islands at The Queen’s Medical Center: http://queensmedicalcenter.org/cancer/md-anderson-affiliation How do I know? As John Fogarty said, “because I saw it on TV.” During a commercial break on CNN, …
Too Late To Stop Trump?; Too Late To Fire DePinho? By Leonard Zwelling If the GOP truly is not represented by the awful things that Donald Trump has said about women, Muslims, immigrants, and Mexicans specifically, the time for the party to say so has been over for quite a while. The GOP leadership …
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The Aveo Fraud By Leonard Zwelling https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/03/29/sec-charges-biotech-aveo-with-misleading-investors/yGs9lcKVl8i2NlcoolH72L/story.html https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2016/comp-pr2016-59.pdf https://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2016-59.html The article from the Boston Globe and the SEC release summarize the 30-page document released by the federal court in Massachusetts. The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed charges against Aveo and three of its executives for fraud in not telling investors about the request …
Close To A Whitewash By Leonard Zwelling http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/DePinho-s-big-fight-7182843.php http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/DePinho-s-big-fight-7182843.php?t=b8a62a8186438d9cbb&cmpid=twitter-premium I am five time zones from you as I write this. I didn’t get on the Chronicle web site until 11 PM your time on Sunday when I read the above article. I am sure many of you have already read it. I have …
