The Problem With Guns Is That It Is Not One Problem By Leonard Zwelling Math homework was difficult. My father was an ace at math. He was an engineer and could always be depended upon to set me in the right direction yet not provide me with the answer when I appealed to him …
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The Truth About American Health Insurance: Not a Pretty Picture By Leonard Zwelling The Obama Administration is proud of passing health care legislation in 2010, the famous Affordable Care Act or ObamaCare. I am not at all sure it should be because it is not at all clear that the ACA really makes health …
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Mr. Bill Meets The Donald: Oh No, Sluggo! By Leonard Zwelling It was not bad enough that he of the golden mane and gimlet eye, the Lion of Trump Tower, is trying to lie his way to the Oval Office and doing a great job of fooling many of the people most of the …
Movie Misnomers of 2015 By Leonard Zwelling What a strange year in cinema! You think you are going to one kind of movie based on the title, only to find once you have settled in with your popcorn, that a completely different film is before you. Of course, this is after the 20 …
Photons: All Energy and No Mass. QT and The Movies; RdP, BHO, and Reality By Leonard Zwelling It is most unfortunate if you were not among those who saw The Hateful Eight in Ultra 70 mm Panavision and Cinerama during its one week Roadshow in 96 theaters around the US and Canada that began …
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2016: Prepare To Or Plan For? By Leonard Zwelling There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes something like this: “If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.” Yet, we humans constantly emphasize the importance of planning. I am going to be an early advisor that planning for next year, 2016, …
The NEXT “Big Short”: American Health Care By Leonard Zwelling It is great when Hollywood takes one of your favorite books and makes it into a great movie. It happens so rarely. Coma, Rosemary’s Baby, Sophie’s Choice, The Godfather, Moneyball, Silence of the Lambs, and a few others come to mind. A very few …
Fanfare for the Common Rule By Leonard Zwelling There is relief in sight for the clinical investigators of America struggling with the duel curse of over-regulation and underfunding. Changes to the Common Rule that governs all clinical investigation have been proposed and are likely to go into effect next year. Caution and vigilance are …
The Death of Cancer By Vincent T. DeVita Jr, MD and Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn By Leonard Zwelling On page 248 of this extraordinary memoir-battle story, Dr. DeVita lists the eight attributes of cancer cells as first delineated by Weinberg and Hanahan: 1. Sustained proliferative signaling 2. Evasion of growth suppressors 3. Resistance to cell death 4. …
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Dr. Laurence Cooper: Corporate Centerfold By Leonard Zwelling You really have got to be kidding. I am fully aware of Dr. Cooper’s research and its potential benefit to patients. I am also aware that he has decided to take a formerly unusual, but now all too common, route to success–moving to the private …
