Len Zwelling

Houston, We Have A Problem: MD Anderson In The News By Leonard Zwelling https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/health/article/Report-MD-Anderson-deficiencies-jeopardized-14806472.php The Public Relations Department at MD Anderson must be working overtime today, November 5, as these two articles hit the Internet simultaneously. The first was on the front page of The Chronicle above the fold on Tuesday. It describes the recent …

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Impeachment Seems Inevitable, So Does Acquittal By Leonard Zwelling Today, October 31, President Trump probably got his first real scare in a while. Trick or treat! The U. S. House of Representatives is officially on record as launching an impeachment inquiry. The rules of engagement are set and the parlor political game played only three …

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Baseball As Metaphor For Academic Medicine By Leonard Zwelling https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2019/10/30/george-f-will-baseball/ Houston is depressed this morning, October 31, 2019. The Astros lost a World Series that they were expected to win and could have won. At the moments their pitching needed to rise to the occasion, it sank. When runners were in scoring position the hitters …

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Plans By Leonard Zwelling The newspapers were crammed with thought-provoking opinion pieces on Saturday, October 26. Wyatt Wells writes about the futility of the strategic planning process and more specifically the uselessness of actual, written strategic plans in The Wall Street Journal. Most such plans wind up on a shelf unread and unimplemented. https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-strategic-plans-are-rarely-strategicor-effective-11572040618 Having …

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The Children In Congress And In The White House By Leonard Zwelling As this editorial from the New York Times makes clear, Republicans are running out of ways and means of protecting the corrupt presidency of Donald Trump. They have now resorted to donning their superhero suits (blue three-buttons with red ties and white shirts) …

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CPRIT By Leonard Zwelling https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/There-are-better-ways-to-fund-cancer-research-14554503.php https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Bolstering-Texas-cancer-research-program-will-14556827.php In the Houston Chronicle on October 23, two opinion pieces (above) appeared addressing the ballot proposition that asks for an additional $6 billion in a funding initiative for CPRIT. CPRIT is the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. It began to give out grants, support new companies, and …

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“Get Over It”—NO! By Leonard Zwelling Admiral William H. McRaven (author of the above op-ed in the NY Times on October 18), is the former Chancellor of the University of Texas and the Navy Seal leader who planned and operationalized the successful raid that killed Osama Bin Laden. He has sacrificed much for his country. …

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ALTUVE! By Leonard Zwelling I’ve been going to baseball games since I was ten, in 1958. That first game was a 10 nothing beat down by the Yankees on some hapless American League foe with Bob Turley on the mound. Since then I saw Mickey Mantle walk off the Indians in the 11th inning at …

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The BW Is In The Hall Of Fame–Again By Leonard Zwelling Readers of this blog know I refer to my wife, Dr. Eugenie Kleinerman, as the BW, the Beautiful Wife. I stole this from Earl Wilson who wrote a gossip column in the New York Post that I read as a young boy when my …

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Curious About How This Goes By Leonard Zwelling I think most Americans, whether pro-Trump or anti-Trump, want to get to the bottom of what he’s up to with regard to promises he has made to foreign leaders and in exchange for what. Is the President of the United States beholding to other countries and, if …

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