In Praise Of Older Doctors: A Grateful Patient By Leonard Zwelling Don’t let anyone kid you. No matter what you are able to do at 70, you are officially an older American. You’ve been on Medicare for five years. You’ve been getting cheaper movie tickets for eight to ten. You’re not sixteen any more and …
Bad Week: A Coincidence Or Cause And Effect? By Leonard Zwelling So two stories come out in the same week and it surely is not a good week for MD Anderson’s leadership. In the first, the federal government in the form of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services came down on the clinical labs …
Wondrous Elasticity: The Bottomless Pit That Is Doctors’ Good Will And How Administrators Are Exploiting It By Leonard Zwelling When two doctors who I respect immensely both refer me to the same op-ed piece in The New York Times, you know it has got to be important. This happened over the weekend of June 10 …
Joe Biden’s Game of Hyde And Seek By Leonard Zwelling The most important reason not to lie is so that you don’t have to remember what you said. Just tell the truth and you’ll be fine. That’s hard over a 40-year career as a U.S. Senator and Vice President as Joe Biden is beginning to …
Making Surgeons By Leonard Zwelling I learned early on in medical school that I was not going to be a surgeon. Now I know why. The article above points out how surgeons are really made through rote practice of manual dexterity early in their lives followed by intense and prolonged training in the art of …
The Case Of The Fifth Chinese Faculty Member: Only A Flesh Wound By Leonard Zwelling https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/MD-Anderson-finds-fifth-NIH-rule-violation-case-13905340.php Apparently, whatever the three MD Anderson Chinese scientists who were fired or quit did, the fifth one investigated did not do that. It would be nice to know what the three did and the fifth didn’t (and where’s the …
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“I Just Wish Someone Would Have Said Something” By Leonard Zwelling This is a quote from a patient’s mother. The patient was operated on to repair a congenital heart defect at North Carolina Children’s Hospital, part of the UNC system in Chapel Hill. It’s all reported in a long investigative report in The New York …
Consider Your Legacy: The Case For Impeachment After The Mueller Statement By Leonard Zwelling For the past few months, I have been arguing against impeaching President Trump for obstruction of justice. So has Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. The Speaker sees no point in impeaching Mr. Trump when it is obvious that at least …
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Sadist Or Masochist? Mrs. Pelosi—Pick! By Leonard Zwelling There’s an old joke that goes something like this. The sadist says “Hit me!” The masochist says, “No!” That’s the choice that Nancy Pelosi is dealing with now. It is quite clear that this is the case now from the president’s display of pique at the recent …
Two Chinese Scientists At Emory Dismissed By Leonard Zwelling It is no longer MD Anderson alone that has terminated the employment of faculty members with connections to China. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/05/terminated-emory-researcher-disputes-university-s-allegations https://finance.yahoo.com/news/professors-fired-from-emory-university-for-hiding-grants-from-china-215407630.html In this May 24 article on Science Magazine’s web site, it is reported by Jon Cohen that Li Xiao-Jiang and his wife and laboratory co-director …
