When A Mistake Isn’t: Conflict of Interest, Drone Strikes, and Malevolence vs. Incompetence This morning, April 23, the country is being bombarded with two stories of bad judgment, maybe? In the first (urls, below), President Obama has admitted that raids (probably drone strikes) in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan meant to […]
The First Half Million Is the Hardest By Leonard Zwelling You know this isn’t about the salaries of the MD Anderson executives. The number is too small! The blog has just passed 500,000 page views. This is truly remarkable—at least to me and probably to my high school English teachers. Thank you
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“Senator, You’re No Jack Kennedy” by Leonard Zwelling “Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy”….But On the Other Hand You Do Remind of Another President… The first part of this is a quote from the late, great Texas senator,
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Mickey By Leonard Zwelling He only ever had two names: Dr. LeMaistre or Mickey. I had to know him for 20 years before I switched from the first to the second. I have written many times about Dr. LeMaistre. He hired me. He nurtured me. He hired others who also nurtured me, my
The Next Generation of Doctors and Presidents By Leonard Zwelling I was discussing a problem of recruiting with a physician friend from an institution in a state other than Texas. This state, like Texas, has significant barriers to medical licensure for those whose training occurred offshore, let alone out of state. As any of
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Have You No Decency? By Leonard Zwelling “Senator, may we not drop this? We know he belonged to the Lawyers Guild. Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator. You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” From Joseph N. Welch on June
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Stealth: How Evil Creeps In As Everyone Watches By Leonard Zwelling Two stories this morning exhibit an important constant of current life. 1.Evil and danger can creep into one’s life gradually and undetected. 2. Even when it is detected, evil will be ignored by most people if it does not affect them. A 61-year
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If Not Checkmating the President, At Least Checking Him By Leonard Zwelling On April 14, the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations voted 19-0 in a strikingly bipartisan fashion to insinuate itself on the deal that President Obama is trying to forge with the Iranian mullahs. Forgetting for a moment, whether the framework devised
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A Helluva Hill By Leonard Zwelling In the least startling revelation since Barack Obama announced his run for a second term, Hillary Clinton has finally announced what everyone expected. She’s running for President. Putatively, this will be a kinder, gentler Hillary with less fire in her eyes, more one-on-one handshakes, and an approachfulness
