Josh By Leonard Zwelling First name only needed. Everyone knew who you were talking about. He was like Madonna or Cher. No last name required and no name tag. Just Josh. Out of respect he became Dr. Fidler. Sometimes his name was half of a duo. Josh and Margaret. It was clear who you […]
Risk By Leonard Zwelling Life is a series of choices. Choices have attendant risks. You can choose not to use your seat belt—in a car or in a airplane, although the flight attendant might toss you off the latter for such an expression of your freedom. You can be ticketed for the former as
Immunity By Leonard Zwelling After all, that’s what we’re all talking about. The debate is not whether the new coronavirus is a public health threat. It is. The debate is how we move from being 100% susceptible to the illness covid-19 (if we really are and there is evidence that we aren’t because some
Context By Leonard Zwelling As this op-ed in The New York Times by Charles Warzel on May 6 indicates in its print version title, “Will We Get Used To The Dying?” death seems to be losing its context and its impact in America. What, you say? Impossible. Really? What about the guns?
Getting Back By Leonard Zwelling I just got an email message from my new concierge doctor. He writes that the likelihood of me contracting covid-19 is small and that none of his patients have thus far come down with the viral illness. He urges those of us in his practice to continue to wear
What We Know. What We Don’t. By Leonard Zwelling In this superb article sent to me by son Richard, a lot is written about what we have learned over these covid weeks, but there’s still a lot we don’t know. Primary among the unknowns is exactly how this virus kills people and why some
Where’s Joe? By Leonard Zwelling Michelle Cottle in The New York Times on April 30 describes Joe Biden as “lurking.” Essentially Joe Biden is assuming a Rose Garden strategy while not being in office. He’s letting Trump self-destruct while the former vice president secludes in his basement in Delaware. His one appearance was Friday
What Changed? By Leonard Zwelling Did I miss something? Did a major change occur with regard to the coronavirus outbreak plaguing the world when I wasn’t looking? Is it somehow less of a threat? The answer to the last question depends on your point of view, I guess, but the answers to the
What If Our Strategy Was Wrong? By Leonard Zwelling In a chilling op-ed in The Wall Street Journal on April 24, Joseph C. Sternberg asks the unaskable question. Were the experts right the first time when it came to the novel coronavirus from Wuhan? What does he mean? If you go back a
Disorientation. Reorientation. By Leonard Zwelling The coronavirus changes everything. These three articles from The New York Times on April 24 make several important points. Those points not only apply to nations, but also to academic medical institutions. The first article describes what might be the most successful effort in the world to
