The Noonan Compromise: Less Death By Leonard Zwelling In her Wall Street Journal column called Declarations, Peggy Noonan, the former Reagan speechwriter, has promoted a host of great ideas. Her latest is one of her best: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-parkland-massacre-and-the-air-we-breathe-1518739880 She was commenting on the carnage in Florida and all the things that have gone wrong in our […]
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The DACA Hostages By Leonard Zwelling There are people in the White House who wish to undermine the basic system by which America has become America—through immigration. Unless you happen to be an American Indian, your ancestors came here from someplace else. For the great majority of our history, most of those places were in
Russian Indictments By Leonard Zwelling Robert Mueller has filed indictments against 13 individuals and three organizations for meddling in the elections of the United States of America. All are Russian. It is now virtually impossible for the current President of the United States to deny such interference and he better start worrying about what else
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A Parade-Another Dumb Idea From The White House By Leonard Zwelling There are many alternative ways to show respect for the military of the United States. Getting the VA Hospital system to work properly would be one way. Stop involving the men and women in uniform in foreign wars of no consequence to the US
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Are We There Yet? By Leonard Zwelling There may be no issue about which I have written more besides the management of MD Anderson and the disaster that is our health care system than guns. Every time there’s another school shooting, I blog about the insanity of the manner in which the United States uniquely
Choosing Harvard’s New President: MD Anderson Figured It Out First By Leonard Zwelling The new president of Harvard University is Lawrence S. Bacow, the former president of Tufts and a top official at MIT. He now is on the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. In the article in the NY Times, notice
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Watergate Redux By Leonard Zwelling For those of us who remember June 17, 1972 as a day when we awoke to news of a break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate complex in northwest Washington, D.C., the last few months has seemed like vuja de. A popular (sort of) president
The House Call Is Gone But There Are Better Strategies Than the One Being Used By Academia By Leonard Zwelling https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-country-doctor-cant-forget-his-40-years-of-house-calls-1518134157 The Wall Street Journal on February 9 published this op-ed by Bob Greene about a retired Dr. Charles Kemper from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin who made house calls for 40 years. Dr. Kemper describes the
MD Anderson Is Too Big By Leonard Zwelling http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray-matters/article/My-dad-s-cancer-has-made-it-clear-Our-health-12552137.php http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/prognosis/article/MD-Anderson-wants-name-removed-from-cancer-12552600.php Two articles in the Houston Chronicle on February 5 make the title of this blog abundantly clear. In the first, Ken Janda, the CEO of Community Health Choice, relates the difficulties he and his family faced navigating the health care system to care for their
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Single Payer Makes Sense: An Argument By Leonard Zwelling, MD, MBA America does not have a health care system. It has four of them. One system is like that in most of Western Europe and Asia, with private providers and private non-profit insurance. In some cases the insurance can come from the government, or from
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